512mb Kingston HyperX PC4000

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Best Buy has 512mb Kingston HyperX PC4000 DDR (KHX4000/512) on sale now. Best Buy Stock Number 5958868...

Reg. Price. $199.99 - $88 IR $111.99 instore Price - $12 MIR = $99.99 AR

NewEgg as it for $155 + Free Shipping

Best Price on Pricewatch is $142.93 Shipped

Not sure how good it is but I have had nothing but good luck with my HyperX PC3000 memory.
 
I got in on this the last time they had the deal. Awesome RAM as far as I am concerned.
 
Yeah its good ram, running mine at 2-3-3-6 right now and its 3500 hyper x.
 
whoa, good deal. hm... i can pickup 2x512 of PNY.... or a stick of this.... which would you guys pick?
 
Originally posted by EnforcerGT
whoa, good deal. hm... i can pickup 2x512 of PNY.... or a stick of this.... which would you guys pick?
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The HyperX any day. Its a much better product.
 
Originally posted by EnforcerGT
whoa, good deal. hm... i can pickup 2x512 of PNY.... or a stick of this.... which would you guys pick?
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All depends on what bus speeds you'll be running. Will you run the PNY way over spec? if yes then get the kingston, if not save yourself a ton and get the PNY.
 
Wow I wish I could get on this deal, that's a pretty damn good price for DDR500 mem :).

Cheers,

Mr. Pain
 
Picked up 2 sticks today plus it added 22,398 more points to my Rewards card.... Gotta love that!!

"Only 1 Rebate per Household or Address.."
 
Thanks for the heads-up, ib!

Snagged a Gig of this today. With tax it was a little under $240 out the door. Newegg would have been $305. Considering I was about to drop ~$225 on some HyperX 3700, this was great timing for me. It'll be even better if I get off my ass and actually send in the rebate. :D

I'm not pulling the 'spreader off to verify, of course, but I think it has Samsung chips. When I get home I'll try to run the numbers and report back here.
 
the pc4000 runs at 3-4-4-8
you will be lucky to run it lower then that
i had 1 gb of it and it ran at 220 3-4-4-8 with errors in memtest86
not somthing i will recommend
 
Originally posted by blindviper
i had 1 gb of it and it ran at 220 3-4-4-8 with errors in memtest86
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Do you know whether you had the Hynix or the Samsung?
 
I just got a gig just to change out my slighty toasted pc2700 here. All good so far.
 
well , got my 2500+ to 3200+ with it , and that was all i wanted to do really. So far, stable and steady.
 
Every review I read couldn't push it over 260Mhz, not to mention its backordered. Cancelled my order.
 
Originally posted by batotman
Every review I read couldn't push it over 260Mhz,
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Viperlair got their Hynix up to 270, stable. Seems like the Samsung tops out at ~260, though. Still, I just paid less than $240 for a whole gigabyte of RAM that's practically guaranteed 260MHz. I shall not bitch. :D

not to mention its backordered. Cancelled my order.
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Yeah, I didn't expect it to sit on the shelves too long at that price. I'm glad I did what I did. Soon as I heard about this deal last night, I got online and found the closest BB with the RAM in stock. Caught them right after they opened and they still had 4 sticks left.
 
Well , since i work near a Best buy , ran over and grabbed 2 that they had. They started with 5 , i grabbed 2 , friend grabbed the other 2 , and that left 1 for someone else...
 
I also bought two sticks. It says KHX4000/512R. What does the R mean? Are they rejects?

Both mine say Hynix on the bottom left hand corner of the sticky outside wrapper (or however one describes it). It also says on the box that we can run this at Cas2. I assume that means 2.5?

Someone told me that he was reading up on this and these are actually just HyperX PC 3200 that are overclocked to reach the 4000 levels. 2 reviews said that you couldnt overclock these further than what they are at - also that is why the timings are so high... they are quite stable at the specified settings though. They can be ran at lower settings (for those using AMD) and get better timings.

When I get my p4c800 I guess I would have to change the timings somewhere in my bios, right? What and where do I make these changes.

Geez, so many first time builder questions.

thanks
 
Not sure what the "R" is for.... I just checked mine and they say "SAM" on the left side.... Not sure which ones are better. I just made sure they where the same or as close as I could find since these will be running in Dual Channel.
 
One question: since this is only a 512mb stick kit, if I buy two of them, will it perform just as good as the 1gb kit.
 
Originally posted by T20
One question: since this is only a 512mb stick kit, if I buy two of them, will it perform just as good as the 1gb kit.
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Yup, pretty much :)

Cheers,

Mr. Pain

-- I've been running "generic" kingmax memory (2x512 bought at seperate times) @ 220Mhz (with 2.5-3-3-11 timings). That's not bloody bad for non "uber" mem. Paid like $200 CDN for it all.

Cheers,

Mr. Pain
 
Originally posted by uptous
I also bought two sticks. It says KHX4000/512R. What does the R mean? Are they rejects?

Both mine say Hynix on the bottom left hand corner of the sticky outside wrapper (or however one describes it). It also says on the box that we can run this at Cas2. I assume that means 2.5?

Someone told me that he was reading up on this and these are actually just HyperX PC 3200 that are overclocked to reach the 4000 levels. 2 reviews said that you couldnt overclock these further than what they are at - also that is why the timings are so high... they are quite stable at the specified settings though. They can be ran at lower settings (for those using AMD) and get better timings.

