As we enter the testing and benchmarking section of this review, here is the list of the testing software we will use:

• Cinebench 11.5 64 Bit
• PC Mark7
• AIDA64 Memory Tests
• wPrime 32
• SuperPI
• Maxxmem

Our test system is comprised of the following components:

• EVGA X79 FTW
• i7-3930K CPU – Overclocked to 4.5Ghz
• 2X EVGA GTX 560 Ti Classified Ultra (SLI)
• Corsair Professional Series 850 Watt PSU

We also have a G.SKill RipjawsZ Quad Channel 4X4 Gb 1866Mhz kit for comparison purposes. Both the Kingston and G.Skill kits sell for about the same price, or within $5 USD, depending upon where you look.

Both memory kits were set to their published timings for 1866Mhz operation, 9-10-9-28 for the G.Skill and 9-11-9-29 for the Kingston. While the published timings for the Kingston Genesis kit are slightly higher than the G.Skill kit, we’ll see how that effects the scores as we go through the benchmarking.

For out first set of tests, we measured the memory read, write, copy, and latency using AIDA64 and Maxxmem.

The AIDA64 tests show that the Kingston Genesis outperformed the G.Skill RipjawsZ in all but the memory read test. The Maxxmem scores however, showed the Kingston kit coming out on top in the memory read and memory write scores; and the G.Skill kit scored better on the memory copy and latency test. These results tell us that the performance difference between the two kits is minimal at best, even though the Kingston runs at slightly looser timings.

Next we used Cinebench 11.5 X64, using both the CPU and GPU tests, here are those results.

Good showing by the Kingston Genesis here – besting the G.Skill RipjawsZ in both tests. We are beginning to really like this Kingston HyperX!

wPrime 32 and SuperPI are the next benchmarks we decided to run. For wPrime 32, we ran both the 32M and 1024M tests. SuperPI was run using both the 1M and 32M tests. Here are those results.

Once again, the Kingston HyperX Genesis kit came out on top of all the test runs. The scores are extremely close and probably not enough for any “Real World” difference to the average user; but, again we point to the fact that the Kingston kit is able to best the G.Skill kit with looser timings.