HotHardware reviews Corsair Dominator TWIN3X2048-1800C7DFIN G DDR3 memory kit
A few months ago, we rounded up some of the fastest DDR3 memory kits that were available and came away impressed by how well frequencies and performance had scaled in the short time since DDR3 had been introduced on the desktop. Since that article was published, however, not much has changed on the DDR3 front in terms of overall performance. 1800MHz kits are still the cream of the crop and the latency of the top kits hasn't dropped below CAS 7. The landscape has changed a bit though, thanks to ever dropping prices, maturity, and some newly introduced features.
At the time our round-up was published, we praised one of Corsair's kits in particular, the TWIN3X2048 - 1800C7D, for its strong performance, overclockability, and excellent cooling solution. In this article, we're going to take a look at an update to that kit, the TWIN3X2048-1800C7DFIN G, that offers support for Intel's Extreme Memory Profiles. If you're unfamiliar with Extreme Memory Profiles, think of them as Intel's DDR3 equivalent to NVIDIA's EPP. With XMP, like EPP, a portion of the memory's on-board SPD is used to store vital settings for the memory, which can be accesses and automatically configured when used with the right motherboard...
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