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Friday, September 22, 2006
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With so much competition in the memory market nowadays, it's increasingly difficult to make the -best- choice when it comes to purchasing a new kit. The Crucial PC2-6400 use the infamous D9GMH chips, but requires a staggering 2.2V! Does its performance make up for it?
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
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Obviously there are better 2 gig kits on the market with tighter timings, but in this price range the memory is spot on with the crucial being nearly a whole 1/3 cheaper than the lower latency modules. That for me despite the lower timings of the pricier kits makes this kit ideal for those that want speed but are on a tighter budget.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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Crucial again shows us that they still know how to make some kick butt ram! Overclocking from the PC2-5300 up to the PC2-6400 level is one thing but easily hitting the PC2-8500 mark at stock voltage is excellent. The scores of the benches also tell us that Crucial is easily the best overall. I can recommend this to anyone looking for some high performance, high quality ram.
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Friday, May 5, 2006
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We will be checking out the 1GB set of dual channel DDR from Crucial. It is sold under the Crucial Ballistix Tracer name: this pair of 512MB PC-4000 DDR modules has been well received by the enthusiast community. The 184-pin (unbuffered, non ECC) DDR DIMM's with LED's are dual channel compatible and have a default rated speed of 250MHz. Default timings are very conservative at 2.5-4-4-8. To reach an overclocked speed of 250MHz, the memory is rated for use with voltages as high as 2.8V...
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Thursday, May 4, 2006
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Overall when comparing a 1 gig upgrade, is it really worth it, the cons are? well not much really apart from 5-10 minutes off the battery time, but to be really honest this time is made back up when you breeze through your tasks (such as photo editing) rather than crawl. Would I recommend this upgrade? Well I would be mad not too. Visit Crucial's website and go through their Memory Advisor, take the price of the 1 gig set for your laptop add it to your laptop cost, then go find a laptop with same specs as yours and 1 gig of ram.. You will find that 96% of the time there is a saving to be made. Highly recommended and a must for any laptop owner looking to get work done, improves the stability of the system while dealing with big files as well as handling large word and presentation files...
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Monday, March 27, 2006
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The Gizmo Overdrive 512mb is a very clean, good looking pen drive, with great read/write times, and a fast data transfer rate. It doesn't break the mould, or let you down, it does exactly what it's supposed to, store your stuff while looking good. It would also be nice to have some of the protection systems that Crucial have added to their more expensive drives, but if you are worried about safety, you would be buying one of those anyway...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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...Yes, there are other 14-1 readers out there, but I believe this 8-1 covers most users. I liked the simple design and the small size of the product as well as the basic but quaint look. If you are after a card reader and don't need full card support this is ideal, works well and is of course covered by Crucial's lifetime warranty, another fine no nonsense product from Crucial...
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Saturday, February 25, 2006
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The Crucial Ballistix DDR500 PC-4000 2x 512MB Dual Channel Kit is a real screamer and with today's system requirements, it is ever increasing knowledge that in order to stay on the cutting edge of performance, extra ram capacity is a necessity. Currently 1024MB is the standard for most gaming enthusiasts on the prowl for more performance and smoother game play. We are seeing 1024MB kits evolving into ultra low latency speed demons and the Ballistix version gives us a super bang for the buck. The Crucial Ballistix is rock steady and totally stable during all our benchmarks performed, not one blue screen or lagish type issues with these bad boys, the benchmarks suites ran flawless. The speeds are amazing and give ultra aggressive latencies for ultra fast performance...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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When you think of memory, there are several brand names that any self respecting overclockers will spew forth. Corsair, OCZ, Kingston . However one name that is never missed off that list of greats is Crucial. Their memory modules are known the world over for their high Overclockability and their blisteringly tight timings. Recently Crucial were kind enough to send me their GB PC4000 DDR500 kit, this is how it performed. Read on...
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Saturday, November 19, 2005
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Just because a memory kit is 'value' doesn't mean it's not worthy of your attention. Today we are taking a look at a fair priced 2GB kit from Crucial, which rolls in at DDR400 speeds. Let's see how it stacks up, and see if we can squeeze any overclocking out of it...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
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The Crucial Ballistix PC4000 showed itself to be a monster, performing well above its rated speed of DDR500 at 3-4-4-8. While many may be hesitant to invest in 2GB kits because of a perceived performance hit, this memory should allay those fears. With more games and applications recommending 2GB as the new memory standard, the Crucial Ballistix PC4000 is without a doubt one of the best 2GB DDR1 memory kits available...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
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As with the previous X850XT Crucial's version performed well, however it clocked higher and left me with a massive 1228mhz memory clock and this is no easy feat especially on the stock cooling it also beat the Connect3d version easily. Now I know most of you will be thinking well the X1000 series are round the corner and you will wait, but I want to see what 2 of these X850XT's running at a good clock in Crossfire mode will be like as not everyone will be able to hit the X1800s budget and a 1200+ plus memory speed is not to be sniffed at...
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Friday, October 7, 2005
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Trying to find the "right" memory for one's PC is a difficult task, what with all the different brands and speeds to choose from for both Intel and AMD platforms. On the test block today is a 1GB set of dual channel DDR from Crucial. Sold under the Crucial Ballistix name, this pair of 512MB PC4000 DDR modules have been well received by the enthusiast community. The 184 pin (unbuffered, non ECC) DDR DIMMs are dual channel compatible and have a default rated speed of 250 MHz, or PC4000. Default timings are very conservative at 3-4-4-8. To reach an overclocked speed of 250 MHz, the memory is rated for use with voltages as high as 2.8V...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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The pair of 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 DDR that were tested in this review, performed quite well on the whole. The memory didn't like tight timings, but that did not seem to affect its performance by much in the benchmarks. The Ballistix PC2-4200 memory also overclocked quite well, reaching a high of 644 MHz with default timings of 4-4-4-10. With a retail price of $219 CDN ($181 US) for this 1GB set of PC2-4200, it's certainly a great deal to consider...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Crucial's handsome Ballistix DDR2-1000 had decent performance but it wasn't superb. Marked for standard latency operation, to our surprise, it worked perfectly fine at low latencies as well. That however, is more of a bonus point since Crucial does not certify the memory for such operation. On the contrary, Corsair's modules performed swell right out of the box and are rated for low latencies...
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