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!

[Exedy]

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 ...

[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

[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

[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

locked? 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

@ saaya

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

[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

hey hey alex
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

@ saaya

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

Formally at Twinmoss from what I remember

[saaya]

twinmos
cellshock
corsair

hes been around

[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...

c'mon, somebody throw us a bone

[day187]

Samsung

[Bluebeard]

Formally at Twinmoss from what I remember

Absolutely right, Tony
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

[saaya]

alex alex, such a humble fella

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/busine...m=M391B5673DZ1 I'm pretty sure these are the chips saaya.