Crucial is a word for me but not a memory makers company, I have to look at the company logo or at least the website to check if they were really real or to make a suggestion that they just game me a random System RAM and whack in an aluminum heat spreaders in an attempt to fool me to be a performance memory stick kit. But don’t get me wrong; there is a company that makes performance memory and other memory products and it is called Crucial. They have a mainstream memory stick with range of DDR2 and 3 memory; with the Ballistix being their top performer and a ditch to the more popular corsair dominator and OCZ reapers being much cheaper to most real high-performance kits that have a low latency and high frequency; but just on the level of main-high end memory which can be great for those modder’s who like something to have an alternative to.
We will take a look on the Ballistic Tracer PC3-10600, 2×2GB or 2×1GB DDR3 kit. It has a bus frequency of 1333MHz and 1.8V effective to run the memory with no stability problems. With the Ballistix tracer is a non-ECC memory stick and if there is a problem going to happen you have to have a non-ECC compliant motherboard when the inevitable will occur. Well, if you overcome that obstacle, the Ballistix tracer has an amazing light show when you boot the memory module; it has eight LED light built on top of the memory stick to show the activity going in and out of the two memory kits. This can be great for a windowed case to show off to your friends; but to really blow your friends out (not literally, but in a sense) is the over-clocking capability of the tracer. In the performance test shows that in normal stock speeds it has just an average score when competing with other high-performance kits; but when we over-clocked to its 1T command, lower the timings and increase the voltage for stability, we acquire a higher yielding score of about 500 more points and the bandwidth increase by 20%, a much better yield in performance from other major memory kit brands but only comes at a fraction of the prize by just coming much better per price and the given features.
For most of the modder’s really like the use of high-prized weaponry to play one of their benchmarks and latest games to increase the games loading time and also memory bandwidth; but for the people who are conscious to the prize, there is some products waiting to fill that, and one of them is the Ballistix tracer, oh by the way the LED light can sometimes give you seizures.
