Ballistix Tracer 4 gb are they any good?

[Viscin]

Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory Looking to upgrade, getting a 750i FTW board, 280 gtx,q6600 at 3.6ghz and i saw these and it looks like a great deal but I want to know if it is great RAM. and if it is a good overclocker

 

[Puddle Jumper]

I know the 2x1gb tracers have really went downhill so it's possible the 2x2gb ones have as well. Just to be on the safe side I would get the Gskill pi black's instead.

Newegg.com - G.SKILL PI Black 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

 

[philbar71]

that is a good deal, but i dont know if they are any good. a week ago i was close to buying those. so i would have bought them if i hadn't ran out of cash

 

[Viscin]

that is a good deal, but i dont know if they are any good. a week ago i was close to buying those. so i would have bought them if i hadn't ran out of cash

What do you think of those g.skill?

 

[thirdshiftdj]

honestly they all use the same IC's.

 

[veg1992]

Newegg.com - CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

If you don't mind rebates that's pretty good too

 

[Viscin]

Is the corsair good for overclocking and overall in general? and Which is better? (compared to the g.skill or anything else)

 

[veg1992]

Better is subjective and for some reason the only that matters apparently..

Its the same honestly... Most RAM cap about the same place and these two RAM's are spec'ed around the same

 

[Viscin]

but the ballistix tracer is a no no right?

 

[veg1992]

We don't know honestly, just like the q6600, the Crucial Ballistix/Tracer were super popular.. .we even used to call them "MagicStix" but later they went crappy by becoming single-sided DIMM Modules (like ancient RAM, DDR-133 like...)

We don't know if this RAM is also affected too so buy it if you want to play a game of chance, but I'd rather go do roll a dice than risk buying single-sided RAM