LET’S FACE IT, if there’s one thing Corsair should be good at, it’s memor y. The company built itself off the back of the great memor y race of the '90s and early '00s, and has since held a dominant position in the industr y. Look at any industrial sector that’s reliant on memor y chips, and Corsair probably supplies the majority of the DRAM for it.
It's a similar stor y in the PC gaming sector, with the company having some serious flagships. Back in early 2012, when Linus Tech Tips was just two dudes filming hardware unboxings, the company launched perhaps its most ambitious memor y kit to date in the form of its DDR3 Dominator Platinum line.
PC gaming had been well cemented for some time now, but it was just starting to see an explosion in the DIY space. People wanted more glitz, glamor, perspex case windows and RGB illumination, and the higher-per forming memor y kits and components that came with that. Thus, the Platinum line was born. Clean black designs, top-end NAND Flash, and pristine, beautiful aluminum (ironically) heat spreaders, complete with white LED underglow illumination, and even the option to install LED lightbars on top if you really wanted to make your rig pop.
They cost the earth and came with high frequencies, but for many, this halo product was the crème de la crème of 'Check out my rig, it’s really cool, I’ve got too much money, see my expensive RAM'.