Initial Performance Results (Cont.)

Now we will grab some sample information from Everest Ultimate Edition and get some feedback on the ram's performance. Lavalys was nice enough to allow us to evaluate their software for our reviews. We really like the wealth of information this utility gives us and we thank Lavalys for their support. On top of that it will allow us to show you some extra performance figures to give you a second opinion about the raw power of the Crucial Ballistix Edition memory series. It is always good to have a second angle on the performance and to confirm the behavior of the memory sticks.

Again we are using a totally default configuration for the out of the box experience, which some slight overclocking of the Core 2 Duo processor. No tweaking has been done during these tests; we want to know what's up with these modules at bone stock! After we tested with RMMA, we rebooted the system to refresh the resources and just because we wanted too, so that we can get the optimum performance without tweaking the system. Afterwards we will check it further by adapting the memory timings as advertised by Crucial. So let's check it out.

Memory Read Results

Firing up Everest, with the default setting of the Crucial memory sticks and we start the first benchmark listed, which is all about the Memory Read performance. The Crucial Ballistix Edition dual channel memory pulls of some great scores indeed. Meaning once again that the memory runs at default 1000MHz and with the timings set by the SPD chip. The Ballistix Edition ram kicked out a 7953MB/s score on a synthetic measurement. This makes this ram an outstanding 2GB kit with some room for improvement when applying the advised latency listed by Crucial.

Memory Write Results

The Write results are a little different, here we see 5449MB/s of throughput, but this is still some nice score of the Crucial ram. These scores might seem a bit lower then what we just saw with the read results but you also need to take into account that the memory timings are not set as advertised for the Ballistix sticks. Of course we will check the same with more adapted memory latencies. But in relation to the results of other memory sticks this is on par or even better.

Memory Copy Results

Coming next with the benchmark suite are the Memory Copy results, also here the Crucial Ballistix Edition modules prove that they are of high performance with a score of 5833MB/s. This should certainly improve when applying better memory timings. But all in all not a bad result at all, and certainly not when comparing to other systems. The Ballistix Edition from Crucial does quite well, and certainly proves they are up for more. High performance ram to please the hardcore gamer, with outstanding performance what more do you want?

Memory Latency Results

The latency results are a bit of scale but that is to be expected with the 5-6-6-18 configuration. But it isn't really a disappointing score, the reported score of 57.6ns linked somehow to the rated speed and the non adapted memory timings used. We should see some better results once these have been reset to DDR2-1000 appropriate values. Although we can already state that the DDR2 memory does a better job than the older DDR version. So by all means, the DDR2 modules are the way to go!

In the end the Crucial Ballistix Edition does perform quite well considering that they are set at timings that are not really appropriate for a 1000MHz operation speed. Anyway the performance it better then any DDR kit ever did, so that really proves that the future lies with DDR2 when it comes to high-end Intel and AMD based computer systems. However we will check how these will perform when we actually set the best memory timings for delivering world class DDR2-1000 performance. But for the enthusiasts for high performance these Ballistix stick some recommended!