Kingston DDR3-RAM 8GB PC3-1600 HyperX Kit (KHX1600C8D3K4/8GX)

Zitat: Seal of approval Pros: + Good Overclocker + Rock Solid Stable At Every Setting We Tried + Performance Scaled Well With Overclocking. + Low Profile Kit + Easy To Overclock + Kingston Quality Cons: - More Expensive Than A 4GB Kit - Getting Spoiled By Kingston HyperX Ram We really liked the performance of the Kingston HyperX 8GB kit. We especially liked the performance boost you get moving from a 4GB kit to a 8GB kit. We´ve known for a long time that the amount of ram you have is just as important if not more important than the speed of the ram you have. We did some testing with a 2GHz kit and in synthetic benchmarks the 2GHz kit smoked, move to real world load times and operating system performance an 8GB kit running at 1600MHz far outperformed the 4GB kit running at 2GHz. The 8GB kit of Kingston HyperX was plug and play even with 8GB of ram installed. We realize that some people hold to the "A rig won´t run 4 sticks of ram well" philosophy. Frankly years ago machines had problems with 4 sticks, in the last 3 or 4 years we haven´t seen any machine that won´t run 4 sticks of ram just as well as it runs 2 sticks. Now that we´ve gone out there and said that we should mention that in some cases with 4 sticks of ram you might not be able to run 2GHz, most rigs we have we hit 1866 with 8GB of ram with little or no difficulty. Since we´ve already proven that 8GB of ram performs better than 4GB, and density (amount) of ram is just as important if not more important than raw ram speed running 1600MHz 8GB or 1866MHz 8GB kits should offer enough of a real performance boost to satisfy anyone. With a lifetime warranty and rock solid Kingston support the Kingston HyperX 8GB kit is hard to beat. It´s a low profile kit that will fit under most ginormous CPU heatsinks. Since benchmarking performance is as high as a 4GB kit, and real life performance is higher than a 4GB kit there´s really no reason not to run an 8GB kit if you feel like you need that extra performance. It´s real performance you can get every time you load an application or move from scene to scene in a video game. Kingston has a real winner with the HyperX 160MHz kit, we´ll be running an 8GB kit on our test rig and daily driver and that say more for a product than any praise or award we could possibly give. We are using a addition to our scoring system to provide additional feedback beyond a flat score. Please note that the final score isn´t an aggregate average of the rating system.