Crucial ballistix

Wie schon in unserem Intel Core i7 Review beschrieben, gibt es auf der neuen X58 Plattform nicht nur Unterschiede in der CPU, es ist auch der Speicher von der Umstrukturierung betroffen. Wir schauen uns heute ein Triple-Channel Kit mit 6GB und 1600MHz...

Preis-Leistung; Design und Verarbeitung; OC Freudigkeit; Performance; Zweites CMP-Profil CL7

Neben GPU und CPU bildet der Speicher das dritte Bestandteil , an dem man die Leistung seines Rechners festmachen sollte. Wer am Speicher spart, muss eventuell mit starken Leistungseinbrüchen rechnen. Bei uns nun vorliegend das 2Gb (2x1GB) Speicherkit...

Seit einigen Monaten erfreuen die leistungsstarken D9 Chips von Micron sich großer Beliebtheit, die nicht nur auf der hauseigenen Marke Crucial, verbaut werden. Von der Leistungsfähigkeit und dem Übertaktungspotential konnten wir uns schon beim Test...

Crucial has always been a name to trust when it comes to memory, largely thanks to the fact it makes its own chips

Great value for money on aer

Serious erformance concerns

A good way to get the most out of your high performance computer is with some high end overclocking RAM. The price of DDR3 has fallen rapidly lately, making it much more affordable to populate all of your RAM slots. For some people 1800 MHz isn't fast...

Using CPU-Z we can see the timings of the RAM (9-10-9-28) as well as the current frequency. In the CPU tab we can also see that we had to overclock the CPU from its base frequency of 2.67 GHz

Award: GOLD SILICON AWARD

Introduction:The performance memory market has continued to push the performance envelope over the last few generations of hardware, each new development ushering in more speed and better performance.  But beyond speed, memory has not yielded much...

At the time of writing this kit is on sale at Newegg for At the time of writing this kit is on sale at Newegg for $169.99, which does seem a bit high. However, after spending some time with this kit, we69.99, which does seem a bit high. However,...

While the RAM might be the same as two years ago, the Smart Tracer series is an excellent choice for new builds by modders.

The Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 6GB PC3-12800 kit has a small premium added for the extra functionality over the older kit. The kit is available from Crucial for less than $140 which is okay for a 6GB triple-channel kit. For the case modders still...

Award: APPROVED

Armed with thermal sensors and large heatspreaders, Crucial's Ballistix BL2KIT25664FN1869 4GB DDR3 kit offers some compelling arguments for enthusiasts wanting top performance along with quality.

Finned heatspreaders ; Fast speed out of the box ; Thermal sensors ; Overclocking

Tall heatspreaders could interfere

Out of the box the Ballistix BL2KIT25664FN1869 kit offers great performance that should satisfy just about anyone. If this isn’t enough these Ballistix sticks offer a decent overclock while keeping the stock timings. Crucial has also put thermal...

Award: RECOMMENDED PRODUCT

Of all the upgrades that are available for a computer, a memory upgrade is probably one of the easiest. Almost anybody can do it and see quite a large performance benefit. When looking for memory for a computer, there are a numerous number of choices...

Slick, unique yellow heatspreader design ; Fast timings compared to standard DDR3-1333 memory ; Lifetime warranty ; Black PCB

Needs slightly more voltage than rated

The Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1333 6-6-6-20 memory kit is a solid, high performing kit. Because of its lower timings, it offers a good performance advantage over other kits with more standard timings; but because of its better timings, more voltage is...

Award: RECOMMENDED PRODUCT

Ask any PC enthusiast and they'll tell you that system heat is a constant concern", said Crucial Ballistix senior product manager, Jeremy Mortenson. The new Crucial Ballistix kit comes with a pair of innovations in memory cooling. The first one is an...

Good price for the value ($119 USD)+ Crucial Limited Lifetime Warranty ; Interesting design and colors will appeal a bunch of users+ Integrated IC for thermal-monitoring via MOD utility (support 32 and 64 bit OS)+ Will work on any Intel based system...

Overclocking is very limited due to the ICs in their memory chips- It doesn't work at 1T Command Rate- Requires "high" voltage for very common frequencies and loose timings- The new heat spreader's design could interfere with a big CPU heatsink- The...

Crucial Ballistix BL2KIT25664FN1608 performance is just average. The kit isn't able to work at 1T command rate and it needs more than 1.5v to work stable with very loose timings and common frequencies. They also suffered from a cold boot bug or...

But it works great with the right setup

Great memory, Fast as could be. Set to 1866 in Bios 1.6v ; Gave me a 7.8 in windows with my 6100fx and 990fx Clocked at 4.1

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I'll check back with another review in a week or two By the way Window rating with update from Microsoft 7.6 /7.8/7.8/7.8/6.1 See Ya

Work's Super Good ; Got the dual kit, put it in, and away she went (First Time ; With Crucial allways been a Gskill Fan ) Put in my 990FX Biostar and the board love's it. AMD Fx6100 On Boost

Some one forgot my free fan Hmmm

This is a way cheaper solution for my Dell T3400 then going thru Dell. I ahve had zero issue with this memory in the past year

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Bad stick was causing fatal error and prevented workstation from booting. Giving low rating because I can buy ram from lots of folks. The least I ask is that it work more than a week.

Works fine when it's working

1 out of 12 sticks was a failure upon purchase. Newegg is sending me replacement

check your motherboard compatibility instead of thinking it is bad RAM. My Gigabyte mobo would not post with these. But worked great with my other mobos.

Made a noticeable difference in performance. Has worked for me solid for over a yr

heatsink has somewhat sharp edges

does the job

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Bad stick = blue screens when trying to install Windows. Currently running on the one good one while waiting on RMA.

Was inexpensive for 8 CAS

Bad stick right out of the box

prices of ddr2 is going up ..... and people like me that still use socket 775 and ddr2 are paying double for our ram.....

nice ram decent timing ; mine run at 4-5-5-15 ; had them over a year now and still running strong

never been able to get them to 533mhz as they are listed as mine always run at 332mhz ; 8FH5 batch

i have them at 2v runs 8-8-8-24 like it says. Great Ram

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Running out of memory at 4 gig multitasking after Win 7 SP1. Looking at 2x2 gig for one set of memory slots to bring me up to 6 gig. Crucial voltage different than most, and will probably have to go with them again so it will play nice with my other...

Ordered this to upgrade my system from 2 Gig to 4 Gig. The only problem was that it was 2.0v and my older memory was 2.2v, but Crucial happily offered to replace the older spec memory. Running mildly overclocked with no problems. Have some in a friends...

Changed voltage spec without changing memory model designation. The two different specs did not play well together. Crucial fixed that. Never had one actually fail