Ballistix PC8500

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get my Blood Iron mobo to crack 600mhz on the memory side, with what I thought were some nice Tracer 8500 sticks that I got on close out sale late last year. Finally took out my old PB5-D for a run and seems like they like that mobo more. Easy 600 at mostly auto and 2.15v.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6...defaultwj4.jpg

Will go to 620 with 2.25v but moving off strap at 400 bus speed sends Pi performance into crapper. :(

I have another pair I need to test before I try 4x1Gb set-up.

With setfsb you should be able to keep strap up to about 440~450mhz FSB i guess?

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Originally Posted by loc.o

With setfsb you should be able to keep strap up to about 440~450mhz FSB i guess?

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Yeppers. Thanks for the heads up. Times are going in the right direction now. :D

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Can some one give me good timing for QUAD 6600 at 333 with crucial ballistix tracer 8500 2gb?

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Originally Posted by mario2008

Can some one give me good timing for QUAD 6600 at 333 with crucial ballistix tracer 8500 2gb?

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you can do 3-3-3-8 easy @ 333 i think you can do 3-2-2-6

Wewt, my set should be here on monday.

Can't wait to see what kind of clocks I can pull on these things with a QX9650 and ASUS Maximus Formula... Will be sure to post my results.

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Originally Posted by zsamz_

you can do 3-3-3-8 easy @ 333 i think you can do 3-2-2-6

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gonna try this setting... how much vcore do they need at 3-2-2-6?

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Originally Posted by litol

gonna try this setting... how much vcore do they need at 3-2-2-6?

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mine did 3-3-3-8 @ 800mhz 2.1v-2.2v
but 3-2-2-6 @ 667 is much easier

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Originally Posted by By0T0xN

So you didn't loose any fequency range when you went from 2x1 to 4x1 sticks. That is amazing. I thought (usually) 4 sticks is harder than 2 to oc. How long have you been running at those freq's and voltage and are they double or single sided ic's?

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the Version one DDR2-800 are Double sided. The Version Twos are DDR-1066 One Sided. and they are running 1093mhz right now at 2.20 with Static memory enabled.

2x 1GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 (double-sided) @1200Mhz 5-5-5-15 2T ,2.225V :yepp:

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Originally Posted by zsamz_

mine did 3-3-3-8 @ 800mhz 2.1v-2.2v
but 3-2-2-6 @ 667 is much easier

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will try 3-2-2-6 @ 667 later with 1.85v... :D

need some help:

Q6600 at 3.6ghz, 450x8 (trying 3.8ghz stalble 24/7)

maximus formula BIOS 505

4x1gb Crucial Ballistix 1066mhz, Brand new, still in sealed box :D)
it's one-sided memo's
hope my X38 don't kill them...................:(


wich timings, Vdimm, and AUTO things should I do?
just need some @1100-1150mhz stable

should I try multi X9? wich would sound better?

i just yesterday god one more kit tracers 1066 2x1Gb , hopping to receive dual side memo's but no luck, the bullistix i got is single side and not good for overclocking at all, they can't even run @ 1000 4-4-4-4 2.2V as the old ones :( i'am going to sell them :(

A few weeks ago i recommended Ballistix pc500 to a friend of mine. After 2 weeks struggling with a bad stick he decided to go to the shop where he bought them and ask for a new pair. The old ones he had where dualsided. The store didn't want to replace both modules and gave him one new singlesided ramstick. So now he a dualsided and singlesided. He runs them on a P5k-E, but he can't get them to work properly. The board says "Overclocking failed" no matter what is configured in the bios. Does anyone have experience with running a dualsided and singlesided stick in the same channel?

I saw some1 posted before about running singlesided along with dualsided and he had the same problem as your friend, i ques your friend got no choice, to get another single sided or replace both.....

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Originally Posted by ownage

A few weeks ago i recommended Ballistix pc500 to a friend of mine. After 2 weeks struggling with a bad stick he decided to go to the shop where he bought them and ask for a new pair. The old ones he had where dualsided. The store didn't want to replace both modules and gave him one new singlesided ramstick. So now he a dualsided and singlesided. He runs them on a P5k-E, but he can't get them to work properly. The board says "Overclocking failed" no matter what is configured in the bios. Does anyone have experience with running a dualsided and singlesided stick in the same channel?

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It says overclock failed even after cmos reset and loaded defaults in bios? Did you try the other dimm slots? If it still says o/c failed run the ram at 1:1 with 55515 and 2.2v and go from there. Also maybe try just resuming the post and see if you can get into windows and, if you can, run some stability tests. Also, which bios is he on? If he has flashed to another bios did he flash correctly (ie. run at default settings, flash, reset cmos, load default + save and exit)?

I'm running 4x1gb on a P5k-e, one 2x1gb set is double-sided and the other is single-sided and they having been running fine on stock and o/c'd. :shrug:

Am running my double side PC8500 Tracer 4x1Go @

1000mhz 4-4-4-12 2T running fine on memtest with 2.2V

What's the lowest main timings register values possible with DDR2, say 800? :confused:

IIRC, 3-3-3-3 1T is actually lowest there is and below it doesn't change any parameter, even though you may see 2s and 1s.

How will 4 blocks of theese do with an IP35 pro?

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Originally Posted by ownage

A few weeks ago i recommended Ballistix pc500 to a friend of mine. After 2 weeks struggling with a bad stick he decided to go to the shop where he bought them and ask for a new pair. The old ones he had where dualsided. The store didn't want to replace both modules and gave him one new singlesided ramstick. So now he a dualsided and singlesided. He runs them on a P5k-E, but he can't get them to work properly. The board says "Overclocking failed" no matter what is configured in the bios. Does anyone have experience with running a dualsided and singlesided stick in the same channel?

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i have problems too with 2 singles and 2 duals i cant set timmgs 4-4-4-4 @ 1000Mhz as the dual sides could and everything lower than 5-5-5-12 @ 1000 results no boot :(

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Originally Posted by Cyrezz

How will 4 blocks of theese do with an IP35 pro?

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fine if you are planning to set them @ 1066 5-5-5-15 i have 4 of then on that board :) but it is better to have dual or single side mem's only
with cachmem 4 of them ( 2 single 2 duals ) @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-12 they have ~ 9800Mb/s read transfer
with 2 @ 1200 4-4-4-4 i had ~ 10700Mb/s read transfer :(


i found out that the new ballistix wont work fine with the old duals :( i run them on i955 chipset and this is the best i could do :( with the old ones i couldn't set those frequency's WTF !!!

Thanks. They're all of the same kind :)

I added 2.20 volstage to my DDram2, and it stables with 552 bus speed. My friend go for 600 bus, he added 2.30 vol, but it's so unlucky, his ram died at 2.30 vol with high brand name crucial :rofl: .

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Originally Posted by gundamit

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get my Blood Iron mobo to crack 600mhz on the memory side, with what I thought were some nice Tracer 8500 sticks that I got on close out sale late last year. Finally took out my old PB5-D for a run and seems like they like that mobo more. Easy 600 at mostly auto and 2.15v.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6...defaultwj4.jpg

Will go to 620 with 2.25v but moving off strap at 400 bus speed sends Pi performance into crapper. :(

I have another pair I need to test before I try 4x1Gb set-up.

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@mjhieu: can u show us ur picture??? are u lier???:D

Hey what is your problem man? I dont know who you are, hmn, please be generous :confused:

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Originally Posted by tien113

@mjhieu: can u show us ur picture??? are u lier???:D

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Yea true that this isnt hardforum!, not that I really got sumtin to hardforum tho:P