Corsair Announces New Dominator Platinum DDR3 Memory
During Computex 2012, Corsair has announce the availability of its new addition to the Dominator line-up, the Dominator Platinum.
The Dominator series has been Corsair's long running enthusiast brand memory kits. Corsair has taken this series to the next level with the release of its Dominator Platinum DDR3 memory. The new design adds a customizable light bar to the list of exclusive features, which includes patented DHX cooling, Corsair Link support, and hand-screened DRAM ICs to help with its overclocking ability.
Dominator Platinum is available in dual and quad-channel kits with 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities, and frequencies up to 2800MHz. Dominator Platinum DDR3 memory is designed to fully exploit the performance potential of the latest Intel and AMD platforms, including the "Ivy Bridge" 3rd generation Intel Core processor family. All Dominator Platinum kits support Intel's latest XMP 1.3 profiles for easy performance tuning.
Its new light bar contains a user-swappable light pipe which lets enthusiasts tailor the lighting color to match their PC lighting and components. Dominator Platinum kits are supplied with a white light pipe, and additional light pipes will be available to purchase in the future.
In addition, the Dominator Platinum memory supports Corsair Link connectivity. This unique Dominator memory feature allows end-users to monitor DRAM temperature and other parametric data. Dominator Platinum memory kits support Corsair AirFlow fans and AirFlow Pro dynamic temperature and activity displays to provide the low temperatures required for stable and reliable overclocks.
Dominator Platinum Line-up:
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Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 memory is available now from Corsair's worldwide network of authorized distributors and resellers. They are supplied with a limited lifetime warranty and are backed up by Corsair's customer service and technical support.




Real World Performance difference? No.
Price Difference? Yes.
Worth it? No.
Fast RAM is very beneficial in some very prevalent applications, although we all probably know that not everything benefits from faster RAM and in those circumstances, fast RAM would not be worth it. However, that doesn't have an impact on the fact that many people would benefit from very fast RAM for certain usage.
The last thing I need is someone knowing what I have under the hood and jacking my shit...
Anyways...
The article was kind of misleading.
It said stuff about fans when it should have been talking about airflow over the heatsinks...
Just my 2 cents...
Real World Performance difference? No.
Price Difference? Yes.
Worth it? No.
Fast RAM is very beneficial in some very prevalent applications, although we all probably know that not everything benefits from faster RAM and in those circumstances, fast RAM would not be worth it. However, that doesn't have an impact on the fact that many people would benefit from very fast RAM for certain usage.
It would be nice to see others using 30nm for the high end stuff.
Yeah I've always got the feeling that this kind of product is the thing that high school kids beg about to their parents.
"MOM. It's got HEATSINKS. BUY IT!"
Still, if you can afford the price, and must have the latest and greatest, then the specs look good.
Llano, Trinity, and other integrated GPUs would like to share a word with you. Give them enough bandwidth, and not only they'll be the king of the integrated GPUs, but also rival low-mid range dedicated ones as well.
On a second thought, if one could afford such fast RAM sticks, couldn't they have used the money for a dedicated GPU?...
I bought my first pair of TwinX a few years ago and never looked back ... those DDR1 sticks are still running 211 @ 12225 in an old 4400 (my memory is poor and I could have a few errant bits myself).
I have had cheap sticks of noname ram die along the way from time to time.
Quality control on these is very high ... only for discerning buyers ... not for the masses.
Compression/decompression, rendering, folding, AVX accelerated AES encryption/decryption, and some other professional workloads can benefit greatly from fast RAM. Fast RAM can and does benefit certain workloads greatly. However, these are not typical of most users. For most users, fast RAM is not beneficial enough to justify the price. Regardless of that, faster RAM is very important for some applications. Some even scale performance roughly linearly with increased memory bandwidth so long as the rest of the computer can keep up.
SOME, if it were for every applications I would be running the highest speed possible!
Unfortunately, it's only in programs that are very ram intensive and can benefit from faster ram. An example would be Adobe After Effects, but then we have GPU Acceleration with Nvidia CUDA and AMD APP........
Again, that strongly depends on the application.
My point was that it was only some that benefit from it and repeating that changes nothing. Some people here were generalizing incorrectly by saying that faster memory never helps and that was completely wrong. Millions of people do work that benefits from fast RAM, even if that's only millions out of hundreds of millions or even billions of computer users. Higher bandwidth and/or latency memory can be crucial to improving the performance of many professionals' computers for their jobs. Faster RAM benefits rendering and since many people's income depends on how fast their computer(s) can render something, faster RAM can increase their income, more than justifying the extra cost over slower memory. Such examples can also be true of several other types of applications and many of these are very widely used applications in many professional and industrial markets.
No it wouldn't. This memory shouldn't help you in gaming any more than 1600MHz or 1866MHz would. Gaming is not bottle-necked by more than 1600MHz or 1866MHz, depending on the situation, and going beyond this does not help.