KINGSTON KHX1866C9D3T1K3/6GX overclocking review

[Phil The Greek]

Although a lot of people have turned into a Sandy Bridge system,there are even more left with the 1366 socket platform witch is still the high end platform of Intel.After the discontinue of Elpida Hyper chips,finding a good overclocking triple channel memory kit is not easy.
When KINGSTON send me this kit,I looked around for overclocking reviews and the best results I found was 2000Mhz at stock timings. Without high hopes on overclocking potential I started pushing the modules.Soon enough I was surprised finding out that this kit that costs only about 140€ here in Greece,has so much to give.
I want to thank KINGSTON and HWBOX for supplying this memory kit.

Let's see some results.

2000Mhz@stock timings without added vdimm was easy.




2000Mhz@7-9-7-24 reached also at default vdimm.




Maxing out at 2024Mhz@7-9-7-24.Extra voltage didn't help @trcd9





Changing the trcd from 9 to 10 aloud me to feed the modules with extra voltage and take off in the frequency scale.

2200Mhz@7-10-7-27 with 1.72vdimm




Maxing out at 2212Mhz@7-10-7-27




Loosing the timings @9-12-9-31 and adding a little bit extra vdimm,the memory started flying

2400Mhz@9-12-9-31 1.76vdimm




Maxing out at2466Mhz@9-12-9-31 way beyond the rated speeds.




At this point(and a little bit earlier) I felt that my 980's IMC was having a hard time,so I decided to mount my cascade and make him feel a little better,so I could squeeze every last Mhz this amazing kit had to give.




Cooling the IMC alluded me to to reach the magic number of 2500Mhz

2502Mhz@9-12-9-31

[George_o/c]

2500MHz 9-12-9 @ 1.76V on a 1866MHz CL9 kit is just awesome! Well done Phillip

[mortisboy]

I was also surprised from the performance of this kit...2500MHz on 1366 is awesome,very nice Phil

[Mafio]

looks good for a "budget" kit

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Elpida J1108BDBG?

[easegantini]

Nice job! I can imagine what you could have done with Kingston 2000 C8. Hahaha

[Leeghoofd]

Nice review, think you need to play a bit with the RTLs to get better performance at 2000 and beyond... I had similar outcome with the Sniper 1600C8 (4Gb dimms) till I tweaked the RTLS... Job well done man !!

Can you test two sticks on 1155 plz ? would be fun to see if they can do 2133 cl7 at 1.7

[Phil The Greek]

2500MHz 9-12-9 @ 1.76V on a 1866MHz CL9 kit is just awesome! Well done Phillip

I was also surprised from the performance of this kit...2500MHz on 1366 is awesome,very nice Phil

Thanks guys.

looks good for a "budget" kit

Yes it was a nice surprise.

Elpida J1108BDBG?

Probably.I didn't open them.

Nice job! I can imagine what you could have done with Kingston 2000 C8. Hahaha

Thanks

Nice review, think you need to play a bit with the RTLs to get better performance at 2000 and beyond... I had similar outcome with the Sniper 1600C8 (4Gb dimms) till I tweaked the RTLS... Job well done man !!

Can you test two sticks on 1155 plz ? would be fun to see if they can do 2133 cl7 at 1.7

Thank you very much. Appreciated it.
When I get the chance I will test them on 1155 too.

[needforspeed]

How come there was a huge latency improvement between:
2400Mhz@9-12-9-31 and 2466Mhz@9-12-9-31.. did a stick drop out

[PatRaceTin]

may be some PSC X _ _ ICs

[Mafio]

nah, 99.9% they are Elpida BDBG

[George_o/c]

All these Kingston kits are Elpida BDBG apart from some older ones (2010 rev) that may have PSC