Corsair Dominator Airflow RAM Fan Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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615 words · ~3 min read
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well we've got a memory oriented sort of unboxing today but it isn't RAM this is
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the Corsair Dominator airflow fan and this is not the original one this is the
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new one which is as you can see wide
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enough for six modules to fit underneath it now the old one was about this thick
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and used little tiny 40 mm fans that quite honestly were just too loud they
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were obnoxious fans awful just awful but
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these ones are 60 mm fans and though I've never actually turned them on I'm
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going to assume they're quite a bit quieter the optional airflow fan unit
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contains 260 tachometer controlled fans to provide impinging air flow to the
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memory subsystem with the moderate RPMs required to provide adequate forced air
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the airflow fan is nearly silent there you go they say it's quiet the fan
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easily clamps onto most motherboards now something that you should bear in mind
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is that you do not need to use Corsair RAM in order to take advantage of the
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Dominator airflow fan you can actually use it with any RAM but the height that
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it sits at is just right for their dhx or their Dominator modules so I mean
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obviously designed to work best with their product so the first thing we'll
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find inside is hopefully some kind of installation instruction oh yeah there
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we go there it is that's clever see they've gone and they've taken that backboard and they've turned it into
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your installation manual so figure one clip on the retention levers figure two
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clipped over the modules figure three plug in the airflow figure four
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completed so it is a four-step actually three-step because the fourth step is
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that it's done uh installation process I've installed it before it's really
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easy it comes okay first we find the two little Clips those go on either side I'm
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dropping things all over the place tonight there's another there's another
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clip okay then we have oh there they are okay so then we
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have the actual Dominator airflow module itself you got a nice long little
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sleeved fan connector there that's a three pin connector so the easiest place
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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
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a little baggie of screws and washers and they're mostly pre-applied to the
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thumb screws okay so these are really easy to apply all you really
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do is position this clip under here just
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like that so you can kind of see what I've done there and then you can move it
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around to get the best positioning over your memory modules and then you take
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the little thumb screws and you thumb them in there and then these will be
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mounted to either side then you take the whole thing and
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clip it clamp it over the memory retention clip so you don't actually
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clip it to the sides of your memory modules you pull it over just a little
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bit more so that it will hold the memory modules in place by holding the clips
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anyway that was pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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Corsair Dominator airflow module I'm
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actually going to give you like a couple seconds of like closeup we got like some
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like some panning action here check it out oh yeah there's Corsair air flow on
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the side airf flow okay that was it