4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 ** LED's **

[mattnovc]

ebay item 300337572678

crucial ballistix tracer 2x2GB

[kakureru]

its cool how you can actually see the dual channel.. computerized blinking lights are always neat.... especially when they are not random.

[josiahsuarez]

pretty slick, I like it :)

[ch5richards]

You cannot get 2GB stick of 1066 in the Tracer, plus when I got it, there were NO 2GB sticks of Tracer.

[Lexusstylie]

true , but the 800mhz are good overclockers , i dont know when you got them..but i have 2x 2gb 800mhz for a while now. (running @ 1120mhz)

[asus3571]

@Lexusstylie thats only if he doesnt want to be limited to only 4gigs of ram cause info can be swapped in snd out of 4sticks faster than 2 sticks ill give u an example i currently have a q9400 in and ep45ud3p and recently swapped 4x1gig of corsair 800mhz w/ the dhx heat spreaders out for 2x2gig corsair dominators and my memory score in windoes7 whent from 7.4 with the 800mhz to 5.9 with the doms so even though the doms are 1066 my thearetical bandwith droped with 2 sticks vs 4

[gaz52]

@Lexusstylie I have 4 1 gig sticks and that's plenty for me.

[FSDU5]

i got the 6400 and these things are amazing.

[trousien]

damn i bought the 4gb w.o the leds cuz it was super cheap on black friday only 20 bucks damn i want LED! lol alwells all my other leds make up for it lol

[afdland]

I have a question. If i wanna use a sli graphic card. Should i use this kind of memory or use sli ready memory module

[LoveAviation]

does this crap slow down the memory in anyway? i bet it uses more power though.

[xialildawg]

why the fuck would the lights slow down the memory it dont effect anything with the mem its just an addon pretty much :s if anything it makes a little more heat for it but not much..and if you have a BIG power supplie it shouldnt matter how much power it need there for gaming systems anyways not a home user system

[kErMLoL]

i don't think that this is the favourite part of these ram i have the new one with less leds

and i want to cover them!!!

[gpsxbx]

why did you buy it???  duh!

[kErMLoL]

WTF :S i shouldnt buy it because of the leds?

[gpsxbx]

sorry, you made it sound like you didn't like the leds so why pay more for RAM that has them?

I know I love my Tracers. Plus the leds are helpful to know whats going on. Like when the system locks up.

[bongwang]

im going to get either 4gb or 2gb crucial ballistx ram if the overclocking is just as good on the regular ballistix 800mhz then i wont bother getting the tracers just for the lights.

are they the same (chips,overclocking ability etc.) ty

[ch5richards]

They were exactly the same other than the lights, but recently, the Ballistix 800 (might be other speeds too, just know it's 800 for sure)have switched to single sided sticks, and supposedly don't OC as well. Basically single sided means the chips are only on one side, so if you look down at the RAM you can see with the heat spreaders that one side doesn't have any chips on it.

The new single-sided Ballistix is still good, just not as overclockable.

Crucial just came out with all red Tracers

[bongwang]

if you pause it at 00:25 you see its just the desktop with the vista sidebar. he my be running a game minimised but yeh, nice stix

[ch5richards]

Nope, no game, just Prime95. When you start Prime up, that ram dances like crazy. That's how I was able to start and stop the ram, just start and stop prime.

Prime is mainly used to test for a stable overclock, but it works the ram nicely as well.

[asus3571]

@ch5richards prim95 nowere near stresses your ram and cpu as much as intel burntest

[mysty0]

Interesting, coz i saw you had a game loaded in the background and your ballistix tracer was going frantic, i also have 4gb and the only time i really see them that flatout and constant is under orthos or something similar

[ch5richards]

I was using Prime95 to get them to dance like that.

In a few of my game they move fast, but nowhere near that fast.

[factoryriderr]

where did you buy those memorys?

[getonitman20]

Ebay.

[TheBlitz1]

ANY MAJOR ONLINE RETAILER

[AdamCW2k5]

also sometimes it the one that i suspect is faulty doesnt even show any leds atall !

[mysty0]

it is possible for the led's to stop an yet nothing be wrong with the ram, I do not believe Crucial cover the led's unless it has happened with a short time period of buying them

[AdamCW2k5]

ive got the 2gb kit and ive been getting alot of bsods lately, and the error messege links to that, one of my sticks doesnt flash half as much as the other, could that be the faulty stick, thanks in advance :)

[ch5richards]

It could be, but the good thing is Crucial has some of the best support and the best warranty I have ever dealt with.

It is possible the RAM is fine and it is just not at the proper settings. Make sure it is running at the rated setting and voltage. Most of these Tracers run at 2.2v. Contact Crucial support if you still have problems, and they will help you fix it or replace the bad stuff.

[CALAdmin88]

Awesome RAM. I wish my Dominators had LED's =(

[quinny61994]

Do these work as well as they look?

[ch5richards]

Oh yes. These are about as good quality RAM as you can get. The best type of RAM, no matter what company Corsair, OCZ..... uses Micron D9 chips. Well Micron owns/is Crucial so not only do the tracers come with D9's, I expect Micron picks the best of the best for their own company.

Now I am not saying other brands aren't as good, but I will say they are no better. But that is just my two cents. Do some research on Micron D9's and see what you find out.

[quinny61994]

Thanks a lot!

[AuDioFreaK39]

Awesome video. I have 4GB of these 8500's as well, with an Abit IP35 Pro.

[mep916]

Nice video. I've 2GB of the Ballistix. Our specs are almost identical; same board, CPU. I'm runnin' 2x Ultra, however. What's the Q6600 clocked at? Mines at 3.1 w/ teh B3 stepping.

[ch5richards]

I am running at 3.2, but I got the G0. I am getting ready to upgrade to an X38 board.

[kh3m1c4l]

I got a Q6600 also, paired with a P5K Deluxe motherboard. I got that baby up to 3.6 Ghz on air cooling. You got liquid so i bet you could push that a little farther. go for it!

[DamageIncFib]

I like it...

[eliden]

every1 and any1 can build a pc now all we need is money... lol

[opamando]

Wow! I want some of that ram.  That is one of the nicest PC's I have ever seen.