Corsair shows of first TEC cooled Dominator GT memory

Posted on Thursday, January 08 2009 @ 13:57 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Corsair is showing off the memory industry's first thermoelectric cooled (TEC) Dominator GT memory modules at CES 2009. You can check it out at Legit Reviews, the reporter says the memory modules were running at a temperature of only 11-12°C while running Windows Vista.

The Corsair Dominator GT TR3X6G2000C7GT 6GB triple channel DDR3 memory kit will arrive later this month, it runs at 2000MHz with 7-8-7-20 timings at 1.65V.
"At the Corsair Memory hotel suite we got our first look at the highly anticipated thermoelectric (TEC) TEC cooled Corsair DOMINATOR GT DDR3 memory modules. Thermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux between the junction of two different types of materials. One side of the Peltier cooler acts as a cold plate as the heat is transferred to the other side, which is known as the hot plate. All this is done by the flow of electrical current and it has worked very well for over a hundred years as the technology was discovered in 1834..."


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