Kingston HyperX XMP-1800 2GB DDR3 Memory Kit
Categories: storage
Written By: shiro
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Kingston is one of the big wigs when it comes to producing memory modules. Kingston HyperX memory modules hit made some impressive strides; the DDR2 modules are amongst the highest calibre out there. And with DDR3 showing clock frequencies up to the 2000MHz range now, town is on the front line of clock power.
Intel has decided to move into the broad performance market with its XMP or Extreme Memory Profile technology on their X38 and X48 chipsets, a derivative of the NVIDIA Extreme Performance Profiles. Basically, how this works is the memory is rated to do either 1600MHz or 1800MHz on an X38 or X48 chipset. The XMP data is written onto a separate EEPROM chip on the memory with improved timing data, voltage requirements and settings. When you select a XMP Profile, the modules tell the motherboards memory controller what latencies, voltage and bus speed to run at; the rest is history.
Today town enters the XMP market with the highest clocked XMP kit we hit seen thus far, that being 1800MHz. Let’s see how it compares to our OCZ XMP 1600 modules.
