Closer Look

As usual with Crucial, memory is served in a tray made out of transparent plastic.



The styling of the modules does not look bad at all but using blue color scheme instead of the usual black and yellow is a decision Crucial might regret since almost every motherboard maker has shifted their designs in gold-ish colours with the Z87 release.





Sitting on the heatspreaders via a strap of thermal tape on each side, the heatspreaders are just two separate sheets of thin aluminium. Given that these are relatively light and the surface is smooth and low in area, we have doubts whether these can make up for an efficient cooling solution.




Removing heatspreaders on Crucial has never been a difficult task. While the code in top left corners is a clear sign of Micron ICs, we can’t identify the exact model as the center of the ICs where this information is usually printed is occupied by a Ballistix logo.



The SPD of Ballistix Sport features seven JEDEC profiles and an additional XMP profile. What's interesting is that the XMP is not the highest frequency profile programmed in the memory as there is a JEDEC profile for DDR3-2066. That is some (guaranteed) overclocking potential right there.

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Page 2 - Closer Look

Page 3 - Photo Gallery

Page 4 - Results

Page 5 - Conclusion

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