Introduction

First we would like to thank Crucial Europe for supplying us with this memory.

Crucial is a division of micron. They build their own Chips and PCB, not like all the other manufacturers who have the DDR-Ram only soldered together and referred their chips and PCBs by other manufacturers. On the Tracer PC4000 are also unique leds for a good look. Although Crucial/Micron is not normally known as overlocking ram we will do an extreme overclocking test with high voltages and try to find out if they are a good alternative to Ram with Samsung TCCDs or low latency like Winbond UTT BH-5/CH-5.

The chips are getting really hot, so beware for giving to much voltage! Around 3.0-3.1V looks fine for me.

Specification

LEDs

Here you can download a small Video (5.1 MB) of the Tracers in action.

Here you can see the system we tested on.


All parts are selected with high performance and good overclockability in mind to reach high test results. We used BIOS 704-2BT for the DFI Lanparty nForce4 SLI-D.
All AlphaTimings in the Bios are set to auto, except for:

• CPC - Enabled
• DRAM bank Interleaving - Enabled
• Idle Cycle Limit - 256
• Dynamic Counter - Disabled
• R/W Queue Bypass - 16x
• Bypass Max - 07x.
• TRAS always at 7, this gives highest memory bandwith when used with the Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) of the Athlon64.