Customer Reviews Of Crucial Ballistix 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model BL25664AA80A

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Customer Reviews for Crucial Ballistix 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model BL25664AA80A - Retail
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Review Summary (20 Reviews):
Excellent	8ReviewsExcellent	40%
Good	2ReviewsGood	10%
Average	3ReviewsAverage	15%
Poor	2ReviewsPoor	10%
Very Poor	5ReviewsVery Poor	25%
Excellent	1ReviewsExcellent	50%
Good	0Reviews	0%
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Poor	0Reviews	0%
Very Poor	1ReviewsVery Poor	50%
Excellent	4ReviewsExcellent	31%
Good	1ReviewsGood	8%
Average	1ReviewsAverage	8%
Poor	2ReviewsPoor	15%
Very Poor	5ReviewsVery Poor	38%

Reviewer	Product Review
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	2/5/2010 11:08:29 AM Avoid this ram Pros: When it was working.. It ran great! Cons: Started flaking out after about 8 months. Constant BSOD's on Vista. All 8gb are garbage. Memtest86+ found thousands of errors within an hour of testing. Other Thoughts: I decided to go back to Mushkin. I will never use Crucial again. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: average Ownership: more than 1 year	1/28/2010 12:27:18 AM Good memory Pros: Had it for 15 months. Performed well on my previous XP Pro and Vista Ultimate OS. Performing well on my Windows 7 Ultimate. Will buy another stick to reach 5GB ^. Cons: I don't like the yellow heat spreader. Hope they make memory w/ colored heat spreader/ LED that matches the lights in my computer. Other Thoughts: I don't know why the stick die on some people. Maybe because it was overclocked/ overheated? 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Letter K Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: more than 1 year	1/19/2010 7:07:02 PM Yep, they Died like the others Pros: Warranty Cons: Died just like the other reviewers. Had a set of 4x 2GB running for a year and a half. Have read the reviews on Crucial.com and having problems just like everyone else. Tested in a second system and it wouldn't boot up either. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	1/18/2010 1:28:55 PM Crucial STOLE my memory! Pros: None whatsoever. Cons: Died after 6 months, sent it in on a RMA, got a package back, 'BUT, I left it sit, as it was working well with the old 2x1gig junk I had laying around. About 6 months or so later, I went to put it in, and the package they sent me, HAD ONE, 1, piece of 2 gig Ballistix, NOT TWO. I sent them two, I got back ONE. And, after this long, there is NO way, they will NEVER give me back the missing piece of memory. Was supposed to be TWO pieces of 2 Gig Ballistix. I wilil NEVER deal with these GOOFS again! Other Thoughts: Do NOT buy this junk, It goes bad at the 6 mo. point, as referenced by nearly ALL the reviews you'll read here, AND, they like to KEEP your memory, SAVES money I guess. STAY AWAY, Far FAR away! I HOPE you read this Crucial, and take to heart. Your name in the memory industry, is taking a REALLY hard hit, and, that hammer JUST keeps getting BIGGER! You've lost a Great deal of your customer base JUST through these reviews. People DO read them, I BUY based on Reviews, and, as far as I'm concerned, YOU DO NOT EXIST! 0 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Colorado.Rob Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/31/2009 2:41:01 PM Works Great Pros: Works well with my 2 1/2 year old AM2 development workstation. Upgrading from 2GB to 8GB was a real treat. Cons: None. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
zerohaste Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	12/19/2009 3:34:02 PM 5-6 months in I get a constant BSOD Pros: None. When your RAM dies half a year after purchase, there's nothing positive to say about it. Cons: About 5-6 months after the purchase of the first set, I started getting constant BSOD in Vista. I replaced the RAM with the old 2x1GB I had, also Crucial Ballistix RAM, and everything worked fine again. So I RMA'd the dead RAM and got a replacement. Another 5-6 months later and I've got two dead sticks of RAM, again. So I put in the old 2x1GB and everything worked perfect again. No crashes, no issues at all with the old RAM. I'm not sure what's wrong with the type of memory Crucial is using in this particular set, but I can see from the previous reviews I'm not the only one with the issue. Two dead sets of RAM within a year is enough to make me write off this company altogether. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	11/15/2009 6:40:26 AM Started having issues after abiot 5 months Pros: They were relatively inexpensive, put 8G in my system. Cons: After about 5 months of usage (purchased from NewEgg on June of 2009), they are starting to have errors. Windows will randomly BSOD, I reboot and run Memtest and it returns a boatload of errors. I pull the modules and test them one by one and they all pass memtest, reinstalling the entire set and it still passes memtest, until the system has been running for a day or two and Windows starts BSODing again... Other Thoughts: Since after powering down the system, all modules pass memtest it's impossible to track down the issue to a single module. After seeing that I'm not the only one that is experiencing this issue, I will replace the entire set. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
