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March 28th, 2007
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| I'm Diggin it!
 |  Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF Review  Not too long ago, an F3 tornado tore through my home, destroying almost everything my family had built up over the last 18 years. My loved ones were safe, but my computers weren't so lucky. Rest assured, it will take more than a tornado to keep me down, and jumping right back into the fray, today I'm looking at the Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF memory modules as my first review after the storm! Will this turn out to be a good experience, or another ordeal I could have done without? Let's find out... -Tom Black Read the review...  Q6600@ 3.2GHz w/ CNPS9700 | EVGA 780i | 2Gb Corsair DDR2-800 | EVGA 9800GTX 512 Video | 1x WD 640Gb HDD, 2x Seagate 400Gb HDD, 1x250Gb WD | 2x Samsung SH-203B Opticals | Antec 900 | ABS/Tagan BZ700 700W PSU | ||||||||||||||
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| ButtHead
 Join Date: Mar 2006
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| Re: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF Memory R Good review Tom and it's nice to see you back at your post. Carry on soldier.  | ||||||||||||||
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| Colonel Calamity
 | Re: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF Memory R Good review!! Good to see you back on your feet and getting back to normal Tom!  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  | ||||||||||||||
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| Meow means woof in cat.
 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL
Posts: 1,903
| Re: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF Memory R bah! Memory, who needs memory!!!??? What's my name again? Oh yea Good review tom, glad to see your back up and running :D What's with the SLi/crossfire certified memory trend? It doesn't encourage me to buy it just over that. Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD | ||||||||||||||
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| Re: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF Memory R SLI ready is basically saying, for the large majority of manufacturers, that the memory has been tested and is compatible with SLI ready motherboards. The EPP label means much better system settings for the casual overclocker, but the die-hard enthusiast is still going to want to manually tweak the memory timings and FSB. This feature, while present on the memory module, isn't fully supported by every board out there. So if the Bios on your mobo or perspective mobo doesn't support EPP, there's zero reason to get EPP ready Ram. Perhaps one of the greatest things about EPP memory is the ability for the memory to scale better with the overclocker that simply keeps a 1:1 ratio and pushes their CPU to the memory's maximum FSB. This overclocker just wants more performance without the hassles of manually setting the memory timings. For this purpose, it works impressively better than the standard SPD settings do. Q6600@ 3.2GHz w/ CNPS9700 | EVGA 780i | 2Gb Corsair DDR2-800 | EVGA 9800GTX 512 Video | 1x WD 640Gb HDD, 2x Seagate 400Gb HDD, 1x250Gb WD | 2x Samsung SH-203B Opticals | Antec 900 | ABS/Tagan BZ700 700W PSU | ||||||||||||||
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| Meow means woof in cat.
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL
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| Re: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-8500C5DF Memory R Quote:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD | |||||||||||||||
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