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Corsair (XMS Series) TW3X4G1600C9DHX Desktop Memory
Customer Reviews for CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TW3X4G1600C9DHX - Retail
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Thujones
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/23/2009 5:47:59 AM

Rating + 4 Could be awesome


Pros: 1 module worked absolutely perfect! Super fast memory, does support the full 1600 speed! Absolutely awesome memory

Cons: 1 module did not work. I removed an egg for Quality Control, not for the product itself.

Other Thoughts: These suckers are really tall. Be careful installing in slots close to CPU, could interfere with the heatsink

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Anti
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/19/2009 9:19:26 AM

Rating + 5 Fast!


Pros: Very fast RAM. Was either gonna get this or the Dominators... but they were 40$ more and I rather get a new HS/F

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Processor: Intel i5-750 Quad-Core @ 3.35
Memory: 4 GB Corsair XMS3 1600 Mhz
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Black 250 GB
Video Card: PNY GeForce 9800 GX2
Monitor: ACER 20" LCD
Sound Card: RealTek 7.1 HD Audio
Speakers: Altec 2.1
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse
Mouse: Logitec G5
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Motherboard: MSi P55-GD65
Computer Case: Antec 1200

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Macintrasher
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/18/2009 1:40:58 PM

Rating + 5 Just as advertised.


Pros: Middle-of-the-road DDR3 that does precisely what it's designed to do. Heatsinks are great for overclockers and the price is where it's expected to be.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Everyday RAM at everyday prices, but with heatsinks. Nothing more to say.

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DOC
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/14/2009 9:06:30 AM

Rating + 3 Rebate Denied


Pros: Pricey but fast

Cons: I bought 4gb of this ram with 1 available rebate which was denied by Corsair . Their websight has so many rebates and ram chips that it is impossible to locate the right rebate for your ram. BEWARE of corsair ram rebates. It's like thay want to deny your rebate from the git go.

Other Thoughts: Cant see any reason to buy pricey ram from Corsair in the future if they deny you on the rebate!

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/10/2009 11:44:07 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Does what i want it to do.

Cons: I have had a pair for a year and the price went UP. can't blame corsair or newegg on it i guess.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/30/2009 8:02:28 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Owned for 4 months.

No complaints, works fine, which is all that I expect from RAM modules, and thus gets five eggs.

Cons: None

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jasv
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/13/2009 11:19:04 AM

Rating + 4 Product good / Newegg messed up


Pros: Memory worked as expected. Fast and no compatibility with my AMD Phenom II x3 / Asus M4A785st-v EVO motherboard.

Cons: None with the hardware. A big problem with newegg's eroding customer service.

Other Thoughts: I ordered a week in advance to install during a trip on a PC 2 hours away. The memory arrived on time but it came from the RMA center with the package poorly stapled together and mangled up. I paid full price for a new item not a return. Although, after I insisted newegg paid for return shipping they wouldn't send a replacement without receiving the return. I missed my window to install the memory on that trip.

Ok, everyone can be forgiven for one mistake. The following week, I bought a DVD/CD recorder and it also came from the RMA center with pieces appearing to be missing. Again, I paid for a new item. I didn't bother returning it. Sadly a long time customer has been lost.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/10/2009 8:10:27 PM

Rating + 5 ilikemountaindew


Pros: Runnning these with an Evga 790sliftw motherboard and e8400 3ghz processor. It has been running at 4.05Ghz for 6 months with temps at 40 degrees C.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Love it.

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Rook777
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/27/2009 8:31:52 AM

Rating + 5 It works like it's supposed to


Pros: It works and looks cool

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: These things look like beasts. I love it.

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Chris98vf
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/23/2009 7:39:33 PM

Rating + 5 good ram


Pros: It's RAM and made by Corsiar...

Cons: other than rebates that take forever there are no cons...

Other Thoughts: I can't wait for there to be a 4GB chip that won't cost more than it did to build my PC.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/15/2009 11:39:35 AM

Rating + 1 Right product . . .wrong company


Pros: Excellent product and can be relied on to perform well.

Cons: Corsair seeks an advantage with a rebate that is bogus . . I tried the $15 rebate offer and immediately hit problems. My opinion is that Corsair is in the "lets play people for fools" mode. This attitude destroys all loyalty in their products. Wont purchase another Corsair product . . tho they may be excellent. Better to have no rebate and an excellent reputation that is earned than to cheat with "flawed and insincere rebates"

Other Thoughts: Most companies and offers are legit . . . so when I find a bogus one I make a prime example of it.

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Panther57
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/25/2009 7:55:41 PM

Rating + 5 Return Review.


Pros: These give me a lot of stability with Overclocking.
Heat spreaders work, they stay cool under load.
Stable matched pair.

Cons: In the 9's. Yes there is a prt of me that would prefer a set lower in the 8's, 6's...
Trying to think of some...Hmmm

Other Thoughts: I use these on an MSI 790FX-GD70 and bought before a large selection was available. You can get down top the 7's but I don't change because I benchmark with the best and they just continue to give me stability as I play with OC choices, gaming, Benchmark stressing and everything else. Great sticks.
My addl. build is getting these also.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/24/2009 7:45:30 PM

Rating + 5 Good Memory


Pros: Works great with AMD PII X4 945 CPU and ASUS M4A78T-E MoBo.

Cons: Heat sinks a little tall but not a problem with Zalman 9500 cooler

Other Thoughts: I use a Zalman 9500 CPU cooler that fits well with the memory in first two slots (orange). You will need to set the memory speed manually in BIOS (I set it to 1333 MHz) unless ASUS fixes the auto detection.

CPU-Z does not show the correct rating in SPD tab but does show the correct running speed on memory tab (1/2 the actual speed with 2 sticks).

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Don't know much
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/24/2009 7:59:33 AM

Rating + 5 My first mem w/heatsinks-COOL!


Pros: Worked in my Blackops. First time I spent real money on mem since I bought 4MB(yes mega) back in mid 90s for $176. Been buying the usual stuff from the usual vendors since then. I know there is more expensive mem, but I feel like Mr. Money Bags now.

Cons: Wouldn't know if it smacked me in the chops. And it looks like the heatsink could rake me pretty good.

