Crucial Ballistix Memory

[Wry1]

Originally Posted by ATINUT

Not quite, I got the Ballistix memory working, but it is unstable on my P5N32-E SLI board. I tried adjusting the voltage manually, and timings manually, but couldn't get the memory stable enough where I could attempt to get games reinstalled and give the memory, my videocards and cpu a work out.

Sadly this Ballistix memory is so unstable with my board, ie freezes and reboots, I pulled it out.

I ordered some standard Crucial DDR2 800 memory, which should hopefully be in Friday. It sucks, that it turned out that this Ballistix memory was unstable once I got it up and running, but that's the way the ball bounces.

Just curious, did you run Memtest/86+ and if so which test/s did it error or crash on?

To bad it didn't work out for you.........Good luck with the new memory!

[ATINUT]

I decided to try one last expirament. I set the voltage manually to 1.9 in the bios, and the timings to 5-5-5-18, which is what the memory is detected as when it is on auto, and so far it's pretty stable, when the standard DDR2 800 memory comes, I'm going to have the shop I got this Ballistix memory from, set that stuff aside for a few days, while I test the stability of this memory.

Crucial's rating of 2.2 volts 4-4-4-12, is a bunch of bullcookies, as the Ballistix memory isn't stable at these settings. Four 1GB Ballistix DDR2 800 DIMMS are not stable beyond 1.9 volts for voltage and 5-5-5-18 for memory timings.

Thing is, is that I really don't think I'm going to keep this Ballistix memory, as I'm not an overclocker and I don't push the timines hot and heavy.