Screaming Corsair Memory

It is one of those days where we get to play with something new. Corsair’s “10000C5DF” 2GB kit is incredibly fast on the 680i motherboards. With the 0% Overclock EPP turned on you can get 1250MHz DDR2 speeds (5.5.5.18.2T) out of the box without even overclocking the processor. (Not sure why you would not want to though if you have a Core 2 Duo rig.) Corsair is quite proud of it though. Not for the budget shopper. ( Newegg / ZipZoomFly )

I have been using these Dominator-cooled sticks from Corsair now for a good while with good results. The fans seem a bit gimmicky at first, but it does supply a great deal of airflow to your RAM keeping it very cool. ABIT used to supply the same sort of fan with some of their OTES applications. The difference being that Corsair’s is so overbuilt you could use the thing as a weapon.