Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Desktop Gaming Memory Kit 64GB (32GBx2) CL16 BL2K32G32C16U4B (BLACK)

I had 4 sticks of 8gb Crucial Ballistix @2666mhz with XMP enabled. This ram was solid, but I wanted a little more. I knew it was possible the gains could end up being small, but I had the money, so I went for it. My computer is an IBuyPower 'Enthusiast'(Yes, I plan on upgrading the psu and graphics eventually) that I use for day trading stocks. The computer was already pretty solid out of the box, especially for only $499, but what I liked was that the ASRock motherboard B450M-ibw (proprietary to IBuyPower, but same as a B450M/ac) and AMD platform that I thought would be a fairly solid starting point with which to upgrade as I came across more funds. The first thing I did was go from the stock 8gb of ram to Crucial 8x2. This helped a bit, but needed some help, so I upgraded to a Ryzen 5 3600. Already excellent gains and speed (It came with a Ryzen 3 2400g). I overclocked the Ryzen 5 to 4.2ghz @ 1.4v, which proved to be nice and stable, but I didn’t like how high the voltage was, which is not needed and really only causes heat, so I ended up at 1.375v.I then bought 2 more of 8gb ram by Crucial for 32gb total, 8x4gb at the stock speed of 2666mhz. This was fine, but it really didn't help much bc I was still at the stock speed of 2666, so in essence, I could tell, and feel, that it could be improved upon. I eventually did away with the 4x8 setup @2666 and went with this kit at 3200mhz, 16x2, with XMP enabled. I tried messing with timings to see if I could achieve CL15 or CL14, but every time I saved bios settings and rebooted, it kept throwing away XMP as well as my cpu overclock and rebooting everything to auto. So essentially, what I discovered is that at least with a Ryzen 5 3600 and an ASRock B450M-ibw(same as B450M/ac, just different bios), these Crucial Ballistix either don't like to be overclocked passed their stock XMP overclock settings, or the motherboard/bios doesn't like it. I have a feeling it's the ram that doesn't like it.Full specs are:Ryzen 5 3600 overclocked to 4200ghz @ 1.400voltsCrucial 32gb(16x2) 3200mhz CL16 with XMP enabled.So right now with this setup, my best Cinebench rating is 1825, which I noticed beats out quite a few Ryzen 7 setups listed on Cinebench. I still have the stock PSU and graphics card which I'm itching to upgrade, but I haven't decided if I'm going to add 2 more 16x2 sticks for a total of 64gb. I know most activities won't benefit, but some will, so there's that.Crucial is definitely solid kit. There's a reason they are as reputable as they are. Hope all that helps.** Edit (as of 04/25/2020): I’ve upgraded to 64gb of ram, 16x4 with xmp enabled @3200mhz.If this makes sense, overall it’s not faster per se, but does feel ‘smoother’. Everything feels effortless, almost like the cpu accesses to ram when it needs to for help, which is rare, but seems to ‘know it’s there when needed’, if you will. I’ve upgraded the cpu to an EVGA 750w Gold, the graphics card is now an RTX 2060 Super and I’ve put a Noctua U12A cpu cooler on the cpu which has allowed me to squeeze the overclocking to 4.3 @ 1.375. I’ve upgraded the intake and exhaust fans to Noctua F12’s and this thing is not only stable as mountain, but quiet as a mouse. I have an air purifier in my room that is louder than this thing. Anyway, just some tweaks I thought I’d add. Well worth it. Ram is excellent, can’t go wrong.*** Edit #2 (as of 10/5/2021): I still have 64gb of ram, but I've bought all white modules that are 3000mhz cas latency 15 (CL15).Full Specs now are:- Ryzen 9 3900x w/ Noctua NH-U12a for the cpu cooler (Using Noctua's NT-H2 Thermal Paste)- RTX 2070 Super- 64gb Crucial Ballistix 3000mhz CL15 overclocked to 3466mhz- Corsair case with Kaze Flex case fans- B450m/IBW (Proprietary iBuyPower Motherboard made by AsRock (Closest AsRock has is the B450m/ac and no one seems to have a clue what the difference between the two are even though they look identical to my eyes). I keep pushing its limits and it hasn't failed me. If I upgrade it'll be to an x570 Taichi as I'm already comfortable with how AsRock's bios is laid out.- Seasonic 750w Platinum PSU- Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME with Archgon M.2 2280 Heatsink(purchased here on Amazon).Actually everything was purchased on Amazon. Everything is running like butter. My Cinebench Score is over 7500 now with my Ryzen 9 overclocked to 4.4ghz. Please be aware the Cinebench is not a good indicator of your ram timings and mhz speed being stable as Cinebench is more CPU intensive.So anyway, My previous 64gigs of ram I could not for the life of me get timings tighter. They were 3200mhz at CL16. I wanted CL15 or CL14 as this is better for production since I don't actually game(hence why so much ram). I was able to get the old ram to 3466mhz with Infiniti fabric at 1733 no problem, however.In comes the 3000mhz CL15. It's all white now instead of a mix of red and black even though the specs were the same on both the black and red sticks. I popped in the new all white ram, got myself into the bios and something interesting happened. I did not need to touch that 3466mhz overclock. It immediately registered the same, but held the 15-16-16-35 timings. This is a win as I rarely experience happy surprises of that nature when dealing with overclocking scenarios. Boy was I a happy camper. I was completely prepared to have to set the new ram's XMP profile and attempt to again boost the frequency and Infiniti fabric, but in fact, the old memory's setting held in the bios. I've checked the performance tab in task manager and sure enough, it says the ram is running at 3466mhz and Ryzen Master confirms Infiniti fabric is at 1733. I'm not going to push it any further as I'm still on a B450m motherboardnow extremely happy with how everything is running.