Other Thoughts: Set on auto, my Blackops shows 1066, not 1600. Haven't had time to investigate much, but others seem to have the same deal.
Blackops w/Q9550.

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Joeythespoon
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/12/2009 9:57:48 AM

Rating + 4 Good memory


Pros: The memory worked like it should and was detected right away. It is quick and I would definitely buy corsair again.

Cons: The only con is the heatsinks are ridiculous. I don't have room to add a CPU cooler (or atleast the one that I want).

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jix
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/11/2009 7:28:40 PM

Rating + 5 No problems at all


Pros: Awesome ram, very ffast, stays cool with the heatsink.

Cons: kind of big but thats not a problem, had to manually adjust to 1600.

Other Thoughts: popped it in and worked immediately, couldnt ask for anything more that that.

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New at computers
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/11/2009 2:03:33 AM

Rating + 5 Simple. Easy


Pros: I am new to computer building and I feared that my mobo wouldn't read my memory correctly.

There was NO problem with the memory speeds! Simply plug in and go. I guess I got lucky, or maybe Corsair just rules :D

Cons: NONE!

Other Thoughts: thanks for the easy setup corsair.

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Chatterbox08
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/8/2009 7:16:55 PM

Rating + 5 Got a good deal


Pros: Cheap combo deal allowed me to pick up the ram at around $50 dollars! I w3as worried that it might be the reject RAM of Corsair but I've been pleased so far. Both modules worked out of the box and i got them to run stable at 1600mHz, with clocks of 8-8-8-20, and a voltage of 1.8v. I run them just fine even during hardcore gaming for hours (Crysis); they do not even break a sweat temperature wise.

Cons: Did not post to the rated speed by default, but a couple of quick changes in the bios and everything was good to go.

Other Thoughts: A note to some of the complaints saying it did not run at the rated speeds: 1) Make sure you have changed the setting in the bios so that it runs at the higher speed. 2) You may also have to increase the voltage to make it stable at the higher speeds. My mobo defaulted the voltage to 1.5V so i had to increase it. 3) Make sure your mobo can actually handle that clock speed. Some mobos like mine consider 1600 mHz to be an overclocked speed, not the standard speed that it runs.

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Camel
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/4/2009 7:08:39 AM

Rating + 5 Good memory.


Pros: OC's easy. I have mine running at 1600MHz too with no issues. Looks pretty cool in an antec skeleton case.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Read up on the differences between 32 and 64 bit operating systems to explain why you have 4G of memory, but it shows less....

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Draco
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/3/2009 6:00:54 AM

Rating + 5 Whats up with Price


Pros: Great memory, it is actually reading a latency of 7 across the board using a asus m4a79t and a 955 blck box processor

Cons: What happen to price, I paid 105.99 on Thursday and now it is $399, too bad newegg is the only place on the interent selling it for $399.

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Chuckles
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
8/1/2009 12:24:07 PM

Rating + 5 Fast


Pros: Fast, cool and smooth operation

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Good for the price and easily tweaked.

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omegayen
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/31/2009 11:18:07 PM

Rating + 5 Good Ram


Pros: Ram works well at DDR3 , 1600 MHz on M4A78T-E.

Cons: Has not been shown to work on the qvl list for 8 GB for M4A78T-E mobo from asus.

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rmk
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/29/2009 6:06:54 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Stable
Fast
Cheap

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Great RAM in my opinion. I'm running it at the stated DDR3 1600 speed with no problems.

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Nalu
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/27/2009 8:00:34 PM

Rating + 5 Great Ram!


Pros: This ram works great and as advertised. Don't be afraid to use it, I was drawn to believe that I really needed the OCZ AMD edition 1600 but couldn't get it, sold out. After talking to the OCZ and the Corsair tech's, I really knew I wanted the Corsair. I didn't want to use OCZ in the first place and this ram does not disappoint in any way. It does not run hot at 1.8v. I have never had a problem with Corsair but can't say that with other brands. It's pretty ram too!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Asus Crosshair III Formula
955 AMD quad
EVGA 1282-TR
Thermaltake 850w
2x32gb raptors
Kingwin 436 aluminum case

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MacBoy
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/24/2009 9:12:18 PM

Rating + 1 1 stick DOA


Pros: 1 of the sticks worked

Cons: 1 stick didn't work, caused me alot of problems.

Other Thoughts: I was building my first ever rig and I must say, it was an okay experience. Everything went smooth until the RAM messed up. Only 1 of the sticks worked and it took me 1 hour of trouble shooting to figure it out,

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Da'Bob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/23/2009 8:10:13 AM

Rating + 4 Nice RAM


Pros: It is fast enough for me. It has a lot of surface space for catching a breeze to cool them off.

Cons: The spec says 1600 but that is only for overclocking it, it is actually rated at 1333 9-9-9-24 as noted in the ASUS MB compatability chart. When setting to 1600 and 1.8v and those timings, the system is now in an overclocked configuration. SPD sets the clock at 1066 for me that is, you may be different. The package came with one of the two chips dead and not allowing computer to boot into windows. The good one would allow it to boot up.

Other Thoughts: I have to RMA this back and get a replacement set. I have never had an issue with Corsair RAM in all the machines I have built in the past, until this one. Only knocking down 1 egg for the bad batch.

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Da'Bob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/23/2009 7:54:40 AM

Rating + 3 Good RAM


Pros: Fast RAM speed, 4GB DDR3 1600 (O.C.) 1333 reality. The heat sinks sit kind of tall on the board, but that gives it more surface to catch a cool breeze passing through the case. If you use a CPU cooling device that is huge and very wide, it may hit these RAM. I have a stock AMD cooler for the Phenom II 955 and it doesn't come near them.

Cons: I received these two chips and installed them into a new board. The MB wouldn't go to POST and would constantly restart. I had never had bad RAM before and assumed that they were good. I RMA'd the board and bought a better one. I had the same problem except that windows wouldn't load after the POST passed all tests. I removed one chip and the computer booted into windows. I swapped the chips and I had the same problem with booting. Put the good one back in, and the computer booted. I am RMAing this set back and getting a replacement.

