Test – Kingston Fury 2 x 4Go 1866 MHz : Specs | CPU | Hashrate | Review | Config

Hi everyone!

Today is a big day because it marks the start of memory tests at Conseil Config! Despite the recent release of DDR4 and the years of good and loyal DDR3 service (2007 for the first kits anyway!) It will still be quite a while before we have DDR4 kits (and the motherboards that go. with) good value for money, so DDR3 still has years of service to do. Kingston sent me a HX318C10FRK2 / 8 kit that I have been recommending for quite some time on all configurations, whether entry-level or high-end, under this barbaric name hides a 2 x kit 4GB clocked at 1866 MHz with a latency of 10-11-10-30 for a voltage of 1.5V.
Offered at a price of around 70 € and guaranteed for life (by that mean the life of the product, and not your life!) It is the perfect candidate for all types of configurations, let’s see what this gives in practice!

The Kingston Fury are available individually or as a kit of 2 strips ranging from 4GB to 16GB, ranging from 1333 MHz to 1866 MHz. In addition to that, Kingston had the good idea to offer them with the heatsink in 4 different colors, red, white, blue or black, which will allow everyone to choose their favorite color! On the various online sales sites, the characteristics are often not very well listed, but the references are always present, here is how to decipher it:

• HX: Product line (HX: HyperX)
• 4: Technology (4: DDR4, 3: DDR3)
• 24: Frequency (13: 1333 MHz, 18: 1866 MHz, 24: 2400 MHz etc.)
• C: Type DIMM (C: UDIMM (format PC de bureau), S: SODIMM (format PC portable)
• 12: CS latency (9: CL9, 10: CL10, 11: CL11 etc ..)
• P: Série (F: Fury, S: Savage, B: Beast, P: Predator, I: Impact)
• B: Heatsink color (B: Black, R: Red, W: White, Nothing: Blue)
• 2: Revision
• K4: Kit + number of bars (K2: 2 bars, K4: 4 bars, K8: 8 bars)
• /16: Total capacity (8: 8Go, 16: 16Go etc.)

For the test example, HX318C10FRK2 / 8, we are therefore in the presence of the HyperX range, DDR3, frequency of 1866Mhz UDIMM type with a CL10 latency of the Fury series, red heatsinks, a revision 2 for a total capacity of 8GB!
You can now decrypt any Kingston memory, you know what to do if you want to be sure about the specifications of the memory you are going to buy!

In addition to that, the Fury memory is of course compatible with Intel and AMD processors. The automatic overclocking is also part of the game in order to have an easy configuration, even more need to go to look for the XMP option in the Bios the motherboard does everything on its own if the parameters are set to automatic, the BIOS allergic and other neophytes will be happy with the trip 🙂

The Kingston Fury are delivered in a rigid plastic surrounded by a sticker presenting the main characteristics. No worries to deplore during transport, the plastic really protects all these little people.

The bundle consists of:

• 1 kit HX318C10FRK2/8
• 1 guide d’installation
• 1 sticker HyperX

Well we are in the presence of RAM, so the manual is already quite sufficient, even if I doubt that it will be used 😀 For you to judge the usefulness of the HyperX sticker!

As we can see the red aluminum heatsink covers all the bars, the “low profile” format is well respected here with a height of 32.8mm so no worries with the huge heatsinks. A small “Fury” printed in white as well as the “HyperX” in metal make it very good and give a rather nice look to the memories.
A sticker is present on one side showing the model, serial numbers, voltage etc.

On the edge we can see the “HyperX” printed in white, everyone will know that it is really Kingston once the strips are installed in the PC! Fans of boxes with windows will be delighted 🙂

The test platform

The Kingston Fury 1866Mhz HX318C10FRK2 / 8 memory kit has been tested with the configuration below:

• Processor: Intel Core i5 4670K
• Ventirad Processor: Noctua NH-D15 (tested here)
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Gigabyte Z87X UD5TH (tested here)
• Hard disk: WD Raptor 150 Go
• Graphic card: XFX 7870 Black edition
• Ventirad Graphics Card: Arctic Cooling Accelero S1
• Food: be quiet! E9 580CM

The kit was pitted against a 2x4GB HyperX 2x4GB 1600 MHz CL9 kit.

The software used will be as follows:

Overclocking

Before starting the benchmarks, I will present the kit’s overclocking results to you in order to have a more global view of the original and overclocked performance. To do this, the kit from Kingston was really very docile, after having raised the voltage to 1.65V and this with the original latency, here are the results:

Sympathetic as the results! You buy an 1866 MHz kit, you increase the voltage to 1.65V and hop to 2400 MHz, even if from experience the gains are really very low in practice the overclocking potential is really there!
Now let’s go to both original and overclocked performance of this little kit.

Aida64

Under Aida64 the original Kingston Fury have a higher bandwidth than the HyperX 1600MHz, which is quite normal but the advance is not that huge with 26,602 MB / s read 26594 MB / s write and 24468 MB / s in copy against 23827 MB / s in reading 24246 MB / s in writing and 23045 MB / s in copy. On the other hand, the situation changes enormously during overclocking, the bandwidth goes to a whole new level with 33134 MB / s in reading (+ 24%), 33909 MB / s in writing (+ 27%) and 30,224 MB / s in copy (+ 23%), the increase in frequency really makes the flow rates explode, which is normal!

Cinebench R15

Cinebench does not take particular advantage of memory speed, we go from 573 for the HyperX 1600 MHz to 574 for the Fury 1866MHz kit. Once the overclocking is in place we still scratch a few points to get to 578, nothing very exciting that said even if the gain is there.

Handbrake

Handbrake likes high frequencies, the encoding of the chosen file goes from 132s with the HyperX 1600Mhz to 130s with the Fury. Once overclocked, the memory modules save 5s in encoding, going from 130s to 125s.

WinRAR

WinRAR also takes advantage of the increased bandwidth, 5183 for 1600MHz strips, 5243 at 1866MHz and 5554 at 2400MHz.

WPrime

WPrime also benefits from the increased bandwidth, gaining 1% from 1600MHz to 1866MHz and 2.8% from 1866MHz to 2400MHz. The gain is there even if it is rather light.

3DMark and Games

Subject of controversy and sometimes questionable choices what about performance in games? Under 3DMark we can observe a slight gain between 1600MHz and 1866MHz (from 6416 to 6510) but at 2400MHz the results are identical. In Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3 the gains are really insignificant, in the best case we gain 1FPS going from 1600MHz to 1866MHz under crysis 3 and 1FPS between 1866MHz 2400MHz under Bioshock Infinite. Quite honestly, if you have to make the choice of memory modules for games, don’t get carried away and take 1600 MHz or 1866MHz, which is the most advantageous in terms of price.

Here we are at the end of this test, what about the Kingston Fury 2 x 4 GB HX318C10FRK2 / 8 kit?
The choice of memory has very little influence on the overall performance of the machine especially if the main objective of the machine is the game, what is the most important is stability, who would like to end up with PCs that are freeze or make blue screens? Kingston has got it all with the Fury’s by providing self-setting memory that is flawlessly stable and all at a rock bottom price.

To conclude, the Kingston kit is really a total success, whether in terms of build quality, performance, look or even the price of around 70 € which makes it one of the cheapest kits in the world. market, an ideal companion for a gamer config.

Many thanks to Kingston for allowing me to do this test.

Where to find the Kingston HyperX Fury 2 x 4GB 1866 MHz?

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