Kingston’s HyperX lineup has been a popular
one for enthusiasts, but traditionally has been limited to modules with blue
heat spreaders. The HyperX red line provides you with a red heat spreader that
offers an aggressive presence inside a build, especially one with a red-black
or all-red scheme. These HyperX heat spreaders are also low profile, at a
height of 1.18 inches. As such, the modules should easily fit under even the
largest CPU coolers.
Kingston
HyperX Red 8GB DDR3-1600
Kingston sent us an 8GB DDR3-1600 kit,
which consisted of two 4GB modules, for testing. There’s a built-in Intel XMP
profile for the DDR3-1600 speed that utilizes timings of 9-9-9-27 at 1.65V.
You’ll also find an SPD programmed DDR3-1333 speed with timings of 9-9-9 and a
voltage of 1.5V. This SPD standard is the one that the PC utilizes when you
first boot the PC after installing the memory. We went into our system BIOS and
selected the XMP Profile, which quickly dialed in the memory’s optimized
frequency and latency timings.
Then, we ran the memory though the battery
of memory benchmarks in SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Lite SP4. The 8GB DDR-1600
HyperX red kit posted a speed of 21.73GBps in the Memory Bandwidth tests. In
the Memory Latency test, we saw an impressive mark of 21.9ns. The Cache
Bandwidth benchmark produced speeds of 545.72GBps for the L1D cache, 319.3GBps
for the L2 cache, and 197.83GBps for the L3 cache when working with the Intel
Core i7-3770K in our test system.
We liked the low-profile design of the
Kingston modules, and red heat spreaders give this kit undeniable pop. The
modules performed well in our benchmarks, too. Currently, Kingston offers the
HyperX red memory in individual modules (2GB, 4GB, and 8GB) and kits (4GB, 8GB,
and 16GB) with speeds of 1,333MHz and 1,600MHz.
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Information
Price: $44
Website: www.kingston.com
Specs: Capacity: 8GB (2x 4GB); Timings:
9-9-9-27; Frequency: DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800); Voltage: 1.65V; Unbuffered;
Non-ECC; Lifetime warranty; Intel XMP-certified
Test system specs: Processor: Intel Core
i7-3770K; Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UP4 TH; GPU: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580
(2x, SLI); Storage: 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300; OS: Windows 7 Enterprise
(64-bit)
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