Other Thoughts: I have bought the Corsair XMS series for years and have been really satisfied. This was my first ever problem with one of their products. I gave 3 eggs because half the ram was bad, so a 50% rating is appropriate.
ASUS Crosshair III Formula, AMD Phenom II 955, This RAM, Saphire HD 4890, two ANTEC 600 series cases bolted together to house a large watercooling radiator, pump, reservoir system, Seagate 500GB, 1TB, ext Maxtor 750GB and Seagate 1TB backup drives.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/14/2009 1:32:06 PM

Rating + 5 Good Ram


Pros: Price/speed/reliability ratio.

Cons: None for me.

Other Thoughts: I ordered two sets. One set was DOA but I won't take off an egg for that, it happens.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
7/10/2009 3:28:31 PM

Rating + 5 NEED'S MORE VOTAGE


Pros: Yes,the set needed more votage to do anything pass stock settings on a MA-790XT-UD4P AM3, at 1.85v i was able to drop timming down, at 1.9v i was able to overclock over 1700mhz stable, the heatsink works very well

Cons: No default SPP setting for 1600

Other Thoughts: had to spend some time with this set but i am ver happy with the num.

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humanFX
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
6/23/2009 6:13:47 PM

Rating + 5 works fine with gigabyte


Pros: works fine with a gigabyte ma790xt-ud4p,runs stable at 1600 mhz, 9 9 9 24,AT 1.8v.YOU NEED TO SET VOLTAGE TO 1.8V.
heatsink works very well

Cons: Not to flexceble with timming but i think it has to do with phenom II new dd3 controller.

SPP 3 default settings are off normal setttings,no default setting for 1600 mhz,

not stables over 1600 mhz with amd setup.

price seems high for timming but heatsink are grade A

Other Thoughts: This set seems to work better with intel setup,

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zachalicious
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/15/2009 8:07:28 PM

Rating + 3 Not AMD/Gigabyte friendly


Pros: It seems like really great ram.... in an intel board or non Gigabyte AMD board.

Cons: Doe's not default to correct timings in my new Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P. This ram is rated at DDR31600 with timings of 9-9-9-24. It may be my board, probably but still it defaults to DDR31066 and is stable but not when overclocked. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I run Memtest 3.3 and it never makes it past test #5 on the very first pass when overclocked even to DDR31333.

Other Thoughts: Bah humbug. Got some G.Skill ram that was rated to be compatible with my board (maybe I should have done some research first, still sucks IMO though).

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Techguy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/11/2009 2:48:21 PM

Rating + 5 Great RAM!


Pros: Popped it in and took off... no probs at all.

Cons: The RAM heatsinks are huge. It was not an issue for me though. My case and mobo are huge as well (Antec 1200). I had plenty of clearance, but I could see it being an issue for someone who has a massive CPU heatsink.

Other Thoughts: Works as intended. My Asus mobo recognized it at 1600mhz and 9-9-9-24 timings. Good stuff. Corsair makes good RAM.

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Korpus
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/11/2009 7:56:49 AM

Rating + 1 Worst purchase for my PC


Pros: Stable I guess you could say.

Cons: Will not come to you at 1600 speeds. My set of sticks would not hold said clock speed stable. Terrible purchase.

Other Thoughts: I will not be skimping on price for RAM that's for sure, anymore.

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Panther57
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/7/2009 11:29:12 AM

Rating + 5 2nd Review


Pros: I have run this memory from 1066 to the high 1600's and it works at all my settings. If I use the board OC dial, or OC in Bios these sticks perform great.

Cons: None. They don't run at 7-7-7... at 1333 or higher, and it's not really a con the way these perform.

Other Thoughts: I am running at the advertised 9-9-9-24 timings at 1333 or higher. At 1066 I get in the 7's (not advertised). I bought them to use in my 790FX-GD70 with a goal for faster sticks ion the future since I was one of the first owners of this board and information was not out yet. They work so good that I have put those plans to the side because I am very happy with the performance I am getting.

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tice33rd
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/7/2009 12:46:01 AM

Rating + 5 1650 FSB works solid


Pros: solid reliabilty. Clocked to 9-9-9-24 linked, synched, 1.8vdc 1650mhz as someone on here wrote, and I verify it's accuracy regarding this memory reliability. I had problems with OCZ SLI memory and went to corsair. I'm never looking back. unstable at 1.5vdc as bios auto-configured.

Cons: Zero. packaging didn't list too much info but whatever keeps packaging costs low works for me. The info was online.

Other Thoughts: Although stable at the higher voltage, I still invested in the memory fan device by corsair to keep the mem cool. Even at the settings listed above, the mem got warm, but not hot to the touch . 790i ultra sli MB and intel core quad CPU works well with this memory. cpu clocked in at 3.5 GHZ. Invest in fans if you're going to OC. It can be stable if you do a little research.

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crim
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/4/2009 6:24:51 AM

Rating + 4 Decent Ram


Pros: Decent ram. I can't really complain for what i paid. $47 bucks with the Phenom II X4 955 combo deal. :)

Cons: The ram does not seem to like tighter timings. I tried to run the ram at 7-7-7-20@1333 and I could not get it stable for the life of me.

Other Thoughts: Does not like tight timings, but does run at the advertised speed at the advertised timings. Can't really complain.

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Mars
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/3/2009 2:12:01 PM

Rating + 1 Warning.


Pros: Its stays cool.

Cons: If you have a Asus M4a78T-E Motherboard it will only run at 1066 mhz

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humanFX
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
5/28/2009 12:47:09 PM

Rating + 5 runs at spec 1600mhz


Pros: running stable at 1600mhz on a gigabit MA790XT-UD4P,very impress with ram,will hit 1666mhz with a little tweak on timming , they don't seem to have high temp at all.

Cons: SPP on memory is only for 800 , 1066 & 1333mhz, had a problem with this as i was under votage the ram to 1.6v.
wants i figure this out ram ran stable at 1600mhz at 1.8v.

you would thing that the egg would have better price than your locode retail store. still a big fan.

Other Thoughts: my son MB went out so figure i move up the MB & memory to AM3 sence i had a AM3 cpu. PH2 720x3.