I've used this RAM kit with a Ryzen 1600X and now a 5700X, on a B450 board. In both cases I encountered no issues with enabling XMP to run at full-spec. That's worth noting because 1st gen Ryzen had problematic memory controllers, and would be super picky about what RAM it could do a stable overclock on. My first kit, from Corsair, could not run at listed 3200 MHz spec, and was limited to 2933 MHz. This one worked perfectly.

After a a few months (if I remember correctly -- it happened about two year ago), one of the two memory sticks in the kit died. I contacted the customer support (in European country), and shipped the memory for RMA paying the shipping bill from Israel to EU myself (they didn't provide a free RMA shipping like some other companies do). They advice to return both sticks, so that if they cannot replace the faulty one with the same exact model, they'll replace them both for two of the same model.After about two months I got a message from them that they are sending me the replacement memory modules. The shipping company (UPS) delivered the package into a mailbox of a wrong address. The local UPS customer support said they will investigate but never returned back to me. Then I contacted the Crucial customer support in hopes they could clear the things up with the local UPS, since they are the ones who sent the package. Alas, after they promised to look into it, they never contacted me again.So, because I took advantage of the Crucial's warranty, I lost the second, working memory stick, the shipping fees to another country, and hours of my time dealing with it. Each year I order about a dozen memory kits and about a dozen of SSDs for PC repairs, and in general I like Crucial. But that was the only time I had a problem with the memory I purchased -- no other companies' products had been bad so far. And each time I need to order a memory kit or a SSD, I think twice before taking advantage of Crucial's offers.

Yeah, it can be set to 3000mhz with an XMP profile, but that's not JEDEC, There is little headroom for higher frequencies. When I bought these I thought it was an actual 3000mhz kit.

I bought this kit a while back when I built my last pc. They were easy to install and system recognized them right away. Other than popping them in I had to do nothing. I have a new pc I just built and actually have a 64G kit being delivered today.

