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Corsair Dominator DDR3 Memory Sets New World Record
Posted 08/01/08 at 10:56:48 AM | by Paul Lilly
Records are meant to be broken, but it's Corsair who keeps doing all the breaking. Once again, the company's auspiciously named Dominator series has taken memory frequencies to new heights, surpassing its own world record for the highest achieved DDR3 frequency set just over two months ago.
On May 20, Corsair's Dominator danced at 2462MHz, a record that went untouched until now. This time around, Corsair managed to push ahead to 2580MHz and did so with respectable latencies set at 9-9-9-24. It took an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 overclocked to a 645MHz frontside bus to get there, as well as cooling the motherboard, CPU, chipset, and memory to a very chilly -20 degrees Celsius. Brrr!
Because of the extreme cooling involved and obvious risk of component failures, kids probably shouldn't try this at home, but if you're a memory manufacturer not named Corsair, feel free to give it a shot.
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Comments Print Email Big whoop-tee-doo.
Submitted by SpazzAttack on Sat, 2008-08-02 12:35
Big whoop-tee-doo. 1 GB of RAM? Well, I guess I can run Windows 95 real fast for about 4 minutes before the liquid N2 evaporates. I want to see their system actually do something other than run synthetic benchmarks on an antiquated 32-bit memory model. Show me something you can run 24/7 and then I'll be impressed.
Submitted by nsvander on Sat, 2008-08-02 09:08
To me if you want to make a record speed, it has to repeatable, and be able to be done outside the lab. Sure I can just go to the local welding supply house and probably get some liquid nitrogen and do this at home, but its not a sustainable speed. I would like to see what happened to it when the nitrogen ran out and it went neuclear there on the table. If you want to post a speed record, put it in an off the shelf case, and install and off the shelf cooling system, you could use a phase change or peltier. Crank it up and run it stable for 24 hours of use on Prime and then post the results. To me that would be a record.
Submitted by wolf17 on Sat, 2008-08-02 02:30
Wait.. so if the e8400 is at a 645 fsb, does that mean it was overclocked to 5.8ghz!? (645x9=5805) or did they lower the multiplier? just wondering
E8400
Submitted by One4yu2c on Sat, 2008-08-02 09:45
The mulitplier was lowered to x6, so it was running at 3.87GHz.
Submitted by wolf17 on Sun, 2008-08-03 20:18
okay, that makes sense, thanks for the info.
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