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Harmonik
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/28/2009 8:37:57 AM

Rating + 5 Great Ram


Pros: Very Stable OS with RAM no issues

Cons: none

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Ruscfox
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/28/2009 7:47:40 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Fast and Cheap for DDR3, especially on the new AMD Boards

Cons: The heat sink ridges are kind of prickly and can get wires caught in them sometimes

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/27/2009 3:21:02 PM

Rating + 4 Good Ram,


Pros: Fast, solid product. Easy to install.

Cons: Couldn't keep it stable at 1600, came at 1066 standard. Having to keep it at 1333.

Other Thoughts: Mobo: GA-MA790XT-UD4P

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bj_goliad
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/26/2009 9:17:15 AM

Rating + 5 7.9 score in Win 7


Pros: This ram scored a 7.9 @ stock settings in windows 7 x64, need I say more.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Detected 1600Mhz at bios post so no need to adjust timings!

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Whizkid
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/23/2009 4:16:54 PM

Rating + 5 The bang for the buck XD


Pros: fast

Cons: n/a

Other Thoughts: =)

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Rich
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/12/2009 12:34:55 PM

Rating + 5 Flawless Performance


Pros: Though I haven't dabbled yet in overclocking of my system, I am certain this memory wouldn't have any issues if I did. I now have three operating systems to choose from, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows XP Pro 64Bit and Ubuntu Linux. They all recognize the current 4GB.

Cons: They are a bit large with the heat sink, but the only down side there is getting in the way of removing or installing hard drives.

Other Thoughts: Asus Rampage Extreme Motherboard - Intel X48, Socket 775.. CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600.. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor 2.40GHz, 8MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB, Kentsfield, Quad-Core

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Razalus
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/6/2009 1:23:46 PM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: Looks great and works

Cons: wish they were black heatspreaders instead of silver to match my kit

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SuiXide
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/6/2009 7:55:20 AM

Rating + 5 Works well!


Pros: Popped it in and it worked. Can't ask for much more than that.

Cons: I had to manually set the speed to 1600 in the BIOS, but that's not a huge deal.

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DarkWaterSong
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/5/2009 12:46:22 PM

Rating + 5 Works great


Pros: I don't know all that much about Ram timing, but this is working great with the Asus motherboard and the AMD Phenom II X3 720 I also bought. I like the heat spreaders, as it seems to keep the Ram cooler.

Cons: It isn't free

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/26/2009 4:11:34 PM

Rating + 4 good STUFF


Pros: This Memory Works at 1066 and runs 24/7. probably buy more when i make the upgrade to 64bit windows 7

Cons: Running speeds at there rating with hours of tweaking couldn't get them to run reliably not to much of a problem only see baby steps of speed from 1066 to 1600

Other Thoughts: 40in samsung 1080p toc
ASUS P5E3 PREMIUM/WIFI-AP @n LGA 775 Intel X48
GIGABYTE 3D Mercury Pro GZ-FW1CA-AJB Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB (OS BOOT DISK)
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM
CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
ASUS ENGTX295/2DI/1792MD3/A GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W W0229RU

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Bonzo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/24/2009 6:21:47 AM

Rating + 5 Good


Pros: Stable at 1600mhz, 9-9-9-24 @ 57.2ns latency in WinXPx64. I have the voltage at 1.75v. Havent even tried to overclock. Probably wont. No need to.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: The heat spreaders are pretty tall. Could possibly interfere with certain CPU fan/heatsinks.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/20/2009 11:11:51 AM

Rating + 3 Great Memory, but defective...


Pros: Great performing memory for under a hundred bucks.

Cons: One stick was defective so now I must wait another week until the RMA goes through. Grrr.

Other Thoughts: Great way to get into the DDR 3 Realm at the price, just be aware that you might be receiving a faulty stick.

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ReYnd
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/20/2009 1:49:00 AM

Rating + 5 Performance:price can't be beaten


Pros: Best performance to price ratio. And they are fast. As reliable as they're allowed to be. What more can be said?

Cons: Heat spreaders are quite tall, not really a problem for me though. May not fit if your CPU heatsink is large and/or close to the DIMM slots you intend to use.

Can't pass Memtest at 1600mHz using any combination of timings, voltages, and settings on an MSI 790FX-GD70. Some may have had success, others and myself have not. Not the fault of the RAM though, so I won't be crushing any eggs in this review.

Other Thoughts: Running stable at 1333mHz on (motherboard's) stock voltage of 1.6 is fine for now. Looking forward to using these to a fuller potential with the next motherboard BIOS update... hopefully.

Wish MB and RAM manufacturers would step on these silly board/memory incompatibilities. I got lucky-ish.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2009 12:18:12 PM

Rating + 4 Solid memory


Pros: Bang for the buck this DDR3 memory is hard to beat. Installed all 8 Gig without any issues.

Cons: #1 complaint is the industry needs to get back on target!

Memory standards before worked fine for years then all the sudden with DDR3 they can't get their act together and agree with the motherboard folks.

Memory should have one primary setting - advertised setting that meets 100% of its stated requirements. The optional other setting is free lance better know what you are doing tweaks.

The heat spreaders rise pretty high off of the memory so you need to look out for physical blockages, like your mother board vs drive bays etc.

Other Thoughts: Installed Windows 7 64bit beta without any issues at 8Gig. I am glad Microsoft learned from the Vista mistake of not handling memory above 4Gig - prior to Vista64 sp1.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/4/2009 9:07:40 PM

Rating + 5 Great ram


Pros: Cool, fast, and stable what more can you ask. Looks nice too.

Cons: I do not like Rebates.

Other Thoughts: Thanks newegg.

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Panther57
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/1/2009 6:11:14 PM

Rating + 5 Nice Design.


Pros: Dropped in, set Bios and bang, right to specs.
Big HeatSpreaders!
Running stable, even while using OC options.

Cons: None Yet.

Other Thoughts: Installed on an MSI 790FX-GD70 set the Bios and right to specs. Seems to run cool and handle all the OC otions I have thrown at it.
Will do a followup review after owning awhile.

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VadersBlade
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2009 8:47:31 PM

Rating + 4 Cheap and Fast


Pros: Lots of Ram, low price. Great buy for DDR3. XP 64-bit picks up 4 gb no problem.

