Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 Memory Review

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Testing Setup

• CPU: Intel Core i7-5960x @4.0GHz
• CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i – Push/Pull
• Motherboard: MSI X99S Gaming 7
• RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 2400MHz CL16 (4x4GB) – 16GB
• PSU: Cooler Master V850 850w
• OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Methodology:

All benchmarks are done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit that is fully up-to-date with Windows Updates to ensure that the performance reflects a real-world scenario and not that of a tweaked benchmarking system. Every benchmark runs for a total of three times and then an average is taken of those results.

Memory on test:

• Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 2400MHz CL16 – XMP 2.0
• Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 2666MHz CL14 – Overclocked
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz CL15 – XMP 2.0
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz CL16 – Overclocked
• HyperX Predator 2133MHz CL13 – XMP 2.0
• HyperX Predator 2666MHz CL14 – Overclocked

Benchmarks:

• AIDA64
• MaxxMem
• SiSoftware Sandra
  
• Cinebench 11.5
• Cinebench 15