Value
and power in a blue HyperX Stick.
RAM sticks
are probably the most fickle of PC components out there at the moment, with
hard drives at a close second. It is quite hard to judge the effectiveness of
RAM Sticks just by looking at the numbers that are printed on the packaging.
More often than not, cost is always the overruling factor in choosing them, and
with that in mind, we take a look at the new Kingston HyperX Blu 1,600MHz DDR3
RAM sticks.
Kingston HyperX BLU 8GB RAM
As its name
implies, the HyperX Blu is marketed as one of Kingston's more advanced RAM
sticks, but whilst it features the same blue metallic heatspreaders as its
other HyperX counterparts, as with other HyperX Blu sticks that came before it,
this is really a budget performance stick for those who don't want to spend too
much money on RAMs.
Available
in kits of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, the Kingston HyperX Blu runs on DDR3-1600 at
a low latency timing of 10-10- 10, with the SPD programmed to JEDEC standard
latency DDR-1333 timing of 9-9-9. Low latency timing means that there is less
delay in the memory controller accessing a memory column on a RAM module.
Installed
on the latest Intel Core ยก7-3770K processor, with the Intel D77GA- 70K
motherboard and an ASUS GTX 670 graphics card, and despite running the
benchmarks on single channel DDR (Kingston only sent us one stick), the scores
that we got were pretty impressive.
We'd
imagine that if we got the HyperX Blu to run on a dual channel or quad channel
memory, the performance would most likely be even better, so we do suggest
those who are thinking of getting this stick to get it in two's or fours to get
the most out of the sticks.
No fancy heatsinks here. Just cool and BLU.
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Details
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Price
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$113
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Manufacture
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Kingston
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Info
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www.kingston.com/asia
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Specifications
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Speed
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1600 MHz
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Voltage
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1.5V
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Density
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1GB, 2GB,
4GB, 8GB
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Type
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DDR3
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Ratings
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Performance
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Features
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Design
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Value
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Great
scalability Affordable - None
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Benchmark
results
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PCMark
Vantage (suite)
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17,233
points
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PCMark
Vantage (Memory)
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11,321
points
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