Overclocking
The Dominator GT DDR3-2000 triple channel kit defaulted at DDR3-1600 10-11-11-29. That should be a mild enough clock for nearly every X58 motherboard to POST. Actually, those settings didn’t show up on the SPD table, but I don’t think that they were settings that I already had set in the BIOS.
It took some tweaking to get my motherboard to POST with the memory set to DDR3-2000. The overclock that was automatically set when I enabled XMP did not have the VCORE set high enough for the CPU’s overclock, but once I bumped it up, it booted up just fine.
I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with the Dominator GT DDR3-2000. First I tried to see what kind of timings I could get at DDR3-2000. I was able to get the timings to 7-8-7-24 with rock solid stability. Next, I dropped the speed to DDR3-1600, and was able to get 6-6-6-24. All of this was at a VDIMM of 1.66v. My board doesn’t have odd hundredths, the choice is either 1.64v or 1.66v. I have had trouble in the past getting advertised speeds with 1.64v, so I usually bite the bullet and go for 1.66v.
For outright overclocking, I was able to get the Dominator GT to DDR3-2156 10-9-9-28. The previous high memory speed I have achieved with this motherboard was DDR3-2124. Keep in mind that the motherboard is rated at DDR3-2000, and I really don’t know how high the motherboard and processor’s memory controller will go before they start affecting stability, so one might get a higher overclock with an i7 965 or 975.
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Corsair dominators are the best!
Corsair dominators are the best!
Corsair dominators are the best!
I don't know if I'd go as far as saying there are the best however Corsair is up there.
I don't know if I'd go as far as saying there are the best however Corsair is up there.
Fine, they're one of the better brands to stick with.
Fine, they're one of the better brands to stick with.
I don't know if I'd go as far as saying there are the best however Corsair is up there.
Fine, they're one of the better brands to stick with.
I’m using this exact same memory it is very good and of course very pricey. I thought about adding on an additional 6GB to make it a full 10GBs (not counting the first 2GB of ram which goes to the operating system). For the moment I’m happy with 6GB and can’t really think of a reason to go with 10gb.