Crucial DDR3 Memory — Now With More Bling!

[MrMick]

Just in case the whir of fans and the occasional tick-tick of a hard drive doesn’t provide enough clues that that yes, your PC really is powered on, Lexar Media is now offering its LED-laden Crucial Ballistix Tracer SDRAM in DDR3 trim.

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[starhoof]

so.... why do you need LEDs beside of looking pretty ?
i bet they give you that extra performance boost !

 

[blackened144]

Sounds like the racing stripes on my friends Dodge Neon.. Useless.

 

[gwolfman]

it's like stickers/logos on a rice rocket. The more you have, the faster you car/PC.

 

[neodude007]

I bet they take away from the RAM's power and you have to bust out your pencil and do a vdroop mod on your memory!! chomg

 

[rocket_sauce]

I had the DDR version of these and they performed great. For OC'ing they were good for knowing when things froze up, the lights wouldn't be moving. Fun to watch while playing games they just zip across the heatspreaders!

 

[Guest]

I have had memory with LEDs from Corsair and Crucial.
Corsair does it better, hands down.

The order in Corsair's LED pattern provides useful info, while the Crucial LED pattern just randomly lights up like a string of Xmas lights.

Oh, and the heat-sink is better on Corsair too.

 

[falchard]

My case has no side window. Is this a good memory dimm for me?

 

[buzznut]

I have the ddr2 800 2gb tracer kit. It def looks good in a windowed machine, but I would go for ocz without the window personally. The tracers found their way into my wifes pc and they look great, perform well too. Just remmeber, the leds add heat so they wont be the coolest sticks you've ever used. may need a cooling mod for serious overclocking.

 

[Guest]

Just another way to waste more electricity...
I wonder why they don't do that with your desktop speakers...