Extreme Performance & Overclocking

Just when I thought I had it all done and ready I realized that this memory kit from Crucial had something extra. Somehow I had the feeling some more gain on the performance could be had without taking any risk on system stability. To that extend I went through some extra performance tweaking and some limited overclocking. We will go through each of these individually and compare these with the default DDR500 benchmark result.

Default 250MHz Memory Results

So first of all we need to provide you the initial default configuration. Again the SPD has set the memory timings which resulted for a 250MHz HTT at a latency of 2.5-4-4-8 for the Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR500. Now that we know that we can execute a more combined benchmark on this configuration.

Via using the Express Info on RightMark Memory Analyzer suite we could run a combined benchmark using the Quick Test option. This will run several benchmark and provide a condense overview of the performance reached. The focus will be of course all linked towards the memory interaction and operation. So at default timings ad 250MHz HTT we get on average about 3175MB/s as result. Not bad at all but maybe we can do better?

We couldn't just stick with the RightMark results alone so we also fired up once again our Everest Ultimate Edition suite. So what score did Everest nail down? Well it has been a top score of 7404MB/s. This ram already performs outstanding.

Extreme 250MHz Memory Results

But indeed as we are not yet happy with all that we wanted to see if we could even get better results. So we started tweaking the memory timings and at 250MHz HTT the lowest timings we could reach on these Ballistix Tracer sticks is 2.5-3-3-7. This is actually lower then what Crucial is advertising. Anything below that is just a waste as the memory can't keep up and will loose performance.

So what is the gain when we use these extreme memory timings? Well the gain is very decent on average we see a boost of 200MB/s giving us a final score of 3379MB/s. Could it get any better? Well not with these sticks, but I haven't seen any other DDR500 kit that could put down this score...

And what about Everest, does that one also see a gain in performance and confirm these awesome results. We can't disappoint you as indeed we see an improvement of about 110MB/s and note down a final score of 7534MB/s. I am sold by these Ballistix Tracer dual channel sticks!

Impressive wouldn't you say? If not then I don't know what will impress you at all... The Ballistix Tracer are performing better then advertised so if you go out and buy these you won't be disappointed, you actually get more then what you paid for. I just love this Ballistix Tracer DDR500 kit and I would like to see if there would be any memory kit out there that can put down the same performance levels!