Originally Posted by
3oh6
if you read through the Crucial OC report, i mention that the P5K3-Dlx overvolts from the BIOS setting 0.06v so in reality, 1.95v was really 2.01 and at the same voltage, the Dominators walk away from the Ballistix.
the reason i held back on voltage was because at the time of that report, and even now, no one really knows what D9GTR/GTS can take for voltage. with the Ballistix history of not handling voltage all that well, i had no ambition to kill them just yet. plus, they were my only decent kit of DDR3 back then as well. it is a different story now so look for some updated clocks on the Maximus Extreme with the Ballistix and higher voltages.
just keep in mind that the Ballistix only have one bin, the DDR3-1600 8-8-8 kit at 1.8v. that is very very conservative specs. with having only one bin, there is going to be more variation in their kits than you will find in the Domintaor DDR3-1800 7-7-7 kit at 2.0v because all of the Dominators are binned for that high of a frequency at those timings.
not all D9GTR will do that but all on the Dominators will because that is what they are binned for. you can't get a bad kit of those Dominators because if you do, they don't run spec, and you RMA. with the Ballistix, their spec is a lot lower so there is a possibility of getting only a good kit instead of a great kit. there is also the possibility of getting a killer kit.
you won't have the chance of getting a killer kit in say the DDR3-1600 7-7-7 kits of Corsair because if they were killer, they would have been DDR3-1800 Dominators...does that make sense?