Kingston HyperX Special Edition Sandy Bridge 1600MHz CL9 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅08-02-11
Closer Look

Customary to Kingston memory packaging, the HyperX Special Edition arrives packaged within a tray with the specifications printed on the outer cover. This no frills approach to the packaging means that overall costs can be kept low which I have no qualms with.


Kingston HyperX Special Edition packaging

Removing the DIMMs from the packaging we can see that the heatsink design has changed slightly from the preceding HyperX kits. First of all the obvious difference, Kingston have moved away from the traditional blue and gone with a grey/silver colour-scheme. So this will complement a system that has a neutral colour configuration. The next significant difference is the heatsink design. Kingston have used aluminium for the heat spreaders and there are 24 pierced holes on either side for heat dissipation. The "HyperX" typography and silver "X" that spreads across the heat spreaders have been given a glossy, machine cut corrugation. This looks and feels great. It gives the DIMMs some elegance and style.

I am really pleased that Kingston have remained consistent with their HyperX kit by ensuring the heatspreaders provide a low-profile. A mere 1mm extension on the memory DIMMs can be found on the HyperX Special Edition's which is fantastic, there will be no issues with CPU compatibility that's for sure. So overall height on this kit is 2.8cm - the lowest you will find from any performance RAM.

As is expected each stick has the label with the serial number and voltage. Unfortunately though the CAS timings aren't present which is odd. Incidentally though, this kit may not physically show the CAS details but because they are XMP we can channel into this data within the BIOS easily.







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