Kingston’s FURY RAM brings auto overclocking to gamers

Test Configuration

Test Configuration – Hardware

• Intel Core i7-4770K (reference 3.5GHz, HyperThreading and Turbo boost is on to 3.7GHz; also overclocked to 4.0GHz; DX11 CPU graphics), supplied by Intel.
• ECS GANK Domination Z87H3-A2X motherboard (Intel Z87 chipset, latest BIOS, PCIe 3.0 specification, CrossFire/SLI 8x+8x) supplied by ECS
• Kingston 8GB HyperX FURY DDR3 PC1866 RAM – HX318C10FWK2/8 – 2×4 GB, dual-channel at 1866MHz, supplied by Kingston
• Kingston 16GB HyperX Beast DDR3 PC2133 RAM – KHX21C11T3K2/16X – 2×8 GB, dual-channel at 2133MHz, supplied by Kingston

• Kingston 8GB HyperX Predator DDR3 PC2800 RAM – KHX28C12T2K2/8X – 2×4 GB, dual-channel at 2800MHz, supplied by Kingston
• GeForce GTX 780 Ti, 3GB (reference clocks), supplied by Nvidia
• 2TB Toshiba 7200 rpm HDD
• Thermaltake ToughPower 775W power supply unit supplied by Thermaltake
• Thermaltake Water2.0 Pro watercooler, supplied by Thermaltake
• Onboard Realtek Audio
• Genius SP-D150 speakers, supplied by Genius
• Thermaltake Overseer RX-I full tower case, supplied by Thermaltake
• ASUS BW12B1ST 12x BluRay writer
• HP LP3065 2560×1600 thirty inch LCD

Test Configuration – Software

• GeForce beta 337.50 drivers; High Quality; Single-display Performance mode; Prefer Maximum Performance, Vsync off. No overclocking; power and temperature targets set to maximum with stock voltage and fan profiles using EVGA’s PrecisionX.
• Windows 7 64-bit; very latest updates
• Latest DirectX
• All games are patched to their latest versions.
• Vsync is forced off in the control panels.
• Varying AA enabled as noted in games; all in-game settings are specified with 16xAF always applied; 16xAF forced in control panel for Crysis.
• All game results show average frame rates
• Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
• Windows 7 64, latest updates; DX10 titles were run under DX10 render paths and DX11 titles under DX11 render paths.

The benchmarks

The Game benchmarks

• Crysis
• STALKER, Call of Pripyat
• Far Cry 3
• Tomb Raider: 2013
• Crysis 3
• Metro: Last Light
• GRID 2
• Total War: Rome II
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Thief

• Synthetic
  • 3DMark Vantage
  • 3DMark 11
  • Heaven 4.0
  • Valley 1.0
  • FireStrike/FireStrike Extreme

Other Tests

• Super Pi
• Fritz Chess Bench
• Custom PC Benchmark
• Cinebench
• x264 HD
• Crystal Disk Mark
• ATTO
• HD Tach
• HD Tune

Synthetic Benching Suites

• SiSoft Sandra 2014
• PC Mark Vantage
• PC Mark 7

We have got an interesting project going, testing 3 categories of RAM speeds, while also looking at the effects of 16GB versus 8GB of system RAM. First, we’ll look at synthetic and at real world benches before we head for gaming results