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Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 Memory Review
Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 Memory Review  - PCSTATS
Along to top edge of each stick of the brand-spanking-new Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory are sixteen red & green activity LED's, and an additional eight blue LED's along the bottom of the DIMM.
 84% Rating:   
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External Mfg. Website: Crucial Dec 09 2004   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Sandra 2004

Winstone 2004 Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Business Winstone 2002:

AMD Athlon64 System Results

Points

Ranking

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX3200XL (200/400) 23.9
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400) 23.9
2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 (200/400) 24
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (200/400) 23.6
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (251/502) 24.8

Intel Pentium 4 System Results

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX3200XL (200/400) 18.4
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400) 18.3
2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 (200/400) 17.9
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (200/400) 18
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (262/524) 22.7

The performance of the Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 RAM when overclocked on the AMD system isn't all that much better than stock. On the Intel system, we see a nice performance boost thanks to a much higher clock speed, and the extra bandwidth provided by the Tracer memory.

SiSoft Sandra 2004 Source:Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher numbers represent better performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2004 Benchmark Results
Memory Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:

AMD Athlon64 System Results

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-3200 XL (200/400) 3025 3029
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400) 3015 3033
2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 (200/400) 3018 3024
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (200/400) 3028 3026
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (251/502) 3611 3596

Intel Pentium 4 System Results

2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-3200 XL (200/400) 4863 4863
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400) 4836 4833
2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 (200/400) 4817 4834
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (200/400) 4894 4992
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix Tracer (262/524) 5918 5907

Bandwidth goes up nicely in Sandra's tests on both the AMD and Intel systems thanks to overclocking.

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Contents of Article: Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000
 Pg 1.  Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 Memory Review
 Pg 2.  Overclocking the Pretty Memory...
 Pg 3.  — Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Sandra 2004
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: X2: The Threat, UT2003
 Pg 6.  Maximum Overclock and Conclusions

 
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