Ballistix PC8500

[Dee]

Some guy in the area here is selling a set of the non tracers 8500's. The batch's are

BL12864AA1065.16FD5
BL12864AA106A.8FE5

Would it be worth it to grab them? Currently I have a set of BL12864AL 1065 16FD3 and looking for a total of 4gigs.

I PM'd him a few days ago about those, basically asking if he'd ship to the UK. Haven't heard back, but I don't mind because I bought CellShock DDR1000 C4 instead. Maybe the dude isn't around but those FD5's are probably worth grabbing. If you live in the US, that is.

I wouldn't totally write off current Ballistix, btw. A lot of people are against the single sided modules but they're not so bad. I have a 2x1GB DDR2-800 kit that will easily do around 1050MHz on stock volts. Nothing spectacular but they have served me well for many months, only now they're not fully compatible with this P5Q-E board. Price difference between these sticks and some high quality CellShock is significant, so it's hard not to see they have great price to performance ratio. My problem is getting the machine to boot with more than one module installed. It will do it eventually, but as soon as power is cut from the board completely... no boot.