first review: Corsair Dominator XMS3 TW3X4G4096-1800C8DF

[Broly]

Got em.

Test bench:
Air Cooled QX9650 C0 stepping, but from a "T" batch.
Asus Striker II Extreme 0702 BIOS (NVMM Dated May 05 2008)
Hitachi 7K1000 1TB hard drive (32mb cache)
Coolermasters Cosmos S Case (stock)
Tagan BZ800W Power Supply
9800GTX SSC in SLI.

Pre emptive tests:
Running at stock speeds linked and synced with my qx9650 (omg wtf!?)
Going to be doing some more exhaustive testing as soon as I figure out if my qx9650 is stable at this fsb on a 9 multi (hehe). Holding these made me nearly cry. They're such high quality, as expected for the price; but it's nice to see that Corsair still does a great job with the quality. They truly feel as nice as the price you pay.

I'm getting more benchies done atm. Will keep yall posted!

[OCFX]

I'm excited

I am too! ;)

But damn...shoud be a VERY high priced kit

[Broly]

I've never seen such amazing potential out of my striker, just look at the options. When running my old Patriot 4gb viper kit, none of these ram options are available. The best part? Crucial's dirty little secret. This ram is SLI ready (aka EPP profile 2.0'd!). Going to try some massively low timings soon

[Broly]

bump updated.
SPI 32M @ 8-7-7-24 @ 1800 MHZ 1:1 with my 9650 still 9 multi with matching Everest.
Overall I'm very happy with the ram since at stock speeds and only .1 v more (Running 1.9V) I can get 8-7-7-24 which is great for this kit at 1800 MHZ
I am still testing.
Anyone have some more tests? I highly recommend this kit so far, it is well worth the money exception of teh speedlock at 2000mhz, but being able to run 1T 8-8-8-24 at 1.8V is great, and I'm going to try 8-7-7-24 at 1T as well. This has gotten my QX9650 over the hump, seriously. I couldn't hit 10 multi at 1600 mhz on my Patriot viper kit. I can easily hit 9 at non max vcore (1.35V) and 1.36 VTT for a nice clock of 4050 MHZ!

[OBR]

For little bit worst READ, but better Latency i dont need a 4GHz ...

http://i25.tinypic.com/230ena.png

[Broly]

8-7-7-20 1t!

[Broly]

8-7-7-18@2t:

[Broly]

bump
guys any more suggestions as to how I can bench it? Please? I'm trying to show my worth here.

[naokaji]

you could try how far they go at tighter latencies if you got the time. looking good so far... now i just need to win the lottery:p:

[saaya]

looks like d9jnl, you should be able to run 777 at the same speed as 877 more or less ;)
why are you hiding the last code on the package of the mem?

[Bluebeard]

It´s no D9JNL - Let´s start the race ;)

[Broly]

looks like d9jnl, you should be able to run 777 at the same speed as 877 more or less ;)
why are you hiding the last code on the package of the mem?

Because that's my serial number. Which I don't think anyone needs.
These WILL not do 7-7-7-15 even though they're easily capable. I am sure corsair has locked these since they will not do 2000 mhz at any timings either, but they will do 8-7-7-15 NP at 2.1 volts.

I want them to be linked :D

[saaya]

I am sure corsair has locked these since they will not do 2000 mhz at any timings either, but they will do 8-7-7-15 NP at 2.1 volts.

I want them to be linked :D
locked? :D hahah what do you mean?

and bluebird, samsung or quimonda i guess... seems like they improved their chips quite a bit :)

[Broly]

They aren't locked I'm smoking pott saaya :P
I realized I'm running linked ram with my 9650
There is no way it'll do 2000 fsb on a quad lol

[Bluebeard]

sorry for OT but we need to clarify this a little I think as long as I like playing with open cards :rolleyes:

@ saaya

Bluebeard - I´m the Blue(s)-Brother of Yellowbeard btw ;)
Formerly known as Alonso :D

[saaya]

