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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!

Tweaking Intel X299 Platform

We wouldn't be MadShrimps if we didn't take the time to unleash some extra power for free! We will be doing this on the Intel X299 platform and also on the next page for the AMD Ryzen platform. Too bad no Threadripper setup was available.

Take note these are daily stable speeds we are showing here, not benchmark only stable for extreme overclocking!!

Without any voltage increase for the memory we achieved the below settings to run our entire test suite multiple times and also be 200% HCI memtest stable

3200MHz C13-13-13-24 2T at 1.35Vdimm vs. 3200C14-16-16-36 2T

With a voltage bump to 1.55Vdimm 3600MHZ with nearly identical timings was possible C13-13-13-26 2T

3600MHz C13-13-13-26 2T at 1.55Vdimm

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Higher speeds were possible but only in Dual Channel mode on the X299 Gigabyte board. With looser timings as you could read on the previous page 3800MHz was no biggie, but at CAS13 we would only have solid performing Quad Channel performance at maximum 3600MHz speeds.

How does either the tighter timings on the B-die memory aid your system performance or the combo of higher memory speeds and tighter timings?

Starting off with AIDA64 Engineer Edition: Versus the stock XMP settings we spot after dialing in the timings a huge bandwidth increase in the Write and Copy tests. If we add 400MHz on top we achieve an additional boost of around 7000-10000MB/s on all tests versus the 3200 tweaked setting.

SuperPi 32M seems less impressive in gains, though a 10 sec difference between the XMP and the tweaked settings is quite spectacular. Increasing the memspeed to 3600MHz shaved off another second.

Cinebench, HWBOT's Realbench and X265 Encoding tests tell the same tale, a nice performance increase versus XMP and that little extra boost on top with increased memory speeds.

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