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Crucial Ballistix PC-4000
What us worry? That seemed to be Crucial's attitude not too long ago. For ClubOC to be
located in the same vicinity as Crucial, it was somewhat disheartening to see
them not partake in the high speed DDR wars of the last few years, and
concentrating mostly on OEM and JEDEC minimum spec modules without a "CL 2" rating. It
seemed to us like no fun, but thats just not the case anymore. The Ballistix
memory lineup is very impressive, and given Crucial's excellent customer
service, not to mention how easy it is to grab some of these fabulous sticks of memory, I
cannot really see a downfall. At least it sounds good on paper, but is Crucial
really taking a stand this time? Or are they merely trying to again give us just
the bare minimum of overclocking overhead so we can have default speeds at high
latencies? Well unlike some other sites that have reviewed the Ballistix lineup,
ClubOC decided to take the long road and form an impressive array of benchmarks
to give you an example of what a couple sticks of Ballistix can give you...
Specifications
Features
The Ballistix memory is very attractive with its gold colored
heat spreaders. They do a splendid job of dissipating heat at high overclock
levels...
The Crucial modules are very much their own. Nothing on the
modules gives away any kind of information that they could be made by another
manufacturer, other than their parent company, Micron. Unfortunately at this
time no real specifications are given other than general info from the Crucial
site.
The spreaders have very good contact with the modules. Being
single sided the EMI noise they emit will be very low, which is an excellent
characteristic for the Intel crowd...
The system looks good with a touch of gold. It would be a bit
better if all four slots were full... :)
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