A first look on the Crucial Ballistix XT 1866MHz RAM

 

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Product: Crucial
BallistiX RAM
Reviewed by: Vroom
Provided by: Crucial
Model: Ballistix Sport XT 2*8GB 1866MHz

 

 

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Here at Myce Crucial is mainly known for their
SSDs and amazing performance, but this time I will be taking a look at their
RAM. As many of you have noticed I mainly use my RAM as a RAM disk in all of my
reviews, because it can give extraordinary read/write speeds, and the fact that
Samsung decided to also uses a part of your system RAM to boost your SSD's
performance shows how much speed you can get from by using RAM. Coming back to
the Crucial Ballistix Sport XT RAM, I have to admit that I was tempted to see
what the difference in performance would between this 1866MHZ DDR3 RAM at 1.5V
and my Kingston HyperX 1600MHz RAM at 1.65V.

Crucial was very kind to offer me their
Ballistix Sport XT 2x8GB 1866MHz DDR3 for a quick first look, so let's start by
looking at the package and the Crucial BallistiX Sport XT RAM.

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their products, you can visit their website to find out more about them, by
clicking the link here.

Now let’s start by looking at the packaging
of the Crucial BallistiX Sport XT RAM.


Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 2x8GB 1866MHz DDR3

Here we take a closer look at the package
and what it comes shipped with.

Packaging

Simple plastic packaging holds the two RAM
modules in place and also displays the memory. At the top we can find the usual
sticker that has all the information about the RAM, such as size, timings, voltage,
and frequency. Speaking about all this, in the picture below you can get a more
detailed view of the specifications that are written on the top left sticker.

 

Here is a picture of the rear of the
package.

A look at both side of the Crucial
BallistiX Sport RAM. Not much to say about the style of the RAM, I personally
find it very interesting, simple and clean looking, the only thing that you
need to take into consideration is the height, and you might (as I did) face
some issues with an aftermarket CPU cooler.

On the front side of the Crucial Ballistix
sport XT, we can see two stickers and the left one is the one that displays the
characteristics of the RAM. Below you can see take a closer look.

All
the basic information is displayed on this sticker, such as timings, and speed.

The here
is the other side of the of the Crucial Ballistix sport XT.

 


Let’s head to the next page where we
take a look at our testing methods and the review PC.

 

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