Enhanced Performance Results

Since the Crucial Ballistix line is specifically built as a high performance edition for performance enthusiasts we are going to see how much performance these memory modules can deliver. We will start this of by sticking to the 1000MHz speed and start lowering the memory timings. Doing so we reached some very aggressive memory timings of 5-5-5-15 which are not even that common for DDR2-1000 designed memory modules. But that is what comes advertised by Crucial and that is what we used. Similarly as before, we will once again go through the full benchmarks analysis to point out the difference in performance.

Float Copy Results

So now that we are on the best memory latency for any DDR2-1000 memory out there, we can have the better results for using these Ballistix series memory sticks at 1000MHz. The memory timings have been set manually on the mainboard BIOS to 5-5-5-15 and that results in an awesome score of 3949MB/s on average for the Float Copy results. This is around 60MB/s increase over the 5-6-6-18 timings used before by just aligning the latency. That shows already the importance of the memory timings on the actual bandwidth available.

Float Scale Results

Also on the next results for the Float Scale part we see a tremendous increase of performance up to 3970MB/s on average which is an increase of about 60MB/s. We can clearly understand why the memory timings are playing a big role on the performance levels of the DDR2 memory; the lower the latencies will mean better responsiveness and better performance in the end. On the Crucial Ballistix Edition that certainly makes a nice difference, which will be highly appreciated by the hardcore gamer.

Float Add Results

Continuing on our results we have arrived to the Float Add results of the Ballistix PC2-8000 Edition memory modules. By applying the 5-5-5-15 timings we see an average of 4712MB/s an improvement of around 110MB/s. So at 1000MHz the new adapted latencies are paying of quite well and lift these Crucial memory sticks to a new performance level. Also the maximum bandwidth has gone up, and we still notice that both the top and average remain closely together. Doing so warrants excellent stability.

Float Triad Results

And finally we have the Float Triad results that are boosted to a 4712MB/s on average which again is a boost of about 110MB/s. We can also spot that the minimum and maximum levels are quite matching up and don't have that much gap in between. This adds up to having very stable operation with the Ballistix Edition modules. Taking into account again a very close match between maximum and average bandwidth reported, only confirms once more the great stability of these memory sticks.

These Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000 Edition ram modules are performing at extreme levels. Operating at 1000MHz these ram sticks just blew us away by there stability and performance. So if you are looking for some decent memory modules at DDR2-1000 speed levels then just think about these Crucial Ballistix sticks. They perform as fast or in most cases faster then any other DDR2-1000 dual channel memory kit. We can truly state that Crucial designed the Ballistix series with the performance enthusiasts system builders in mind.