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Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3-1333 RAM

Test Setup

Testing was conducted with the following setup:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 905e @ 2.50 GHZ
Motherboard: Gigabyte MA785GPMT-UD2H
Heatsink: GlacialTech F101
RAM: 2×2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1333, 9-9-9-24 default timings
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA-II; single-drive mode
HDD2: Western Digital Caviar GreenPower 500GB SATA-II (5900RPM); single-drive mode
GPU1: ATI Radeon HD 4830, 512MB GDDR3 memory
Sound: Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Edition
Case: Silverstone FT-01 Fortress
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Drivers: Catalyst 9.10

CPU-Z

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First, let’s take an up-close and personal look at these modules, courtesy of CPUID’s CPU-Z program. Timings shown here are defaults chosen by the motherboard’s auto-detect function, with BIOS settings adjusted only to allow for dual channel operation.

SiSoft Sandra

Next, we’ll look at the results from SiSoft’s Sandra suite.

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Cache and Memory results were very respectable, with an average throughput of 45.3GB/s. Memory Bandwidth also did very well, with an average throughput of 12.5Gb/s. Memory Latency held even with the pack, at 89.5ns.

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  1. Who would actually buy this stuff? For the around the same price you can get much much better memory.

  2. PCB’s ….this is about as stupid as it gets… dress up you computer with dingle balls and black and red velour elvis paintings… are these the same pcb’s that have caused cancer and banned in Canada……….ahhhh vanity ……………………retards!

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