| Crucial Ballistix BL2KIT25664FN1608 Memory Kit |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Memory | |
| Written by Servando Silva | |
| Tuesday, 29 June 2010 | |
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Ballistix Memory Overview Display UtilityYou probably have been thinking how Crucial shows the temperatures of your RAM, right? Well, since they added a thermal sensor to the PCB this will be the first time you'll be able to monitor your DIMMs from your screen. Crucial recently launched the MOD Utility which is a very simple application with 32 & 64 bit Windows OSs support which shows the SPD Data and temperatures of your memory installed.
The second tab shows the temperatures per DIMM. It shows a little graph per slot (where a DIMM is installed) and you can even log the temperature every interval of time to a file.
Finally, the settings tab is where you can select your temperature's unit (Celsius and Fahrenheit), and the update intervals of the chart and file's log. The "About" Tab shows the info of the creators and current version of the utility installed. That's pretty much what Crucial is offering as an extra value for this kit, and they say they aren't charging extra money for it.
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Comments
Actually, now that you've mentioned it David, as far as I remember memory heat sinks started some years ago with the purpose of hiding the ICs of each memory. I always took them away and added a fan. That worked much better than a plain metallic bar. I can't really see something useful unless for those curious about their whole system. I've never heard of heat problems with RAM yet (unless overclocking).
I'm looking to read more about your Crucial ram with the lights and when I click on a hyper link to read more it's a friggen Intel comercial???
What are you trying to sell here your ram or intel???
I'm shopping for ram and I don't want to see a comercial for another company's product!