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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RAM: ET: QW - 1,024x768 0xAA 0xAF low
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
208.1202.7192.6193.2


RAM: ET: QW - 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF vhq
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
83.4848383.9


RAM: Far Cry 2 - 1,680x1,050 - ranch long - vhq
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
50.649.149.649.61


RAM: Far Cry 2 - 1,680x1,050 - ranch long - vhq (min)
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
20.1121.219.9820.45


Banging on a familiar drum, at 133MHz BCLK, memory scaling, whilst evident, doesn't provide the kind of leaps that you may expect.

Overclocking

Maximum stable frequency 8-8-8-24 2T
Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,600 Tracer 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
1938189515121565


Cranking the voltage up to 1.7V and keeping the latencies the same, the Crucial Ballistix pack is partial to a little overclocking, almost reaching the levels of Corsair's DDR3-1,866's overclock.