Tuesday, October 7th 2008
Lexar Media Unveils Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 Memory for Enthusiasts and Gamers
Lexar Media announced today the immediate availability of Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333MHz) high-performance, low-latency memory modules. These modules are the first Crucial DDR3 Tracers, and as such they incorporate the company's proprietary activity-indicating Light-Emitting Diodes (LED). These new modules feature a black printed circuit board (PCB) and black integrated heat spreaders, as well as an additional eight blue ground-effects LEDs that emit constantly, when the system is running. Crucial is shipping now the Ballistix Tracer DDR3 memory in single 1GB ($54.99) and 2GB ($99.99) modules, as well as in 2GB ($109.99) and 4GB ($199.99) kits. All Tracer DDR3 parts operate at 1333MHz with CL6-6-6-20 latencies and 1.8V.
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15 Comments on Lexar Media Unveils Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 Memory for Enthusiasts and Gamers
i wouldnt take that speed/timings for a lowly POS set of ram though.... these sticks should do 1600mhz @ 7-7-7-20 and 1800mhz @ 8-8-8-24 and 2000mhz @ 9-9-9-27. but thats just typical timings. at $109 for a 2x1gb set thats pretty sweet.
>> Lexar has tarnished their brand image. We know Lexar doesnt cut the mustard... therefore we will all wait until a brand can deliver. Even when Lexar DOES reduce voltage, the precedent was set. They gave themselves a "volts too high" name.
Own goal :nutkick:
Lexar needs to FIRE their PR agency. Read this DRIVEL:"world's first" again. LOL. Enough!
... to incorporate activity-indicating LEDs. OMG. Let's hope "activity indicating" equals WARNING BEFORE VOLTAGE DAMAGE, not just "flash while we work", "dont flash after we've blown your CPU memory controller" :nutkick:
IMO all DDR3 1600 should have a voltage between 1.55V at CL6. If they can't do that yet keep investing in R&D until they figure it out!
I’d rather buy some cheap Patriot 1GB DDR3-1333MHz (PC3-10600) 1.5v modules I came across at newegg for $34.99.
Right now I’m not sure how far you can OC an Core i7 anyway (especially if high volt RAM makes it go boom) so I don’t know if its worth spending extra.
I’ve been second guessing this move for a lot of reasons but I’m fairly sure I’ll be going through with it when the hardware ships,…just as long as retailers don’t jack up the price of the hardware’s MSRP too much.
I just received news from Micron's engineering department that they're still finalizing the specs of the Ballistix Tracer DDR3 modules for the X58 platform. This means that we will see even more Ballistix later down the line, once Intel finalizes the specs:
by the way, here's a sneak peek of the modules running in dual channel. courtesy of K404 at the XtremeSystems forums. ;)