Kingston HyperX DDR PC3500 CL2 - Kingston HyperX DDR PC3500 CL2

Testing and Benchmarks

System:

1. ABIT NF7-S V2.0(14 Beta Bios, nVidia 2.03 drivers)
2. AMD XP 2500+ (333 MHz FSB Barton)
3. 2x512 HyperX PC3500
4. 1x512 OCZ PC3700
5. ATI 9700Pro (Catalyst 3.4, default settings)
6. Seagate 120GB SATA HDD
7. Pelt Loop: MCW462-UHT, MCW50-T, Hydor L30, BIX2 Pro, Meanwell s-320
8. H2O Loop: Danger Den z-Chip, Hydor L20m, BIX pro
9. Antec True Control 550W PSU
10. Windows XP Pro (SP1, DX 9.0a)

Benchmarks:

1. SiSoft Sandra Pro 2003 (2003.1.9.26)
2. PCMark 2002 Pro
3. 3DMark 2001 SE Pro (Build 330)
4. 3DMark 2003 Pro
5. MemTach (v0.93 Alpha)

The benchmarks are run at 217 FSB x 10.5, 2-3-3-7 @ 2.7V

SiSoft Sandra Memory Benchmarks

  

(Left: HyperX Single Channel, Right: OCZ Single Channel)

  

(Left: HyperX 2x512 Single Channel, Right: HyperX 2x512 Dual Channel)

We can see that the HyperX is getting bested by the OCZ running at the same settings in single channel (SC) mode. After some digging, it came to light that the HyperX uses 4.6ns chips, while the OCZ uses 4.3ns chips so the results are chalked up to faster access time. We can also see the benefits of running in dual channel (DC) versus single channel with 2x512 sticks on the current nForce2 chipset.

PCMark 2002 Pro

Again, in SC mode, the OCZ pulls ahead with the faster chips running the same speeds. In DC mode, the HyperX lays down some nice numbers.

3DMark 2001SE Pro 

   

(Left: HyperX 1x512 SC, Center: OCZ Single Channel, Right: HyperX DC)

I was not able to run 2x512 sticks in single channel mode for any 3D apps. After playing around with it for a while, I chalked it up to timings/latency problems, and figured who is going to run two sticks in single channel anyway, sorry... Anyway, above you can see the that the HyperX running stable in DC mode gives a nice performance boost to 3D Mark 2001SE.

3DMark 2003 Pro

    

(Left: HyperX 1x512 SC, Center: OCZ Single Channel, Right: HyperX DC)

Again, 3D apps would not run with 2x512 in SC mode as indicated above, but DC mode was stable. 3DMark 03 also gets a nice boost when DC mode is activated.

MemTach v0.93 Alpha

  

(Left: HyperX Single Channel, Right: OCZ Single Channel)

  

(Left: HyperX 2x512 Single Channel, Right: HyperX 2x512 Dual Channel) 

MemTach is another synthetic benchmarking program that William Henning, Editor of CPUReview.com whipped up as an alternative to the Stream benchmark that is used in Sandra. You can see in a bit more detail what the test consists of here.

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