Corsair launches the Dominator GT family

Subject: Memory | February 5, 2009 - 02:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Fremont, CA, February 5th, 2009 - Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced the launch of the new Dominator GT line of ultra high-performance DDR3 memory modules for Intel Core i7-based systems.

Sporting a new racing red color scheme and the next-generation of Corsair's patent-pending Dual-path Heat eXchange (DHX) technology, the new Dominator GT comes in 3-up 6GB kit, running at 2000MHz with latencies of 7-8-7.

Why is my RAM detecting cereal?

Subject: Memory | January 29, 2009 - 04:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Has playing with BIOS options got you scratching your head as to why manually setting your RAM's speed and timings causes eternal reboots, but setting the options to something called SPD fixes your posting problems?  Icrontic would love to shed some light on your confusion, by explain just what Serial Presence Detect is, why the JEDEC is very important to tweakers and just why CPU-Z doesn't seem to report your RAM going the speed you though it should.

Make that 64-bit OS work

Subject: Memory | January 26, 2009 - 12:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Legit Reviews shocked themselves with the results of their testing 12Gb of RAM set up in triple channel.  Six 2GB memory modules at 1600MHz with 8-7-7-20 1T, and only 1.6V, pushing the kits harder resulted in 1700MHz with 8-8-8-24 1T.  Check out their full review to see the incredible bandwidth benchmarks that these modules can handle.

DDR3 that wins a budget award?

Subject: Memory | January 12, 2009 - 03:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you are setting up an i7 system, the Patriot Viper PC3-12800 6GB Triple Channel kit should appear on your wish list.  The timings are 9-9-9-24 @ 1600MHz and the kit will set you back about $250, offering a good value for performance when you consider the price tag DDR3 can come with.  Virtual Hideout can give yo

Video: Corsair to release a Peltier memory cooler

Subject: Memory | January 10, 2009 - 12:19 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Corsair was showing off a handful of new products in their suite during CES this week including some new DDR3 memory modules and a Pelletier memory cooler for the stupid-extreme overclocker.  The new DDR3 memory kit will sell as a triple-channel package for Core i7 systems and will be rated at 2000 MHz and a 7ns CAS latency.  You can expect them to be expensive and you expect them to be pretty rare – so rare in fact that Corsair will be selling these kits directly to the end user rather than through the Newegg's and MicroCenter's of the world.  There will be a slightly slower ki

New OCZ Blade Series reaches DDR3-2000 speeds

Subject: Memory | December 19, 2008 - 12:37 PM | Ryan Shrout
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OCZ sent over word that they have launched a new series of DDR3 memory modules called "Blade" that will offer DDR3 memory speeds of 2000 MHz with timings of CL 7-8-7.  The kit will come with three modules for triple channel goodness and top performance with Intel's Core i7 processors. 

Doing the math so you don't have to; unless you want to

Subject: Memory | December 16, 2008 - 04:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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TechSpot is looking to define the relationship between memory and the Core i7 processor with four simple tests.  The first and second offer a baseline, with their triple channel kit running default timings at 800, 1066, 1333 and 1600MHz; followed by the same test with all latencies set to the same values.  The next two involve tightening the timings and a variety of channel set ups.  Read through this rather long article for a serious amount of hard performance data.

6GB of triple channel RAM is within your reach

Subject: Memory | December 9, 2008 - 12:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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G.Skill is really pushing it's new PC3-12800 CL9 6GB kit, you can get it on Newegg for just over $200.  Straight out of the box you will be running 1600MHz @ CAS9-9-9-24, or run it at 1333 and tighten the timings to 8 or tighter if you reduce the speed even more.  Check out this triple channel kit at Legion Hardware.