There can be no question that I like Crucial products. If you look at my past reviews, you'll see a lot of Crucial products. However, if you look at pictures I've posted before starting to do reviews, you'll find Crucial's Ballistix memory in many of my systems. There used to be a day when Crucial sticks overclocked like mad, and everyone knew it. Add in their flashy lights at the time, and they were perfect, even if their yellow color didn't fit my rig's esthetics. Flash forward several years, and Crucial is still offering Ballistix products, but their products today are very different from what they used to be.

If you are looking for a reliable kit that is easy to set up and is truly plug and play, Crucial has you covered. Simply install one of these Ballistix Sport LT kits, turn on your system, and you will have the kit running at its rated speed without having to mess with any BIOS settings or XMP. They are affordable, and now, with the introduction of these white sticks, look damn good too. The older Sport LT sticks don't look bad, but if you have one of the many white motherboards on the market, nothing else will match your rig's esthetics as well as these sticks do.

I do have a few negatives I have to mention since there are no LEDs and these sticks lack temperature monitoring. I want my memory with lights! I want the old Ballistix design back! Yet ultimately, those are personal drawbacks to this kit that won't apply to every situation. What does apply is their relatively low speed, but when it comes to current platforms with DDR4 and their performance, having low speeds doesn't really matter that much on a day-to-day basis. Performance metrics were rather interesting with these sticks, with the Crucial Ballistix Sport LT sticks taking the top spot in some places. They did take last place in a few tests, but given their high overall density is bound to have an effect somewhere, this is no surprise. Not matching the performance of some of the other tested sticks with speeds in excess of 3000 MHz is perfectly fine as well. Bought a set and need some help setting it up? Let me know in the forums!!