We grabbed this from the Kingston News website, regarding the release of the HyperX Predator series:

Extreme performance matched with unparalleled design.

Kingston® HyperX® Predator memory has the fastest speeds, lowest latencies and highest capacities available in HyperX memory. It’s designed for and compatible with all popular brands of motherboards. HyperX Predator is ultra-reliable and 100-percent factory tested to ensure that it will deliver higher performance, ultra-responsive multitasking and a faster system.
Predator features a new heat spreader for greater heat dissipation, and its style complements the look and design of the latest PC hardware. Intel XMP-certified kits are available up to 2666MHz. In addition, top-speed 2800MHz kits were successfully tested and validated on a top range of motherboards currently available on the market. Users can overclock their platforms simply by selecting a profile, with no need for manual adjustments in BIOS.

For added peace of mind, HyperX Predator is backed by a lifetime warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability.

The kit of today comprises two 4GB Dimms for Dual Channel operation, sporting a nice 2400MHz at C11-13-13-30 2T Command Rate, running at 1.65Vdimm.

 

 

 

Directly noticeable is the new heatspreader design with a little more agressive look. The heatspreaders are slightly less tall as the previous Blue Hyper X ones, but still way taller then the low profile Genesis versions.

 

 

 

This 2400MHz C11 kit is based on the Hynix CFR ICs. Let's see if they have more potential in the following pages.

The Kingston Hyper X Predator series lineup is listed in the below chart:

 

Pretty decent lineup with speeds ranging from 1600 to 2666MHz in various sorts and flavours. The prices listed are the launch prices in dollars excluding VAT. Retail street prices however tend to be lower than the ones mentioned.

While it is always hard to recommend or even test a high end kit, we opt to include the results of a mainstream kit. In this case a 1600MHz C9-9-9-27 2T Command Rate, which was simulated by the Predator sample kit.

Our test setup comprises of the splendid ASUS Maximus Z Gene V board. One of the best boards around with very few quirks. The RAM compatibility and tweaking capabilities are also second to none. From all the Z77 boards I have had the honor to test, the ROG Z77 versions remain pretty untouchable at the moment.

• ASUS ROG Z77 GENE V ( 0078 bios)
• Intel i7-3770K CPU OC'ed 4500Mhz
• Nvidia GTX480, WHQL Win7 64bit drivers
• Western Digital 1TB Green Caviar Green HDD
• Corsair AX 1200W PSU

 

We tested at the following speeds:

• 1600MHz C9-9-9-27 2T 1.65Vdimm
• 2400MHz C11-13-13-30 2T 1.65Vdimm
• 2600MHz C11-14-13-30 2T 1.7Vdimm

The above listed speeds were 200% HCI Memtest stable in Windows 7. Even after more MHz over 2600MHz was very unstable. The RAMs even stopped booting over 2620MHz, resulting in a post code 55 LED on our ASUS GENE V board, no matter the voltage nor timings set.

 

Let's find out how Kingston's latest offering performs. 

To start off we are utilising Superpi 32M, a favourite amongst benchers. Ideal to show off their tweaking skills, RAM clocks and insane timings. A nice scaling can be observed, especially when comparing 1600Mhz C9, a commonly used RAM frequency, versus the 2400MHz speeds. Almost 15 seconds difference thanks to the massive increase in bandwith. Wprime 1024 is a mere CPU test and the results remain within the margin of error. Why include it then you might ask ? Just to point out that not all applications benefit from faster RAM.

 

 

The AIDA64 bandwith test shows the bandwith increases drastically coming from 1600MHz. How does 5600MB/s Copy increase and a 4400MB/s increase on the READ test sound to you ? When we look at the 2600MHz outcomewe see close to no noticeable bandwith increase. The tRCD setting of 14 is to blame, if we ran it at 13 it got far better results. But it all had to be running stable and that was far fetched in SuperPi 32M and Y-Cruncher.

 

 

 

 

Light scaling visible in Cinebench Release 10 with higher RAM speeds. In the newer 11 version the boost from our basic 1600MHz is significant. Between the 2400MHz stock rated speeds and the overclocked version there's hardly any gain.

 

 

Moving onto 3D, not much to see as there is hardly anything to see. For gamers basic 1600Mhz speeds are more than good enough.

 

 

 

XMP profiles are getting far and far better programmed. With the latest kit's here at the [M]Lab we've seen the profiles improve drastically over time. Kingston has used the below timings for their 2400C11 kit.

 

 

The two most important tertiary timings tRRSR and tWWSR are correctly set at 4, which provide a very high bandwith throughput. Another important timing to verify is the Command Rate. Time to change it from 2 to 1T. tRCD couldn't be touched ( typical Hynix behaviour ) so we tried to lower the TRP and remained HCI Memtest stable at the 11 setting. Our tweaked setup looks like this:

 

 

 

Shaving off another 2 seconds from the 32M SuperPI test is a good start compared to the XMP profile. Since not many timings were altered, we see a moderate increase of 300-500MB/s in the AIDA memory bandwith test.

 

 

The Photoworxx test get's a bit boost due to the lower memory latency. The vital setting was the Command Rate drop from 2T to 1T. Same accounts for the CPU test in the Maxon Cinebench Release 11 bench.

 

 

 

 

The X264HD encoding test encodes 1.5 FPS faster in Pass 1. Pass 2, as usual get's a very mild increase. Tweaking really helps out to boost system performance. The multi threaded Y-Cruncher completes the test close to 1 second faster.

 

 

Nothing earthshaking to be expected in 3DMark11, a light boost in the PhysX test and GPU test enhance the total score with a meager 8 points.

 

The 8GB 2400MHz C11 Hyper X Predator dual channel kit had good performances throughout our bench suite, especially when comparing it to the 1600MHz reference clocks. This Kingston Predator 2400MHz is backed up by a very good XMP profile; this makes the options to tweak pretty limited. Good job done by the Kingston team.

The new heatspreader design depends on personal taste. I'll leave that in the open, however it's good to see Kingston finally deviate from a design that was completely milked out. While the newer spreader version is slightly less tall then the previous HyperX versions, it can still lead to compatibility issues when using a bulky air cooler on your processor.

Performance wise this kit is more then a daily user could wish for. High RAM speeds with moderate main timings and a good XMP profile make it crush the 1600MHZ reference kit in some tests of our bench suite. Overclocking the kit was doable at 2600MHz, with a looser tRCD setting of 14. However the performance increase was less then expected. Which makes it in fact quite useless to even try. As mentioned before the boxed 2400MHz speeds are well dialed in. Sadly going tighter is very limited with the Hynix IC choice of this Hyper X Predator kit, no matter the voltages you might try.

 

 

Now the best is yet to come and that is the price of this 2400MHz kit. Yes this is no typo, but we already spotted this 8GB kit sub 50 euro's on several price watch sites. In fact it's the cheapest  8GB Dual channel 2400MHz kit we could spot on the Geizhals.at webite. This makes buying a 1600MHz kit, costing maybe 10 euros less, pretty redundant in my book. Kingston really has got a strong potent kit at a super affordable price on offer. Can you resist ?

 

 

PROS:

• Price
• Good balanced performance
• XMP profile
• Lifetime warranty

 

CONS:

• Tall Heatspreader
  

 

 

A big thanks to Els from Lewis PR for providing us with the Kingston Hyper X Predator kit