The DOMINATOR family of memory represents the ultimate in performance technology ... more
engineering from Corsair. The DOMINATOR was designed to have the highest performing IC maximum over-clocking capability and efficient DHX cooling all the while being stab...
Postage & Packaging: £6.00 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
The Dominator Series Twin2X4096-8500C5D is 4096MBytes of DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs built using ... more
Corsairs latest high performance heat sink with Dual-Path Heat Xchange (DHX) technology. This memory has been verified to operate at 1066MHz at latencies of
The Dominator Series Twin2X4096-8500C5DF is 4096MBytes of DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs built using ... more
Corsair's latest high performance heat sink with Dual-Path Heat Xchange (DHX) technology coupled with a Corsair Dominator Airflow Fan. This memory has been
Advantages: Excellent speeds, reliable, very cheap, decent overclocking potential Disadvantages: Slightly poor quality of heatsink
Unfortunately the link to the CorsairXMS2 DRAM 2GB PC2-6400 C4 only goes to this page. So here's where I'll write my review!
I'm going to just go ahead and state it right at the beginning - this is some excellent memory. It's fast (800mhz), it has lower timings (4-4-4-12), it's reliable, and it's very cheap. You can pick the 2GB set of two modules up from £35 anywhere now, which is a phenomenally low price. That's really the hallmark of this product - low price, high quality.
At the moment, unless you're running games in Windows Vista, there's really no need to have 4GB of memory; even the most demanding game you can run won't use more than 2GB RAM. That's why I recommend this 2GB set to everyone I help construct computers. Not only it is fast, and so brilliant for games of all sorts, it's also cheap, so it's great for those with more ...
Advantages: Can be overclocked and it has very good heat spreaders Disadvantages: none that i can find
When I built my new pc I check around to find the fastest the most reliable ram I could afford without burning a big hole in my bank balance, and the CorsairXMS2Dominator is what all of my research came up with
A solid performer with good overcloking caperbillates with good heat spreaders, ok so it runs at 800 MHz standard but with a bit of carefully pushing (and the correct type of cooling) will run at 1066 quite happily.
The memory is very easy to install and if like me you can see the insides of your gaming rig it looks damn fine just sat there on the motherboard
So you can get more bang for your money by overclocking this ram but be careful you don?t want to kill it
So once again it?s a big thumbs up from me ...
Advantages: Fast, Included Heatsinks, Attractive, Low power consumption, Dual Channel 2x1GB Disadvantages: Factory set timings arnt as good as they can be with tweeking (still good performer out of the box)
Very sleek looking, and cool looking, keeps your ram cooler than standard ram because of the heatsinks built onto them.
Also with the sinks being black they absorb most of the heat quicker than most competitors heatsinks.
Performance is very good, and allows you to load games and programs up a lot faster than the ram which is included in most systems sold in shops, even if the ram was clocked half as high as corsairs.
I would say to buy this kit if your using windows xp using a pc and intel core 2 or intel based processors it will work with AM2 based AMD boards aswell (i only tested in core 2)
If your upgrading to Vista, i would suggest getting two of these and run in 4GB to give you the edge as slower more "normal" ram will cost only a small amout less and perform quite a lot less.
After some testing the ram did overclock ...
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Manufacturer's product description
The Dominator Series Quad2X4096-8500C5DF is 4096MBytes of DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs built using Corsair's latest high performance heat sink with Dual-Path Heat Xchange (DHX) technology coupled with a Corsair Dominator Airflow Fan. This part is designed to unleash performance of the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI-based platform. This memory has been verified to operate at 1066MHz at latencies of 5-5-5-15-2T at 2.2VDIMM. The Quad2X4096-8500C5DF comes with Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP), the open standard for performance module SPD's jointly developed by Corsair and NVIDIA. EPP SPD's on Corsair modules allow users to automatically configure EPP enabled motherboards with aggressive memory performance settings, for maximum memory and system performance. Corsair's line of 4GB memory kits are designed for PCs featuring 64-bit operating systems.
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