jcgnba Tech Level: high Ownership: more than 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	10/28/2009 7:23:19 PM Worked well for 12 months, then died Pros: Worked very well for almost 12 months Cons: Started causing random crashes and blue screens of death. Other Thoughts: I started getting BSODs, sometimes while the computer was idle. Running Microsoft's RAM tester found out many memory errors. Unfortunately the modules died almost on the 12 month anniversary of my buying them, so I'm out of warranty. Even then, I would not want to replace them for the same brand. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Hayden Foster Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	10/20/2009 7:46:45 PM Works Great Pros: Works great, I just needed some extra memory for the memory hog operating system Windows Vista. Cons: none really 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Dad Tech Level: high Ownership: more than 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/20/2009 11:22:41 AM Disappointed Pros: Best "Pro" is the purchase from Newegg, good people. Cons: Was in the business myself and Crucial was always solid. Having the same problem as the other "cons", stick by stick (4) are going bad one at a time within months of each other. BSOD's in XP-Pro sp-3 in PFN_LIST_CORRUPT which is a memory error. Other Thoughts: Will not buy Crucial again. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Stefan Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/15/2009 12:21:04 PM Pros: Cheap! I bought two of these sticks to put in an ASUS M3N72-D AM2+/AM2 board. I have had the system up and running for almost a month now with no problems. If you are looking for low cost ram for basic computing needs this is a good buy. I use the pc for basic gameing and other media type stuff. For the price this ram seems to be performing great. Cons: None so far. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Nopreking Tech Level: high Ownership: less than 1 day This user purchased this item from Newegg	8/26/2009 7:15:27 PM Quick Memory Pros: The timings on this memory are tight. The lowest I could find for the price. Crucial is isually a great brand to buy. Cons: None Other Thoughts: Asus M2N68-AM SE2 AMD Athlon X2 3800 This memory ATI Radeon X1600 BFG 450 Watt Power Supply Super Micro Server case Sony 20X DVD burner Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Gary P Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	8/10/2009 12:15:54 PM Problematic Pros: NONE Cons: After a few months they intermittantly started to cause blue screens and all kinds of other errors. I have 4 sticks and more than 1 is bad but it is hard to tell which so I am sending them all back. Even reloading a clean OS and a Bios flash did not help. The real gripe is that they appear to work fine for a few days and then the errors start, even at idle! Other Thoughts: My mistake, I should have stuck with Kingston which never lets me down. I paid twice as much for these, never over clocked the memory, cpu, or board, and got nothing but aggravation. 2 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat low Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	7/6/2009 2:14:04 PM Pros: Works fine. Recognized right off the bat. Cons: None. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	6/22/2009 7:09:37 AM slightly annoyed Pros: It worked for the first few months. It was a replacement from Crucial due to an RMA of the previous kit i ordered. No problems from Newegg as they have never disappointed me. i always come here to buy parts for computers i build for others or upgrades on my own computer. Cons: I've had two kits from Crucial now that have been giving me problems after 4 or 5 months. Other Thoughts: The first kit I ordered about a year and a half ago then after the first 5 or 6 months I started getting blue screens for various things and also included some for memory management. I tried installing the Windows 7 RC that was downloaded from the Microsoft website and no matter what I did, I always got some error during installation and could never figure out what the problem was until I decided to check the memory and I found out that was the problem. I ran Memtest and got too many errors so I had to move some sticks around and I removed one to finally get the OS to Install. I submitted an RMA on this too. So far in the past year and half I've been disappointed with Crucial memory and i might not order from them again if i continue t have problems. 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Scot00 Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	2/4/2009 5:50:10 PM Pros: Orderd on 2/2 arrived on 2/3 WOO!! Great pc super faster.After building my own rig for every other year for 10 years ,I just didn't feel like doing it this year.This Pc had everything I was looking for. Cons: Video card is a little dated..Might order a new one soon Other Thoughts: Order another 4 gig of ram to really make this system fly.. 0 out of 11 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
modsfuny Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: less than 1 day This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/13/2009 2:53:08 PM frustrated Pros: just got this today in conjuction with a 1 gb version of this same stick, both sticks work fine out of the box, running at 5-5-5-18-23 2t 800 mhz together and with my crucial lanfest 2k7 sticks i purchased here about two years ago Cons: where are the l.e.d.s??? i thought the ballistix line has them like my lanfest set Other Thoughts: i hope these sticks dont fail like other people who reviewed crucial's other sets of ram Manufacturer Response:Hello, for LEDs please look at our Ballistix Tracer lineup. These have activity indicating LEDs on the top and "ground" effects on the bottom. The Lanfest modules were limited edition with only the ground effects. 0 out of 5 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/8/2009 10:44:45 AM not bad Pros: for the price it was good Cons: ddr 800 not very fast anymore :( Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
vindimy Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	9/2/2008 10:40:00 PM great stuff! Pros: nice looking, great timings, awesome quality! Cons: a bit pricey, but it's worth it 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
my nickname Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	8/18/2008 11:53:54 AM Great RAM buy 2 Pros: Tight timings, very OC-able, perfectly stable, & good looks @ a great price. Newegg rocks Cons: none 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!