EDITOR’S CHOICE
AWARD
OC Hero Award
CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM
DDR4 3400 Limited Edition
RRP: $999.99 | Website: www.corsair.com
Test Machine
• INTEL Core i7 5960X
• EVGA GTX 980 K|NGPIN
Edition
• GIGABYTE X99 SOCChampion (F4g/F4i)
• SAMSUNG PX941 512GB
• CORSAIR AX1500i
• Windows 8.1 x64
B
efore you accuse this
review of ignoring the
exorbitant price of this
kit, know that indeed this
memory is expensive. That
price is real and it’s unlikely
to change in the near future.
There are a number of reasons
for this but one of them is
because at this frequency,
CORSAIR, at the time of
release had no competition.
Yes we’ve all read the press
releases and what have you
form other vendors, but in
reality there just wasn’t any
other 3400MHz kit that you
could actually buy anyway.
Some were listed but, they
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are perpetually out of stock.
They, in reality just did not
exist. This set however does
and if you have the funds,
this memory will be yours for
a cool $999. Titan-X money
indeed and if you have to ask
why on earth anyone would
purchase this memory, then
it isn’t for you. This set is
specifically for the X99 SOCChampion much like the old
OCZ EL PC-5000 memory old
that was specifically for the
LanParty NF4 boards. You
may get it to work on other
motherboards, but there’s
no guarantee that the X.M.P
profile will load correctly.
So not only do you have to
have the financial means to
spend a $1,000 USD on 16GiB
of memory, but you also
need to have a very specific
motherboard to run this
memory on.
Should you tick both
boxes, then what you’re in
for is the most interesting
set of memory for the X99
platform around. This
memory isn’t exclusively for
the professional competitive
overclocker, but for the
individual that only wants
the fastest and is more than
willing to pay for it (hence the
importance of a working X.M.P
profile), the vaguely defined
Power user if you will.
We’ve had ridiculously
priced memory before, in
fact we’ve had memory retail
for as high as $2,000 USD.
However, unlike that set
of DDR 3100MHz memory
comprised of single sided
PCBs with Hynix MFR chips.
This kit actually performs as it
should and is half the price. So
context is important here and
what CORSAIR is providing is
without question the highest
performance memory we have
ever come across.
That’s all good and well, but
it’s not why we are here. We
are here to find out how it goes
and what makes it worth the
price over and above the high
frequency. Well, it is primarily
performance, but seeing as
this costs a fortune all testing
was done at the given 1.35V.