[Team.AU]RAM Test: Corsair Dominators DDR3 2133MHz CAS9

[dinos22]

Hi Guys

I've got some new Corsair Dominator 2133C9 RAM to torture. They are obviously DDR3 sticks with 1066MHz stock speed and CAS9 latency.

I saw some naked Dominators bunched up in the labs while i was there recently and something very interesting caught my eye.................... 1066MHz RAM and font on ICs looked a bit wrong (as in not recognisable Micron gear)

Next thing i see is Michal casually booting his P5E3 Premium at 600MHz 1:2 on watercooling with RAM at 1200MHz ....that's just nuts

Without further to do i'll get straight into it. Thanks to Dan for bringing my freshly baked and still warm DDR3 package hahahah





Test Configuration:
Nvidia Reference 790i (P05 bios) STOCK BOARD NO MODS
Intel Core2 Duo E8500 CPU
2GB Corsair DOMINATORS DDR3 2133MHz PC17056<< strange number lol
Gigabyte 9800GX2 Graphics Card
620W Corsair PSU
TT BigTyphoon Cooling CPU
160GB IDE Hard Drive
Windows XP Pro 32bit SP2






These were teeny weeny hours of the morning during which i was doing my initial testing ....so 3 quick hours with these lovely modules went something like this...................Note that these were really easy and quick results to achieve....second session will have a bit more tweaking and i will also do some vdimm testing to see how well they play



STOCK SETTINGS
32M SuperPi @ 1066MHz 9-9-9-24 1T
(P1&P2 enabled in bios......haven't touched subtimings in bios nor windows)

I've also made a brief YOUTUBE video RAM overclockin guide covering windows and bios here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNX3imOCQ_o




CAS 8 OVERCLOCK
32M SuperPi @ 1050MHz 8-8-8-20 1T
(Auto settings left in bios for subtimings and untouched in windows)



CAS 8 OVERCLOCK
32M SuperPi @ 1050MHz 8-8-8-20 1T
(tightened tRC & tRFC. You cannot adjust tRFC in bios for now even though
i've made several requests for the inclusion of this timing in bios but you can tighten tRC )




CAS 7 OVERCLOCK
32M SuperPi @ 925MHz 7-7-7-20 1T
(tightened tRC & tRFC)




CAS 7 3D TEST
E8500 @ 4545MHz
3DMARK01 @ 925MHz 7-7-7-20 1T
(tightened tRC & tRFC)
GIGABYTE 9800GX2 overclocked to 782/1944/1170



As you can see these new non-Micron ICs have a lot to offer. Hopefully yields & manufacturing improves even more to finally enable us to bench or run 24/7 some DDR3 gear at 2GHz+ CAS7 and 2.0vdimm. It seems that we are not too far from that goal.

790i has improved for me with this new P05 bios as i had not experienced a drive corruption that i usually would during experimental RAM testing hehehehhe

Thanks to Corsair for providing this kit for testing

....to be continued

[Xtreme Addict]

GJ dinos22 Good Corsair ram!

It's a pity that you can't remove HS to show us ICs (or can you? )

[chispy]

wow bro nice pair of rams there ,thanks for sharing.

[dinos22]

heh thanks fellas

GJ dinos22 Good Corsair ram!

It's a pity that you can't remove HS to show us ICs (or can you? )

they bake these things in an oven...and this HS is on pretty firmly....definitely wouldn't want to pull an IC off the sticks hehehehe

[SeLecT]

Nice test dinos!



Here a statement from a corsair member:

my question:

Darfst du Infos raus geben, welche es genau waren/sind?

- Could you tell somethin about the chips?

his answer.

n&#246; :p

- No


But these chips are not from micron.

Das sind/waren allerdings keine Micron Chips

- These are no micron chips!

[dinos22]

hehehehe lol
bluebeard?
what's up with all the -beard nics i wonder
yellow/red/now blue hahahah

[Astri]

Samsung?

[jpcastro]

nice sticks as expected, how much they cost and when will be avaiable?

[dinos22]

man this 790i and these sticks are rocking with 9800GX2

check this out fellas

99K on air cooling

[M.Beier]

Dinos.... Seriously, edit, fast...
You dont mention vdimm at all... please dear god

1ghz (DDR3-2000) 2.0v CL7 is benchable already....
- A few manuf offers 1ghz 1.9v CL8... I'd say all of them can bench 2.0v 1000mhz CL7...

[dinos22]

i am using stock settings so 2.0vdimm
did you read the fact this is not micron RAM?

[dinos22]

915MHz 7-7-7-20 1T performance is pretty good as well

[Harshal]

Thats really nice kit there with even better numbers Dino!!

[M.Beier]

i am using stock settings so 2.0vdimm
did you read the fact this is not micron RAM?

Ofc, sorry, it came out wrong in my first post.
I think its a good result, and very nice with a cheap alternative to micron

Just thought you ment that other chips couldnt do 1000mhz CL7 2.0v
- But, good results for DDR3, nevertheless if its micron or not, all around, its seems to be very good chips!

[SeLecT]

hehehehe lol
bluebeard?
what's up with all the -beard nics i wonder
yellow/red/now blue hahahah

Can you test the vdimm with 900Mhz @ 7-6-5-15?

Do you have an X48 Mobo to test these sticks?

[EnJoY]

Nice little write up Dino.

[makaka]

This what i call a fast memory .

[dinos22]

Nice little write up Dino.

hehehe nothing nice about the writeup...i usually suck at writeups but results speak for themselves i guess....lol

[ZenEffect]

hehehehe lol
bluebeard?
what's up with all the -beard nics i wonder
yellow/red/now blue hahahah

you dont get it?

corsair = pirates! yarrrg!

[dinos22]

you dont get it?

corsair = pirates! yarrrg!

oh

[tam2]

GJ dinos22 Good Corsair ram!

It's a pity that you can't remove HS to show us ICs (or can you? )

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=449

[bachus_anonym]

It looks like those Dominators work well for you! Do you think you can run DDR3-2200 on your setup?

[dinos22]

It looks like those Dominators work well for you! Do you think you can run DDR3-2200 on your setup?

i have to try mate
i tried to boot from bios with current settings but the board refuses to post so i'll need to do some tweaking in think

[Bluebeard]

oh

there you go!

[Xtreme Addict]

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=449

Thanks mate.

Everyone has a photo of this Samsungs?