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Review: Corsair vs. Kingston Intel Core i7 LGA1156 memory round-up

by Tarinder Sandhu on 9 December 2009, 09:31 3.75

Tags: Kingston, Corsair

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Multi-threaded goodness and loading times

StaxRip X264 + AAC encoding - pass one
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
166168168
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GB
Corsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GB
Kingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
0
50
100
150
200

StaxRip X264 + AAC encoding - pass two
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
123124124
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GB
Corsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GB
Kingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
0
25
50
75
100
125
150

wPrime multithreaded - 1024M calculation
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
250250250
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GB
Corsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GB
Kingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
0
50
100
150
200
250
300

Far Cry 2 loading time
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
41.9642.1941.84
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GB
Corsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GB
Kingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
0
10
20
30
40
50

But you'd never know which module was which when running multi-threaded benchmarks.