They aren't locked I'm smoking pott saaya :P
I realized I'm running linked ram with my 9650
There is no way it'll do 2000 fsb on a quad lol
then try unlinked? :P :D

hey hey alex :D
hows it going? :)

[Tony]

sorry for OT but we need to clarify this a little I think as long as I like playing with open cards :rolleyes:

@ saaya

Bluebeard - I´m the Blue(s)-Brother of Yellowbeard btw ;)
Formerly known as Alonso :D

Formally at Twinmoss from what I remember

[saaya]

twinmos
cellshock
corsair

hes been around :D

[Parad0x]

It´s no D9JNL - Let´s start the race ;)

Anyway, as a matter of fact these components can be found on our 2 x 2GB parts that have been available for a few weeks now; and nope, it's not Micron this time. So, that leaves who? Pretty easy guess guys, come on... :D

c'mon, somebody throw us a bone:D

[day187]

Samsung

[Bluebeard]

Formally at Twinmoss from what I remember

Absolutely right, Tony :clap:
Working on merging the accounts so you all will have a clearer view pretty soon.

But let´s get quick back to topic as long at this is way :off:

[saaya]

alex alex, such a humble fella :lol:

so its the new samsung chips then huh?
yeah i heard about them befe...
not bad... im looking forward to see how they clock with cas8 and cas7 :)

any more results broly?

[Broly]

Gonna remove the linking tonight and do some heavy unlinking test.s
These things are quite great though.
Will get more results.
I am stable linked at 7-6-6-15@2T linked at 1800 mhz only 1.95v.
Will unlink in a few mins.

[Broly]

Update;
This ram can EASILY do 9-8-8-24 @ 2T on 2000 MHZ BUT
My board cannot handle this.
How do I know thie memory is capable? because I"m getting data corruption-related bsods when I try to get into windows after the bootscreen; such as "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"

What this tells me, is I need to somehow buy a cheap P5KC or x48 DDR3 and run some mroe tests. I seriously think this is some of the greatest ram ever made, it is no slouch!

[Broly]

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=106&partnum=M391B5673DZ1 I'm pretty sure these are the chips saaya.

[saaya]

Update;
This ram can EASILY do 9-8-8-24 @ 2T on 2000 MHZ BUT
My board cannot handle this.
How do I know thie memory is capable? because I"m getting data corruption-related bsods when I try to get into windows after the bootscreen; such as "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"could still be the memory...

buy a cheap x48 DDR3heh, good luck! :D
p5e3 dlx seems to be a good board

so whats the max for cas7 with the highest vdimm it still scales with? 1900?
sounds like those chips are surprisingly identical to micron chips...
maybe samsung reverse engineered the micron chips :lol:

[Gunslinger]

Nice to finally see some 2x2 kits coming in higher than 1600MHz. Saaya, is Cellshock working on a product in this category as well?

[saaya]

i dont want to bring the thread offtopic :D

[Gunslinger]

i dont want to bring the thread offtopic :D
:up:

[BulldogPO]

I´ll think that every DDR3 manufacturer is working on it.

[saaya]

any more results broly? :D
so far ive only seen 1800 877 1T and 1800 877 2T? :P
having trouble with 790? :/

[Broly]

No noe :P
Borked Qx9650 LOL
S2E pounded it in the ass. Gettiong a new one soon man.

[saaya]

get a dualcore, an 8400 or 8500 man...

[George_o/c]

get a dualcore, an 8400 or 8500 man...

And an EVGA 790i as well :p: Seems that S2E is the descendant of SE 680i ... :( What's up will all these problems, won't Asus bring out a new bios full of bug-fixes at last ... ? :D

[saaya]

i think they did... according to benchzowner their latest bios releases made his S2E rockstable even at huge speeds.

[bachus_anonym]

I seriously think this is some of the greatest ram ever made, it is no slouch!That makes me feel very good! :up: That's what I'd like to hear more from end-users! Thanks, Broly! Did you purchase it at NCIX Canada?

