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Crucial Launches DDR5 6000 MHz Pro DIMMs

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When Crucial cancelled its Ballistix gaming brand, it was unclear if the company would launch higher-end products in the future, although the company never said it wouldn't. Back in May of this year, Crucial launched its Pro series of memory, which was not exactly pro, at least not for the readership here which is used to an entirely different level of RAM. This was largely due to Crucial sticking to JEDEC spec, even though the company did launch some DDR5 5600 MHz modules.

Now—some six months later—it appears that Crucial is getting ready to deliver some higher performance modules with its new DDR5 6000 MHz modules, although at launch, they will only be available in a kit of two 24 GB modules. Although Crucial claims JEDEC spec, the 48-48-48 timings appear to either be slightly tighter than the original JEDEC spec, or JEDEC has updated the specs since they were announced. Although nothing about these modules screams high-end or pro, there's one thing that makes these stand out against the competition, they operate at 6000 MHz using only 1.1 Volt, whereas most 6000 MHz DIMMs on the market today, operate at 1.35 Volt higher. In addition to that, as these are JEDEC spec DIMMs, there's no need to enable XMP/EXPO settings to make them work at 6000 MHz, which could be a benefit to some. There might be some potential for tweaking these modules as well, something we'll have to wait for reviews to find out about. Crucial is asking for US$166.99 for the 48 GB kit, which puts them at a price disadvantage compared to its competitors, as you can get a similar kit for as little as $115 or possibly even less.



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Excellent, we need more memory modules allowing for high speed at reference spec so we don't need OC to achieve high bandwidth.
Far too many buyers pay too much money of OC memory with super poor JEDEC speeds, resulting in unstable systems.
 
Micron dropped the ball with DDR5.
So far anyways yeah, they are quite a tier below. Still holding out hope they eventually release a halfway decent die.
 
6000mhz at 1.1v but can it do 30 cl? I guess all other 6000mhz can do 1.1v at 48 cl too.
 
6000mhz at 1.1v but can it do 30 cl? I guess all other 6000mhz can do 1.1v at 48 cl too.

No, because it's Micron DDR5 and Micron DDR5 is cheeks lol

Bummer that Ballistix is no more, but somehow it came at an appropriate time, going from some of the best DDR4 on the market (Rev.B) to the indisputably worst DDR5 on the market
 
No, because it's Micron DDR5 and Micron DDR5 is cheeks lol

Bummer that Ballistix is no more, but somehow it came at an appropriate time, going from some of the best DDR4 on the market (Rev.B) to the indisputably worst DDR5 on the market
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Ballistix being gone. It'd make sense if PC Gaming hadn't gotten huge over the last 10-15 years, and people didn't know about Crucial. Crucial has been a go-to RAM brand for people for such a long time. I mean I guess it worked. Their stock price has certainly gone up, and we all know money is all that matters.

Also...Crucial hasn't exactly had great IC's in the beginning of new DRAM tech a couple times before. But they get more dense and find a way to make it clock, too.
 
Oooooo pretty dimms.

So clean!
 
This ^^ .. so much so that Crucial killed DDR4 Ballistix which was a hot seller.
Micron has made some strange decision, they even sold of Lexar few years back(that was a well regarded brand and were often among the best memory cards).
 
A very nice and simple design looking and the Crucial series is usually working without much of a hassle.
 
At least it's using black PCB.
 
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