Hi,

Since normal DDR667 price is high like RM145 per piece, I am wondering if I should get the HyperX series.

The question now is value.... With overclockability in mind (motherboard gigabyte P35-DS3), how much can it go? Let's say with longer latency of 5-5-5-15?

Hope experinced users can give some lights here...

If you found review, please share as well.

Thanks for reading...

frankly speaking, HyperX isn't good for overclocking. The name is just marketing gimmick oni....using low binned chips found on value rams onli slightly better than value rams. My previous HyperX 800 can only go 1050mhz 5-5-5-15 2.3v. Any higher than 2.4v will coz errors. Not worth the value....just my 2 cents.

you could use it at default .... but can't oc much ...

if u are truly into ram oc ... crucial is the men ...

spent the additional money for full satisfaction...

Given a choice, u rather get value rams with good OC chips then to get Kingston HyperX coz its just a brand name and also the chips they use cant be OC-ed much, from what i read. Also, like the so called, king of OC, Dominator series... lol(its a joke that it is a king of OC)

THe king of OC for ram at the moment is Crucial bro.. you can ask the best overclockers here... i think they would agree with me too that crucial is DE ram for OC... (correct me if i am wrong)

i can run my hyper-x ddr800 at 1000mhz with 5-5-5-18 2.3vdimm before

it depends on wat RAM and wat chipset ur RAM is running on... usually D9, Samsung and Hynix are the best choice... get Crucial from Shawty also not bad... My advice: Don go for Kingston anymore... Kingston can use a walking stick these days...

i'm running this 24/7 at 2.05V...

how about corsair twin xms2 6400 800mhz?

Those are just so called performance ram but in reality they aren't really that good. Some value rams with high binned chips like crucial D9xxx rams perform way better. My D9GMH 533 can OC to 1100...more than 100% OC.

Corsair xms2 PC6400 was good in their revision 1.x (D9 Chip)
Other versions just no good.

-pWs-

This post has been edited by -pWs-: Aug 18 2007, 11:55 AM

Not bad. But still lose to a crucial ballistix 2x1gb PC6400.

Here's some info on the overclockability of the crucial rams (at least for my rams anyway....)

5-5-5-18 @ 2.0v - 1152mhz (pass superPI), 1120mhz (memtest stable)
4-4-4-4 @ 2.1v - 950mhz (memtest stable)

Now running at 5-4-4-8 at 2.1v at 1050mhz.....

Crucial is not the best ram but I consider it the best value-for-money performance rams....

4-4-4-(4) ?
I thought usually the last number is 2 digits, like 10 or 12.
AMD platform also can do 4-4-4-4? I'm doing 4-4-4-12 now. Not sure wanna try 4. Cause lazy to clear cmos if cant boot

Yup. 4-4-4-4!

However, I don't really see any difference between 4-4-4-4 and 4-4-4-8 or 4-4-4-12. I've read somewhere that it should be not more than 12 as sometimes the FSB strap comes into play. Don't really know....

Any ram expert can explain the tRAS running at 4 as compared to 8 or 12?

Now running at 5-4-4-8. I think the tRAS can go to 4 too but lazy to test for stability again....

well, when I changed from 4-4-4-15 to 12, superPI was faster (for all tests)

Your ballistix can do better than that....moreover your is a PC6400. Mine can run at 1066Mhz 4-4-4-8 2.35v.

nice timing bro but the 2.35v surely hot as HELL!!

different platform , bro .
one using AMD processor (memory controller)
another one using Intel processor (less memory sensitive)

i OCed 2 crucials so far, Ballistik and also Tracer..both gave me DDR1080 5-5-5-12 with only 1.95v
i would like to go higher but sadly i have no ram cooler

my previous XMS2? it was 2.1v for only DDR1000, and ant go further

no ram cooler? just use a normal fan for active cooling...simple.

u sure...? i get DDR1066 @ 5-5-5-20 at 2v...

i own kingston hyperx 667mhz 2x512mb , that time newbie , know nothing . just know buy high performance ram . i can pass 866mhz with 1.95v , maybe can higher . hvn try ...
heart pain , kingston hyperx isn't overclockable ....