Enthusiast ram from Crucial? We take a look at a couple sticks of Ballistix and see if they are suitable for power users.
Memory, something that is one of the more important pieces to a computer. It is one of the few things you need to actually start building your computer. But more importantly, it is one of the best general performance boosters that you can get for PCs. Adding more memory can, to a certain point, make your computer run smoother, or increase the speed of certain memory limited applications.
Over the past few years it has started gaining popularity as an overclocking tool, with the standards of PC133, PC2700 and others being superseded by higher speed RAM. With the release of the Pentium IV C series and its associated 800MHz FSB, higher than PC3200 RAM became very popular. The 2.4GHz version of the processor was an overclockers delight as it could easily reach 250MHz FSB without problems. This lead to the release of high speed RAM so that you could overclock this system, while keeping memory speed in synch.
Crucial/Micron have not been known as a overclockers memory company, rather they are some of the most stable and inexpensive 'name brand' RAM you can get. They are trying to add to that reputation the ability to provide some of the best overclockers RAM. With this new foray they have given this series a name, Ballistix. So lets see what this memory can do.
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Review:
viperlair
Oct 18, 2004, 07:06 AM