On a side note, I would like to say that full potential of TW3X4G1800C8D can be currently reached on NVIDIA C73 based motherboards only. Intel X48 chipset based motherboards seem to have harder time driving 2 x 2GB configuration. We're working on figuring out if anything can be done on a BIOS tuning level to improve headroom above DDR3-1900, I mean rock-stable.

From our tests on eVGA 790i and Asus Striker II Extreme in the Lab, TW3X4G1800C8D is very capable product but I would like to leave it to guys like Broly and others who went out, purchased the kit, to share results of their OC'ing adventures.
:toast:

[Broly]

That makes me feel very good! :up: That's what I'd like to hear more from end-users! Thanks, Broly! Did you purchase it at NCIX Canada?

On a side note, I would like to say that full potential of TW3X4G1800C8D can be currently reached on NVIDIA C73 based motherboards only. Intel X48 chipset based motherboards seem to have harder time driving 2 x 2GB configuration. We're working on figuring out if anything can be done on a BIOS tuning level to improve headroom above DDR3-1900, I mean rock-stable.

From our tests on eVGA 790i and Asus Striker II Extreme in the Lab, TW3X4G1800C8D is very capable product but I would like to leave it to guys like Broly and others who went out, purchased the kit, to share results of their OC'ing adventures.
:toast:


Yessir, NCIX was my source. I'd like everyone to know, and I'm going to emphasize this, that this is NOT a review kit. I purchased this kit!

I am finishing my Enterprise server 08 install and I'm going to push the ram some more. I'm truly surprised at how great this ram is. It is something else... :)

[Holmer]

# bachus_anonym I had a hard time getting my kit of Corsair TW3X4G1800C8D stable at DDR1800 and was crying for your help at Corsair support forum ;-): http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=352186&posted=1#post352186
Now I'am (almost) getting there but still struggle with my OC (not just because of memory maybe). Please take a look here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=188392&page=11 where another user has a Asus P5E64 WS Evolution and these memory. When you have news concerning BIOS tuning settings for X48 with this memory please let us know or if you already have some good advice for important settings. I you like I can post or PM detailed BIOS settings?
#Broly I have tried my TW3X4G1800C8D on a Asus SIIE (in fact on two) but I could not get any memory stable at DDR 1600 or above (tried 4 different kits and got an RMA on both MB) and bought the Evo.
I would like to ask if there are BIOS settings that are crucial for stability at and above DDR1800 (of course 2N).
I hopy you are not considering my post as hijack.

[Broly]

Hey Holmer,
Turns out the nvidia boards are much more superior for ddr3 overclocking :)
SOrry bra hehehe.

[Holmer]

Hey Holmer,
Turns out the nvidia boards are much more superior for ddr3 overclocking :)
SOrry bra hehehe.

You are probably right if you have the time to find the one out of, say, ten boards that actually performs as promissed. I got enough after spending two months on two SIIE.
Which performance level (tRD) are you able to use on your board with these memory? Please keep us updated when you get a new CPU. I have not been able to get my sticks stable at 1840 MHz (FSB 460) but 1824 (FSB 456) is just fine 1T.

[Broly]

I have a new CPU now, I'm waiting on my video cards to come so I cna do more testing ;/;

[ymer]

Good review, thanks

[Holmer]

# Broly I'm eagerly waiting for your update on these sticks.

[Tripple Buffer]

any more results broly? :D
so far ive only seen 1800 877 1T and 1800 877 2T? :P
having trouble with 790? :/

Guys, I have this board and am fully stable @ 1900Mhz FSB, I want to try for 2Ghz linked and synced but I get the same BSOD!

also what is S2E that I keep hearing about?

on Striker 2 Extreme 1.4 BIOS and having no oc'ing issues at all!

QX9770 @ 4.5Ghz on water
Striker 2 Extreme
4 GB 1800C8DF 8-8-8-24
3 x GTX280 all watercooled on a separate loop
2 x 1TB hard drive
120GB OCZ SSD V2
Xi-fi sound card

Thanks Guys