Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red DDR2-800 4GB Dual Channel Memory Kit Review

Yes, DDR2 is still a viable platform, and still suits well over half of the enthusiast community just fine. But to put it bluntly, in the past, the PC industry has had no problem creating a new technology, and making the old obsolete, regardless of how we, the enthusiasts, feel about it. Yet here we are, over a year into DDR3, and we steadily are seeing new DDR2 memory and motherboards. Today I will be looking at Crucial's latest DDR2 modules, the Ballistix Tracer DDR2-800 4 gig kit. Besides a capability of 4-4-4-12 timings, in a market that has seen DDR2 4GB kits for quite some time, what can Crucial do to make a PC2-6400 memory kit interesting enough for us to take notice? Read on to see!