Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V,Black

Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V,Black

Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V,Black

About this product


Product Identifiers
Brand
Corsair
MPN
CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10
GTIN
0021111181303
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28021691758

Product Key Features
Capacity per Module
8 GB
Type
DDR3 SDRAM
Number of Modules
2
Number of Pins
240
Bus Speed
PC3-12800 (DDR3-1600)
Form Factor
DIMM
Total Capacity
16 GB


 I'm here today to talk to you about this Corsair memory that I have right here in front of me more specifically I'm going to talk today about density memory density that is but before I get into this specific memory and some of the specifications of it I want to provide you guys with some visual aids so here we have Exhibit A and this is a motherboard made by asrock and right here you can see the DIMM slots there are four of them and if you've looked at most motherboards in the past I don't know a couple years 


chances are they have ddr3 memory they and they have a four dimm configuration like this so that's exhibit a and here is Exhibit B which is this motherboards manual and specifically right down there in the memory section which is right in the middle you can see that it says we have dual channel ddr3 memory that supports overclock speeds and a max capacity of 32 gigabytes if you've watched any of my motherboard videos for the past a year or so I've been talking 

about these dual channel motherboards and that they support 32 gigs but chances are you're not going to be able to actually install that much memory and that brings us back to our featured product today and back to the topic topic of density density and memory modules beyond at least the 4 gig capacity dims that we have become quite commonplace is a bit more difficult to obtain so these 8 gig sticks have been a bit longer and actually coming out but they 

are now available and this specifically is Corsairs 8 gigabyte vengeance memory module it's 240 pin ddr3 sdram that has a speed of ddr3 1600 a casa latency of 10 at 1600 speed and timings of 1010 1027 also 1.5 volts and it does have Intel's XMP or extreme memory profile support for easy overclocking of your memory in your motherboards bios if it supports XMP another question you might have as well Paul I have say a 16 gig kit or something along those lines like 

these if some of the 4 gig modules that are readily available right now what can actually get by doing say 8 gig dims and to say going up to a 32 gigabyte capacity and maxing out the memory on my current generation motherboard well I will show you so I jumped over to my testbed here where I have installed both of the victims that I have on hand using an X 58 platform and a core i7 2700 K so first off I can just pull up my control panel where you can see the 16 gig 16 

gigs of installed memory bear in mind you will need a 64-bit operating system in order to recognize more than about three point two or three point three gigabytes of memory so make sure using 64 gig if you want to go for higher memory capacity now what I have done is used a little free software called star wind it's a ram disk software to set up a ram disk in right now since I'm using the free version it's just a one gig ram disk but there's lots of software solutions 

out there that will let you setup a ram disk basically if you've ever partitioned a hard drive before and set aside a certain portion of the hard drive for separate use it's essentially the same thing you're taking your installed memory you're setting a side part of it and your computer recognizes it as a hard driver any drive that you have a task attached for storage I must give a quick shout out here to my friend JJ from Asus by the way for tipping me off for making use of 

the increased RAM capacity in this method but now that we have a Ram Dass set up we can actually run some benchmarks and for starters I'm going to show you this is actually the benchmark for Corsairs force 3 Drive you can see some very respectable SSD benchmark numbers up here of about 480 470 megabytes per second this is using crystal disk marking I ran this same test albeit a 500 megabyte test since I only had a one gig drive to work with on our virtual Ram drive that we set up and here are the results down here so you can see that 

when you actually get up to the capacity of around 32 gigs you might actually be able to set aside a fair amount of that 2025 gigs as a ram drive depending of course on the software that you're using and you can get these absurd speeds that you see notice the the lack of decimal points here we're running it over 6 gigabytes per second read and over nine gigabytes per second writes we're getting crazy and put out put operations per second numbers over here in the three hundred thirty thousand two hundred and seventy thousand three hundred thousand 

range so obviously a huge huge jump in speed as compared to a traditional SSD or hard drive storage so you can set that aside it's a virtual drive your computer will need to set it up when it boots up or when it shuts down but if you have more capacity say you set up 10 20 20 plus gigs then you can actually do things like install frequently used programs to that run the programs 

off the RAM Drive and get crazy amounts of speed and that's going to wrap it up for today's review once again this has been the Corsair Vengeance series of XMP rated memory these are the 8 gig memory modules that we have here.

Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V,Black

Allright, here's the specs for all you techies out there. This is a 230 pin DDR RAm. It's 1600 
MHz. The timing is 10-10-10-27. It's a dual channel kit, so there's 2 eight gigabyte cards ...for a total of 16 GB. I've used Corsair for a while. I've never had any problems with them. My system's fast, but it's not insane. These have been around for a few years. I'd call this a value priced high-end memory card. It's 16GB. It was just over a hundred bucks. You can definitely 

go faster, but it's definitely gonna cost you more money. So, it's just your choice of what's gonna work for you. Th one knock on these has been the size. Honestly it's not a huge deal. but if you were working in a tiny chassis it may be an issue for you. I think anyone who's working in a mid-size 17-19 inch you're gonna be fine. I have a 17" chassis. I already have two of these in the other two slots. I'm gonna fit four in there it's not gonna be a problem. These do look cool. 

These heat sinks are great. They come in four different colors: Gold, Blue, Red and Black. I went with the black ones. They were like a cheaper for some reason. I have no idea, but he day I got 'em that's how it was working. I looked at Amazon and New Egg and they were basically the same price. We love Amazon, so I went with them. Prime shipping they got here in

 two days. Yeah, can't go wrong there. Yeah, these look great. I can't wait to get them snapped in. Hope you enjoyed this unboxing of the Vengeance Corsair RAM.




Learn more about the Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10

ModelBrandCORSAIRSeriesVengeanceModelCMZ16GX3M2A1600C10
DetailsCapacity16GB (2 x 8GB)Type240-Pin DDR3 SDRAMSpeedDDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)CAS Latency10Timing10-10-10-27Voltage1.5VECCNoMulti-channel KitDual Channel KitColorBlackHeat SpreaderYesFeatures16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 for AMD and Intel Dual Channel processors

1600MHz

10-10-10-27 latency

Vengeance heat spreader for styling and performance

Intel XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) SupportFan IncludedNo.

Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V,Black

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