Author: Peter Kapas Date: January 27, 2008 Manufacturer: Crucial Provider: Crucial

« Specifications and Packaging | Overclocking, Testing and Results » Page 3: A Closer Look

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A Closer Look

I took out the Memories from the Anti-Static bags and I was very impressed with the look. It has a nice but plain black look with silver shiny borders and the nice yellow Ballistix Tracer logo. The heat spreader is made from aluminum and has clear contact with the memory chips.


And as stated before Crucial Ballistix Tracer high-performance memory features a black printed circuit board (PCB), black integrated heat spreaders, two rows of activity-indicating light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and ground-effects LEDs. Two rows of eight red and green LEDs atop the module circulate at varying speeds proportional to usage. A custom-designed circuit relays bus activity to the LEDs, allowing them to accurately reflect usage of each memory module by the rate of change of the LED indicators. In addition, eight blue ground-effects LEDs emit a constant glow near the pins.


When we look at the pins on the bottom of the memories that you connect to the computer, you can see that it is gold plated and it is not damaged. It is clear and it will have good contact with the memory slot pins. You can also see one of the Blue LEDs on the bottom part below the heat spreader.


And finally, this is a closer look of the memory and the heat spreader.


Here you can see the LEDs in action under load conditions when running the Sisoft Sandra Memory Read test:


And this is how it looks when it is just sitting on the desktop idle:

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