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Friday, March 30, 2007
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The last time we took a look at some Ballistix memory from Crucial was way back in August when we reviewed the Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300 memory. This time we are checking out some Ballistix memory, but it is the Tracer Ballistix memory which features two rows of eight "chasing" red and green LED's atop the module, circulating at varying speeds proportional to usage. That creates a really cool effect that a lot of users will like, so let's take a look.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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The Crucial Ballistix PC-8000 2GB Kit arrived Technic3D. Technic3D will see as good they are with 5-5-5-15 and Overclocking against other Memory Kits on Windows Vista Ultimate. You can see 1.160 MHz in the following Review.
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Thursday, March 8, 2007
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Crucial are well known for their extreme Ballistix range of memory kits. In the past XSR has reviewed their PC3200 and 6400 dual channel modules. Today we have the pinnacle of Crucial Ballistix memory kits, the PC8000. Like the DDR PC4000-4800 kits of old these modules promise stable overclocks but will they deliver?
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Monday, January 15, 2007
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Crucial recently brought new Ballistix PC2-8000 memory modules to the market, which are particularly well suitable to overclock a PC or Mac. It was possible to reach excellence results also with default DDR2 voltage and fast timings in the test, so the modules are also well applicable on more inexpensive motherboards with less BIOS settings. The test report shows the performance of the Crucial Ballistix 2 GB DDR2-1000 kit and offers an overclocking comparison to 5 other memory modules.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
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Crucial Technology has a long tradition in producing quality memory modules for all categories of users. Crucial as many hardware enthusiasts know is the retail arm of the Micron who actually makes many of the RAM chips used by other manufacturers such as OCZ. Crucial has been known as reliable partner, a company which is stable and pushed the bar in terms of enthusiast memory modules. Recently Crucial has a new high performance memory product line, which goes by the name of Ballistix. The Ballistix products are offered at faster speeds and lower latencies, and comes with the same limited lifetime warranty and award winning support you expect from Crucial.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
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When 2gb kits started to become standard among gamers, Crucial ruled the roost with their high end PC4000 kit. Since then it has all moved on to low latency, high bandwidth DDR2 and Crucial is once again trying to dominate the market with their high performance modules. Today I have with me a mid range PC6400 kit from the Ballistix series. However, these modules are sporting the D9GMH chips which are touted as the new TCCD. This should mean high performance and some extreme overclocking, lets see how well they do.
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Friday, January 5, 2007
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As I mentioned in the opening, this was our first experience with a kit of memory from Crucial here at Overclockers Online and I don't think we could have had better modules to look at. I had big expectations from this memory after I saw that the IC's they used were the famous D9GMH and those lofty expectations were surpassed in all aspects of overclocking.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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Crucial has been in overclocking for some time now, and the Ballistix modules do show the best of what Crucial has managed to engineer. While it's not as good as high-end modules from companies like OCZ and Corsair, it is still pretty good and managed to produce quite a decent overclock during our testing.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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Crucial make USB drives, just like many other companies. Except they make FAST USB drives? Today I have the Crucial Gizmo! Overdrive secure 1gb drive which will be put though its paces to find whether it?s the one for you.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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As I am sure most of you know Crucial is a name that you can trust. I have personally used Crucial and Micron memory since I have built computers back when I was much younger than I currently am. It was not until recently that Crucial began to offer chips that had overclocking potential in the brand lines. This started with the new Ballistix line of RAM. In the past, Crucial had a stance that their RAM was for stability and not for overclocking, even though many people used it for both. Crucial RAM is rock solid, if you run it at the rated specs. Remember that overclocking is a variable thing; we shall see how Crucial stands up with their 2GB kit of PC2-5300.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
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We don't really like loosening the timings here at Xtreme due to the fact that there are higher speed looser timing modules that are within budget of the lower speed lower latency kits, so the only other thing we could do was go backwards. This resulted in some pretty interesting results as the ram was able to run at 667 at 2.3v with timings of 3, 4, 4, 8 which was pretty impressive I thought until it hung after 4 hours of stress test, I loosened the Cas out a bit to compensate so the memory was running at 4, 4, 4, 8 but this did not prove so fruitful as a few checks on a couple of benchmarks proved it to be quite a bit worse than the ram at 667 with 3, 3, 3, 12.
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I'm sure by now all of you have heard of Crucial. If you haven't crucial makes some of the best memory out there today and their memory advisor is great for finding the best ram when your ready to upgrade. They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary. In recognition of this they have released a special edition of their PC2-5300 module. This special edition features an exclusive heat spreader that you will not find on any other Crucial modules, so let's take a look.
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Monday, October 23, 2006
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It's hard to believe that Crucial has already been around for a whole decade, but September 2006 marks 10 years of their selling top-notch memory upgrades and providing stellar customer support. Crucial has been known for their quality memory, great prices, and fast shipping. In honor of reaching the 10th year milestone, no small feature for an online technology company, they've designed a limited edition memory module heat spreader. After all, aluminum is one of the traditional gifts for a 10th anniversary. In recognition of Crucial's 10th anniversary, the company has released a special version of their well known DDR2 PC2-5300 module.
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Friday, October 20, 2006
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The Ballistix 2GB (1GBx2) PC2-6400 DDR2 Memory Kit lives up to Crucial's long standing reputation for quality, while helping to bolster their newer presence in the performance system memory market. The PC2-6400 modules did well in testing, and the lower timings (4-4-4-12) helped this 2GB kit beat out another kit with more standard, 5-5-5-15 timings.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Today we will be taking a look at their 10th anniversary edition DDR2-667 memory modules. Designed with the enthusiast in mind, this special edition memory comes in either 1GB or 2GB kits, with specifications that mirror those from the Ballistix line. In the review we compare against some Value Select memory from Corsair, and present you with the various scenarios where one product is a better buy than the other.
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