Ballistix PC8500

[Algeriano]

And sub timings

[railmeat]

mine seem quite good too

560 5-5-5-15 at a lowly 2.0V too

spotted 2x512MB Balistix 8000 the other day- whats the chance of them making similar speeds at similar volts would you reckon ?

thinking of upgrading from 2 to 3 gigs of RAM.

thanks,

Mark.

"thinking of upgrading from 2 to 3 gigs of RAM."

bad idea, 3 gigs of ram = single channel...

rams so cheap these days buy another 2 gig kit for $90.4 gigs = dual channel.

512 stricks went out 2-3 years ago with single core cpus.1 gig sticks are mainstream.

[TreeTop]

I'm looking at getting 4GB of pc8500 Ballistix Tracers for a IP35 Pro. Anyone else have this? If so, does it overclock well? Thanks in advance for any input.

[LyP0]

I too have the balistix pc8500, i've ordered my first set like 4-5 weeks ago. Those nicely say d9gmh on it. Today i got my second set ( both pc8500 2x 1024mb ) and it says .... 0735-18f, no d9 or anything. owh yea and it has balistix writen on it ( big letters )...... kind a scary, i've ordered the balistix to be sure to get micron d9gmh's.

ps on my pcb it says " 03201p levin " printed in gold letters on the pcb itself, my other set doesn't have this. What's going on ??

[andressergio]

Heys Guys !! Hope someone can help me find out this...

I bought a couple of Cruciall 1066 Ballistix PC8500 5-5-5-15 2,2V

I did this tests runing them at stock voltaje wich is 2,2V on Everest Ultimate



ASUS P5K DELUXE BIOS 311 (TESTED ALSO WITH 404, almost the same results)
E6600 L709A442
VCORE= 1,5
DRAM STATIC = AUTO
ALL SETTING ARE ON MINIUM VALUES
All things to OC that has to be disabled are disabled


I'm am a bit impressed cause though i got less latencies at 1200, i got better transfer ratios at less speed...I also tested 1200 with 2,3V and NB=1,4, same results...

What can be wrong ?

Regards for all
Sergio

[E6600 / P5K DELUXE / 2X1GB CRUCIAL PC8500 / EVGA 8800GTX / ANTEC 900 / ANTEC TRIO SLI 650W]

[irev210]

I too have the balistix pc8500, i've ordered my first set like 4-5 weeks ago. Those nicely say d9gmh on it. Today i got my second set ( both pc8500 2x 1024mb ) and it says .... 0735-18f, no d9 or anything. owh yea and it has balistix writen on it ( big letters )...... kind a scary, i've ordered the balistix to be sure to get micron d9gmh's.

ps on my pcb it says " 03201p levin " printed in gold letters on the pcb itself, my other set doesn't have this. What's going on ??

Dont worry, it is D9!


Micron just changed the way they labeled their IC's. Clocks just as well (if not better) than older ballistix.

Your other set may use brainpower PCB (which is rare). Most uses levin. Both are EXCELLENT.

Enjoy your ballistix, they will rock your world.

[shimmishim]

I'm looking at getting 4GB of pc8500 Ballistix Tracers for a IP35 Pro. Anyone else have this? If so, does it overclock well? Thanks in advance for any input.

i have 4GB 8000/8500 and they clock fine... then again i don't clock them higher than 515-530 depending on the cpu and fsb limits.

[Kain665]

I got my crucial 800s in today. Ill see how they oc on my p5k-e later. The board/processor have been tested to 575mhz at 1:1 with my friend's Crucial anniversary 667.

[Kain665]

Ok WTF? Im testing my new ballistix 800s, and they are sitting stable right now at 5-5-4-5-5-30-5-5-5-2T at 600mhz and 2.3v. The only problem is that sandra reports only 8,3gb/s! and a latency of 72ns! What the hell?

[MotF Bane]

Ok WTF? Im testing my new ballistix 800s, and they are sitting stable right now at 5-5-4-5-5-30-5-5-5-2T at 600mhz and 2.3v. The only problem is that sandra reports only 8,3gb/s! and a latency of 72ns! What the hell?

