Kingston Genesis 4GB DDR3 2133MHz Review
Conclusion
Published: 14th March 2011 | Source: Kingston | Price: £80.39 |
Conclusion
In the introduction we postulated as to whether the Genesis truly was something that heralded a new dawn, and a vital purchase for your shiny new system, or if it's merely the same as a P55 kit, but with a different branding for the sales benefits therein.
Straight away it's clear that there are a lot of benefits to be had from matching the right part to the right job. Looking through our graphs, even with the full Core i7-870 pushing the T1 and Trident along they were no match for the Genesis.
Memory and CPUs are so closely related these days that one would expect the more powerful i7 CPU to overcome any tiny performance benefits the P67 system has, but this was nowhere near the case. Perhaps the two best demonstrations of this were :
The CineBench test where we were convinced the extra four virtual cores would romp home ahead of the i5-2500K but in fact the opposite occurred. .4 PTS might not seem much, but it's a hell of a difference in the rigorous CineBench.
Secondly the SiSoft Sandra Cache and Memory benchmark. My heavens it's one thing to grab a few extra edges of bandwidth, but the Genesis/2500K combination annihilated our Core i7-870 dual-channel setups.
The only down-side, if it can be called such, is the lack of overclock capability. This is far more of an issue with the new way Intel control the speed of their boards and the RAM though, than any limitation of the Kingston product.
So it is pretty as anything, fits under even the largest heatsink, is very very fast out of the box with no tweaking required, and comes with the excellent backup from the Kingston warranty. You'd expect it to be pricey but this 4GB kit clocks in just below £80.
Once again Kingston prove themselves the memory Kings. The Genesis has to win our Gold Award. We can't find a fault with it at all.
Thanks to Kingston for providing the Genesis for review. Discuss in our forums.
Most Recent Comments
the one thing (other than the balls out performance) that struck me about them was the look, the etched hyper x on the gun metal grey is such a nich look that they just ooze so much understated class its untrue. i can only imagine how hard it was to get some nice pics of them, they go from a matt grey to shining like a diamond within a couple of degree.
i havent seen ram look as good as this since corsair first released the dominator range.
if it was on a better set up im pretty sure they would go over 2200 on loose timings.
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Originally Posted by marsey99
yea, with a 26k in a p8 67 pro, 103.something x 51 but 104 and it gets flakey. if it was on a better set up im pretty sure they would go over 2200 on loose timings. |
Just not worth the hassle imho.
that's the Kingston i know about 
How can the tweaking be worth it on one platform but not the other?
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
We dont bother touching the BCLK as most advise not too tbh. so little in it just not worth bothering with. Most chips get iffy at or around 104/105. Just not worth the hassle imho. |
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Originally Posted by Bungral
But isn't that the beauty of overclocking that you keep talking about with regards to the 1566 platform? How can the tweaking be worth it on one platform but not the other? |
1155 = 110 if you are luck from a 100 stock. BCLK is pretty pointless on 1155 and was designed to be that way too.
the only thing i could do after 2200 on 1155 was jump to 2400 which is a big step but on the other 2 platforms i could go up in much smaller steps making sure i could get the max out of them.
i know which platform i would of rather used to see how high the ram would go.
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Originally Posted by hig_gins
Will these badboys fit with on noctua nh d14 on a gigabyte p67 ud7 board in a phantom? |
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Originally Posted by mArTyN
Glad I bought some then (awaiting delivery) |
Thanks, will defo be purchasing these bad boys
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Originally Posted by Mojo1990
Where did you purchase them from? Do Kingston also provide 8GB Kits? And also is it possible to put heat sinks (those fin like things) on top? Thanks, will defo be purchasing these bad boys |
Would the 4GB kit at 2133 MHz be sufficient in terms of gaming usage? Or would you have to purchase the 8GB Kit?
Thanks in advance.
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I am thinking of purchaing these this week to go with the Gigabyte UD7 mobo that I have ordered but I am stuck between these and the yellow/gold Crucial Ballistix!!
My link
Which one do you think will perform better? They both look sweet
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Originally Posted by Luger718
are these compatible with ASUS p8p67 boards? im planning on getting the 1600Mhz kit |
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Originally Posted by Tortuga
I like when people ask if ram is compatible with SB |
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