Cons: I have the Asus M4A79T Deluxe coupled with these guys. With the auto setting, I'm getting 7-7-7-20, and CPU-Z says 533 mhz. I tried adjusting the voltage and Mhz in bios, but it made my system unstable and blue screen. Running auto for now, waiting to hear back from Corsair support.

Other Thoughts: ASUS M4A79T Deluxe
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
SAPPHIRE 100265HDMI Radeon HD 4830
CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB
RAIDMAX QUANTUM RX-700 700W

Windows Experience Rating 5.9

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fortlag
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2009 5:07:20 PM

Rating + 5 Good RAM!


Pros: Great price for 4 gigs. Purchased 2 pair at different times when I decided to go from 4GB to 8GB. Running with an overclocked Q6600 at suggested 9-9-9-24 and its solid! In the DDR3 realm this is a great happy median with an outstanding price.

Cons: None yet!

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Dragoneye
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2009 4:59:38 PM

Rating + 5 Cool memory


Pros: Working great in the new rig.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: AMD Phenom II X3
Asus M4A79T Deluxe
Corsair XMZ3 4GB
74GB WD Raptor
Saphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB
Thermaltake Spedo Advanced tower

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agent38ddd
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/27/2009 12:09:16 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Price is solid; 8 sticks run at 1600 MHZ@default timings on my evga 790 ultra sli; downclocks great -- runs at 7-7-7-20@1T 1.5 vts at DDR2 1066 -- nice and versaltile.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Lots of speed and versatility -- good buy.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/25/2009 6:33:06 PM

Rating + 5 Great Price and Great Ram


Pros: Why buy 1333 ram when you can get 1600 for the same price?

Cons: only able to run them at 1333 atm (mobo fault not ram)

Other Thoughts: Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
AMD Phenom II X3 720
CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (running at 1333)
Saphire Radeon 4850
2 x WD Raptor WD360GD 36.7GB 10000 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s

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Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/20/2009 11:55:56 AM

Rating + 5 YEAH!


Pros: Very fast and O.C.-able 1800Mhz+

Cons: None, just wish there as a neat fan included

Other Thoughts: I have my FSB O.C. to 214 and the DDR3 speeds over slightly over 1800Mhz. and runing stable with Vista.

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Alby
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/19/2009 1:34:49 AM

Rating + 5 Good Ram


Pros: Cheap, and they work great with my system.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: EVGA 790i SLI Digital PWM, Q6600, 2x EVGA 9800GX2.

Side note: I can't put F-T-W which is part of my motherboards name....

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bowersjosh
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/13/2009 1:07:34 AM

Rating + 5 greattttt


Pros: beautiful. runs erything in my setup blazing fast for cheap. will buy another set to get last slots filled and go to 12gb , will also upgrade to vista ultimate 64bit. get them fast,

Cons: took awhile for asus p6t to recognize all. i had a friend llok at it. finnaly got bios to work properly, so not much on corsairs fault. but i was feaking out when not all 8gb was not regsitering.

Other Thoughts: asus p6t
intel i7 920
8gb corsair xms3 ddr3 1600
xfx 9800gtx+ black edition
monsoon 3 lt dual fan
thermlatake armor va8003 bws/ side fan 250mm
abs 800w modular supply
ms windows xp pro 64bit
wd black 500gb 32 mb cache sata drive

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Denton The Lllama
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/10/2009 7:35:20 AM

Rating + 5 ---


Pros: Excellent Memory for the price and speed.

Cons: Only Con is that my board, ASUS M4A78T-E, was unable to recognize the proper speed and voltage of the memory. I had to manually set 1.8v and tell it to go at DDR3-1600 however I still have not understood the timings and they are still wonky but have not cause an unstable environment.

Other Thoughts: If anyone is more expert on memory timings and M4A78T-E board, i would like some advice. dave.calvin@gmail.com thank you :)

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
3/7/2009 5:32:18 PM

Rating + 5 Save money, buy this memory!!


Pros: This memory is great! At 1.8 volts, I am able to get 7-7-7-20 timings. The other DDR3-1600 memory that Corsair has on here, with the same timings costs quite a bit more.

Save your money, and get this RAM instead.

Cons: None that I have found.

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N3TD3ViL
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/27/2009 7:44:57 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome RAM and works at specified speeds and timings!!


Pros: I purchased (2) of these kits for a total of 8gb and they run FLAWLESSLY. I had to manually set the voltages and timings in the bios but once I had done so, it's been running like a well oiled machine!! You will NOT be disappointed in this purchase!

Cons: None! Buy it!

Other Thoughts: My specs:

Vista Home Premium x64
nForce 790i Ultra SLI
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83ghz (stock)
8gb Corsair XMS3 DHX DDR3-1600
(2) - 80gb Raptors in Raid0
(2) - 320gb Caviars in Raid0
(2) - XFX Black Edition GTX 285's in SLI
Creative X-FI XtremeMusic sound card
Creative Fatal1ty gaming headset
Logitech G51 5.1 sound setup
Logitech G15 keyboard (original with blue keys)
Logitech G5 laser mouse (blue)

*Upgrading to the QX9770

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RUNT
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/24/2009 8:34:12 AM

Rating + 5 Great Memory Great Price


Pros: I bought this memory while it was on sale. Could not beat the price. I have had no issues what so ever with this at installation or since. I purchased a total of 8 Gbs
and love the way it runs.

Cons: none

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BG
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2009 8:58:18 AM

Rating + 5 Great Price


Pros: Excellent purchase, fast delivery, cheapest 1600 I could find for dual channel DDR3 ram

Cons: None

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BG
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2009 8:55:55 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent Ram


Pros: Fast Ram, easy to install, quality, and the cheapest solid 1600 speed ram you can find in dual ch.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Bought 2 of these packs for a total of 8 gigs, now I just need 64 bit vista ;)

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baby wilson
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/10/2009 10:43:48 AM

Rating + 5 Works Great!


