march 6 2010

Kingston HyperX PC3-17066 tested by tweaktown

The HyperX PC3-17066 was compared to the A-SATA X-Series PC3-6000, G.Skill Ripjaws PC3 16000, TEAM Group Xtreem PC3-12800, the last three modules were tested with a Core i7 860 OCed@4200MHz.

Conclusion: In the memory benchmarks the Kingston kit performed very good. The heatsink is very high quality To get everything out HyperX PC3-17066 you'll need a a decent CPU with high overclocking capabilities.

Overclocking: With an Intel Core i7 860 @ 4.5GHz tweaktown didn't get into windows, with a base clock of 178MHz(cpu@3742MHz) they succeeded without an issue. Keeping the timings the same, tweaktown finally achieved a speed of 2274MHz DDR which is about 6.6% more than the standard speed.

Specs: KHX2133C9D3T1K2/4GX 4GB 2133MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 (2X2GB) Intel XMP Tall HS 9-9-9 1.65V

Benchmarks: Everest Ultimate Edition, Sisoft Sandra, ScienceMark 2.0, Far Cry 2.