High Performance Results

Finally we come to the point that you all been waiting for which goes into detail on the performance and stability of the Ballistix Tracer kit at 250MHz HTT. We are going to use our dual channel sticks and start to overclock our Intel P4 3.0GHz Prescott processor and see how well these ram modules perform. The memory timings we leave all up the mainboard and the SPD chip. By doing so the latency reported comes in at 2.5-4-4-8 for a 250MHz HTT and our CPU is running at 3.75GHz!

Float Copy Results

Having set the bus speed at 250MHz the Ballistix Tracer memory is now running at 500MHz DDR, the clock rate they have been designed for. This results in an awesome performance level of around 3245MB/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 350MB/s. Quite impressive to say the least.

Float Scale Results

With the Float Scale results we see a very similar increase and we are reaching a score of 3189MB/s on average. What you should notice as well is the lovely peak of 3567MB/s. Again we get a decent boost of around 350MB/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

Next are the Float Add results for the Tracer DDR500 dual channel kit which shows off an average of 3275MB/s. Here we see a less spectacular increase of 150MB/s, but still quite decent. Also the minimum and maximum results are a bit less tight and have some room for improvement.

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 3276MB/s with a comparable increase as we are getting used to. Once again the Ballistix Tracer memory has proven to be damn fast and stable.

The Crucial Ballistix Tracer 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 or at 250MHz HTT this memory just has it all. These Crucial memory sticks really do deserve their name!