When I get my p4c800 I guess I would have to change the timings somewhere in my bios, right? What and where do I make these changes.

Geez, so many first time builder questions.

thanks
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KHX(nonA)PC3200 is BH-5 pretty much the best DDR on the market.

Not sure what KHXA is
 
also, I have a 512 stick of 2100, 512 stick of 2700 and want to get a last stick of 512 from this deal. Is this a bad thing to do combining the types of memory? I dont want to buy it if it is going to reduce performance or hurt it.
 
Originally posted by huxley
also, I have a 512 stick of 2100, 512 stick of 2700 and want to get a last stick of 512 from this deal. Is this a bad thing to do combining the types of memory? I dont want to buy it if it is going to reduce performance or hurt it.
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Ideally, all of your RAM matches all of the time. Anything short of that might cause problems. If you mix-n-match RAM and have odd issues, then you know where to start troubleshooting.
 
I picked up my two sticks today and they dont work in my IC7. POS just beeps and even if it does post at 250mhz it wont boot into windows. I played with the timings and voltage which didnt help at all. I once had a similar problem with xms3200 v1.2. I have v1.1 and they run great, but v1.2 wouldnt run on this board. I am not going to say this ram is broke or sucks ass because it may be a compatibility with my IC7. Damn what a dissapointment. So, back to my Corsair xms3200 that runs 220mhz.
 
I bought two of these sticks and I have them running at 1:1 at 240FSB on my 2.8C (875P) system.

they will actually boot into Windows at 250FSB on my machine but the stupid b@stards at Shuttle have limited my vcore to 1.58V which is way too low for us chaps who like to O/C our P4s.

so until Shuttle (hopefully) releases a BIOS update with more vcore, I guess I'll have to be happy with my 2.8C running at 3.4Ghz...

:rolleyes: :p :D
 
This is a great deal on PC4000. I saw it earlier when i was helping out someone that was asking about it in General Hardware. I would just get a 2x512MB kit of Mushkin lvl 1 or Corsair XMS PC3200 for around the same price instead. The timings will net better perfermance then the added bandwidth especially in games. More bandwidth really doesn't affect performance in most areas at all. Just look at the FX51 which has nearly 3x the bandwidth as the A64 3400+ and yet the 3400+ performs the same and sometimes better. That said PC3700+ is pretty much junk for current processors unless you can get it dirt cheap like this offer :).

Great deal though for this overpriced PC4000 stuff.
 
would just one stick of this be better than my generic gig of 2100 + 2700 separate 512MB sticks?

basically 512MB this>512 2100 + 512 2700 combined

?
 
Yeah this is great ram, too bad it doesnt run at its rated speed in my IC7. But it does run 500mhz in a MSI 865.
 
I am not sure, but chances are if you are running pc2100 or pc2700 you are running it on an older mobo. Chances are your current mobo wouldn't support the higher DDR 500 speeds. I could be wrong though.
 
Originally posted by OrionNT
I am not going to say this ram is broke or sucks ass because it may be a compatibility with my IC7.
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Picked up two sticks of the Hynix flavor today and it's running memtest86+ and two instance prime95 stable on my IC7 ver 1.1 mb. Can only get to 240 FSB with my 2.8c though. RAM is at 1:1 with timing of 2.5:4:4:8 with 2.8 vdimm. Runs same as my Corsair PC4000 ver 1.1 dimms.
 
Originally posted by jagzzzzzz
I am not sure, but chances are if you are running pc2100 or pc2700 you are running it on an older mobo. Chances are your current mobo wouldn't support the higher DDR 500 speeds. I could be wrong though.
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I am guessing my abit NF7-S is up to speed...
 
Originally posted by huxley
I am guessing my abit NF7-S is up to speed...
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You dont want to buy PC4000 for an AMD board lol. AMD rigs dont need anything near DDR500 speeds. Depending on your processor get yourself some quality PC2700 or PC3200.

And if you are running PC2100 and PC2700 togethor then that means both sticks are only running at PC2100 speeds. RAM always runs the speed of the slowest DIMM installed.

This Kingston PC4000 stuff uses Hynix chips which have poor timings.

Save your money and get something with CH-5, BH-5, or BH-6 chips.
 
Originally posted by burningrave101
You dont want to buy PC4000 for an AMD board lol. AMD rigs dont need anything near DDR500 speeds. Depending on your processor get yourself some quality PC2700 or PC3200.

And if you are running PC2100 and PC2700 togethor then that means both sticks are only running at PC2100 speeds. RAM always runs the speed of the slowest DIMM installed.

This Kingston PC4000 stuff uses Hynix chips which have poor timings.

Save your money and get something with CH-5, BH-5, or BH-6 chips.
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cool, thanks, I am glad I did not go out and spend the monies
 
Originally posted by burningrave101
You dont want to buy PC4000 for an AMD board lol. AMD rigs dont need anything near DDR500 speeds. Depending on your processor get yourself some quality PC2700 or PC3200.

And if you are running PC2100 and PC2700 togethor then that means both sticks are only running at PC2100 speeds. RAM always runs the speed of the slowest DIMM installed.

This Kingston PC4000 stuff uses Hynix chips which have poor timings.

Save your money and get something with CH-5, BH-5, or BH-6 chips.
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I guess you haven't seen an AMD rig running 250+ Mhz?

Memory bandwidth really opens up at 220+. Not to mention your FSB bandwidth.

Cheers,

Mr. Pain
 
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