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Review on Corsair Dominator Platinum 128GB (8X16GB) DDR4 2666MHz C15 Desktop Memory by Chris Smotherman

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Worked but had problems with 1920X CPU, ended up getting another Corsair memory

. The price went up about $100, but the memory slowed down), this didn't solve the problem. Reverting from 1920X to 1950X (price dropped about $200 in the end, net $100 "saved" but wasted for a month) ended up with slower memory but more cores and a working system. The Dominator series (when installing 4 of 8, 64GB on 1920X) passed the RowHammer test (potential problem with ALL DDR4 or DDR3 RAM), while the Vengeance 128GB passed all tests, but only so far gave a RowHammer bug (possibly flipping bits and causing corruption with malicious code - however, one would expect many more bugs, meaning Vengeance is robust but not 100% bug-proof). The Dominator should/could be better but never got around to testing the 1950X with the Dominator (as soon as I had a working system the parts came back). Originally swapped out the motherboard because it could be a bad motherboard, it turned out that the original motherboard had issues with Active State Power Management (a PCIe thing) that needed to be disabled on one board. One spare board saved, CPU and RAM swapped out (not necessary, but Vengence was listed as X399 compatible on the Corsair site, while Dominator memory was only on the QVL list and most likely only tested against 1950X).

Pros
  • . Compatible with Corsair Link
Cons
  • . Definitely bad product.