Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 - some results on the NForce 680i chipset

[Pedro Rocha]

I bought a very unexpensive pair of Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 on ebay (around 129Euros) since for me 680i still is my platform of choice (for a a simple reason: allow to play my favorite game with my pair of 8800Ultras) I decide to test it on a EVGA 680i SLi.

I used a E6700 air cooled, and 2.35 on VMem

I try to compare SuperPi and Everest Read results with exactly the same CPU speed but, of course, with diferent mem multipliers

Here are the results:

DDR2 1270 - 5-5-5-15

SuperPI
http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/Crucial8500_635-5-5-5.jpg

Everest Read
http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/Crucial8500_635-5-5-5-Everest.jpg


DDR2 1130 - 4-4-4-9

SuperPI
http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/Crucial8500_564-4-4-4.jpg

Everest Read
http://pedrorocha.planetaclix.pt/Crucial8500_564-4-4-4-Everest.jpg


On a stock EVGA 680i I think the sticks can give a bit more with more voltage, but seems they tend to die with more voltage.

Anyway I find the results very good considering the low price of the sticks:up:

[hot_fifty]

yeah looks good:banana::banana::banana::banana:

[CCUABIDExORxDIE]

if you give them more voltage, hell even at 2.35v, you should definately have good airflow over them. no airflow = dead ram.

[SIOUX]

Those are lovely sticks my friend :toast: got a pair of PC8000 Ballistix, but they dont do as good as the PC8500 ones :( :)

[shiznit93]

Is the pc8000 ballistix the same chips ar pc8500? I wanna get these before the dissapear.