Quote Originally Posted by The[R]eaper View Post
Wow thanks a bunch you guys

@eva2000
I wonder if i should take the heatspreaders off my tracers because when i took them out one time and noticed a sticky sound from the TIM not making good contact with the chips themselves. since then i have a fan directly on them.

i guess ill take my chances with the regular ballistix 8500 because they are so cheap these days.
I suspect some of the reported crucial ballistix module deaths have been due to such poor contact between heatspreader and ICs... as such if the heatspreader wasn't making contact, I'd remove them (very carefully with help of hair dryer). Risk is rma'ing them you could get the poorer clocking single sided ballistix modules as replacement

Quote Originally Posted by Praz View Post
Raja and I both bought these when Cell Shock first released them. I guess at $500.00 a set at that time we deserved to get lucky.
yeah I can imagine!... strangely though most of my ballistix modules can do 640-650mhz 5-4-4-x at similar voltages needed to do 600mhz 4-4-4-x !