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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 on Ryzen platform

Our test on the AMD Ryzen platform is pretty fast and straightforward. We tested XMP again versus the highest possible 4 DIMM Dual channel speed we could run the test suite on.

Too bad for the Torque memory, but our Ryzen 1800X stopped already at 3333MHz. Booting with 4 DIMMs is heavy on the integrated memory controller; with only two DIMMs we had no issues at 3466MHz.

Running 3200MHz XMP with 4 dimms is no problem on the right motherboard

3333MHz run at 14-13-13-32 at 1.45Vdimm gives a slighty higher bandwidth, better encoding performance and Cinebench score, Though far from spectacular and not at the same pace of the Intel tests.

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