Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 RAM Gaming Memory Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the RAM that I would choose but it would be for the
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shallowest possible reasons so the thing
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about Corsair products is they're kind of like okay well here's our here's our
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product and then here's our extremely premium product
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and pretty much no matter what you buy you know you're getting Corsair quality
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so you know you could potentially buy like you know a Vengeance kit and you're
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still getting Corsair quality you're still getting a lifetime warranty so you
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got that going for you so for me what it comes down to with their performance
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stuff is it's all about sex
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appeal Dominator platinums are so sexy
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this is like the heaviest RAM I've encountered in a very long time and it
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is also just it looks so good so here
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hold on don't look at it yet don't look at it okay okay iconic heat spreader
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design with customizable light bar upgrade kits available at Corsair.com
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okay cool stuff so you can actually make
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it so it like matches and integrates in your system even better okay supports
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Corsair Link Technology which means you can monitor your memory performance and
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that's cool too dual path dhx cooling technology for optimize heat dissipation
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this we've had for a long time since the uh dominators and their uh their other
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dhx models as well so now let's get into
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the memory itself so this particular kit there's nothing that special about the
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spec this is an 1866 kit it's uh 2x 8
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gig it's cl9 1.5 volts so yeah it's a
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good memory kit but it's not like you
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know they're they're crazy Dominator Platinum kit that was clocked at what
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what was it 2.8 GHz or something stupid
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like that you know I'm going to go look it up SEC yeah 3 GHz so this is not that
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kit this is just sort of your your
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mainstream SL performan see like still a
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very good skew memory but like look oh
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look at it when you put it in a motherboard though
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okay so you get like your Republic of Gamers board from ASUS and you got like
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that Dominator thing going on on the top so the customizable light bar is the one
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that if you guys know anything about me you know I love case lighting and uh all
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you have to do to change out the light bar so you can actually see these ones
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are white so they have like a um a frosted strip so that it dissipates the
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light in a pretty pretty cool way you've also got heat sinks for heat dissipation
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this can be removed using uh using a is
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that Torx or Allen key looks like an allen key so uh so no difficulty there
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there's your Corsair link so they're using a custom PCB this is a very
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customized memory module you can actually see the traces have been used
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and what that means is not that Corsair shipped me a used kit but that Cor a
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actually you know still believes in testing their memory which is a very
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nice and reassuring thing to see because you know in this industry that's always
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cost down cost down you still want to know that there's premium products out
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there that look so
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good I'm sure Slick's camera angles are almost as good as mine you know we have
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to power these on we have to see the lights so we're in the dark ready to
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power the oh so
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sexy okay I'll take it I'm taking the
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camera from slick he sucks at it anyway so that's what they look like when
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they're powered on in the dark so
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Beast love it you even get like an like an underglow effect around the uh the
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memory slots and all that as well so you check that
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out anyway thank you for checking out this unboxing and don't forget to
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videos even shallow ones like
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this still admiring it okay I'm done now