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Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB 1.35v Review

Conclusion

Published: 5th September 2011 | Source: Corsair | Price: £49.86 | Author: Tom Logan

Conclusion

There is a lot to like about the Corsair Vengeance LP.

Aesthetically the revamped heat-spreader looks nicer, if anything, than the original Vengeance design. We're always fans of companies who remember that their product doesn't exist in a vacuum and by switching to the lower profile design it frees up your choice of CPU cooler.

In fact because the heat-spreader is very much a case of form over function due to the 1.35v design, we think there is plenty of potential to release the Vengeance in a range of colours to suit all the modders needs. Although many of us just like to own whatever is the best hardware for our budget, there are a raft of people who limit their choices to the hardware that fits their colour scheme. Although blue and grey variants are available the 1.35v kit we have here is only available in white, which does stand out unless the rest of your internals are similarly bright.

The 1.35v DDR3L JEDEC standard has an array of benefits. If the 1600MHz CAS9 timings are plenty for you then you gain all the power consumption and heat benefits of the low voltage the Corsair Vengeance LP has. For our uses though it means we have plenty of headroom for overclocking. Indeed the Vengeance LP is one of the few Sandy Bridge kits we've come across that can overclock to a noticeable degree. Rather than the tiny timing change here or there, running this kit at 1.65v we could get the timings all the way down to a stunning CAS7. To get more bandwidth in speed terms requires a huge slackening of the timings, but that's more a side-effect of the auto-divider in the Sandy Bridge design meaning that the next rung on the overclocking ladder is a whopping 16% increase. Stick with the reduction in timings.

As if that wasn't enough, the pricing for the 8GB Vengeance LP 1.35v kit is an eye-opening £50. 8GB of good performing, good overclocking, low voltage RAM for a measly £50. Even if white isn't your colour that's a bargain it's hard to pass up.

All in all the Corsair Vengeance LP 1.35v 8GB kit is an easy winner of our OC3D Gold Award. We like it very much indeed.

Thanks to Corsair for supplying the Vengeance LP for review. Discuss in our forums.

Most Recent Comments

05-09-2011, 04:44:25

tinytomlogan

If you're on the lookout for a low voltage memory kit, perhaps Corsair have just the ticket.

05-09-2011, 04:56:39

AMDFTW

WOW that is low v

05-09-2011, 04:57:43

trazomfr

impressive memory kit.

05-09-2011, 05:00:22

Excalabur50

That is a really nice looking ram with good performance to boot

05-09-2011, 05:50:15

yassarikhan786

Very cool indeed. 1.35 v is truly awesome. If I upgrade my cooler, these are on the top of my list as I can only fit a few coolers because of the large heat spreaders on the vengeance ram I'm currently using.

05-09-2011, 06:08:18

dipzy

my blue ones came today

05-09-2011, 08:11:47

badtaylorx

wow not what i expected.....i figured their next kit would be the corsair devastator or maybe the corsair obliviator.... complete with 26cm carbon nano-tube heatsinks.....

i feel so cheated........

05-09-2011, 10:12:27

Aurus_OC

I do feel the urge to get some of that memory, unfortunately I already did invest in some memory for my rig

Nice review as always!

05-09-2011, 11:05:14

Rapidz

Yeah im impressed with this memory kit.

05-09-2011, 12:21:30

Natashaful

Very nice :]

05-09-2011, 17:04:27

Montysaurus

Awesome stuff good review TTL, been keeping an eye on these for a little while, prices vary slightly but you can get the 1.5v coloured LP kits for around £44-£46 off the usual online sites which advertise on OC3D such as Aria/Scan. Thinking of getting these for my x58 board seen a picture of six white sticks in a Gigabyte board looks awesome.

05-09-2011, 17:56:24

murphy7801

Wow some tasteful looking ram corsair normally make horrid looking ram and decent price thats pretty cool.

05-09-2011, 18:02:55

dipzy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Montysaurus

They do looks, got two blue ones in my rig, may end up having 3 blue's and 3 white's in a white blue white blue white blue configuration

06-09-2011, 10:56:36

jonowee

A near perfect score, 9-10-10. Going to be so much easier to source than G.Skill Ecos.

07-09-2011, 09:55:39

THD

Anyone know how this scales against the Mushkin Blackline 8GB DDR3-1600 ULV CL9 kit (996988) which is also 1.35V and only slightly more expensive (where I live anyway

)

Nice to see more producers are working with options in coulor

15-09-2011, 00:47:32

CocaCola

They're finally available here in Canada from anywhere between $90 - $100 per 8GB kit. I wonder if they're really worth investing in? They do look cool though even if you don't OC them.

I wonder if they have any motherboard compatibility problems? I'm guessing with Sandy Bridge, even the most budget boards should be able to support these memory modules.

03-11-2011, 06:44:28

J0s3e

I cannot get my system prime stable with these running anything lower than 9-9-9-24. Not a complain, but expected them to get close to your 7-8-7-24 with 1.65V. However, if I set 8-8-8-24, prime crashes in first two runs (rounding error) and if I try to go 7-8-7-24, system wouldn't boot at all, or get BSOD's. A bit disappointed, although for my gaming there will be minimal benefit of tighter timings i reckon.

03-11-2011, 11:37:16

VengeanceUK

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/16gb-...9-9-24-xmp-15v

are these the same as reviewed? as cannot find mention of 1.35v anywhere.

if they are scan have an awesome price for a 16Gb kit of the cerulean blue

03-11-2011, 13:05:19

Alicarve

Quote:

Originally Posted by VengeanceUK

you are looking for the arctic whites if you want the same as the one in the review as they are the only ones that come as 1.35v

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-%...-9-9-9-24-135v

07-11-2011, 11:43:17

badatgames18

from the looks of it.. looks like nanya.. yuck

4gb density modules don't have the best timings/overclockability, but corsair's lower end and even alot of their medium range dimms aren't the best clockers.

hynix bfr used in some 4gb density are probably going to be the best case scenario... 9-11-9 2133 usually some lower bin are 9-11-10

For low voltage.. i'd love to see some kingston lovo reviews

07-11-2011, 11:47:18

tinytomlogan

Quote:

Originally Posted by badatgames18

We've done LoVo if you look

07-11-2011, 11:56:20

badatgames18

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinytomlogan

We've done LoVo if you look

awesome!

didn't know you already reviewed it a while back

i think the lovo you reviewed might have been mnh-e hyper/(the 1866 model).. EOL

anyways sorry for the off topic..

great reviews

Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB 1.35v Review

Conclusion

Published: 5th September 2011 | Source: Corsair | Price: £49.86 | Author: Tom Logan

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