Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 2x512MB - Overclocking
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All overclocking results made use of memtest86, Prime95, and various game playing for at least a 24 hour period. Increasing the voltage above 2.8 volts (2.7 V actual), as typical with recent memory modules, did not yield any better results.
| | CAS 2-2-2-5 | CAS 2.5-3-3-6 | CAS 3-4-4-8 |
| Crucial Ballistix PC4000 | 215 MHz - DDR430 | 257 MHz - DDR514 | 257 MHz - DDR514 |
| Crucial Ballistix PC3200 | 216 MHz - DDR432 | 255 MHz - DDR510 | 255 MHz - DDR510 |
| Corsair PC4400 | - | 250* MHz - DDR500 | 270+ MHz - DDR540+ |
| Kingston PC4000 | - | 250* MHz -DDR500 | 250 MHz - DDR500 |
| Kingston PC3200UL | 205 MHz - DDR410 | 252 MHz - DDR504 | 252 MHz - DDR504 |
| Corsair PC3200XL | 216 MHz - DDR432 | 249 MHz - DDR498 | 250 MHz - DDR500 |
*CAS 2.5 results actually at 2.5-3-4-6
Unlike the other PC4000 memory utilized in this comparison, the Crucial Ballistix PC4000 had no problems running at the tightest memory timings, CAS 2-2-2-5. The Kingston PC4000 could only be lowered to CAS 2-3-3-6 at PC3200 and CAS 2.5-3-4-6 at PC4000 compared to the Ballistix's 2.5-3-3-6. While the difference isn't huge, it is worth noting. The Ballistix PC4000 was also capable of running CAS 2.5-2-2-5 up to 246 MHz (DDR492) providing a nice increase in performance slightly under its rated bus speed.
It doesn't come as much of a surprise that the Crucial Ballistix PC4000 performs very similarly to its PC3200 sibling. The PC3200 modules showed great overclocking headroom and the slight difference in performance can be written off as a variation in the modules.
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