FRONTPAGE Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3-1866 2X4GB Memory Kit Review

oh common lycote.

raise the V to 1.8 and see if it will do 2800+

its a free kit push that stuff to the brink!

I probably would have if it wasn't a 1.5 V kit to start....HA! Truth be told I did try a little more voltage, but it got pretty unstable past 2400 MHz, but still..... 2400 MHz from a 1866 MHz kit it pretty damn nice.

heh well thats nice to know you might want to add it did 2400 next time ..

some of us like to push that limit .. (example me using blackmombas @ 2666 -11-13-11-31-2T

Ummm..... did you read the review???? I made a pretty big deal of it making 2400 MHz stable.....LOL.

hehe yes i read it last night or so

my bad i just remember thinking.. this could have been pushed harder

I should add tho god those white sticks look bad A

fury OC

hi guys, this is a friend of mine oc on fury, he got this compared to dino

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlEYTp1CUAAoIXX.jpg:large

Two different benchmarks. Mine is HyperPI, yours is SuperPI. There is a big difference between those two benchmarks. You would think a website called benchmarkhardware would know that.....LOL. If you go and read the review, my SuperPi result was also 8 min and 3 seconds.... and that was at 1866 MHz

didnt see it was hyperpi sorry! but what do u think about performance at 2133mhz 11 12 11 1.5v? for the price its a really good ram isnt it?

i read your review its nice! 2400mhz isnt stable at superpi 1m! thats not my webside, i just saw and compare xDD!

It's an excellent memory kit. 2400 MHz stable using 1.65V should be doable. At least it was on the kit I reviewed.

yes, for what he told me, at 1.65 it should! its really a very good kit for the price!

I just received one of these kits so you can expect some of my tests soon

How would the Fury 1866 compare to Beast 2400 on a Z77 platform (GA-Z77X-UD3H and i5-3570K)?

HyperX Fury Black Series 2x4GB DDR3 1866 @1.5V p/n HX318C10FBK2/8
(it's the black version of the reviewed kit)
• DDR3-1333 CL8-9-8 @1.5V
• DDR3-1600 CL9-10-9 @1.5V
• DDR3-1866 CL10-11-10 @1.5V
OC: 2400 MHz 11-12-12-35-1T @ 1.65 V

vs.

Kingston HyperX Beast 2x4GB DDR3 2400 @1.65V p/n KHX24C11T3K2/8X
• JEDEC: DDR3-1333 CL9-9-9 @1.5V
• JEDEC#4: DDR3-1522 CL10-10-10-27-37 @1.5V
• JEDEC#5: DDR3-1600 CL11-11-11-28-39 @1.5V
• XMP Profile #2: D3-2133 CL11-12-11 @1.6V
• XMP Profile #1: D3-2400 CL11-13-13 @1.65V

On newegg, the 1.5V "Fury" 1866MHz is priced $80 -so it's cheaper!- while the 1.65V "Beast" 2400MHz costs $95.
But i found a store (not in USA) which sells the "Beast" at liquidation (closeout?) price, 13% cheaper than the "Fury". So I bought the "Beast" but still having second-thoughts... Please help me get this out of my head, will ya ?
The "Beast" can run @1600 Mhz with CL11 and 1.5V while the Fury can run 1600 Mhz @ 1.5V with CL9 ! And overclocking to 2400 works with lower lantency on Fury than the XMP profile of Beast...
It seems Fury is actually a little better, right? Then why on earth newegg is offering the Fury cheaper???

Edit: currently (April 23rd 2014) on amazon, Fury 1866 is priced $89.35 (from 128.50) while Beast 2400 is $88.74.

Edit2: I know that higher DDR frequency "beats" lower latency, so I suppose 2400 MHz CL11 is faster (at least in syntetic tests?) than 1866 MHz CL10 but this is an unfair comparison, because the former runs @1.65V while the latter @1.5V.
If we run both @1.65V, both reach 2400MHz, but Fury has a slightly lower lattency according to the review (but on the other hand is unstable? then if we raise the latency from 11-12-12 to 11-13-13 we reach Beast's profile....)
On 1600MHz @1.5V Fury is a clear winner (CL9 vs CL11), also on 1866 MHz (I'm not even sure Beast can run 1866 @1.5V) but on 2400 MHz they are almost on par, right?
SO if I'm going to run the RAM @2400 MHz and both kits reach this freq. @The same voltage and "almost" the same latency... but the Beast was 13% cheaper and looks cooler.... so HECK... have I done a good buy?

Both series are on about the same IC so Hynix MFR or maybe mixed with new CFR. I would check how tight can you set Beast or how low can you set voltage for desired clock.
I made Beast 2x8GB 2400 C11 review some time ago and tested kit could run at 2400 10-12-12 1.65V.

I still had no time to test 1866 Fury kit that I got couple of days ago ...

Thank you very much Woomack, if the kits are rather similar and I bought the 13% cheaper one I should be content with my aquisition
The only caveat is that they are similar in performance and stable settings apparently only @1.65V. At 1.5V Fury is a clear leader (e.g. @1600 MHz).
So if the user is cautious and doesn't want to run @1.65V (as mobo manufactuers, intel and also JEDEC they all strongly recommend 1.5V and there are multiple blogs/boards mentioning 1.65V might damange the CPU.... ) then if running @1.5V FURY has a clear advantage...
Is this 1.5V recommendation to be taken for granted? I see those articles/blogs/ forum posts strongly recommending it (at least for Z77 and Sandy/Ivy Bridge) while other reviewers run memory @1.65V with not a word of warning... I'm so puzzled. I don't want to ruin my 3570K, not in the next 10 years...
I guess I should test the BEAST @ 1866 to see if it can run @1.5V ...

1.65V won't damage anything. 1.5V is base specs given by Intel but higher voltage won't cause issues and I've never had any issues running memory at much higher voltage.

Both Beast and Fury memory chips are designed to work with 1.5V. It's just required to set higher voltage above some frequency so at 1600-1866 you can still use 1.5V on both series while for 2133+ you may need to raise it ... it just hasn't been tested by Kingston what timings it will need to run stable on the Beast kit using 1.5V.

Thank you. Just in case -since what I've constantly read is that the memory controller on the CPU is the problem- what could damage it? I guess not the voltage "per se" but the temperature that comes with it...
So I got a Zalman CNPS10X cpu cooler (was a big pain in the *back* to install) and it definitely lowers temps with over 10°C under full load in OCCT (25°C ambient) - I get max 79°C core#3 with stock cooler, while after installing the Zalman it gets to 65°C iirc, no o.c. though. Installed with some MX2 leftover instead of the original Zalman-suplied thermal compound (call me cheap, didin't want to unseal it lol).
Thanks again for all the input!
I was just so worried because a 3570K costs here in my country more than a third of the average monthly wage... so I wouldn't like to damage it earlier than 10 years lol. Don't ask me where, it's somewhere on the uncharted outskirts of Europe...

There was an info that higher memory voltage may damage memory controller on Intel Sandy Bridge platform ... still I haven't seen even 1 CPU with broken IMC and memory kits designed for SB were also 1.65V.
I was running memory at 1.75V for longer on IB without any issues and max up to 1.95V for quick tests ( it was my board's max actually as I would try higher, highly not recommended ).