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

[ Gaming Performance ]

As we have come to find over the years memory frequency and timings have almost no impact on real-world gaming performance. When testing at 1920x1200 with Resident Evil 5 using the mighty GeForce GTX 580 the average frame rate between the slowest and fastest configuration was just 2fps. This is a mere 1.5% performance difference. StarCraft II did see a small performance boost when using the Kingston HyperX T1 Series PC3-16000 memory, suggesting that DDR3-2129 is the way to go with Sandy Bridge processors. Whereas the DDR3-1600 configurations averaged between 81–82fps, the Kingston memory almost hit 88fps. This was a 6% increase in performance and certainly what we would call significant. Civilization V is a very CPU intensive game and if the extra memory bandwidth was ever going to make a difference this is the game it would do it in. When running the built-in LateGameView benchmark, which gives a score, we found that the Kingston HyperX T1 Series PC3-16000 was considerably faster than anything else tested. While the DDR3-1600 configurations averaged around 8500 points for the no render test, the Kingston memory achieved a score of 9718pts.

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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.