Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000

Specifications

Here are the official specs for the Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 DDR, straight from the product page on Crucial's Ballistix web site:

Module Specifications:

• Module Size: 512MB
• Package: Ballistix Tracer 184-pin DIMM (w\LEDs)
• Feature: DDR PC4000
• Configuration: 64Meg x 64
• DIMM Type: UNBUFFERED
• Error Checking: NON-ECC
• Speed: DDR500
• Voltage: 2.8V
• Memory Timings: 2.5-4-4-8

Not the most spectacular set of latency timings in the world, are they? That's OK, it's not like we won't try to run the Ballistix Tracer at 2-2-2-5 and see what happens! ;-)

Testing Setup

Here's the system I used to test the Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 on:

Motherboard: MSI 865PE Neo2-PFS
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHz 'C'
Video Card: ATi X800 Pro
Hard Drive: Maxtor 40GB ATA133 7200RPM 2MB cache
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2 with all current patches

I'll be comparing the Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 DDR to Corsair's PC4000 Pro using the Memory Bandwidth and Cache + Memory benchmarks from SiSoftware's Sandra 2005 Professional SP1 testing suite. I'll also be using Bench'emAll! 2.64 to run game benchmarks from Half-Life 2, Painkiller, Doom 3, FarCry, UT2K4, and, of course, Quake III Team Arena.

Except where noted, all hardware is run at its default settings.

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