Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB Special Edition Torque DDR4 Memory Review

Memory by leeghoofd @ 2017-11-06

Corsair is still one of the dominant forces in the PC market, however they have widely diversified their product range over the years. From initially being just focused on memory kits they expanded their range to gaming peripherals, cooling solutions and enclosures. At Computex 2017 we even saw some early samples of upcoming "Do It Yourself" water cooling products. However, the showstopper for many of the press was the new DDR4 limited Edition memory flagship, the Dominator Special Edition Torque kits. Quite a mouthful isn't it? Two 32GB versions were introduced, both based on the Samsung B-Die ICs, With one kit being a Dual Channel version sporting two 16GB modules and the second version is a quad channel version. Thus with four times 8GB modules. What made these so special was the intriguing look the Corsair Team managed to achieve.  Secondly that these are a limited edition only made people drool even more. Time to explore what the Torque hype is all about!

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Test Setups

It took us a while to get access to an X299 platform, hence why the long delay to start properly testing the Corsair SE Torque quad-channel kit.

Our Madshrimps Intel bench platform comprises the following parts:

  • Intel i9-7900X 10 core processor
  • EK Waterblocks L360 kit
  • Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9 motherboard (F4 bios version)
  • MSI R290X Lightning videocard
  • Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green Edition
  • Seasonic 1200W Platinum power supply
  • Win 8.1 64bit professional Edition
  • Catalyst 17.7.1 Crimson Edition graphics driver

 

 

 

The Madshrimps AMD Ryzen testbed is made up of:

  • AMD Ryzen 1800X processor
  • ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard (1402 bios version)
  • MSI R290X Lightning videocard
  • Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green Edition
  • Seasonic 1200W Platinum power supply
  • Win 8.1 64bit professional Edition
  • Catalyst 17.7.1 Crimson Edition graphics driver

 

 

The memory kits we used to compare the performance of the Dominator Platinum Special Edition Torque to:

  • 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws 4 3000C15 (link)
  • 32GB G.Skill TridentZ RGB 3600C16 (link)
  • 32GB G.Skill TridentZ 3600C17 (link)
  • 32GB G.Skill TridentZ 4133C19 downclocked to 4000MHz (link)
  • Corsair 32GB Vengeance 2400C14 LPX  (link)
  • Corsair 32GB Vengeance 2666C16 LPX  (link)
  • Corsair 32GB Dominator Platinum SE Torque  (link)

 

 

 

We always go through a multitude of benchmarks to test the performance of the installed memory:

 

  • AIDA64 Engineer Memory Bandwidth
  • Super PI 32M 1.5XS Edition 2D benchmark
  • Maxon Cinebench 64bit Release 15 2D benchmark
  • HWBOT RealBench 2D benchmark
  • HWBOT X265 render 2D benchmark
  • Futuremark FireStrike Ultra 3D benchmark
  • Tomb Raider build in benchmark
  • Bioshock Infinite build in benchmark
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