Pros: Runs at ~1480 MHz at 8-8-8-20 in my Asus P6T Deluxe. I have four sticks installed in the board - all appear in BIOS/Windows and CPUID indicates that they are running in triple channel mode. 0 problems with overnight prime95 torture test runs. this is a viable option for core i7 boards - or at least the P6T.

Cons: none.

Other Thoughts: my core i7 920 is running at 3.71 GHz. the RAM voltage is set at 1.64V. maybe i'm just lucky? the only reason i am running this ram as opposed to a triple channel kit(s) is that my local retailer did not have any tri-channel kits available when i bought my 920 (bought it on day it was released). despite all the 'warnings' that i found about using non-1.65V DDR3, this stuff has been great. YMMV, of course.

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Broheim
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/9/2009 1:02:17 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome RAM


Pros: Works as advertised at 1600 AND above

Cons: Not really a con, but I had to manually setup the memory timing, speed and voltages (it was auto set at 1067mhz and timings were not great).

Other Thoughts: Have it running at 9-9-9-9-24 2t at 1650fsb at 1.8volt. I overclocked my 790i/q9550 and this RAM to 1650FSB with no problems at all.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/1/2009 4:56:31 PM

Rating + 5 Very Nice


Pros: Get it !!

Cons: None

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Bad Dad
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/1/2009 9:57:07 AM

Rating + 5 Worth the money


Pros: Works as advertised 1600 FBS Timing 9,9,9,24 2T, large heat spreaders, and looks good.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Not the fastest but fast enough for the money.

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Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/31/2009 8:09:59 PM

Rating + 1 Bad Memory For P45 Chipsets


Pros: It was priced well

Cons: The memory states that it is 1600 speed memory, but after installing on a p45 chipset and automatically running at 1066 you'll read about the problems other people are having on Corsairs forums. The memory FAILS to run at the stated speed on my P45 motherboard and there is a no refund policy with this memory. There were no warnings or disclaimers, this memory is falsely advertising the stated speed at which it says it runs.

Other Thoughts: If I would have know this memory would not run at 1600 I would have bought something else.

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phunkyou
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/28/2009 10:34:23 AM

Rating + 3 Really wish I go go over 1.5V on mobo


Pros: It works right out of the package at 1066

Cons: I bought the intel mobo DX58SO and when I started the system found out that this ram is preset at 1066Mhz. Corsair says to use it at 1600 i need to OC at 1,6V but the Mobo came with a warning not to OC anything over 1,5 so I'm afraid to go forward with that am I'm sure that's where my PC bottlenecks. This makes me wish I paid 50$ more and went with a better board for my I7 and would of got 6 ram slots instead of only 4... I guess it's my fault for going cheap on my high end pc but I trusted Intel...

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ruhzdyn
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/28/2009 2:40:47 AM

Rating + 5 Works Great


Pros: I purchased Corsair 1600mhz 4gb(2x2gb) to replace my Patriot 1333mhz 2gb(2x1gb). The cas timings were slightly higher on the Corsairs. I was originally concerned but the higher frequency(1600mhz) on the Cosair gave me headroom to further overclock my CPU and Motherboard. Ran great with fantastic stability.

Cons: none so far.

Other Thoughts: Vista Service Pack 1
Q9450 @ 3.30 mhz
4GB Corsair DDR3@ 1408mhz in duel channel mode.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/17/2009 9:29:43 AM

Rating + 2 Unreliable


Pros: Worked great while it lasted. Awesome speeds.

Cons: I had it one day and then my computer stopped posting. Took out one piece of the RAM, and posts fine. Put just that piece back in, stops posting. Bad RAM after one day.

Other Thoughts: First Corsair experience, I have heard good things so I am willing to give them another shot.

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Rebecca
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/8/2009 5:07:22 PM

Rating + 5 Great Ram


Pros: Works Great with Vista Ultimate

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Had to leave one stick out to install Vista, after installation put the other two in and they worked great

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J Red
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/29/2008 8:02:16 AM

Rating + 5 Super Fast


Pros: Blazing Fast DDR3 memory on a budget...

Cons: N/A

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ninjahaiku
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/28/2008 2:22:37 PM

Rating + 5 Stable RAM


Pros: Timings aren't the best, but this is a good price for DDR3. I'm looking at picking up another 4GB for a total of 8. Running Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Cons: Make sure you adjust your voltage in your Bios. After a BIOS update I had to adjust all my settings, timings, clock speeds and whatnot. I did forget to adjust the voltage, and the 1.5v it was set at was causing random system hangs. This isn't really a con, more my own stupidity for not remembering to change the voltage.

Other Thoughts: Keep an eye on DDR3 prices, this is about half the price I paid 9 months ago.

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Rudy
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/25/2008 5:20:07 AM

Rating + 5 Very Fast RAM


Pros: Very Fast and cool

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: None.

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BikinDutchman
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/21/2008 9:37:38 PM

Rating + 5 Works


Pros: Use it with an Intel DP45SG mobo and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processors. Tests turn out well compared to benchmarks. Fast enough to check my e-mail and make notes.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: I am not an expert memory tester/benchmarker. This is to let know that it works with the other components.

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wEeViL
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/1/2008 4:16:01 PM

Rating + 5 Works great


Pros: Performs as advertised, I dont overclock.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Had to manually set latencies, not a big deal. P5E Deluxe, EE9770 Quad.

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Ewill
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/20/2008 10:20:32 AM

Rating + 5 Highly recomended memory


Pros: Fast memory, I have owned the 4 gig kit for about a month and have had zero issues with this kit.

Cons: The 1600 FSB is not set up for this memory nor is the 1.8v setting so you have got to understand alittle about what your doing in the BIOS to get this kit to run 1600 FBS

Other Thoughts: One thing before buying this kit, understand the operating system that you are using, such as 32 bit or 64 bit windows operating systems. 32 bit windows will not use all 4 gigs of this kit. 64bit window however will.

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Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/15/2008 7:04:27 PM

Rating + 5 Some of the best RAM out there!


