Ballistix 5300 - Excellent ram for the price.

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Been playing with my new build for about a week now, E4300 / P5N-E SLI / 1gb Crucial 667 / X1800GTO, I have been so busy clocking up my Core 2 and my X1800 the ram sort of got left behind.

I think it was save the best to last, I managed to get from stock settings of 333mhz @ 3/3/3/12 to 500mhz 4/3/3/8, best 68quid I ever spent ;)

 
yeap i must agree with that
this is really a great stuff

my 2Gb kit does SP 1M at 600mhz ( DDR 1200!!) at 2.25Vdimm

 
Nice score mate, whats the highest you can go at tight timings, I maxed out my ram mhz and it only got to 520ish at 5/5/5/15, although that was in the yellow slots of my P5N-E, I have to use the black slots to get 500 4/3/3/8.
 
This ram is also great value
will do 1200 mhz at 4-4-4-12 2.4 vdimm
Ocz Gold Edition 1gb (1 x 1gb) PC2-8800 DDR2 1100 CL5=£85 2 gigs = £162
Amazes me everyone recommends the geil and ocz 2gb pc6400 does'nt the ballistix represent better value and performance?
 
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Yeah your right mate, the 2gb pack can be had for £125 and the 1gb pack for £68 which is the same sort of price as the Geil/Ocz but people seem to overlook it :confused:

I think the results speak for themselves ;)
 
The good thing about this ballistix ram aswell is you can buy a 1gb stick at £60
If you cant afford 2 gigs straight off then get another stick when can afford.
 
just got some today running sweet at PC8500 with 2.2v

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Nice results, they've got to be the best price/performance DDR2 that you can buy at the moment.

Personally I've been playing with a pair of 1GB Cellshock 6400's which have nicely suprised me.

I'm still testing at 2.20v for the moment but i reckon there's still plenty of headroom left in em once I start upping the volts.

Next step is to test 4.4.4.12 1000Mhz (1:1) with a 12hr run of Orthos which my last system passed at the same settings, but with far more expensive ram. :)

800Mhz 3.3.3.8 2.2V



1000Mhz 4.4.3.8 2.2V

 
Theres some nice results going round at the moment, how long until we see 500mhz at 3/3/3/8? DDR2 has come a long way since I got my 1st set as soon as Intel jumped on the pci-express/ddr2 bandwagon.

They were a set of Corsair 667 4/4/4/12 which did about 360mhz max unless you loosened the timings to 5/5/5/15 and then it was about 380mhz :p
 
I have this kit, been tinkering with it since sunday, its running at 924mhz at the moment with 4-4-4-12 timings, So far so good, does anyone think i could tighten these slightly, im a bit new to this.
 
Agr3sive said:
Dont see why not, overclocking is mostly trial and error, if its no good at tighter timings just switch them back, what voltages are you using for your memory?
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Just the manufacturers 2.2v, Im happy with my progress so far, Oblivion seems to start juddering after about 15 mins of play, i dont know whats causing that.
 
I have 2gb. Im runing 1600 x 1000 with hdr on, most of the time fps is in the 40's but a couple of times itd dropped to 7ish and started stuttering with he sound going funny, i quit, reload and its fine so im a bit baffled.
 
Agr3sive said:
Nice score mate, whats the highest you can go at tight timings, I maxed out my ram mhz and it only got to 520ish at 5/5/5/15, although that was in the yellow slots of my P5N-E, I have to use the black slots to get 500 4/3/3/8.
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I mate

most high i can go with 8-3-3-3 at 2.25Vdimm ,is 800 mhz- I try at 850mhz but I get no post
(I do not want to do more voltage to the ram ,because it runs hot)
( they are in the yellow slot´s,has allways)

still, at these timings SP 1M score is lower than at 600mhz at 18-5-5-5

 
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