KingstonFE
Contributor
Most people look for the best value for their investment. If you are a smart DIY enthusiast, HyperX blu should be in your list. With its affordable price and decent performance, you can easily boost your system performance with no pain. No matter you want to lower the timing or push the frequency, it's just that easy with HyperX blu.
Bjorn3D:
Kingston's HyperX blu kit runs at 1600MHz with 9-9-9-27 timings, which is exactly what CPU-Z reported. To test stability, we ran Intel Burn Test multiple times and everything passed with flying colors. With the memory confirmed stable at default values, we were anxious to see if this kit was capable of achieving the same clocks that its big brother HyperX kit did. Being a value kit, we didn't have high hopes for its overclocking abilities but to our surprise, the Hyper blu kit was actually an impressive overclocker.
Default Frequency & Lowered Timings
Like many value 1600MHz kits, timings will almost always be in the 9-9-9-24 to 9-9-9-28 range. In general, lowered timings usually equates to increased performance which is why lower timed kits cost more. An easy way to get more performance from any memory kit is to simply lower the timings. To keep things easy with the HyperX blu kit, we lowered each timing value by one and tested for stability with Intel Burn Test. After many stability runs and reboots, here is what we came up with.
8-8-8-24 timings aren't exactly impressive, but coming from 9-9-9-27, they are certainly appreciated. We were hoping to reach the magical CAS 7 latency, but keeping the value aspect and pricing in mind, we can't exactly complain. 8-8-8-24 is still an improvement over default values and performance increases will be evident. Overall, we were happy with what we achieved in the lowered timing results.
2000MHz? Easy.
To really see what the HyperX blu kit was capable of, we had to push the frequency. Sticking to Bjorn3D ritual, we left the timings and voltage at default values and simply raised the memory divider. In a matter of 1-2 minutes, we were running this value HyperX blu 1600Mhz kit at 2000MHz without any issues.
We now had a 1600MHz value kit at 2000MHz at default timings and voltage in literally 1-2 minutes. We rebooted, went into the BIOS, changed the divider to achieve 2000MHz, and booted back into Windows. To verify stability we ran Intel Burn Test and all was well. So in short, this HyperX blu kit is very capable of keeping up with the big brother HyperX kits. If maximum frequency and value is your priority, this kit is far more superior in comparison to the standard HyperX kit. You get similar performance for a lot less dollar.
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Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB Kit 1600MHz (KHX1600C9D3B1K2) - Bjorn3D.com