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digitalx0 said:Batch #: CL1115L.37
Memtest stable at 3-4-4-8 1T @ 250MHz
Had them OC'ed to 278Mhz at 3-4-4-8 1T and they were stable
curiously, i only get 3-5mhz highe at 2T than 1T with all of my crucial/micron ram. you've gotta have a pretty damn good memory controller to play with 2x1gb at higher speeds, and you need to have a board that can deal with the load the ram induces, and lastly, you must know how to tweak for itOverlag said:ive never been able to get 1t out of Crucial ballistix ram... however my tempory ADATA cheap crap does it fine..
(cf)Eclipse said:*shrug*
lance, i share your sentiments.. but it's also the reason i've been telling almost everyone who gets ballistix that i know of that they MUST actively cool it unless they have superb airflow
DermicSavage said:Just rigged a 120mm fan over my ballistix(lower section of fan is blowign ont he ram, no big deadzone) and I still cant run stable at stock speeds.
Getting really sick of playing games with this. Pretyt much ready to yell at someone from newegg to take these sticjks back without the restockign fee so I can get a pair of OCZ =/
(cf)Eclipse said:you probably could, but i wouldn't for too long, seeing as 5b D is a 110nm chip. if you need 3-3.1v for your oc... well, i dunno. i guess you can tell us how long they last
Yes, my Thermalright SI-120 hangs over and completely covers the first RAM slot. The 120mm fan blows down onto the RAM on the board.Malignant Kid said:Did you use active cooling?
that would explain it.. though i do have to wonder why you bought some of the best clocking 1gb sticks to run em at 200mhzArrowMk84 said:I'm guess my second stick, which didn't have the CPU fan moving air over it, cooked itself. It would explain the behavior. Since a lot of people seem to have troubled with replacement sticks, I'm going to see Crucial will just give me a refund and I get some Corsair XMS PC3200
if 3-2-2 works, i'm almost certain 2.5-2-2 will tooMysterae said:The Ballistix are now running, all 3DMarks (01,03,05), Prime, SuperPi and Memtest86 (all tests) error free at : 3-2-2-2-7-16 1:1 @ 240Mhz !! Lovely. The cpu is a X2 4400+ running @ 2.64Ghz
(cf)Eclipse said:if 3-2-2 works, i'm almost certain 2.5-2-2 will too
good to hear you're having fun with them though, too many people getting bad sticks and saying things like they'll never go back to crucial. every company has had a bad time.. i'm sure everyone has heard about OCZ's dark past.. look at where they are now
(cf)Eclipse said:if 3-2-2 works, i'm almost certain 2.5-2-2 will too
a5h said:i got my Ballistix yesterday and they are currently runnign at 267mhz 3-3-3-8 @ 2.7v (the lowest voltage my shuttle will go, i dare not go higher).
Batch: CL1115T.8B
is this a good/bad batch? (as in will it die? ...lol )
(cf)Eclipse said:there have been a lot of cases where the ballistix work better at lower voltages
(cf)Eclipse said:wow, now that's odd! i guess if it helps you run stable...
though, the difference in bandwidth between the cas latencies is interesting, because i've found that cas does almost nothing to bandwidth.. are you holding your secondary timings constant, or are you using auto?
jeez, that's similar to the difference i see between 1T and 2T, not cas2.5 and cas3.. i've gotta go have a look at this again nowMysterae said:CAS2.5:
RAM Bandwidth Integer: 6665MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Floating Point: 6587MB/s
Switch back down to CAS3.0:
RAM Bandwidth Integer: 5569MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Floating Point: 5549MB/s