+1, wondering how it will compare to the PC2-8500 version.Originally Posted by The Nemesis
+1, wondering how it will compare to the PC2-8500 version.
"You'll find happiness once you accept the inevitable or at least you won't be too pissed off" -- Me
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Cool. I should have mine on Monday. Good luck
Will you be getting rid of your MUSHKIN REDLINE 8000?? LOL
"You'll find happiness once you accept the inevitable or at least you won't be too pissed off" -- Me
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haha you always have to ask. No way Jose!Will you be getting rid of your MUSHKIN REDLINE 8000?? LOL
I hear these overclock like mad...better than regular ballistix
cant wait for results;hopefully before they sell out.
Okay I got mine today. i'm playing with them right now. So far so good. I was testing quick memtest runs of test 5 and seeing when it would error out. i got up to DDR2 1270. at 2.4vdimm 5-5-5-15. I'm maxing out the nb voltage. Its helping to keep the mem stable. i'll post some screens
Here's DDR2 1100 at 2.4v
Last edited by trans am; 10-08-2007 at 04:29 PM.
Looks good so far...... cas 4 and cas 3?
The little air system that could.
i edited the previous post.. instead of ddr2 1000 Here's the latest one I did at DDR2 1100..
also this is cas3 nothing great but still trying. my redlines will go up to ddr2 850 3-3-3-6
EDIT: here's ddr2 850 cl3 2.4v
and whopping ddr2 1300 mhz!
also see
ddr2 1100mhz 4-4-4-4 read bench
I'm done with these for tonight. I don't want to blow my whole load in one night with these. I'll see if I can get the cl4 a bit higher tomorrow.
This kit surpassed my expectations by a 1000 miles.
Last edited by trans am; 10-08-2007 at 06:17 PM.
its a beastly kit indeed!
C2D E6400 @ 2.8GHz
EVGA 8800GTS 640 @ 650/2000
4x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 @ 1000mhz 5-5-5-15
HD Seagate Barracuda 250GB Perpendicular Recording
Antec Neo 550W (latest revision , a4)
Gigabyte DS3 965P rev 1
Antec 900 Case
Razer Diamondback Plasma Mouse
QCK+ Mousepad
3dmark06 = ~10700
i dont know if i would say beastly.
Looks like typical micron to me, ballistix are binned well. Im still testing mine, will have more results soon.
CPU: Intel CORE 2 Duo E6550 @ 3.6GHz w/ 1.29vcore (517*7)
Motherboard:
Gigabyte P35-DQ6
Memory:
Crucial 8500's
Video:
Nvidia 8800GTX
PSU:
Zippy 700W (fan modded of course)
Typical?
this kit is better than all of my micron kits.
OCZ alpha vx 8000
mushkin redline 8000
mushkin xp6400 black
buffalo firestix
corsair XMS2 5400 UL ver 1.5
i would say its pretty typical of D9 in general and definitely typical of Ballistix. i have had two pairs of tracers and two sets of non-tracer PC2-8500 Ballistix along with a single kit of PC2-5300 non-tracers and all of them did about what your kit is putting up in my P5B-Dlx. some were a little bit better, some not quite as good but all within 10MHz at most voltage/timing combos.
for the price they are a pretty good kit but nothing special over the 8500s IMO.
i don't quote in my signature, but best WR ever...i can't even make that shyt up ^^^
I haven't had any new kits in a while. Maybe the newer D9 is getting better and this is typical for newer kits? All my kits are at least 6 months old. I must admit these are really sweet looking when they light up. I'm going to try some 1T runs tonight. Did anyone else in this thread buy these? I want to see some more results!
nice memory you got there..
Asus P5W64 WS Professional , DFI Infinity 965P-S (testing)
X6800, E6750 es
Micron Fatbodies , Micron D9gkx oem, Crucial 8000, Crucial Tracer 8500 (incomming)
Ati FireGL V5100, Elsa FireGL V3100
water cooling setup (EK 775 cpu block, swiftech NB Block, Swiftech pump, BI dual pass dual 120mm)
Silverstone OP650
raptors, baracuda
nice memory, nice price
2.3V
2.55V
Holy crap! 2.55Vdimm!!??nice memory, nice price
2.3V
2.55V
I need to go back and try cas4 again. by the way thienloi, do you have cl4 results? The highest I pumped was 2.4V measured.
haha you always have to ask. No way Jose!
"You'll find happiness once you accept the inevitable or at least you won't be too pissed off" -- Me
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At what voltage is the warranty void for Ballistix? I killed my Corsair @ 2.5v and I dont want to do that again with some DDR2-800 non-tracers.
I think it's 4.20Vdimm but that might be the grass talking.
I might be able to believe 4.2vDIMM for DDR1... not DDR2.
Did you mean 2.40v?
oh..oops. Yeah..You are right. 2.4v it's definitely the grass then.
I was going to say... 4.2v... Theres no way you can do that because the RAM gets its power from the 3.3v.
Yep. some boards like the DFI Lanparty Ultra-D can juice you off the 5V rail if you move the jumper pin to the missionary position but I usually prefer doggystyle.
plus thats DDR1 we're talking. I wanna see some more results. Did anyone else get them? @ Polizei, did you actively cool your dimms when you juiced them to hell? I would keep a high cfm fan over them anywhere past 2.2vdimm.
Last edited by trans am; 10-10-2007 at 12:49 PM.
I suicide ran from 838MHz on my RAM to 1005MHz (430 above stock) just to see what they could do. Ran them without a fan on them for a couple days, then a fan for 2 days, then back to stock, and thats what killed one.
Mind you, that was March this year. The stick died, sat in a desk drawer for a week. I popped it in for ****s and giggles and it worked.... for 3 days. I taped it to my wall with an RIP tag for 2 months, and then it sat in a Tupperware container for 4 months while I was on summer break from college. I tried it again for ****s and giggles a couple weeks ago and it worked, for 2 weeks this time. It died again a couple days ago.
Now Im looking at some Ballistix DDR2-800 non-Tracer
Price on these got a tad better, as the rebate was upped to $30. Net cost with shipping and after MIR is now $75.
Would be nice to see some more results on these LanFest modules.
The regular Ballistix (6400s) have been available at Buy.com for $55, after $55 MIR, less another $30 if you open up a VISA account with them, bringing the cost of a 2 gig kit down to $25 if you took them up on all the available premiums. Or if you haven't used Google Check-Out, skip the VISA account and get the $10 off for "Googling" and they only cost you $45
http://www.buy.com/prod/crucial-ball...202541818.html
Depending on which way you go, the regulars are either $20, $30 or $50 less than the LanFest 6400s (at $50 it starts to become a big difference). There is also supposed to be another 5% off coupon available from Buy.com, that I saw in another thread, but I haven't found it yet. Anyone seen it?
Without the extra VISA $30 discount, then the diff can be as small as only $20 which is not too much for a little bling, uniqueness and perhaps equal or better performance.
Eithe way, its nice to have choices.
Correction to the deal at Buy.com on the regular (non-Tracers). In response to my inquiry, I received the following over at OCF.
Originally Posted by downer
You're right, my math was off in my original post. $40 should be the final price, which is even better! The 5% off coupon is here: (originally posted by djcomp)
http://www.buy.com/retail/coupon.asp?prid=84773074
The $10 rebate is there when you view your cart contents. It asks you what free 1 year subscription to the magazines listed you want. You are able to select no thanks. The rebate form is in the same window, in the fine print.
One last edit???
Cannot use the 5% and the VISA $30 off on the same purchase...only one discount/promo allowed.
Last edited by Reefa_Madness; 10-11-2007 at 10:12 AM.
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