Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF

Compatibility Testing: Before we sat down in front of our test machine to evaluate Corsair's TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF memory modules, we installed them into some of the systems we had available at the time to see if there were any compatibility problems to speak of.  We tried the sticks in a total of 4 different systems, powered by various popular chipsets. We tested these modules on the following platforms...

With the exception of the EVGA nForce 680i SLI, which we used for the benchmarks in this article, to quickly test these modules all we did was install them, power up the systems, made sure Windows booted and then we ran SiSoft SANDRA's burn-in wizard for a few minutes. Thankfully, we didn't experience any issues whatsoever. The memory worked perfectly in all of the platforms we tested. This limited compatibility testing wasn't extensive by any means, but it does bode well for the TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF memory modules. The fact that they worked properly on the popular platforms listed here, means most consumers shouldn't have any major issues with them either.

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How we configured our test systems:  When configuring our test system for this review, the first thing we did was enter the system BIOS and set the motherboard to its default configuration. The hard drive was then formatted, and Windows XP Professional (SP2) was installed. When the installation was complete, we installed all of the necessary drivers for our components, and removed Windows Messenger from the system.  Auto-Updating and System Restore were also disabled, and we setup a 1024MB permanent page file on the same partition as the Windows installation.  Lastly, we set Windows XP's Visual Effects to "best performance", installed all of our benchmarking software, defragged the hard drive and ran all of the tests. Throughout all our benchmarking, we had the memory voltage set to 2.4v, unless otherwise noted.