Crucial's Ballistix line of memory?

[Nocturnal]

What are your thoughts? Are you running some of Crucial's line of Ballistix memory?

 

[Algere]

Thoughts: Overpriced, pretty, maybe worth it if overclocking, & stable (side effect: E-P3nis extender)
Running Crucial Ballistix memory: No

 

[Bateluer]

The Ballistix line of ram is on par with the HyperX line and the XMS lines. Haven't checked the cost of it though

 

[MDE]

It's good stuff, but you'll sure pay for it.

 

[Elcs]

Looks like it performs alongside the best.... looks like its priced alongside them too.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

what's considered the cheapest of those high end memories? when i was comparing prices of some of the tops on the AT performance charts the crucial ballistix and ocz 3700 plat r2 seemed best price for that quality

 

[Chronoshock]

PQI is a new comer with some decently priced memory (it was 250 for 1gb of 2-2-2-5 ram but newegg jacked it up to match the pricings of other ram). They've gotten a few reviews recently and they compared well with the corsair 2-2-2-5 ram. Other choices are ballistix, ocz EL/EB, corsair xms, and mushkin 2-2-2 special.

 

[PliotronX]

I would rather go with one of the lines using those Samsung "wonder chips" in Corsair XL, HyperX Low Latency, or OCZ EL (newer revisions I think). It's good stuff though (Ballistix), uses the chips that were in the OCZ EB line before Micron/Crucial realized they could sell them for themselves I am not running Ballistix BTW.

 

[Gamingphreek]

I would stay away from the Kingstons. Not on par anymore with OCZ, Corsair Geil, Mushkin. But Ballistix is among the top.k Extremely high quality RAM. Still cheaper than the Corsair and the others.

-Kevin

 

[XBoxLPU]

What is wrong with Kingstons ?

I have had no problems with any of the sticks of HyperX I have owned

 

[darkwaffle]

Might want to make note of this, looking at the anandtech high-performance memory "round-up" it appeared that much of the RAM's performance changed (decreased) on an AMD64 platform, with the exception of Crucial Ballistix and some of the OCZ Platinum Edition ram (which both performed on-par with an Intel platform), but I don't recall what model of OCZ exactly.

 

[RearAdmiral]

It might have been the new revision 3 stuff, if not is was just the revision two platinum EB most likely.

 

[Corporate Thug]

very nice and overclockable ram, but damn expensive

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: Algere
Thoughts: Overpriced, pretty, maybe worth it if overclocking, & stable (side effect: E-P3nis extender)
Running Crucial Ballistix memory: No

Sure it is overpriced compared to Value C3 ram....but among overclocking rams? It is not so bad, yet gives you the tightest timings at high speeds. So for performance enthusiast, pretty much nothing matches it on the market in terms of tight timings (especially for A64). If you want to talk about overpriced.......any Corsair XMS stuff is overpriced junk......since the chips it uses can be bought from other manufacturers much cheaper.
Of course if you dont intend to overclock, there is no need to waste extra $50 per stick of 512mb and might as well get something like Kingmax PC4000 Hardcore for $102 a piece which is pretty much your Corsair 3200 XL repackaged for a lot cheaper. If you are looking in this price bracket, look into Geil ultra X. Geil memory is known for taking excess voltage like no tomorrow and their PC3200 ultra X reaches 600+mhz.