rx7racer

ok, I got my new Crucial Ballistix PC800 in today and in cpu-z it shows them running 5-5-5-15 at 500Mhz. So my question is, do they use the same sticks for the slightly higher speed rated Ballistix?? If so that means that I should be able to crank them up to those specs with no problem right??

I just had to RMA my G.Skill HZ's and I was running them 5-5-5-12@ 1100Mhz. But if I can have guaranteed speed of 1000Mhz then I won't try to push the Ballistix much further.

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BeanymanJC

I seem to remember reading that anything over 800Mhz (PC6400) is basically pre-overclocked RAM.

I had a pair of Ballistix the same as you have there. They pushed 1200Mhz with a bit of tweaking and voltage, but unfortunaltely one of the sticks burnt out on me. You should be able to run those Ballistix at stock speed on 4-4-4-12 timings easily enough though.

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Skullzaflare

i seen all the crucial ddr2-800's report that, i had noproblem running it at 1100 5-5-5-15

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Originally Posted by lemans81 No. Your going to continue to produce the same amount of heat whether or not your fans suck it all out. What that means is that your computer runs hotter, and that you will leak the hot air out more slowly. If you producing the heat it won't matter if you trap it in your case or exhaust it. Eventually its going to get out, your case isn't air tight.

rx7racer

cool, I'm goin back to my oc settings then, I just really didn't wanna burn two sets of ram out and have to buy a third set within 2 months,lol.

And beany, of course they can run stock @ 4-4-4-12, cause that is stock, thats not exactly what I was asking, I was asking about the 1000Mhz area and they will not run 4-4-4-12 at that speed, already tried.


And yea, I read that some where too, cause JEDEC spec is PC800 for DDR2 at its highest rating, after that it goes to DDR3.

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8300 PCMark05 / 2100 3DMark06 H10800 Vantage

BeanymanJC

Edit: I realise now that I didn't take in that you said "Crucial Ballistix PC800" My bad, I was talking about the 1066 sticks. Sorry for the confusion.

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Water Loop: Swiftech MCRES-Micro > Swiftech MCP655 > Thermochill PA120.3 > D-Tek FuZion

rx7racer

Good enough excuse for me, just being at work period lol

well, I did keep my vdimm @ 2.1 so little more vdimm and they might be stable, just as long as these are just as good as my HZ's thats all I care.

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Draqz

I have a pair of balistix and I had to RMA them once already, and now a second time. The first time i was slightly OCing and this time I didn't touch the OC and kept it at 1:1 with stock volts. Not sure what the deal is, or why the ram gave up again. I even had the 1000mhz version. Ah well, here goes another RMA! (anyone else notice that RAM seems to be the most RMA'd item?)