Pros: when my last mobo fried (an XFX), I fought, and finally decided to put in an EVGA 790i ULTRA. Now, the only issue was, I needed DDR3. so, I did my research, and found these beauties. I got to say, this is some of the fastest RAM I've ever seen, and I've seen some really nice RAM. Even a friend of mine that thinks DDR3 isn't worth the sacrifice in timing for bandwidth was impressed. I have these at their factory timings, I did have to manually set them though, but nothing two minuets in BIOS couldn't fix (and plus, what DDR3 set don't you have to do that for?). Now, in BF2, BF2142, and Frontlines: Fuel of War, I get a minimum of 100 FPS, with everything on high!, big jump, considering that it's previous MAXIMUM was 60 fps, with settings on Low, and that was on good days. mind you, the only change was from a XFX 680i and 2gigs of DDR2 (3-3-3-7 @ 1200Mhz if memory serves) to this. so you judge, but I don't think I would see a jump from 60fps max, to 100fps min with just these upgrades.

Cons: umm... price... but it's bleeding edge, what do you expect? or at least it was when these puppies came out. I bough these on sale for $400, as you can see, in a matter of a few months, the price has dropped by half.

Other Thoughts: When DDR2 came out, it ran what DDR3 was running in price when when it first came out. But, DDR3's prices is falling twice as fast, thanks to early adopters. so, to those nay sayers out there saying 'too much', I have a couple things to say to you:
1: it's the bleeding edge. either you need it, or you don't. and if you need it, you'll spend the money.
2: wait a few more months, and this set'll probably be down to $100.
specs:
EVGA 790i ULTRA
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800), duh!
EVGA nVidia 8600 GTS "superclocked" 512mb
Core 2 Quad Q6600, OCed 2.66Ghz
7200RPM 320Gb HDD
650 Watt ULTRA Products PSU
Zalman copper CPU cooler

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/13/2008 10:21:12 AM

Rating + 5 Beautiful RAM


Pros: Amazing RAM. Running it with an overclocked Q6600 and boy does this machine run like the wind. Will definatly look into getting another 4GB when prices drop a wee bit more.

Cons: None

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Diversion
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
11/8/2008 9:52:21 PM

Rating + 5 Great Ram for the money


Pros: I have this ram running at 8-7-7-20-27-2T @ 1.9volts rock hard stable on a Evga 790i Ultra SLI motherboard. I'm pretty sure I could go down a little more on the voltage to cool things down some more.

Cons: Won't run at 7-7-7-20 like it's $400 brother...

Other Thoughts: Half the cost of the 7-7-7-20 version and probably runs within 15% of the same speed after these are overclocked some. Money well spent, performance to cost ratio is very high if you are going to overclock. I recommend to pick these up over the 7-7-7-20 chips and save $200.

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mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/7/2008 9:41:08 PM

Rating + 4 Nice... but a pain


Pros: big.... quick... and for DDR3 relativly inexpensive

Cons: was a pain to get running stable. tried the specs on the ram (1600MHz 9-9-9-24) and all sorts of blue screens ensued. Quick call to corsair and they got me squared away.

Other Thoughts: turns out my problem the memory was auto detected as 9-9-9-26-1t, I changed it to 9-9-9-24-1t, but Corsair techie let me know it should be 2t. and if you plan to run 8Gb of this ( as I am ) to run at 1333MHz

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teksbud
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/6/2008 7:17:13 PM

Rating + 5 I love Corsair


Pros: It works in my Intel board and it's fast.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: I've used Corsair memory for years now and have never had a problem. These dimms are no different. Popped these dudes into a new system and did not receive any errors at all when I fired my system up for the first time.

I always go to Corsair's site to see which memory will work in my board. I have never had any problems with matching their memory to my boards.

Cooler Master HAF case
Thermaltake 850w power supply
Intel DX48BT2 motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.3Ghz Wolfdale CPU
Corsair 4GB DDR3 Dominator memory
Seagate 500GB SATA hard drive x 2
EVGA GTX 260 video card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sound card
Windows Vista 64-bit Ultimate Editon operating system
Lite-On LightScribe DVD burner
Lite-On CD burner/DVD reader

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NSK
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/30/2008 7:04:47 AM

Rating + 4 memorable memory


Pros: Can't beat the price

Cons: Doesn't get high markings by Windows Vista experience

Other Thoughts: Excellent memory modules. Amost 1/2 the price of higher end modules and I bet you won't be able to tell the difference if you spent the extra $150 for the faster memories

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/27/2008 11:15:44 AM

Rating + 4 Decent ram *Not for Overclockers*


Pros: Worked Immediately. Set the timings and they worked flawlessly. I even dropped the timings to 7-7-7-18 and it still worked @1.8v.

Cons: This ram was extremely throttled by my CPU (q6600). When I overclocked my cpu to 3.0ghz it immediately started running the way it should. I was getting very low memory benchmarks (memory read speed of 6800mb/s) until i overclocked (memory read speed of 9500 mb/s).

Other Thoughts: The farther you go from a 2:1 ratio the worse this ram performs. At a fsb of 400 this ram will fly but at 266 it's running like slow DDR2.

Side note: My set wouldn't overclock to 1800mhz with any timings no matter what I tried.

If you have the money by faster ram or buy this set with the tighter timings

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Pong Champion 87
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/24/2008 8:02:16 AM

Rating + 5 EQ IS AMAZING WITH MY NEW RIG


Pros: MAN!!!! STARCRAFT LOOKS SO HOT!! HUGE UPGRADE !!! WAS RUNNING DDR2 1200!AND NOW HUGE DIF!!! MY NEW RIG PUSHES STARCRAFT TO A NEW LIMIT!!! E.Q. FLOWS LIKE FRESH SPIRNG WATER FROM THE MAJESTIC MT. FUJI!!!

Cons: c'mon you serious???

Other Thoughts: if you want to play starcraft or even come close to playing E.Q. you NEED this ram. its seriously the best ram for E.Q. and starcraft. i might have to upgrade my rig again if i want to play WOW but pft i have already spent so much on this stuff. IM SIKED!!!

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Saidaigen
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/23/2008 10:20:24 AM

Rating + 5 MORTAL COMBAT


Pros: bought 8 gb of this stuff now i have no problem running pacman online on FULL rez. no lag. amazing is all i have to say. but really crysis looks amazing now installing farcry 2 today. no problems what so ever getting this ram to 1600. 9 9 9 24 1.8v

Cons: pft NO! like i said PACMAN ONLINE FULL REZ!!!

