Corsair Dominator GT 1600MHz AM3 Review

Futuremark & Games

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

PCMark Vantage

PCMark Vantage is Futuremark's flagship "System Wide" benchmark. With a large focus on day to day operations, it's an excellent means of judging the capability of a computer as a whole.

This particular benchmark took a real shine to both memory frequency increases and tighter timings in the aforementioned tests. Aside the peculiar dip in the Memories test with 1600C9 memory, the results are very much as you might expect them.

3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is Futuremarks flagship gaming oriented benchmark at present and is considered to be a demanding one at that. Our tests were carried out under the "Performance" prefix.

As the name suggests, it is a GPU dependent game and as such, the (lack of) difference in scores with varied memory configurations are a testament to that.

DiRT2

DiRT2 is a very recent race driving game, known for it's Direct X 11 support. Let's crank up the settings and give it a whirl...

Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 is among the most popular games available at present. With plenty of explosions and densely (polygon) populated maps, it should prove to be an interesting test for our test setup.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Flight Simulator X remains to be a terribly demanding game for it's age. Known for being very demanding on the CPU but also requiring a level of GPU power in the process, we thought it'd be interesting to see how it faired.

None of our games really showed dramatic increases in performance between the three configurations (if at all in some cases), indicating that under typical gaming conditions, the speed of memory doesn't make a significant impact on frames per second. Let's tie this up shall we?

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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...

Continue Reading

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

Futuremark & Games

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

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