Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 RAM Author:  Jack Wells Date:  2008.09.04 Topic:  Memory Provider:  Crucial Manufacturer:  Crucial

Testing Rig

For the testing of this RAM two different types of RAM were used on our test computer. One was our Crucial Ballistix sticks that we introduced on the previous page, the other set of RAM is a set of Kingston HyperX PC6400.

Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-6400 x 2 GB

Timings	SPD

Kingston HyperX DDR2 PC2-6400 x 2GB

Timings	SPD

Kingston HyperX DDR2 PC2-6400 x 4GB

Timings	SPD

SiSoft Sandra

SiSoft Sandra is a benchmarking utility made for comparing your hardware to not only other pieces of hardware you may have, but also ones you don't. When creating this software, SiSoft spent a great deal of time and effort benchmarking how standard hardware performs in a wide array of tests. For the 3 sets of RAM I have, we chose to test them with the memory bandwidth test. Basically, it's a bandwidth test, the larger the number the better, it's a measure of the amount of data that flows between the RAM and the processor. Obviously this test is very processor dependant.

Crucial Ballistix

2 GB Kingston	4 GB Kingston

If you’re not familiar with the interface here the important thing to look for is in the bottom it gives you the actual memory bandwidth.  Notice that the Crucial RAM performed about as well as the 2 GB Kingston RAM, but both were outperformed by the 4 GB Kingston sticks.

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