32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 Memory Review

John Williamson / 8 years ago

Final Thoughts

Price

At the time of writing, the 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT is available from the company’s store for £128.39 including delivery. This is fantastic value for a 32GB kit although there ‘s undoubtedly some hefty competition from the Kingston HyperX Fury which costs £94.99. Despite this, you still get a lot of performance for the money and 32GB is ample for video rendering and other complex multi-threaded professional workloads.

Overview

When analysing memory kits, it’s important to remember that many people primarily base their decision on aesthetics and realise faster frequencies don’t translate to significantly higher frames rates. As a result, manufacturers need to conjure up some really innovative designs and ensure whatever they create matches a wide range of components. Thankfully, Crucial’s new colour scheme for the Ballistix Sport LT is a complete revelation and one of the most attractive products I’ve seen for some time. Even though RGB illumination is the current trend, some consumers including myself feel it’s being overdone and rather see more understated designs.

The 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT’s pixel decal and remarkably striking red hue combine in a beautiful way. This appears more elegant than some of the other modules I’ve seen in recent times and it should match a wide range of system builds. On another note, the heat spreader cut-outs allow you to view the black PCB more easily and greatly enhances the contrast between two colours. Personally, I’m just glad Crucial fixated on a simplistic design and executed it with the utmost expertise.

Moving onto the performance, the 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT posts excellent memory bandwidth figures and also fares well in the latency department. The synthetic numbers are what you’d expect for a 2400MHz kit and it should be more than ample for the majority of consumers. Crucial have deployed high-quality ICs and I managed to attain a fairly hefty overclock beyond 2800MHz while tightening the timings. Once overclocked, the memory kit performed brilliantly and I didn’t encounter any stability issues. While 32GB is overkill for most people, it provides a comfort zone for those working with RAW files and other advanced workloads. Personally, I’m really fond of the memory kit’s performance, price, overclocking headroom and aesthetics. Given this fact, there’s not really anything more you can ask from the product.

Pros

Black PCB
Excellent value
Gorgeous design
Great timings
Lifetime warranty
Low profile
Only 1.2v
Superb overclocking headroom

Cons

None

“The 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT provides superb performance for the money and the new red finish is absolutely sublime. This makes it one of the best packages available today and the perfect addition to any gaming PC which supports the latest DDR4 standard.”

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