Manufacturer: N/A Price: $ N/A US Author: Steve Date: 01/17/2011

[ Introduction ]

Today on the menu we have six impressive looking dual-channel DDR3 memory kits that are designed for AMD and Intel platforms. These dual-channel kits are all price around $100 US for the 4GB version and for our article we will be taking two kits from each manufacturer to compare how they perform when populating all banks... It has been some time since we published a DDR3 related article, with very little changing throughput 2010. However we have decided it was time to see what our favorite memory manufacturers were up to by comparing their latest memory on the Intel LGA1156 and AMD AM3 platforms. However as we began testing those platforms a unique opportunity arose, with the release of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors. Therefore while we have spent a lot of time working out the best timings and maximum frequency of each kit with the Core i5 750 and Phenom II X4 970 processors, the actual testing was done with the Core i7 2600K processor. Although none of the six kits that we tested have been designed with the Core i7 2600K processor in mind, we were keen to see how they performed using this new platform. Included in the roundup is the OCZ ULV Reaper HPC PC3-12800, Patriot Viper Xtreme PC3-16000, Kingston HyperX T1 Series PC3-16000, Crucial Ballistix “BL2KIT25664FN1608“ PC3-12800, Mushkin Radioactive PC3-12800 and the ADATA XPG Plus v2.0 Series DDR3 1600MHz+. Again keep in mind that although these are dual-channel 4GB (2x2GB) kits we will be testing two of each, meaning the overall capacity will be 8GB (4x2GB). Although 8GB kits comprising of two 4GB capacity modules are now becoming very popular, we were interested to see just how well this memory performs when using four modules as this can often hurt overclocking performance.

Table of Contents >>> Introduction <<< ADATA XPG Plus v2.0 1600MHz+ Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 Kingston HyperX T1 Series PC3-16000 Mushkin Radioactive PC3-12800 OCZ ULV Reaper HPC PC3-12800 Patriot Viper Xtreme PC3-16000 Test System Specs Memory Bandwidth Performance Application Performance Gaming Performance Best Timings Conclusion Next Page ->

Hannibal

Posted on: 01/18/2011 09:58 PM I don't care what anyone says the Kingston RAM is easily the coolest looking of the bunch and like you say the price is right.

corky

Posted on: 01/19/2011 05:21 AM OCZ memory has always been good to me. Thanks for the roundup.

me	Posted on: 01/20/2011 01:10 AM Look at the reference of the Kingston, it's a 2400Mhz kit that you have here! http://www.kingston.com/hyperx/products/t1_ddr3.asp

Steve Posts: 80 Joined: 2010-02-08

Posted on: 01/20/2011 01:38 AM Sorry that was a typo, we had the KHX2000C9AD3T1K2/4GX.

fozzy bear

Posted on: 01/22/2011 01:07 AM Is there is a typo in the section of the Patriot ram $950 is aggressively priced?

ProX	Posted on: 01/22/2011 04:19 AM @ fozzy bear - that is clearly not a typo, of course the kit costs $950 and not $95 :S :P Thanks for the roundup.

fozzy bear

Posted on: 01/23/2011 06:12 AM i was teasing them a little bit but thank you for your comment very helpful

ProX	Posted on: 01/23/2011 08:34 AM teasing a little, that's helpful. Anyway it would have been nice to see some new G.Skill memory included but I understand that you cannot include everything. Still G.Skill is one of my favorites, their pricing is excellent.

Calle2003 Posts: 16 Joined: 2010-04-27

Posted on: 01/23/2011 06:42 PM Posted by Steve 01/17/2011 It has been some time since we laid our hands on a memory module designed by Mushkin, which made the new Radioactive range an interesting addition to our roundup. Unseriously: Muskin Radioactive=Duke Nukem Memory? :P Posted by corky on 01/19/2011 OCZ memory has always been good to me. Thanks for the roundup. Seriosly: OCZ is leaving the DRAM market but I hope for your sake you'll still have "lifetime" warranty.