Simple DRAM. No RGB, no nonsense.XMP works out of the box.Price is ok but also could be a bit cheaper. I guess it is what it is on 2023

The 32GB 3200C16 kit seems to be single-rank Micron rev.B or dual-rank Micron rev.E, the latter of which I received; having both under one listing is not ideal but more consistent than many competitors, unless you go for Samsung B-die specs.I'm running these for daily use at 3666 MT/s and slightly bumping FCLK to match but really just from XMP/automatic settings—meaning 16-18-18-36 and *unchanged voltage* (1.35V setting, which my motherboard really makes 1.37V)—which is absolutely bonkers.I also got 3800C18 after tweaking mostly SOC and DRAM voltage (guided by 1usmus's Ryzen DRAM Calculator). I could possibly get 3733C16 stable, but haven't put in the effort to properly tune—and haven't played with changing Geardown Mode to 1T or 2T command rate to see what is achievable. Obviously mileage will vary some with the silicon and one's system.System specs: 3700x on an MSI X570 Gaming Plus, where another brand's 3600C18 Hynix CJR kit failed to work at XMP. They fit under my dual-tower cooler with the fan shifted up slightly.I bought these on sale at $90, which was amazing for dual-rank. However, I don't think this is worth $120 or the $139 list price when undercut by 3600C18 (albeit single-rank) kits which may overclock, and beat on the other side by good-bin Samsung B-die kits.

Micron recently changed 16Gb memory sticks configuration to 1 Rank instead of previously produced 2 Ranks without highlighting this in any way to the buyers and retaining the same product number.This is a deceptive and misleading tactics especially if buyers are making their decisions based on performance reviews received with older, 2 Rank modules.This can be easily checked without even pulling modules from the box through the clear plastic on the front.Starting February 2021 Amazon only shipping BL16G32C16U4B.M8FB1 modules instead of BL16G32C16U4B.M16FE1.So Micron REDUCED their manufacturing cost by utilising higher density 8 chips per stick instead of 16 chips, while also REDUCING average system performance and INCREASING the price.Older modules had Average Uncached Transfer Speed of 18.7Gb/s READ and 14.9GB/s WRITE while new ones are 17.3 GB/s and 14.0 GB/s respectively.In real life applications for a gaming system 2 Rank (2 sticks x 1 Rank) vs 4 Rank (2 sticks x 2 Ranks or 4 sticks x 1 Rank) memory configuration means up to 4-9% decrease in performance with all the same components and settings.This is a huge difference because for an average gaming system those 4-9% in performance usually cost well North of $100-$200 in upgrades.So Micron is selling worse components under the same part #, making more profit but delivering worse product to unsuspicious customers.Micron should have started marking product package with memory configuration information to make customers aware of such a change instead of sneaking sub-quality product in the same box which may and will be associated by a lot of people with product performance review which are no longer applicable to the new modification.I do believe that this is unacceptable and dishonest business practice comparable to Apple throttling older iPhone models.

I ryzen serie 3000, per la loro architettura, lavorano meglio con frequenze di ram elevate.I CCD (grupi di core) infatti comunicano tra loro attraverso l'infinity fabric. Questa comunicazione avviene ad una frequenza uguale a quella delle ram fino a 3600Mhz. (3600mhz in double data, DDR appunto, sono 1800mhz sull'infinity clock, ma questo non ci interessa).Oltre i 3600Mhz, la frequenza dell'infinity clock passa da 1:1 a 1:2, dimezzandosi e rallentando gli scambi di dati tra i core.Quindi 3600Mhz è la frequenza migliore con cui scegliere le vostre ram per i ryzen.E' assolutamente sconsigliato scendere sotto i 3000Mhz, mentre un buon compromesso per le prestazioni se non volete spendere troppo sono i 3200Mhz (questo dai test che si trovano in giro).Ovvie te come tutte le ram, per farle andare alla frequenza dichiarata dovete abilitare il profilo xmp dal vostro bios (è una cavolata, ma è fondamentale).AGGIORNAMENTO:Per i ryzen 5000 l'infinity fabric di cui ho scritto sopra, si puo fare andare fino a 1900-2000mhz (2000 nei casi fortunati, 1900 quasi sempre). Questo corrisponderebbe a frequenze sulle ram di 3800-4000Mhz.Ci sarebbe la serie max che va dai 4000mhz in su, ma costa davvero troppo e non ne vale la pena se considerate che le ballistix "normali" da 3600mhz cl16 si overclockano facilmente a 3800Mhz cl16 e anche a 4000mhz cl17 con circa 1,39v. Questo da quello che ho potuto vedere sui due stick miei e altri quattro di un amico che ho aiutato con le ram.Quindi, in poche parole, per i ryzen 5000 le migliori ram da prendere restano le 3600 cl16, da overclockare all'occorrenza se volete alzare manualmente le frequenze dell'infinity fabric ed ottenere il massimo delle prestazioni possibili. Se non volete toccare l'infinity fabric perché non siete sicuri o non vi interessa, le potete comunque lasciare a 3600 attivando il solo profilo xmp (proprio come sui ryzen 3000) e siete apposto.

