New Ballistix Memory

[jEnus]

Crucial just announced its high-performance memory line, Ballistix in both DDR and DDR2.

A new gamer Web site has been developed on crucial.com.
http://www.crucial.com/ballistix

 

[xxichibanxx]

it's about time they get into the overclocking market. low-latency Crucial memory is definitely worth a look at. interesting to see how they perform against Corsair, Mushkin, OCZ, and Kingston HyperX.

 

[jEnus]

Expect reviews in the next few days . . or hours.

 

[Fern]

Yeah, somebody from Crucial posted this over at THG this morning too. He says it'll do cas 2.0 at DDR500. I didn't find that advertised on the site though. I'm looking forward to some benchies.

If I hadn't picked some Corsair last month, I would've got this and given it a try.

 

[geoff2k]

There's a thread at pcper discussing the Ballstix sticks. Not much on the xtremesystems thread yet, but hopefully that will change.

So far, news appears to be (from pcper thread):
[*]They will be available in DDR PC3200, DDR2 PC4000 and PC5200.
[*]3200 (DDR-400), CL2-2-2-6
[*]4000 (DDR-500), CL2.5-4-4-8

Some OC results (culled from the pcper thread):
[*]Have run them up to 217 FSB 2-2-2-11 but they needed 2.9 v for 100% stability.
[*]Have memtested also at 225 FSB but failed memtest #5 unless I lowered the timings to 2.5-3-3-11.
[*]So far 2-2-2-11 210x12 mult is rock solid with a mobile athlon at 2520 Mhz.
[*]11 x 210 FSB / 2.9 Vmem / 11-2-2-2 / PiFast Time = 60.63
[*]So far I can't get these modules (2x512 PC3200) to run higher than 2-2-2-11 stable than 217 FSB.
[*]Reached 230 FSB stable in benches but by this time I had needed to drop to about 2.5-4-4-8. Not great.

OC result from the XS thread:

[*]I have 2x512mb of the pc4000 ballistix and i was doing 230 at 2.3.3.6 timings [...] i did check in cpu-z and it said they were micron memory