r_target Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 While I wait for my Munchkin XP RMA to get rolling, I thought I might grab some of these to tide me over while I wait, and just to have some DDR2 backup. I'm looking at Ballistix Tracer, and what appears to be the same stuff without the fancy-shmancy LED lights. So is it just the lights and heatspreaders that are different? These should both be Micron D9 chips, yes? Or if anyone has a better suggestion, fire away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddamttocs Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 These are pretty good for hold-me-over ram. they most likely contain the micron d9's, although they may have promos on there too and from what ive seen here they OC pretty good, kingdingeling has a set maybe he can give some more input on that though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) Your alive! Yeah, they should be the same. Interesting that the tracers are priced lower than the ballistix. DDR2 800 rated at 4-4-4-12-21 with 2.2v is usually D9. They'll do DDR2 1000 at 5-5-5-15-30 with 2.2v easy, most likely more... They're pretty flexible chips. Edited January 2, 2008 by The Unforgivin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 Your alive! Yeah, they should be the same. Interesting that the tracers are priced lower than the ballistix. DDR2 800 rated at 4-4-4-12-21 with 2.2v is usually D9. They'll do DDR2 1000 at 5-5-5-15-30 with 2.2v easy, most likely more... They're pretty flexible chips. Yeah I'm still around here now and then. B:) Alright, I'm probably gonna snag the regular Ballistix. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squares Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 I have the Tracers, the LED's look cool if you're into blinking red and yellow lights. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 I have the Tracers, the LED's look cool if you're into blinking red and yellow lights. I got nothing against cool lights, but it's one more thing for me to break. My rig isn't exactly a show pony these days anyway. The sides and front have been off for six months. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 Get the Ballistix, as the A-Data Extreme Edition (the newer ones) use ProMOS chips instead of Micron D9s Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pp3rkut Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) I picked up the regular PC2-6400 Ballistix recently for one of my systems, and I have been loving their overclocking potential. At 50 bucks for a D9 chip, its hard to go wrong. They run rock solid at over 1000. Edited January 2, 2008 by pp3rkut Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 Done deal. Hopefully it will be here by the weekend. I'm working with 200MB files in Photoshop, and one Gig ain't cuttin' it. I can't believe how cheap RAM is now. It's crazy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Ballistix died after six days. Now I have 2GB of PQI while the Ballistix and the Mushkin are out for RMA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 What?! Six days? That's insane, were you running them at DDR1 voltages? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 What?! Six days? That's insane, were you running them at DDR1 voltages? You would think I gave them 3v the way they went "ballistix" on me. I never pushed them past spec (2.2) though. I shook my mouse to wake up my monitor and the screen was black. Rebooted to a C1 error. Pulled one stick and got it to boot to a BSOD. Got it to boot with both sticks, got a BSOD in 5 minutes. Reboot to a series of catastrophic BSODs. All the old favorites were there: irq-not-less-or-equal, page fault in non-paged area.....well, you know the drill. After scaling it down to stock speeds, clearing CMOS, even massively underclocking it made no difference, I fired off an email to the egg. Oh well, at least when all this gets cleared up, I'll have an abundance of soon-to-be-obsolete DDR2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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