Corsair CM3X1024-1800C7D 2×1GB DDR3 memory kit

Today we look at the offerings of Corsair’s CM3X1024-1800C7D 2GB DDR3 kit bundled with the added Corsair Dominator DHX cooling as standard.

Here’s what Corsair have to say about it:

“The Dominator Series TWIN3X2048-1800C7DF G is a 2048MByte kit of DDR3 SDRAM DIMMs built using Corsair’s latest high performance heat sink with Dual-path Heat Xchange (DHX) technology coupled with a Corsair Airflow Fan. This part delivers outstanding performance in the latest generation of dual-channel DDR3-based motherboards. It has been tested extensively in popular DDR3 motherboards to ensure compatibility and performance at its rated speed. This memory has been verified to operate at 1800MHz at latencies of 7-7-7-20 at 2.0V VDIMM.”

Impressive, now onto the specifications…

Specifications:

Timings: 7-7-7-20
Frequency: 1800 MHz
Voltage: 2.0v

Packaging

What’s in the Box?

A close up to see just how well these modules are made and the excellent packaging that the kit comes in.

Dual-path Heat Xchange Diagram Optimized fins to maximize ambient airflow through the module array. Extruded aluminium heat sinks to maximize convective heat dissipation

Dominator DHX cooling.

Test Setup:

Motherboard: Asus P5K3, Intel P35 Chipset
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, 65nm, G0 Stepping

The Asus P5K3, Intel P35 Chipset motherboard offers a lot of over-clocking options and allowed us to test the memory kit that Corsair sent, as you can see in the Screen shot I was able to boot up with 7-7-7-20 timming @ 2000MHz with no problems at all and the system was rock solid.

With only a speed from the CPU of 4500MHz the final time in supper PI 1m was just a tad over 11 seconds which is not to bad given that the operating system was fully blotted with applications still operating in the background.

Some Super PI 32m
A small amount of voltage increase of 0.2 volts needed to run the 32M test but still very good at 2.2 volts to the memory for this sort of speed, again do not look at the total time taken as this test was just to see how far the Ram would go.

A quick run with Wprime 32m and 1024m to see how well the total stability of the system with these ram speeds showed it had know problems at all.

Sandra Bandwidth.

Next up was to see just what sort of MHz this ram could do:
Unfortunately the ram was not able to do much more even with slacker timings, But still very impressive.

But what sort of MHz could the ram do with tighter timings, not to bad with settings of 6-6-6-18 @ 1780MHz.

Conclusion:

Rating:

Speed: 98 / 100 
Value: 90 / 100

I have no doubt at all about this memory and its Capabilities’ in the right hands and with a fully optimised operating system the worlds your oyster.

my experiences in the last few days with this DDR3 memory kit from Corsair has definitely improved my outlook for DDR3 memory and its future acceptance by the enthusiast crowd and with Lifetime warranty cover you cannot go wrong with this supper fast set of memory, that’s providing you can stump up the £300.00 price tag, but if you have the cash and want the best then this set of Corsair’s memory is for you.