These sticks are micron Rev. E and they are better than some b-dies for a lot less money. (samsung refers to their silicon internally as b-die while micron refers to theirs as rev e)MB: B450M Mortar MAX, CPU: Ryzen 7 2700 @ 4.0Ghz, 1.35V, SOC, 1.08V, CLDO_VDDP 0.7VEDIT: A few things to note, my sticks are throwing errors at XMP stock voltage of 1.35V in HCI Memtest. Errors at XMP should be expected as it is an overclock profile, in most cases bumping voltages will get rid of the errors. Using Ryzen Dram Calculator and some manual timing tightening I ended up with this: 14-18-14-14-32-56-1CR-522TRFC, GDM OFF @ 3600 MT/S, 1.47V. In the calculator membench 0.8 i got a time of 109.6 on Easy.

¡Claramente recomiendo este pack de Crucial! Son una excelente elección para los gamers que buscan aumentar el rendimiento de sus sistemas. Con una velocidad de 3200 MHz, estas memorias DDR4 ofrecen un excelente desempeño y funcionamiento confiable.La instalación es fácil y sencilla, sin necesidad de conocimientos técnicos avanzados. Además, el diseño en negro con detalles en gris se ve moderno y elegante en cualquier setup.La memoria viene en un paquete de dos módulos de 16 GB cada uno, por lo que contarás con un total de 32 GB para manejar incluso las aplicaciones más exigentes. En resumen, este pack son una excelente opción para cualquier gamer o persona que necesite aumentar su rendimiento ¡Muy recomendadas!

Crucial è una garanzia!Recensione per versione:• 3600MHz• Timings 16-18-18-38-58• 16 GB (2x8 GB)• 76,22€Ricordate sempre che bisogna attivare tramite BIOS, il profilo XMP (Intel) o D.O.C.P. (AMD) delle RAM, per farle andare a 3600 MHz con CL16, altrimenti, (come altri utenti non pratici che si lamentano e fanno il reso per “truffa”) il sistema vedrà le RAM alla velocità di 2666 MHz.Per coloro a cui piace smanettare, questi chip E-Die della Micron (per chi non lo sapesse, il marchio Crucial è di proprietà della Micron Technology Inc.) sono fenomenali.Queste RAM si lasciano “trasportare” tranquillamente a 4000 MHz con CL18 a 1.45V.Io ho deciso di stare sul daily safe perché non amo troppo il sovra-voltaggio dei componenti elettronici, quindi mantenendo gli 1.35V consigliati dalla casa produttrice, le ho portate con il minimo sforzo da 3600 MHz 16-18-18-38-58 1.35V del profilo D.O.C.P. ad una stabilità ottima di 3733 MHz 16-16-16-34-52 1.35V.Hanno un ottimo rapporto qualità-prezzo, io le ho pagate 76,22€ nel periodo del Black FridayUn’altra cosa che adoro è il design minimale, il loro ottimo dissipatore e sopratutto l’assenza di led RGB.Non lasciatevi convincere dai pappagalli che osannano i chip Samsung B-Die. I chip Micron E-Die se la giocano alla pari e con un prezzo onesto, si, perché quello che vi fanno pagare le atre marche, sono: il “nome” e quelle 4 lucine.Le recensioni negative vanno lette, come in ogni cosa prima di effettuare l’acquisto, ma alcune fanno davvero ridere perché fatte da persone poco pratiche che, non sapendo dove mettere le mani, ne dicono peste e corna.Amazon come sempre perfetta nei tempi di consegna.