January 2008 — Overclock3d.net
Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 High-Performance Memory
Recommended Award
"Crucial have always had a reputation for memory that works straight out of the box and the Ballistix PC3-12800 kit is certainly no different. Unlike a few of the DDR3 kits we've tested recently the Ballistix was 100% stable at stock speeds without the need to tweak any memory sub-timings or voltages, and I'm pleased to say that we managed to get through the whole review without pulling our hair out once!"
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January 2008 — Computer Shopper
Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 High-Performance Memory
Best Buy Award (Issue January 2008, pg. 112)
"If you're serious about overclocking your PC and you want some memory that's up to the job, this kit from Crucial is ideal. We had it running stably at 55 per cent faster than its rated speed."
December 2007 — TechPowerUp.com
Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 High-Performance Memory
Recommended Award
"It would have been nice to see the memory being offered at CL7-7-7, as it can easily manage the advertised speed at these settings. Nonetheless this kit is certainly worthy of the Ballistix brand name and performs extremely well, by almost managing 2 GHz at CL8 and 2.0V. It seems like the memory follows the same theme as the package — understatement. It may not look out of the ordinary but works extremely well once installed in a system."
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September 2007 — CPU3D.com
Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 High-Performance Memory
Editor's Choice Award
"I have to say, these Ballistix DDR3 modules from Crucial are amazing to say the least. In fact, they're out of this world. During our tests, they produced the highest scores we've seen to date, and came out on top in all of our benchmarks."
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September 2007 — Custom PC
Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 High-Performance Memory
Premium Grade Award
"For the really special products that we'd sell our bodies to science to own, there's the Premium Grade award ... The Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804 supports EPP (SLI memory) in compatible motherboards, and we succeeded in manually overclocking it to an amazing 1.13GHz by increasing its voltage to 2.4V. This means that it's capable of running faster than PC2-8500 speeds, which is equivalent to 1,066MHz. By dropping the latency timings to 6-6-6-18, we managed to overclock the DIMMs stably up to 1.17GHZ."
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