Crucial Ballistix. Absolutely rubbish

8igdave said:
I would never recomend or buy balistics. Who needs ram running at over 800mhz? You wont notice any difference in games or every day use. Just something to play with. Not worth the trouble as they are prone to dieing. They have such good rma service because they deal with it so much.
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Ballistix is great memory, the fact that you feel you don't need memory at speeds above 800Mhz has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of Ballistix.

You say they are not worth the trouble, yet my current set has been running, grossly overclocked 24/7, for over 12 months now.

I recommend it without hesitation and have done since I bought my first set of Crucial PC100 in the dim and distant past, which is still working perfectly I might add.
 
8igdave said:
I would never recomend or buy balistics. Who needs ram running at over 800mhz? You wont notice any difference in games or every day use. Just something to play with. Not worth the trouble as they are prone to dieing. They have such good rma service because they deal with it so much.
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I'd like a side-order of common sense with that lack of logic, sir!
 
8igdave said:
I would never recomend or buy balistics. Who needs ram running at over 800mhz? You wont notice any difference in games or every day use. Just something to play with. Not worth the trouble as they are prone to dieing. They have such good rma service because they deal with it so much.
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Ahh ?, you run a CPU at a 1600FSB (OC'd but soon to be stock on new Intels), the Memory is 800mhz ok fine.

But to anyone who overclocks more than that and wants to run In Sync needs faster than 800mhz.

So I dont have a clue what your on about as anyone here who overclocks would ideally need it depending on how high they went and many run a 500mhz FSB (2000mhz Quad Pumped on Intel) so Memory will be ideally 1000mhz DDR Speed.
 
8igdave said:
I would never recomend or buy balistics. Who needs ram running at over 800mhz? You wont notice any difference in games or every day use. Just something to play with. Not worth the trouble as they are prone to dieing. They have such good rma service because they deal with it so much.
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No, but low multi CPUs you do. I'd rather have 500x7 4-4-4-12 than 390x9 4-4-4-12.

Ballistix are good, ok it has a high failure rate but then again they clock like ****.
 
My Crucial Ballistix are awesome.

533mhz @ 5-5-5-15 with stock volts, for ages now.

Happy days. :)
 
DS3R's apparently over volt the RAM and I only found this after running my ballsitix for 3 months before a stick crashed and burned (think it was up at 2.2v!). Crucials RMA were excellent though, took about 4 working days, now have everything running nicely as per sig.
 
They're excellent - I dread to think what it must be costing Crucial-Lexar in RMA costs though as the overclocked ones do seem to die quite commonly. I've lost 6/12 sets so far (including both sets of Anniversary RAM), but Crucial-Lexar just keep on replacing them, so where's the problem?

These things are running way beyond their price-point and if you overclock them, you've really no right to expect an RMA, but they do it anyway. Respect due.
 
I love'm so much I've just picked up another set for a great price....will be my first set that's not rated @ 5300 (this is 6400)
 
I went from G.Skill PK to crucial PC6400, the crucial clocks the same as my G.Skill but using less volts. 900Mhz and 4-4-4-12. Something else is limiting me.
 
http://aten-hosted.com/images/spi3.jpg G.skills 6400HZ some real D9 goodness at 2.2volts (actually 2.25 or something as the DS3R overvolts)

5-5-5-18 @ 1272MHz 100% stable (for about 18 months before they died) I've had them running 1333 @ CL5 with more voltage... could have probably got them stable at 5-5-5-15 with a bit of playing but the performance difference wasn't enough to bother with.
 
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