Other Thoughts: Qx9650@3ghz, 3 280gtx,8gb xms3ram,790iftw mobo.
stock cooler cuz zalman9700 does not fit. waiting for my new cooler to come in.

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neoexodus
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/21/2008 11:12:56 AM

Rating + 5 No Problems, but...


Pros: it's RAM, and it fits into my board, and my board seems to like it, so no problems.

Cons: Limited to 1333 by my CPU, but not its fault so no egg crushing.

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Datix
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/21/2008 7:55:59 AM

Rating + 5 Works great!


Pros: It's relatively inexpensive and a solid performer from a trusted company. Corsair RAM has been my choice since 2001 and I have had no complaints. I'm currently running 8GB of this RAM (two of these kits) in an EVGA nForce 790i Ultra motherboard and it is rock-solid.

As far as a Newegg portion of this review, it goes without saying that they rocked as usual!

Cons: Personally I haven't experienced an issue with this kit, but it is not officially recommended to run 8GB with a 790i chipset. Corsair says it's hit-or-miss. I am running it at 1066MHz to avoid instability and haven't tested it at 1600MHz, so caveat emptor on that point.

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Flounder
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/18/2008 12:23:22 PM

Rating + 4 Update to Below - Stable but Finicky


Pros: Fast when stable. Corsair was pretty quick to give an RMA without much questioning. The fact that Corsair was quick to issue an RMA leads me to suspect that either there is a problem with their particular line of RAM and they know it, or that they know that DDR3 is not yet ready for prime time. Could just be great customer service I guess. For better or worse, I learned more than I cared to learn in configuring this RAM.

Cons: Took way too much time (IMO) to get working stable. Required the addition of a fan directed at the memory to get stable in (4) 2GB DIMM configuration.

Other Thoughts: After spending much time testing and retesting (Memtest86+) various DIMM socket configurations, voltages and timings, I have finally found a configuration that is stable. I had to add a fan (120mm that came with the case) that is pointed directly at the RAM to cool DIMMs sufficiently. It is this that seemed to get the best results (while corsair described this as optional), so further optimization might be possible.

FWIW - here are my settings

AI Overclock Tuner - Auto
FSB Frequency Change - Auto
DRAM Frequency - 1333MHz selected; 1336 MHz reported
DRAM Command - 2N
DRAM Timing Control - Manual
CAS# Latency - 9
RAS# to CAS# Delay - 9
RAS# Pre Time - 9
RAS# ACT Time - 24
DRAM Voltage - 1.5

In 14 years of building PCs, I have never heard of having to fan cool RAM that was not overclocked or supplied higher voltage. Perhaps the DIMM slots are too densely packed on the ASUS P5e3 Premium.

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Flounder
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/16/2008 9:58:23 AM

Rating + 3 One Kit DOA after 2 months


Pros: Pretty fast system (specs below) running the RAM @1333MHz 9-9-9-24 1.8V and Auto VNb - while it lasted. Newegg provided fast order filling and shipment as always.

Cons: After 2 months, one kit died. It took me a few blue screens and several days of troubleshooting to determine that the kit was bad. Passed windows memory check but failed memtest86. RMA'd the kit to Corsair, so we'll see how that goes.

Other Thoughts: FWIW, I typically buy relatively high-end Corsair memory and have not had an issue until this purchase. 14 years of building/TSR PCs.

System specs:
LIAN LI PC-V2010B
Thermaltake Toughpower W0132RU 1000W
ASUS P5E3 PREMIUM/WIFI-AP @n
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz LGA
ZALMAN CNPS 9700 NT Cooler
(2) CORSAIR XMS3 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600
SB X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion
PNY VCG98512GXEB GeForce 9800 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
(3) Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA - (2) in RAID 1
LG Blu-ray/HD SATA DVD Burner GGC-H20L
Vista 64 Ultimate

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ArkhamAsylum
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/23/2008 2:15:40 PM

Rating + 5 Heat sinks with chips attached


Pros: I was shocked at how big these things are. Somewhere under the heat sinks, I suspect there's a chip somewhere... Depending on the size of your mobo and the cards you're putting on it, you may struggle to fit these in there.

Cons: It's gonna be quite some time before I can load enough stuff into memory to fill these bad boys up.

Other Thoughts: If you want 4GB of RAM, get this, not the 2 sets of 2GB (4 sticks of 1GB each). You'll thank yourself in a year or two when it's cheap to double the memory in the two open slots. An extra $30 now to keep two open slots will make you happy down the road.

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Schooled
Tech Level: low
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/19/2008 1:51:30 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome!


Pros: Works right out of the box and has been for 6 months. Sticks with pretty much any settings it was set too.

Cons: Could cost lest, but hey...

Other Thoughts: Clocked it to 7-7-7-18 @1700, 2:1 linked, synced and loaded with CPU. $600 pair of memory stick right there baby, would like to get another pair, but don't really have the need for them right now. For fun and play set it to 5-5-5-12 @ 1333 and watch the numbers fly WEEEEE.... ^_^

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Uncle Bob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/14/2008 6:03:27 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent RAM


Pros: Corsair. Yes, timings aren't as tight as other, but this stuff has always passed mamtest right out of the box...100% of the time. Tighter timings are less and less important in DDR3 systems.

Cons: None, even the price has come down!

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OnaRampage
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/8/2008 6:19:48 PM

Rating + 3 Blue Screen @ 1600


Pros: It looks like it could be fast?

Cons: Can't get the memory to run at the specs Corsair claims. As soon as I manually set the memory to advertised speed of 1600 and set the timings to 9-9-9-24 (1.8v), the system blue screens or the motherboard won't post due to the memory being overclocked. Wrote an email to Corsair about a week ago and no response. I'm using this memory in an Asus Rampage Extreme.

Other Thoughts: I can set the memory to 1333 and the system will only wig out once in a while. If I want to keep it real stable, I set the MB to "Auto" and it detects the memory's speed as 1066, but with faster timings than advertised.

I spent a lot of money on the rig I just built, but I guess I cheaped out by spending what I did on the memory...

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