Crucial Ballistix 8500 and Crucial 10th Anniversary Edition

[Monstru]

Ok, so here are my sweet Crucial Ballistix 8500 tested on Dfi Infinity P965-S with an E6600 CPU. My goal is to attain Spi 1M stable settings.

 

2.10v

 

3-3-3-9 ..................................... 407Mhz - DDR2 814

4-4-4-12 ................................... 541Mhz - DDR2 1082

5-5-5-12 ................................... 604Mhz - DDR2 1208

 

 

2.30v

 

3-3-3-9 ..................................... 435Mhz - DDR2 870

4-4-4-12 ................................... 566Mhz - DDR2 1132

5-5-5-12 ................................... 607Mhz - DDR2 1214

 

2.40v

 

3-3-3-3 ................................... 458 Mhz - DDR2 916

4-4-3-4 ................................... 500 Mhz - DDR2 1000

4-4-4-4 ................................... 600 Mhz - DDR2 1200

 

While it is obvious that I am limited at around 1200 due to the motherboard, good latencies at low volts are my favourite on this board, and this kit seems to be very happy with that

 

And here we play a little bit with the 10th Anniversary's at 2.30v on the same platform:

 

2.30v

 

3-3-3-9...........417 Mhz - DDR2 834

4-4-4-12.........536Mhz - DDR2 1072

5-5-5-12.........602Mhz - DDR2 1204

 

In conclusion, the Anniversaries are a very good kit, and I am pleased with them, but these 8500's are just plain old wicked, and they will taste more volts on the same platform and also P35 pretty soon.

 

Hope that is ok with the pictures stored elsewhere, I have too many of them.

[mikiiioo]

bios or memset setting??

[Monstru]

Some of them are bios some of them are memset, it depends. I usually boot as high as possible and than bring up the FSB with SetFsb or tweak the latencies with MemSet if necessary. For example, I boot at 4-4-4-12 1200 and then tighten to 4-4-4-4 (my mobo only allows 9 as the lowest seting in this case, so MemSet is neccesary).

 

Some more fun:

 

2.50v - Ballistix 8500

 

3-3-3-9................470Mhz (aka DDR2 940)

4-4-4-12..............620Mhz(aka DDR2 1240)

[Pvt Skank]

Just bought the tracer version of these... 164€ delivered at home...

 

What a sweet deal for such great memory

[71proste]

4-4-4-12 @ 620Mhz very nice result,is it stable??(prime,orthos)

[Monstru]

No sir, of course they are not orthos stable. At least not at 2.5v

Here we have stable setting for those interested in stability testing:

 

Dfi Infinity P965-S

E6600 3Ghz @1.29v

Ballistix 8500 1150 5-4-4-4 @2.1v

[Pvt Skank]

Damn bought them a few days ago 164€ delivered at home...

 

Price just dropped to 149€ delivered

[Turrican]

in a german shop they are at 110€ omfg

[Monstru]

Hehehehe...when I bought them from NewEgg they were around 140$.... I was so stupid....I should have bought 10 kits

[Monstru]

I'm back with the same mean ass Ballistix Kit, this time on good ol' P965 Asus Commando :evil:

 

Normal ambient temps, air cooled (one Antec Tricool 120mm fan).

 

2.75v

 

500Mhz- 3-3-3-3 - SuperPi 1M (on Dfi Infinity P965)

650Mhz - 4-4-4-4 - SuperPi 1M

690Mhz - 5-5-5-15

 

 

2.8v

666Mhz - 4-4-4-12 - SuperPi 1M

 

 

2.5v - Nice weird clocks on Evga 780i

 

1266Mhz 5-3-3-2

 

 

Single Channel Max Valid 2.8v

702 - 5-5-5-15 (stick 1)

700 - 5-5-5-15 (stick 2)

 

 

Well....that's about it for now