Review: Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3-1,600: putting bling before value?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 February 2009, 06:48 3.1

Tags: Ballistix Tracer DDR3-1,600 CL8 6GB , Crucial Technology (NASDAQ:MU)

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Multi-threaded performance, plus loading times

DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
189.03188.9191.04189.66


wPrime multithreaded - 1024M calculation
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
242242242.96242.18


Make the CPU load higher with some multi-threaded goodness and there's still scant little performance difference between the modules. 

Far Cry 2 loading benchmark loading times
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
28.829.13031.5


Loading times, too, are pretty similar.