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This 2 piece Kingston Hyper X 8GB kit is a great purchase, especially if you want to leave another two slots on your motherboard free for a potential future upgrade.
As our testing shows, even though they are rated CL9, they operated at the same CL8 timings as their 2GB siblings and they did so with perfect behaviour throughout the last week of KG's intense stress testing. Considering the density of the individual sticks I was pleasantly surprised to get 2000mhz out of them with only a little extra voltage. There is a possibility they could be pushed even further, but under Intel's strict guidelines I didn't want to cause long term damage. If I owned the memory myself, I probably would have risked it!
Testing a 8GB for performance is an important facet of a review, however it really is important to mention that if you are the kind of person to have many applications open simultaneously while wanting no performance loss at all, then an upgrade from 4GB to 8GB is well worth it. These 4GB sticks offer the same capacity as two full 4GB kits (2x2gb) while ensuring more potential upgrade growth down the line.
With such high density comes a price, and at time of press this 8GB kit sells for around £410 inc vat in the UK which will put them out of reach for many people.
They look beautiful, work perfectly with oversized CPU coolers, overclock like hell and offer maximum futureproofing. The cherry on the cake? Kingston's lifetime warranty.
KitGuru says: Need memory? want it fast? get a set of these, or two if your name is William Gates.
Discuss over here in our forums or just leave a quick comment below.
great results from such big memory sticks. thanks!
Interesting results, I would have though latencies would need reduced due to board population. Kingston clearly got their heads screwed on !
ahhh nice looking modules. quite expensive, but I suppose its like buying two ‘normal’ kits!
I love those heat spreaders and its nice to see good performing memory without the oversized spreaders. More enthusiasts want the big cooler like noctua NHd14 and its not a possible combo
They are expensive, but not a rip off. if people wanted 16gb in their system, this is the way to go, I wonder though if performance would lower with 4 of them in a system, lower latencies etc/
I always liked Kingston heatspreaders, they look very futuristic and purty.
2000mhz is quite an achievement really from these. you know how to OC Z, thats for sure !
bit expensive for me, but nice kit as always. you gurus always get the nice stuff!
I have been trying to buy a set of these for a month now,. no stock anywhere. anyone got links in the UK for buy now ?
No stocks either in Germany. Zardon send me yours please.
The lifetime warranty is a good bonus. wonder if they could tell if you overvolted them and they died 🙂
Good oc’s for big sticks
I can honestly say ive never owned a kingston product, but I liked the look of that SSD you reviewed last week. they seem to be producing some quality goods lately.
I might get kingston memory for my next system, probably 4gb though, not 8. thats a lot of dosh
nice performance, and good review.
they make the sexiest coloured heatspreaders on the market.
Dont mean to sound like im picking holes, but the price seems a little over the odds, 2gb modules are cheap. 4gb are way overpriced.
Wen to look for prices, non in stock anywhere. not much use doing reviews KG if you cant buy the goods
Nice, but too much cash, 2x4gb kits are better value now.
Kingston are good, I had one of their SSds in the past and although they failed to get firmware updates out, it performed well.
I like those, quality product.
A very high quality product, if rather expensive, one for a designer or a designer/gamer who didnt want to compromise. sadly i yet to see any need for 8gb for gaming.
rather sexual performance there. almost got carried away with the end result.
When I find these, ill order them, but it might be a while, looking at stock levels.
Kingston are very underrated.
Is it justifiable to be spending almost 1000 buck on memory?
no stock here in France. useless
great review but I must join the masses and say, I cant buy them.
Wish I could get these, noticed them on another site a while ago, as a preview. but im shocked the review is up and no stock is anywhere in sight
i bet they would overclock higher if you cranked them to 1,75 volt
found this review via google, very good indeed. 2000mhz is good for such large modules. I would be interested, but it seems no where has them in stock anyway
I’m using these same chips on a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula board with an AMD X6 1100T cpu,. what should my timing & voltage be set at to get the best performance at 1600 MHz with these here chips. Please advice with as much detail as possible.