Are you sure everything is stable?

[Kain665]

This is effing retarded! The Sticks fail at 600mhz 5-5-5-15-10-35-10-10-10 with either 2.2v or 2.3v, at 600mhz 5-5-5-5-5-30-5-5-5 at 2.3v and at 500mhz 4-4-4-8-6-30-8-7-8 at 2.3v at about a minute in Orthos. I am testing at 5-5-5-15 (performance level is at 12) at 500mhz 2.2v right now, 3 mins in and no crashes. Maybe this is a setting somewhere making the sticks fail?

[Kain665]

Finally got them stable at 500mhz at 5-5-5-15-9-42-7-7-7 at 2.2v. That is the same as my OCZ set with promos ICs... This is bullcrap...

[hstuehmeyer2000]

Finally got them stable at 500mhz at 5-5-5-15-9-42-7-7-7 at 2.2v. That is the same as my OCZ set with promos ICs... This is bullcrap...

don't you think its kind of odd that they have the same oc?, maybe some kind of wall?

[Kain665]

Meh... that was the max for the promos ICs, my crucials can boot at 1200mhz and are pretty stable, but they crash after just a little bit in orthos. I don;t know what might be causing this, and upping the nb voltage does not help.

[andressergio]

Kain

See my post, I can boot at more than 1300 and are stable (more vdimm for 1300 of course) and passed all test orthos 14hs and OCCT, 2xSpi32MB, memtest, etc but when I bench them on everest and Sandra i have the results i posted, everything is fine under 1200 at 451x8, but seems to be a drecrease on performance at 1200 400x9...

By the way i tested:

1128 5-5-4-9 2,2V, 8 hours memtest, OCCT 30min RAM TEST HIGH PRIORITY and passed...

This is at now my 24/7

Any opinion ?

Regards 4 all

Sergio

[emoners]

man i'm itching to have some ballistix

[PytonOrm]

my Kingston pc9600 ddr1200 are bad boy. i test with 3,45v at 620 at cas 4-4-4-4 and 533fsb with 3-3-3-8 @ vdimm 3,45v with asus commando and i cant reach over 650mhz fsb HAHA

[CoW]8(0)]

TWR, TRRC, TRRD, etc.....

Does anyone know the specs of this for their Ballistix? I can't find any documentation of this on Crucial's site. I think my motherboard is detecting these incorrectly which is causing me to be unstable.

[vera]

Meh... that was the max for the promos ICs, my crucials can boot at 1200mhz and are pretty stable, but they crash after just a little bit in orthos. I don;t know what might be causing this, and upping the nb voltage does not help.

Yeah! same problem for me , Do you know is it %100 micron d9gmh ? or promos !!!

My topic is here ;

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=161669

[tiborrr]

Finally got them stable at 500mhz at 5-5-5-15-9-42-7-7-7 at 2.2v. That is the same as my OCZ set with promos ICs... This is bullcrap...

Try the secondary latencies of 8-3-8-3. This RAM is memtest stable up to 630 5-5-5-x 2.45V / 600 5-4-4-x 2.4V, guaranteed.

[mXpS]

man i'm itching to have some ballistix

I know what you mean. I just ordered some on Tuesday and they should be getting here soon.

[disruptfam]

are ballistix tracer's essentially the same ram as the just plain ballistix just with leds and that??? i mean performance wise....

[CoW]8(0)]

TWR, TRRC, TRRD, etc.....

Does anyone know the specs of this for their Ballistix? I can't find any documentation of this on Crucial's site. I think my motherboard is detecting these incorrectly which is causing me to be unstable.

Wow, I know I ask hard questions but when you drop $150+ on RAM I would assume some people would know these numbers...

[mXpS]

are ballistix tracer's essentially the same ram as the just plain ballistix just with leds and that??? i mean performance wise....

Basically. Most benches have them being even or having the regular Ballstixs performing better

[TinTin]

DDR1350, CL5-5-5-12 direct boot to window


DDR1200, CL5-5-5-12 @ 2.05V


DDR1300, CL5-5-5-9 @2.55V ortho blend test 30mins