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Fremont, CA (Thursday, November 3, 2005) – Corsair® Memory, Inc., a worldwide leader in high performance memory and cooling products for enthusiasts and overclockers, today announced that it has became the first company in the memory category to receive the NVIDIA® SLI™ Ready certification. Recognized as the performance memory of choice for enthusiasts, Corsair added to the SLI Ready certification program by creating a new memory category to amplify user experience. NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology supercharges the platforms by linking two graphics cards together to provide scalability and increased performance. In addition to motherboards, add-on cards and power supplies, Corsair’s XMS2-5400C4 family of products bring additional performance edge to an Intel based SLI system.

“Corsair is recognized as the leader and innovator in the high-end memory space. Being the first to become SLI Ready certified on the Intel platform validates our reputation of making only quality products that deliver on the performance front,” said John Beekley, Vice President of Applications Engineering at Corsair Memory. “NVIDIA SLI technology is the most widely adopted technology among gamers and enthusiasts. Extending our close relationship with NVIDIA, Corsair brings additional performance advantage to the SLI platform users with our blazing-fast DDR2 memory.”

As a part of the SLI certification process, each component must pass stringent series of tests including diagnostics, benchmarking, burn in, and card interoperability. Only memory that delivers the highest stability and performance even under the most extreme condition will pass the certification.

“Memory is an integral part of a SLI system to deliver the ultimate gaming experience. When we wanted to expand the program to memory, Corsair was the first to come to mind,” said Drew Henry, general manager of platform products at NVIDIA. “The goal of the SLI certification program was to ensure that consumers always have an unparalleled experience when gaming on the platform. Adding memory to the certification program further strengthens our program objective.”

SLIZone is a dedicated web site to promote NVIDIA SLI technology and its certified components. For more information on the Corsair SLI certified memory, please visit http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_ ... ied_memory

Corsair SLI Ready Memory Part Numbers:

Single Module Matched Pair


CM2X512-5400C4 TWIN2X1024-5400C4

CM2X512-5400C4PRO TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO

The Corsair XMS-5400C4 family of products is currently available through its authorized distributors, resellers, e-tailers and retailers worldwide. For more information on the Corsair SLI Ready products, please visit http://www.corsair.com/corsair/xms2.html For more information on how to build an SLI Ready system using the SLI Ready certified components, please visit http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build.html

About Corsair Memory

Corsair Memory, a member of JEDEC, has been a leader in the design and manufacture of high speed modules since 1994. We have earned our reputation as being the first to market with leading-edge products supporting new computing platforms and technologies. Corsair supplies memory for applications ranging from mission-critical servers to ultra-high performance gaming systems. The performance and reliability of Corsair memory products makes them ideal for memory intensive computing. More information on Corsair is available at http://www.corsairmemory.com

capper5016 wrote:uh, yeah, "SLI Ready memory"...... marketing gimmick.........next week there will be an announcement for SLI ready floppy drives..... then SLI ready cases.......and finally SLI ready headphones and case fans.......(rolls eyes)

capper5016 wrote:which, to me at least, is crap. It is going to lead to unfair marketing practices in the sense that a company can and will extort money from other companies to merely let them be "certified", when in fact their product will not perform asny better than a company that is not certified. To this end you will also see something that is happening with game releases, where some companies are cut out of the loop, so in effect NVidia is simply dictating entire systems now, which is dangerous teeritory....who pays for this in the end? Us, the consumer is going to make up that 5-6 figure cost, not the company.
Power supplies I can understand, because they directly affect the components performance. There are some specs that a PSU needs to meet in order for an SLI system to work, and work right..... Memory has very little performance on how an SLI system runs..... you put two like-clocked memory kits in the same system and you will see almost no difference in benchmarking score or gameplay.