Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 Triple Channel RAM Kit w/ Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,017 words · ~5 min read
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so today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of a memory kit and I saw this and I
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just had to unbox it cuz it's so like shiny and cool looking i' I've never
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seen Corsair's packaging that looks like this so they've completely redesigned
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the packaging for the Dominator GTS it is now like three times well not three
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times it's a little bit taller and then they've also worked in like a bubble in
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the clam shell for their Dominator airflow fan which is a special edition
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Dominator GT T1 cuz you can see that the stickers are red that makes it go faster
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and the red on the modules also makes them go faster so there you go now
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through the back of the box you can now see the serial numbers for all of the
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RAM modules that's a a change they've made lately and I'm I'm not sure exactly
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why but it doesn't really matter so you can see there are three sticks in there
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they talk a little bit about the Dominator GT family it represents the
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ultimate and performance technology uh their Dominator GTS actually weren't
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even available at res sellers to start with and they are hand tested okay let's
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here we go the optional airflow fan not really optional when it's included right
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in the Box But it includes 2 60 mm fans to provide impinging air flow to the
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memory subsystem that sounds Hightech anyway
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all right let's get this thing open here we go I'm going
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to unbox
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it okay well how don't we do the fan first I think I've had a look at the
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Dominator airflow fan before but for for the benefit of anyone who hasn't already
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seen my unboxing of the Dominator airflow I might as well just uh unbox it
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on account of this is a special edition red one anyhow all right here we go if I
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could get it out of the bubble wrap there we go okay so on the bottom we
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find there two fan Clips which I'm not a huge fan of having to attach these
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yourself get it a fan um but you take
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these these thumb screws and then you
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position yeah it's really awkward you position these under here and then you
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actually screw the thumb screws in from the top to attach the two clamps and
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then you put the clamps over your over your memory slots and it kind of looks
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like that from the top down I mean they've got a really nice finish on this
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thing nice brushed aluminum finish to the top plate the fans are they're
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reasonably quiet they're better than the old Dominator uh airflow module but uh
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they're still not the quietest thing in the world although you can turn them
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down and they use a reasonably good quality sleeving on the fan sleeve here
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it's not the best I've seen but it's a lot better than what you tend to see on
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on a typical cheap fan all right they've
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blacked out the uh the stickers on the bottom here so that you can't see what
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brand the fans are but it doesn't really matter all right there we go that was
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the airflow module now let's bring out the actual oh I get it wow I'm stupid
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I've seen this pack before all they did is they took this pack and a fan and
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they put it together ah very clever course there touche all right so how do
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I get this open oh I need a knife uhoh
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trouble yep there we go I'll just use a pen cuz pens are always
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handy always have a pen in an office
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it's very difficult to go into an office and not have a pen anywhere in the
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office because then people couldn't write things unless they use pencils and
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I don't think I've used a pencil since elementary school it's been a very long
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time um Intel core i7 extreme Edition
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check marks so these are ready for the extreme Edition and if you're not buying
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an extreme Edition processor I don't know where you get off spending so much
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on your memory so that makes sense okay so here we go uh we've got Dominator
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GT the module itself why don't we just take this out of the
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box and then um so yeah unlike their
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normal dominators the Dominator GTs have a special edition
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red heat sink up on the top oh this is
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interesting I've never seen this before I have to admit I have no idea what this
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is for there's a little pin out on the
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memory module maybe it says something about it on the
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box absolutely nothing okay well here if
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you can leave a comment saying either if you know what this is for or if you have
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some idea what this is for it's actually on um it's on all three modules and um
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yeah I don't know what that does okay so anyway you've got your standard 240 pin
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DDR3 pin out along the bottom here you've got again your standard Dominator
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heat spreader along the side and like I mentioned before it's a special edition
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Red Top I believe Corsair does three colors black red and blue depending on
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which kit you're buying and then on the side you can see they've got a slightly
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different sticker from the normal Dominator one with the GT and it is red
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so that'll go really nicely with an EVGA classified or another uh bright red and
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black accented motherboard so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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Corsair Dominator GT triple Channel kit
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turn that around