Corsair's Fastest Video Card & DDR4
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2016 is brought to you by the Corsair
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lap dog the gaming center that allows you to use a full-size keyboard and
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mouse from your couch and by
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MSI so we're here in the Corsair booth and they're showing off this is like
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unbelievable I didn't even know these guys make memory anymore I mean it's
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like keyboards This and like cases that
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and guys like George coming in going we should do cases power supplies and
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cooling well no no no this is a back to the RO product this right here is the
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Dominator Platinum special edition ddr4
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kit well kits there are actually two of them there's like a dark plated one and
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a light plated one and the Vengeance LED
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so I'm going to start with the Vengeance LED since that's the one that may
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actually have some relevance to more than a handful of you they've taken
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their Vengeance ID which is kind of that sort of sexy Corsair logo in the middle
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and then accents on the outsides and they've added LED to them they're going
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to be available in two different colors red and white to start and they support
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a couple of different LED lighting modes so you can see here they're not RGB so
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they don't cycle colors but they're able to kind of breathe and turn on and off
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and stuff like that the software is very very beta right now but it's going to be
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controllable through Corsair link and I
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guess that's pretty much all there is to say about it there are dual Channel kits
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and quad Channel kits available all the way up to frequency is as high as 4,300
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meh now let's get on to the special edition
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now I hate it when companies do a special edition that's basically just SE
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and there's no sort of limited quantity because you know what the SE stands for
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in those cases like well you you know
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what the S is for an addition okay it's usually just like we need to sell this
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thing um what what can we put on the box
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SE terrible so no these are going to be limited to 500 units each only 500 units
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will be available they will be individually numbered and these are a
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dominator Platinum LED lit memory kit so
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there's going to be a 4x8 for the quad Channel enthusiasts and a 2x6 for guys
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running on the z170 platform and they are running at ddr4 3200 now no one in
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the booth can confirm or deny this for me but I would speculate that if they
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were doing a handpicked 500 unit run
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that 3200 probably isn't the max that you could expect these to run at and
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they are going to look absolutely sick in your system which as you guys
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probably know is pretty much how I shop for memory these days now this this is
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cool this is the MSI Corsair Seahawk GTX
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1080 now they did a 980 TI before so
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this isn't an entirely New Concept Corsair working on the cooler MSI I
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working on the GPU itself and slapping all that together for a cool quiet
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maximum overclocking gaming experience but the big difference this time is that
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even though this product is kind of hiding in a corner in the booth because
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they don't have a finalized PCB layout
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they don't have finalized clock speeds I mean I wouldn't even be surprised if the
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back plate graphic design isn't even finalized they are claiming that instead
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of being 9 months late this time there are going to be two weeks after the
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general availability of GTX 1080 graphics cards and ready to start
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selling this puppy so thanks to the single 120 mm radiator and 120 mm fan
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Corsair is saying look we are removing all the thermal limitations and while
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NVIDIA was showing off clock speeds like 2 GHz at their launch event some folks
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on water are seeing significantly higher
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than that so thanks again to Corsair as
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well as to MSI oh actually that's funny look at that this product is made
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collaboratively by both of our sponsors for the show this year for bringing us
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to computex Corsair's Big Thing They want me to draw your attention to is the
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lap dog that couch mechanical keyboard
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full mouse pad gaming experience and for MSI they want me to be chatting you guys
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up about the agis X so that is their new
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desktop as well as their new GTX 108
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gaming X so that's obviously a GTX 1080
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although personally I think this one's cooler but whatever don't miss any
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see you guys at the next booth