Corsair Dominator Platinum Lightbar Sexy Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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905 words · ~4 min read
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Welcome to a ghetto unboxing. Today's unboxing is not about
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the box because you can plainly see that there's no box. This is about what's
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inside the box. This is Corsair's allnew
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Dominator light bar showcase. So, inside
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this anti-static bag, I have four sticks
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of what is some of the most premium memory on the freaking block. So, the
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light bar kit comes with a few different colors, but ours is going to be
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showcasing the blue light bar. So, I'm going to move that so that I'm not
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showing it to the wrong camera here. So, you can see that there's a the the light
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inside the Dominator Platinum module is still white, but there's an actual uh
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blue window in the top of it that's going to give it some pretty sweet
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effects. So, remember guys, Dominator Platinums use a custom PCB, a custom
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heat spreader. They've got heat sink fins here on the top and then an
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aluminum uh bar that goes on the top,
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both for looks and for presumably some additional cooling, although I don't
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think that's going to make that much of a difference, but also just like awesome
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lookingness. You've also got full compatibility with Corsair Link with the
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little connector on the side of the module itself, which sort of drives home
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that custom PCB a aspect of this. Guys,
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to be clear, these are extremely expensive heat spreaders and only really
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make sense for premium modules. So, we're going to go ahead and we're going
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to take our existing sort of gaming memory, I guess you might call it. Take
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it out of this system and we are going to be upgrading to Corsair Dominator
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Platinum. So, you can see that before I started, I touched the power supply.
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That's to ground myself. And now, I'm not going to move my feet. It's important to uh do the necessary
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precautions before installing memory like this. So, this Oh, right. The spec
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on this here, Diesel, I'm going to get you to come in close again. So, these
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are 16 gig kits. So, these are 2 by8s and then I'm populating them into a quad
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channel board, which is technically not really recommended, but it should still
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be fine. 2400 megahertz, so 2.4
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gigahertz, 8 gig modules.
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need a moment of silence to let that like sink in and then boom, head
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explosion. Uh, so they're cast 10, so yeah, they're not super tight timings or
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anything by any stretch of the imagination, but that is some
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high-speed, high density memory going on. That means we are putting 32 gigs of
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some of the fastest RAM money can buy in this particular system here. It also
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happens to be some of the sexiest RAM money can buy. So, let's go ahead and
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power this bad boy up. So, I'm going to put my power cable back
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in. Every so often, the uh the
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motherboard will just power up if you insert a memory module. So, that's why I
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unplug the power supply. Or actually, unplugging it is bad. You should leave
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it plugged in so that you can still ground off of it, but you should turn the switch so that the system won't
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randomly power on. All right, so here we go. We'll do a daytime shot first. Going
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to power this up. I love it. This goes really well with the P9X79 Deluxe
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motherboard that we've got in this particular rig. This is an older Corsair
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H100, not an H100i. I apologize for that, but it still looks pretty boss.
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How's that? How's that look, Diesel? Should we do the night shot now? Yeah, I'm getting the I'm getting the so so
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hand. So, let's do our night shot here. Ready, guys? Let's try turning the just
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those off first and see how it looks. Go. How's that look? I'm getting the
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thumbs up. How about in complete darkness?
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How's it look now? Yeah, I'm I'm definitely getting the thumbs up over
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there now. So, that is what Dominator
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light bars will look like in your system. I'm going to give you some different angles here, guys. So, you can
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still see the whiteness as kind of an underglow effect, but the tops of the
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modules themselves. I'm going to lean a little bit more so you can see the very
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tops of the modules have a very unique Whoops. Oh, hold on. Let's power it back
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on. I think Oh, shoot. I think I put some There we put some pressure on the
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connector there. All right. So, the tops of the modules themselves have that blue
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glow going on, which looks very, very cool. So, I'm going to go ahead and go
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all the way down to this angle. So, you can see it from here. You got that,
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diesel? All right. So, there you go, guys. That is the Corsair Dominator
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Platinums with light bars. It was sort
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of an unboxing. Basically, beast memory for beast systems. Don't forget to
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