High Performance Results

And yes we finally arrived to the stage where it all comes down to. The Crucial Ballistix have been designed to be used at 250MHz HTT, so we are going to use these ram sticks and start to overclock our Intel P4 3.0GHz Prescott processor and see how well these perform. We once again let the mainboard BIOS take care of selecting the default memory timings. By doing so the latency has reported as 2.5-4-4-8 at 250MHz HTT and our CPU is running at 3.75GHz! We will check on how the Ballistix memory will do on our benchmarks.

Float Copy Results

By having set the FSB at 250MHz the Crucial memory is now running at 500MHz DDR which they have been intended for. This results in an awesome performance level of around 3004MB/s on the Float Copy results. This is certainly again a nice increase over the enhanced performance we have seen so far with an increase of about 250MB/s.

Float Scale Results

The Float Scale results are going taking the same approach and are reaching 3073MB/s on average with a peak of 3381MB/s. Again we get a decent boost of around 250MB/s over the previous results at very tight timings on 200MHz HTT. So a higher bus speed does a lot but still the timings needs to be good to get the job done. And that is where Crucial does deliver top notch performance.

Float Add Results

Onto the Float Add results and we can just draw the line further as also here we see a nice increase of 250MB/s which brings the average to 3263MB/s. We would like to point out that the difference between minimum and maximum is very decent. So no complains on this at all!

Float Triad Results

And to end it all we have the Float Triad results which show as well an improvement and clock an average of 3264MB/s with a comparable increase as we are getting used to. Once again the Ballistix memory has proven to be damn fast and stable.

The Crucial Ballistix just have it all, they did put down an excellent score at a bus speed of 200MHz with the ability of very tight memory latency and on top of that when they are used at the speed they are rated for they outperform all that. With these DDR500 ram sticks you get nothing less then the best performance in both environments, either at 200MHz HTT or at 250MHz HTT this memory just has it all. These Crucial memory modules really do deserve their name, Ballistix they are!