Crucial Ballistix
The Crucial Ballistix come in a plain brown
cardboard box which while boring offers reasonable protection.
The memory sticks look the business though,
with the gold heat spreaders and black PCB. The Ballistix
logo is printed on the middle of the heat spreader.
The stickers on the sticks
give you information on the part numbers however like the
Ultra no further information on timings etc.
The crucial comes with rather unique timings
for performance memory. Its set to 2-2-2-8 which surprised
us. In our opinion any memory aimed at the enthusiast or
performance market should be set to 2-2-2-5 out of the box
so our first test with the Ballistix was to test it at these
tighter timings. The results were positive though and the
Crucial ran at that speed flawlessly so these are the
timings used for the review.
