Memory

Kingston HyperX Impact 2x4GB DDR3-1600 1.35V Memory Review

 

Performance

Performance has been tested on a business class Lenovo laptop based on Intel i3 3217u CPU. Similar laptops are really popular lately even though they’re not offering highest performance. 

Benchmarks used in performance stage of this review are perfect to measure memory bandwidth. We also added PCMark8 which is showing general PC performance in daily work.

 

 

AIDA64 Memory and Cache benchmark

 

aida64

 

Due to used dual core CPU, numbers are not really as high as we used to see in the desktop PCs but they are still not bad. Laptop originally came with one 4GB module what is offering nealy half of the presented above bandwidth. Switching it to matched dual channel memory kit like HyperX Impact instantly improves performance.

HyperX Impact without any issues runned at specified speed and timings of 800MHz ( DDR3-1600 ) 9-9-9-27 and even Command Rate 1N.

 

 

MaxxMem Preview

 

maxxmem

 

MaxxMem Preview is similar benchmark to AIDA64 but is showing single threaded performance. Also here performance is pretty good even though limited by CPU speed. Laptop users just have to use to some limitations created to save battery life. Top series CPUs will for sure show higher memory bandwidth and then you may even consider higher clocked memory kits while for cheaper series DDR3-1600 is more than enough and optimal for daily work.

 

 

PCMark8

PCMark8 so the latest benchmark created to test whole PC, of course from Futuremark. Testing memory we will focus on daily work and office stages.

 

pcm8 1

 

Tests based on web browsing, writing and video chat encoding/playback passed really good. There were no issues with performance during all test which took over half an hour.

 

pcm8 2

 

Office part of the benchmark also passed flawlessly showing good enough performance for office work on many documents at the same time.

 

General performance of HyperX Impact is really good and as I already mentioned is even limited by test platform. Similar processors are in most cheaper ultrabooks for which DDR3-1600 version of HyperX Impact will be optimal. Also low work voltage of 1.35V is an advantage in this case as keeping high performance we can also save battery’s life.

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