Haswell And Richland Memory Scaling: Picking A 16 GB DDR3 Kit
Graphics workloads love fast memory. But how much difference can a desktop-oriented kit have on gaming performance with Intel's HD Graphics 4600 or AMD's Radeon HD 8670D? We test six 16 GB kits, two all the way up to DDR3-2400 to find out.
Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3-1866
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Two 8 GB modules rated at DDR3-1866 CAS 9 make up Crucial’s 16 GB Ballistix Tactical BLT2KIT8G3D1869DT1TX0. Though its Web store uses sparsely-labeled packaging, our shopping experience turns up an additional data sticker on its designed-for-resale kits.
Booting at DDR3-1333 CAS 9, Crucial makes it easy to configure DDR3-1867 through XMP. The low 1.50 V rating would allow non-overclocking motherboards to also support its higher data rate, except that those same motherboards typically lack XMP configuration capability. Like the other products in this round-up, Ballastix Tactical is designed exclusively for the enthusiast PC market.
Crucial DRAM has a limited lifetime warranty.
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