Closer Look

The top banana in the Vengeance Pro series is shipped in its own cardboard box enclosed with an additional two-fan cooling unit.



There are multiple colour schemes available for the Vengeance Pro, but Corsair have restricted the 2933C12 model to red only. In case this color doesn’t fit into a specific build, the red pieces at the top are removable, making the modules almost completely black.



As good-looking as the heatsinks might be, they are not what whe would call solid. The tops are very loose and the whole thing feels as if it was made out of plastic and not aluminium. The cooling efficiency, however, is not too bad: the modules were warm but not hot under full load.




The heatsinks are held on via a layer of thermal glue on the populated side of the modules and with a strip of thermal tape on the other blank one. Such attachment makes them relatively easy to remove, even without preliminary heating.
Having detached the heatsinks, we found our modules to be based on Hynix chips of 4Gbit density, commonly referred to as MFR. These chips are known for their ability to operate at high frequencies at loose timings, which made them a rather obvious choice for this spec.



The SPD module of the modules contains some basic information such as maker, part number and manufacturing date. It also features JEDEC profiles up to DDR3-1333, that are obligatory to make the memory work out-of-the-box, as well as an XMP profile up to its rated speeds at a change of just one BIOS option.
Detailed overview of the top JEDEC profile and the XMP can be seen on screenshots below.

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Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Closer Look

Page 3 - Photo Gallery

Page 4 - Results

Page 5 - Conclusion