High performance RAM can bring a significant difference to your PC's performance as against using normal RAM, The HyperX RAM of Kingston is one such RAM. It features its signature blue heatspreads and we got 2GB x 2 modules of DDR2 RAM running at 800MHz for review. We tested the RAM on an Intel Core2Quad Q6700 processor running at 2.66GHz on an Asus P5Q Pro motherboard, an ATl X19 50 XTX graphics card, and a Tagan 1300W PSU. To test its performance, we ran our standard benchmarks and subjected it to long duration of usage. In PC Mark2005, we got an overall score of 7904 and 5311. Considering the fact that PCMark runs aseries of read, write, copy and latency tests with varying load of 16MB to 4KB, this score is quite impressive. We also ran Everest memory benchmarks and got a score of 5904MB/s read, 4849MB/s write and 53 72MB/s copy speed with a DRAM: FSB ratio of' 12:8. These show that the RAM is capable of transferring data at very high speeds and can be very well set to a low DRAM: FSB ratio to boost performance.



The high transfer speed is a clear sign that due to the difference in tranfer speed between the DRAM and FSB, the DRAM gets idle time which in turn keeps its temperature at bay. Even after running benchmarks and playing games for a couple of hours the RAM modules were just slightly warm to touch. Compared to the score of 4590 in PCMarks by Apacer RAM we tested earlier, the Kingston RAM outperforms it by quite an extent clearly indicating that the HyperX RAM is a great choice for gamers and performance seekers.