Corsair Dominator GTX2 PC3-18000 CL8 Memory Review

Extreme Benchmarking

Alright, it is time to have some fun. The first item on the agenda is some gold cups for these MSI GTS 250's.

We talked earlier about how a pair of GTS 250's seem like an odd GPU combo to put under LN2 for an overclocking exhibition, but they happened to be laying around while we were benching with these modules so we thought; why not make them dance? Unfortunately they had cold bugs around -30C so even with volt mods and an LN2 pot strapped on...there is only so much we could do. The setup for all the results with these cards is the X58 platform. We have a ton of results though so we will keep the yapping to a minimum and get to the scores.

3DMark 01 - Multi GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1097 7-8-7-20 1T	3DMark 03 - Single GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1147 8-8-8-24 1T	3DMark 03 - Multi GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1147 8-8-8-20 1T
3DMark 05 - Single GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1147 8-8-8-24 1T	3DMark 05 - Multi GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1147 8-8-8-20 1T	3DMark 06 - Single GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1082 7-8-7-20 1T
3DMark 06 - Multi GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1067 7-8-7-20 1T	AM3 - Single GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1167 8-8-8-24 1T	AM3 - Multi GTS 250 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 1147 8-8-8-20 1T

When it was all said and done, our Corsair Dominator GTX modules helped power these GTS 250's to a total of 6 x , 1 x , and 1 x at HWBot.org. That is not bad for a couple of quick sessions. The modules ran great and were 100% predictable relying on the 32M Super Pi testing done earlier. We will now bring the temps down a little bit more and let the Dominator GTX2 sticks loose on our EVGA P55 Classified 200 Clarkdale setup for some 6GHz+ overclocking fun.

As was just mentioned, the platform is our EVGA P55 Classified equipped with a very hot little i5 670 Clarkdale. High clocks were the order of the day and the setup did not disappoint. Matched up with an HD5870, we tossed in a couple 3D results to compliment the regular 2D numbers that this setup excels at.

3DMark 03 - Single HD5870 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 713 6-6-6-18 1T	3DMark 05 - Single HD5870 click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 713 6-6-6-18 1T
Pifast @ 6720MHz click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 746 6-6-6-18 1T	32M @ 6248MHz click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 925 6-7-6-18 1T
SuperPi 1M @ 6734MHz click for full size... CMGTX2 @ 748 6-6-6-18 1T

This wasn't a gold hunting expedition like with the GTS 250's above; just some good old fashioned down home benchmarking. The Clarkdale platform -this processor anyway- isn't very conducive to memory overclocking but even at nice tight timings of 6-6-6, the Dominator GTX modules hold their own. The 32M run above does show off the memory to a certain extent, running 925MHz at 6-7-6...just ignore the CPU-Z memory tab, it doesn't report CAS Latency correctly with Clarkdale yet.

Overall, there are a couple global top 20's and a gold cup for the 32M 670 category...not too shabby for just fooling around.