Corsair pushes speed envelope with 2,333MHz Dominator GTX RAM modules
By Darren Murph 
posted January 21st 2010 3:02PM
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Now I can have BBQ on my PC
IT WILL MELT YOUR FACE OFF!!
@emanas
Better yet, you can blow your life savings on this new faster memory which will give you a barely noticeable performance boost over your existing one.
@emanas Oh come on, everybody have been doing BBQ with intel's P4 for a while.
that RAM is faster than mine
@tylersmyler
Well yeah, it would be. It's the fastest RAM in the world.
I'm not sure about that, the fastest DDR3 sticks sure, but I'm sure some supercomputer or satellite somewhere has faster RAM of some sort.
And how about that GDDR5? That goes pretty fast even on normal graphics cards, let alone in some laboratories.
@Wwhat i think XDR is still faster but the is the fastest pc ram imagine pairing that up with a Classified
@cge10
Doesn't XDR have very high latency? So wouldn't that sort of negate the frequency advantage?
Still waiting for an ECC version of DDR 2000...
@einhanderkiller
XDR has very low latency and bandwidth almost any GPU could love.
@einhanderkiller
XDR has very low latency and bandwidth almost any GPU could love.
http://www.techfuels.com/latest-hardware-news/24164-xdr-bandwidth.html
wait, who's suing who?
@decypherSMC
apparently the end suers. you would think that a blog concerning technology would know what a spell check is. or i dunno if you consider yourself a journalist proof reading is good. esp when all you write is one damn paragraph.
failboat
I bet you didn't even read the article closely and notice the mistake until decypherSMC pointed it out, be honest.
@Wwhat I did, then checked the comments to see if it had already been pointed out. Oddly its not been corrected yet, nor has the comment pointing out the typo been deleted yet. Oh the anticipation of if/when it will be corrected and offending comments deleted...it's certainly more exciting then another Apple tablet rumor post!
@KAL326
Ha, well they certainly keep you entertained then.
badass
Damn:( And here I thought I was going pretty well with my 4GB's of 1.6GHZ RAM.
I thought my RAM was nice. :'<
It will be now called "a RAM".
Hmmm... I paid $130 for 3gb (3x1gb) of ddr3-2000 Kingston HyperX. My heatsink looks almost as cool, as well.
$600 is an outrageous price for 6gb of ram. It's really not *that* much faster than 2000mhz ram.
@Smurf No joke, I paid a hair under $200 for 12GB of Corsair 1600Mhz DDR3 when I built my rig mid last year. I can run all 12GB at 1600Mhz but clocked down to 1333Mhz for stability and haven't noticed an difference in performance. This stuff is for world record overclocking and e-penis.
4GB DDR2 1066 here...
Their Ram is still cheaper than Apples Ram and like 20x better too..
@MoonWalkerCTE
Meh, I don't know about better. I have seen my fair share of faulty Corsair memory modules.
@7egend
I havent and it's still faster which is what I was saying.
@7egend good thing Corsair has a life time warranty on DRAM.
@jdmbo1
Agreed; you don't even have to purchase CorsairCare to get that coverage...
End Suers? Or is sewers?
Is this for sewer dwellers like the ninja turtles or something... not many of those Users that I know of.
Some people don't seem to have the smarts to compensate for typos, is there an account-number available so I can donate to help those?
@Wwhat I am currently waiting for a Nigerian Doctor to wire the funds to my account. His donation alone will suffice but thank you for the offer. :)
@Google You guys are a bunch of really smart talented engineers and are rich enough already.
@Wwhat Sure forward your donations to my Swiss account:
1234-567-89-543-21
So when does the liquid cooling attachment arrive for this memory?
@Solidstate89
Last time they also released a Peltier unit which was awesome.
Also when buying ram your speed doesn't just come from the Clock speed it runs on, What is more important it the timings and just like their last dominator set the timings are way higher than some of its competitors so it doesn't make that much of a difference. Of course there are people who prefer clock speed over latency but its a personal preference I guess.
Sooo... No mention of timings? Sure, don't tell us the second most important piece of information about the stuff...
@Shokz
"Intel’s engineers awarded the XMP-Ready certification to 2 x 2GB Corsair CMGTX1 modules running at the frequency of 2333MHz using low timings of 9-11-9-27 at a voltage of just 1.65V."
RTFA
On an unrelated note, getting that speed at 1.65v is pretty impressive considering my Corsair 1600 wants 1.65V to run at that speed in XMP.
Its fast because its red and black.
@Nitesh
Stripes add 1000mhz.
"end suers", who are we suing ? :) I assume these are DDR3 modules?
*Shock* @ Price and Technology
Bricks have been shat
That is some blazing fast dodge ram, but for $100 per gb, it is also very anit-smart on the price dingle~
D:
I just gizzed in my pants
Thats fast ram >_
@Drybones5
Gizzards do not belong in your pants.
Its not that bad of deal considering only a year or 2 ago 2gb of ram was still almost $200
But you can get 8 gigs of 2133MHz RAM for 2/3 of that money now.
And we all know 8GB of 2133 makes a speedier system than 2GB of 2400.
As a technical exercise, I find this very impressive. However, with dual-channel and (in this case) triple-channel DDR3 RAM that already has absurd levels of bandwidth, is that extra few hundred Mhz really going to make that much of a difference in practical applications or even gaming benchmarks?
No, but for those that run particle accelerators and nuclear fusion experiments and those that cool their CPU with LN this might be worth it.
And then there's rappers and wallstreet guys who make a grand a sec, it would be silly for them not to get it, although then you have the issue that those people don't bother and buy ready-made boxes, the best that's available.
@Wwhat
those that run particle accelerators and nuclear fusion experiments will be using ecc memory.
@vlad the inhaler
Excellent point, and it leads to the pressing question: What the hell corsair? Where's the ECC version?