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excellent hello everyone and welcome back to Pauls hardware today I'm going to be doing an unboxing and overview of this corsair dominator Platinum Plus airflow 16 gigabyte memory kit that's a 4 by 4 gigabyte kit and it's rated speed is two thousand six hundred and sixty six mega transfers per second let's start off with a closer look at the retail box as always and we'll see what Corsair has to say for themselves now this being a quad channel kit you might think it's immediately suitable for an X 79 platform however due to the rate at speed on this being 2666 I would actually more recommend this for an Ivy Bridge system if you're going to Intel because Ivy Bridge has really strong IMC's or internal memory controllers also an AMD platform would also be suitable just bear in mind if you are going x79 with this you're probably not going to be able to run it at 2666 or you might have some difficulties doing that take a look the side we can see the actual item number right here this is a twenty six sixty-six cast eleven kits there is a cast ten kit as well it's a little bit faster this is the Dominator platinum plus airflow so you get the four sticks plus you get a little to fan clip that goes on the outside and helps keep your memory cool so that's a particularly useful and I'm sorry in water cooling environment where you might not have as much airflow air flow to fan I guess that's French ddr3 of course four by four gigabytes for 16 gigs total Intel XMP certified so you got your extreme memory profiles you can load up to easily get the memory running at its rated speed but when I've tried to plug in an X mu XMP profile for 2666 memory on just about every sandy bridge-e system that I've set up it's it hasn't quite behaved one exception to that might be if you're just planning ahead for Ivy bridge-e which is still rumored however not confirmed yet but Ivy bridge-e I would expect to have stronger IMC's sandy bridge-e so let me have here machined aluminum heat sinks for convective heat dissipation custom b PCB optimized for conductive heat transfer we also have configurable an upgradable light pipes so you can actually swap out the light pipe if you want color the default is white any Coursera link interface so if you do invest in a course our link units to connect all your course their products to you can use that to monitor the icy temperature as well as the activity of the units so if you go for an all Coursera system or at least a system which is primarily using Coursera parts which is not too difficult to do these days I find a lot of Asus and Corsair builds because if you combine all that stuff you can pretty much set up an entire computer sends the hard drive and let me flip this box open here and take a look inside okay some plastic packaging and documentation here at the back Quick Start Guide walk you through the basics for installing memory if you've never done it it's one of the more simple things to do with a computer or she against defects which will protect you for two years we get two year manufacturer's warranty from Corsair with this device and that is telling you how to plug in the Corsair or the fan I'm sorry that's the fan cable three pin and so you get the fan let's let's take up take a closer look at that to start Dominator Platinum airflow to fans there at the top these are smaller fans the brushed aluminum finish on the outside gives it pretty clean look then we tucked in here you have your braided cable with three pin and connector cool there's also a clip from what I understand how to slip actually separate so two little baggies the clip use the screws to attach the clip on the sides and that'll snap on and then you'll be set to go snaps on around the side of the memory not just that and your baggy of screws all right now the memory itself there's four of them I'll leave them here so you can look at them nice and pretty all together you can see the Dominator logo on the top they have this sort of platinum I guess silver platinum kind of chromed up top crossbeam really cool look there's a fair amount of height on these so make sure you have clearance again if you're doing like a closed loop cooler from course a like an h1 10 or h1 I then these will do just fine because you generally won't have to wear them about clearance with that type of configuration there's another look at the actual product number right there 2666 speed cast latency eleven thirteen thirteen thirty five one point six five volts this is version 5.1 to that I have right here I'm not going to peel this off right now with just a little bit of plastic over the Corsair logo I find that's easy to miss but if you do get this memory peel that off because it's just going to get warm when you have it plugged in and it's going to sometimes can kind of melt on to it then it could be really difficult to get off in the future on this side you can see the 2666 lay out the Dominator and then the light bar which actually runs up and under here and again that will light up when you have a mouth like then it looks pretty cool I also like the all-black PCB another very nice addition to any set of memory I finds the green PCBs to be quite unattractive so if you're going for a kit like this and then there's the coarser like plug right that yet if you're for a kit like this I already mentioned the platform's would be suitable but why would you need memory the speed well if you go out for overclocking that's one thing once you get past 66 or 21:33 if you're gaming you're not going to get a huge performance boost it's like really really tiny and incremental you get a little bit but not too much a great use for these would also be if you're running an internal an eye GPU so for instance if you have an AMD APU getting really fast memory really help that out because those integrated GPUs actually use your system memory and having very fast system memory will significantly significantly improve your GPUs performance through your eye GPUs performance so that's one reason the other reason is it for just you want a really nice looking system aesthetically these are quite clean looking and quite pretty this as you can probably see so that's another reason and then I guess if you're just looking for the best of the best this is this is definitely the top of the memory that Corsair makes at least this being the Dominator platinum series dominators been around for a while platinum top-of-the-line so yeah those are kind of your different use case scenarios and there's your pretty close up look at the corsair dominator memory very nice and that's going to wrap it up for this video folks and much obliged for watching of course if you'd like to see more videos you can find them on my youtube channel and of course you don't forget to subscribe and like the video if you found it useful thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time