Corsair Dominator GT 1600MHz AM3 Review

Packaging & Initial Impressions

Published: 2nd July 2010 | Source: Corsair | Price: £160.58 | Author: Milind Chidrawar

Packaging & Initial Impressions

The Corsair Dominator GT 1600 comes packaged in a fairly standard plastic outer shell. For those (like me) who regularly need treatment from stab wounds while trying to open packaging such as this, you're in luck as this particular set opens with ease.

This particular lineup of memory sports a stylish black and red colour scheme and tall heatsinks to boot. Be aware that certain heatsinks may not have sufficient clearance to work alongside this memory.

Finally, this is the included active memory cooler. This consists of two 60mm fans, powered by a single 3 pin connector. With four bolts, the unit fixes itself to the RAM using two brackets. The installation itself is very simple although you may have trouble fitting the unit with certain CPU coolers.

Next stop, overclocking!

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02-07-2010, 04:45:48

tinytomlogan

Are you Phenom II users looking for some extra special RAM? Perhaps these might do it for you...

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02-07-2010, 06:59:59

AlienALX

You can just tell that has been designed for recent ROG boards

WTG Corsair !

02-07-2010, 07:11:46

tinytomlogan

Aye if the AMD's dont like high speed ram or at least overclocking the ram for high speeds then low latency just makes alot of sense.

03-07-2010, 07:36:48

silenthill

this ram is could boost your systems gaming performance specially for AMD platforms which suffer when compared to Intel's platforms.

04-07-2010, 09:37:26

Daylightdon

Should the latency numbers be higher or lower? What do they mean?

04-07-2010, 10:11:40

silenthill

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='Daylightdon'

Should the latency numbers be higher or lower? What do they mean?

The latency numbers should be lower because the AMD processor memory controller can’t deal with high speed memory so the only thing that will improve performance is to lower the memory latency which means it will respond in less time to orders that come from the CPU so the lower the better. I have tried low latency memory on a 965 AMD CPU and it did improve the performance.

regards

04-07-2010, 10:23:03

Daylightdon

Thank you for responding. After having a computer built by Xtremegear here in California, I'm considering building one myself.

I will be using the Intel i7 860 CPU. I've not desided on a Motherboard yet but am researching it. The case will be a Coolermaster HAF 922 in RED!

04-07-2010, 11:59:45

silenthill

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='Daylightdon'

Building your own system is a great experience and once you have done it you will never stop I’ve been building computers for over ten years now as a hobby and it gives you a great sense of achievement and I will be glad to assist you in any way the best i7 CPU right now is the 930 it over clocks really well with very little voltage increase and has 21 multiplier which is very handy for over clocking as for the motherboard the GIGABYTE X58A-UD3R and the Asus P6X58D-E are great choices they both have reasonable prices and are great over lockers and support the new USB3 and SATA 3 standards the Coolermaster HAF 922 is a great choice but be aware it doesn’t come with a side fan you will have to buy your own or just put two 120mm fans to cool your graphic card these are just some suggestions to help you, I know from experience buying components can be a really hard task and very confusing because there is a huge variety to buy from.

Regards

05-07-2010, 04:18:58

silvermane

this makes me want to do a AMD build

06-07-2010, 09:23:32

Precht

I've purchased this ram along with a Crosshair IV and a Phenom II X4 965 BE (C3). But when i open up AOD there's no BEMP profile for this memkit. Does anyone else have problems with this?

06-07-2010, 09:54:43

Daylightdon

Hello, Silenthill, What are your thoughts on this motherboard: ASUS P6T - LGA 1366 - X58 - DDR3 - ATX ?

Will the Corsair Dominator GT Memory work with the Intel i7 930? If so what is the correct model or part number?

06-07-2010, 10:49:06

tinytomlogan

This ram will work with i7 but its only dual channel. i7 is designed for tripple channel. Please keep the review threads on topic aswell dude.

06-07-2010, 12:42:41

silenthill

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='Precht'

I've purchased this ram along with a Crosshair IV and a Phenom II X4 965 BE (C3). But when i open up AOD there's no BEMP profile for this memkit. Does anyone else have problems with this?

Try and download the latest BIOS for the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula and check if ASUS are supporting this RAM from there RAM support list it’s a PDF file that lists the entire ram supported in the Crosshair IV.

06-07-2010, 19:16:01

silenthill

Quote:

Originally Posted by name='Daylightdon'

This RAM is a dual channel kit it only supports core i5 and AMD socket AM3 boards you need a triple channel kit for core i7 as for the ASUS P6T its quite old now and it doesn't support USB3 and SATA3 but still I managed to overclock core i7 920 to 4GHz, not bad for a board that's been two year on the market now.

06-07-2010, 20:16:39

Daylightdon

OK Thanks much for the input. I will continue research.

Corsair Dominator GT 1600MHz AM3 Review

Packaging & Initial Impressions

Published: 2nd July 2010 | Source: Corsair | Price: £160.58 | Author: Milind Chidrawar

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