Kingston HyperX any good?

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Are Kingston HyperX kits any good?

I know that Kingston is a large brand with good support but is the brand good? ie up there with Corsair etc?

Or down there with Crucial etc.

I'm looking at 8GB DDR3 1600MHz kits and Kingstons HyperX kit is a lot cheaper than Corsairs XMS3\Dominator 8GB kits, and G.Skills 8GB kits aren't in the channels yet.
 
Limited lifetime warranty fomr the largest supplier of memory. i would say yes but own some myself.

What do teh reviews say?
 
Most reviews I've seen are positive. But then so are Crucials.

At the moment, I'm going to buy the Kingston HyperX kit, unless I can find a compelling reason not to.

If they have as high failure rates as Crucial do I'd think twice but still rather not pay Corsair's extortionate price for 8GB kits.

I doubt G.Skills 8GB kits, when they appear in the channels, will be much cheaper than Corsair's.
 
Kingston used to be great back in the days of like Athlon XP etc... I remember their HyperX was brilliant

However, I'm not sure about them anymore. I have a 2x2GB kit that doesn't do the advertised speed, let alone overclock :(
 
Can't rememeber which but have a hyperx kit in an i7, the one with the blue heatspreader. I didn't set it up but rig is clocked 24/7 at 3.6 and never misses a beat.

Works a damn sight better than my ocz reaper I'm having to rma :(
 
I've got two 4GB(2x2GB) sets of HyperX DDR2-1066 and they work perfectly, both sets run their rated 533MHz speed using low 1.82vDimm . .

Bit of a Crucial/Corsair man myself but having used the HyperX's for a few months I would recommend them to anyone . . .

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mogli1990(OcUK) said:
I have a 2x2GB kit that doesn't do the advertised speed, let alone overclock :(
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Have you tested the sticks on a *stock* system? . . . I see the Q6600 in your sig so if you reset your system to base speed (9x266) you can switch the memory up to DDR2-1066! (just for testing purposes mind!) :)

If they work in that simple config you know the problem lay elsewhere! :cool:
 
I also have the HyperX 2x2gb and it seems to be running at 800mhz instead of the advertised speed !

Strange just found out and looking into it myself... although i have never clocked anything.
 
BoB3rt said:
I also have the HyperX 2x2gb and it seems to be running at 800mhz instead of the advertised speed !

Strange just found out and looking into it myself... although i have never clocked anything.
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You have to set it to 1066 manually in the BIOS. Although when I tried this I could not get it stable. So I returned the Kingston and got some Corsair instead.
 
Just set it to 1066mhz via the bios.... and the system failed to boot. it stalled on the ASUS title page....

upon restart asked me to reset bios settings. tried again, nothing. so back on 800mhz :( any sujestions?

sorry to thread crash can open another if u wish?
 
What are your voltages in the BIOS?

Try 1066 @ 5-5-5-15-2T with 2.2v and with the MCH/NB @ 1.5v
 
Just been back on BIOS and seems to be no were to change Voltage and the maual timings have about 7 things to set so set it to 5 - 5 - 5 - 15 - auto - auto - auto.

there was no 2T option or setting... sorroy am kinda new to the Ram settings etc.
 
BoB3rt,

just load CMOS defaults so everything gets reset back to stock, save & exit, then go back into BIOS and change the DDR2 frequency from [Auto] to [DDR2-1066], should be as simple as that if your not overclocked, no adjustments to anything else should be needed.

If that doesn't work remove one of the sticks and try again, if that doesn't work try the other single stick . . .

You either are doing something wrong or you have a bad stick . . . .
 
Yeah I got 4gb of ddr2 1066 hyper X in 'this week only' a couple of months back.. has given me no probs well worth the £40 :)
 
BoB3rt said:
Just set it to 1066mhz via the bios.... and the system failed to boot. it stalled on the ASUS title page....

upon restart asked me to reset bios settings. tried again, nothing. so back on 800mhz :( any sujestions?

sorry to thread crash can open another if u wish?
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This is what I was getting. No matter what BIOS settings I tried. The system was only stable when running the RAM at 800 Mhz.

When I ran memtest with it set to 1066 I was seeing all kinds of errors. So I RMA'd it and got some Corsair RAM instead. Everything has been fine since, all I had to do was to set the speed timing and voltage in the BIOS and it has been fine ever since.
 
Took your advice Wayne... its gotten a little further , as it gets to the Windows loading screen it flashes a Blue screen (death) and then restarts.... Just set it to 2.2v aswell rather than auto.... seems to be running *loading desktop* (sorry am typing this on lappy as its loading). keep updated.

Thanks.
 
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