Kingston H20 6GB 2000MHz DDR3 Review

PC Mark Vantage

Away from the purely synthetic to Futuremarks ever-reliable PC Mark Vantage. With a combination of in-built utilities and epileptic-fit inducing browser tests it can really give the whole system a thorough thrashing and highlight any weaknesses.

Sadly there is just no denying that the default XMP of the Kingston is pretty poor. It’s comprehensively outclassed by a overclocked 1333MHz kit in all of our PC Mark tests.

Thankfully once we push the CPUs upwards to 4GHz the difference is greatly lessened, but still those slack timings haunt the HyperX H₂0. Only in the gaming tests does it manage to edge ahead.

 

POV-Ray

POV-Ray, the Persistence Of Vision RAY-tracer is a rendering program similar to CineBench, but uses the more intensive ray-tracing methodology of creating the image.

At 2000MHz it’s the same old story with the HyperX just not quite managing to keep up. Although it looks close in the Per-CPU graph the reality is that you always want as much horsepower as possible, and so the Average test is more demonstrative of system performance.

Finally we have a result that edges the HyperX H₂0 ahead. It might be at 4GHz but this is a water-cooled kit and therefore something for the overclockers. It’s a shame it’s taken this long to find a “win” for it though.