well we've got a memory oriented sort of unboxing today but it isn't RAM this is
the Corsair Dominator airflow fan and this is not the original one this is the
new one which is as you can see wide
enough for six modules to fit underneath it now the old one was about this thick
and used little tiny 40 mm fans that quite honestly were just too loud they
were obnoxious fans awful just awful but
these ones are 60 mm fans and though I've never actually turned them on I'm
going to assume they're quite a bit quieter the optional airflow fan unit
contains 260 tachometer controlled fans to provide impinging air flow to the
memory subsystem with the moderate RPMs required to provide adequate forced air
the airflow fan is nearly silent there you go they say it's quiet the fan
easily clamps onto most motherboards now something that you should bear in mind
is that you do not need to use Corsair RAM in order to take advantage of the
Dominator airflow fan you can actually use it with any RAM but the height that
it sits at is just right for their dhx or their Dominator modules so I mean
obviously designed to work best with their product so the first thing we'll
find inside is hopefully some kind of installation instruction oh yeah there
we go there it is that's clever see they've gone and they've taken that backboard and they've turned it into
your installation manual so figure one clip on the retention levers figure two
clipped over the modules figure three plug in the airflow figure four
completed so it is a four-step actually three-step because the fourth step is
that it's done uh installation process I've installed it before it's really
easy it comes okay first we find the two little Clips those go on either side I'm
dropping things all over the place tonight there's another there's another
clip okay then we have oh there they are okay so then we
have the actual Dominator airflow module itself you got a nice long little
sleeved fan connector there that's a three pin connector so the easiest place
to plug this in is going to be somewhere on your motherboard into one of the fan headers and then right in here you have
a little baggie of screws and washers and they're mostly pre-applied to the
thumb screws okay so these are really easy to apply all you really
do is position this clip under here just
like that so you can kind of see what I've done there and then you can move it
around to get the best positioning over your memory modules and then you take
the little thumb screws and you thumb them in there and then these will be
mounted to either side then you take the whole thing and
clip it clamp it over the memory retention clip so you don't actually
clip it to the sides of your memory modules you pull it over just a little
bit more so that it will hold the memory modules in place by holding the clips
anyway that was pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
Corsair Dominator airflow module I'm
actually going to give you like a couple seconds of like closeup we got like some
like some panning action here check it out oh yeah there's Corsair air flow on
the side airf flow okay that was it