Source: 3DXtreme
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It’s a dog eat dog world out there for memory companies bringing their DDR2 solutions to the market. As prices continue to fall, consumers would rather buy cheap DDR2-800 for $70 than spend a little bit more and buy quality memory from the likes of the Crucial, OCZ or Mushkin. Of course the cheap stuff doesn’t carry a lifetime warranty and the timings are usually not finely tuned, this is what spending a little bit more will get you. A product delivered by a company with a reputation. I think it’s great that you can pickup generic memory for so cheap, I would never run it in any of my machines. But more power to those on a tight budget that just need to get up and running. Here at 3DXtreme we try to focus our articles at a different crowd. Those looking to get the most for least and gamers who mildly overclock – that’s not to say that I’m not one of the crazies from XtremeSystems that is constantly pushing for 1 more MHz. I am. That just doesn’t mean our readers have to be!
Today we are taking a look at one of those quality sets of DDR2 memory, this time from our friends at Crucial. Crucial’s Ballistix line has been around for awhile now and targeted toward gamers looking to get every last bit of performance from their memory. Usually highly overclockable, Ballistix are some of the best memory modules I’ve used.
