Corsair Dominator Platinum Review
Conclusion
Published: 3rd December 2012 | Source: Corsair | Price: £298 |
Conclusion
As we said in our introduction, the close performance of memory kits these days is such that you can pick almost any kit you like and it'll perform well. Indeed the main decision seems to rest on pricing and looks.
The Dominator Platinum, as the name suggests, doesn't do very well on the pricing side. Weighing in well past the £200 mark there are much better value kits around at the same speed and size.
Looks though. Oh my the looks.
The general thing with memory is the heatspreader and the colour. With the Dominator Platinum though Corsair have gone an extra mile and introduced lighting to the equation. We know it's not the first LED lit memory kit on the market, but it's the first one to do it well. The lighting is subtle, perfectly accentuates the black and silver looks of the heatspreader itself. Even with the power off the kit looks amazing. The 'platinum' top bar is extremely shiny and smooth and lends an air of class to proceedings.
With your rig on though it takes on a very different effect, with your motherboard bathed in a soft white light which just looks the business. Corsair do have plans in the future to introduce different colour LED bars as an additional cost option, there is no official word as to when but we are assured they will be coming soon. The only thing we hope is its not RBG LED's which will require the memory sticks to be hooked up via cables to the corsair link software to control the colours. The main reason for the being would you really want a cable coming off of every ram stick stick, think of the mess! /end OCD mode.
Performance is right on a line with what you'd expect for this speed and timings. It's not the very fastest kit around but it's still an excellent performer with some incredible memory bandwidth available. It's certainly not all show and no go.
So it's brutally expensive and there are faster kits around. But the heatspreader with its gorgeous looks and classy lighting are the stars of the show. We can hear the other manufacturers rushing to their R&D departments to try and match the next big thing in personalisation.
For being the first memory kit to understand that the underlying performance of the Intel chipset is such that you should concentrate largely upon looks, and then to be the first to get lighting right too, we're happy to award the Corsair Dominator Platinum our OC3D Innovation award.
Thanks to Corsair for supplying the Dominator Platinum for review. Discuss in the OC3D Forums.
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Originally Posted by Bang
No link to a review mate?
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Originally Posted by Bang
No link to a review mate?
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Hmm... I wonder how well this will overclock.......
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Just have to hope that soon means soon.
You will see Obsidian 900D and whole this thing with CORSAIR Link and monitoring and everything is one step above every other manufacturer. I mean if you use and spend money and make whole PC CORSAIR, whole PC CM, whole PC I don't know other brands(not whole 70% because they don't make everything) you will see how that is above competition and how price is similar or only little over something is cheaper. Some people call overhyped... hype and I don't know... But look close... I don't know H100 cooler, look mechanism for holding pump, look memory heatsink, PSU units, box, package, when you pay that you know that worth exactly that price...you have not feeling Ohhh this look so cheap when hold in hand...
I remember exactly, like I saw yesterday when I decide CORSAIR 60-70% of my PC. That was one black Graphite 600T with 2xHD5870 or HD5970 and H70 Cooler and Dominator RAM 2009 maybe... I liked their RAM and PSU years before that but at that moment I figure out that is my style and how I look on PC.
Now my PC 60-70% is CORSAIR I think I'm on every list when retailer decide to import few peaces of something. I chased them 5 months for these memory and they forgot to import. I was mad. Before that they always on time import me what I ask..
You will see Obsidian 900D and whole this thing with CORSAIR Link and monitoring and everything is one step above every other manufacturer. I mean if you use and spend money and make whole PC CORSAIR, whole PC CM, whole PC I don't know other brands(not whole 70% because they don't make everything) you will see how that is above competition and how price is similar or only little over something is cheaper. Some people call overhyped... hype and I don't know... But look close... I don't know H100 cooler, look mechanism for holding pump, look memory heatsink, PSU units, box, package, when you pay that you know that worth exactly that price...you have not feeling Ohhh this look so cheap when hold in hand...
I remember exactly, like I saw yesterday when I decide CORSAIR 60-70% of my PC. That was one black 600T with 2xHD5870 or HD5970 and H70 Cooler and Dominator RAM... I liked their RAM and PSU years before that but at that moment I figure out that is my style and how I look on PC.
Now my PC 60-70% is CORSAIR.
Yes Dominator is expensive little but that is flagship, if you imagine PC Memory you see Dominator in front of eyes.
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Originally Posted by KING_OF_SAND
I got my 1866 plat to 2133 with ease!
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Originally Posted by mastercrim
awsome RAM but to tall unless your watercooling which is why i had to go with the LP vengence series.
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love the ram just thinking of getting the blue glow rod but keeping the non cut heads on, i like the subtle glow
maybe i could try milling out the dominator wording so the glow can be see coming through there too. if only i have the money to try it
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