Kingston HyperX Memory

Pros

First “Sandy Bridge ready” memory ModulesFaster frequencies as the CompetitionPlug and play simplicity

Kingston has announced recently, the availability of its new HyperX Plug and play high performance memory for notebooks. The industry’s first memory modules with “Sandy Bridge available frequencies” for Intel’s latest processors, the HyperX Plug and play uses JEDEC compliant 1600MHz and 1866MHz memory values. We decided to see a closer look at this high, what a typical laptop users can expect RAM if they simply “plug.”

Kingston HyperX Plug and play DDR3 1600MHz, 1866MHz notebook memory specifications

8 GB 1600MHz non-ECC SODIMM @ 1 0,5V (Kit 2) CL9-9-94 GB 1600MHz non-ECC SODIMM @ 1 0,5V (Kit 2) CL9-9-98 GB 1866MHz non-ECC SODIMM @ 1 0,5V (Kit 2) CL11-11-114 GB 1866MHz non-ECC SODIMM @ 1 0,5V (Kit 2) CL11-11-11

Many PC gamers are already familiar with the HyperX brand of high-performance memory and RAM from Kingston is the first memory module, the higher frequencies of the second generation this latest-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 CPUs to achieve. This memory is programmed with the faster frequencies, and if you they automatically at 1600MHz or 1866MHz within the notebook will ‘the modules in a system with Intel “Sandy Bridge” connecting”chipset”play”.

Because your laptop automatically detects the faster memory speed no more BIOS setting is required. Kingston says users are performance gains when the notice “overclocking automatic is” with the HyperX modules. In addition, these modules are backwards compatible with older DDR3-based notebooks and Netbooks already on the market.

Test procedures

Now comes the fun part part. There are numerous benchmark tests we the maximum switching frequency and CAS latency of RAM can run as also exhaustive analysis. However, this is not the market, the Kingston here is goals. As the name already indicates, HyperX Plug and play high performance memory is used so you stick you it simply in your notebook and immediately enjoy the benefits of this RAM faster, to more capacity.

To this end we are not running this RAM by several overclocking applications to see how far we can push it. We want simply to answer to the question, “what kind of performance I’ll update my notebook with this memory?”

Kingston was kind enough to provide us with two 8 GB Kit HyperX 1866MHz memory (KHX1866CC11S3P1K2/8 G) supply. Used for our laboratory tests we have equipped two new notebooks with the chipset Intel Sandy Bridge; The Lenovo ThinkPad W520 and the Toshiba Satellite A665 S5176. The ThinkPad W520 uses the latest and greatest Intel Core i7-2920XM quad core CPU, which are in theory, the Kingston HyperX memory should be up to the limit. We updated the 8 GB, the W520 from the factory on 16 GB HyperX memory come.

The Toshiba Satellite A665 S5176 used the more modest Intel Core i3 2310M processor. While the Toshiba laptop come not close, the performance of the HyperX memory maxing, it should serve the performance as a basis for the type of RAM is a typical laptop owners experience when upgrading. We upgrade of the satellite A665 of his original 4 GB RAM to 8 GB HyperX memory.