The P55 chipsets have hit the market for most mainstream users, like the core 2 duo before it does give out the best of the multiple cores and the best of latencies in onboard memory chipsets derived from the previous AMD 64 series, well the new range of the corei5 processors is the much better out of the money and performance margins. The new range of Lynnfield CPU’s have on board memory controllers but that does not alter the fact that buying slow cheap memory will hinder your PCs performance drastically if you do not find a balance between all of your components, in this case the CPU and memory. As ever, enthusiasts are always on the lookout for the latest and greatest pieces of hardware to cram in their shiny new setups so today may I present you with the new Corsair Dominator GT, specifically designed for the P55 chipset.
Out of the box and into the physical design of the new corsair kit built for the P55, is practically the same as the previous range of corsair GT’s for the high end LGA1366 sockets in the corei7’s but without the problem of the prize hike of the triple channel memory. You have specifically four kits that have a total amount of memory about 8GB’s well it is a 2 GB X 4 modules you have to fully utilise both the first of the DIMMS and also the second DIMM. Well, the problem is the physical size of the memory or its attached heat-sinks or even the fan that is optionally ordered with the kit, it is just the usability of the 8GB in both the software and as well as the performance stakes when over clocking in full use of the slots. But the onboard latency that they have improved in the corei5 series, there will be some problem on bandwidth constrains in the motherboard and as well as the memory controller.
Corsair Dominator GT, as being a GT in its right is a premium high end memory in most gaming apparatus from an intended mainstream core. So we could find some consistencies in some benchmarks, example based in the SISsoftwaresandra we see a consistent high read and write times and as well as a high average latency with some help of the hyper threading in the onboard memory. As for the baseline of the performance of the corsair GT, we you prefer a 4 GB version of the kit rather than 4 modules, we could expect a better performance count and bandwidth constraints. But anyway the cooling potential of isolated modules with lower memory can help with over clocking potential.
Overall, this memory module prefers as the high end e-mass modules for motherboards who can handle the space requirements of both the modules and the included fan. But in most of the time we can still compare higher performance margins with other two DIMM modules.