Specifications and Features
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
- Speeds up to 3600 MT/s
- Radically increase memory bandwidth
- Menacing black heat spreader and PCB
- Exclusive Ballistix® M.O.D. Utility and thermal sensor allow for real-time temperature monitoring
- AMD® Ryzen™ Ready
- XMP 2.0 profiles for easy setup and configuration
- Optimized for the latest Intel® platforms
- Limited lifetime warranty
Our memory kit contains four 8GB modules. There is no special difference if we buy all four modules in a single box or packed separately. Ballistix is one of not many brands which uses matching memory IC to the product number. It makes it easy to buy additional memory modules that will work for sure with the memory we already had installed.
Under the heatsinks, we can find Micron E-die. Thanks to free software like Thaiphoon Burner, we don’t have to remove heatsinks to check that. This memory IC is quite underrated, and we can usually find it in lower series memory kits. As we can see, it runs without problems at DDR4-3600 and quite tight timings which most competition can’t reach.
The tested memory kit is the fastest in Ballistix offer. DDR4-3600 CL16 is also the optimal speed for the Zen 2 so the latest AMD processor series.
Below you can see that the XMP profile is entirely stable in quad channel mode.
Ballistix Elite is designed for all modern desktop platforms and should work without issues on Intel and AMD motherboards. Our memory has one XMP profile which works without problems in dual or quad channel mode on ASRock X399M Taichi, EVGA X299 Dark and ASUS Maximus XI Gene motherboards. This review is focused on a quad channel mode which will be wider tested using the i9-7900X processor and the EVGA X299 Dark motherboard.
Ballistix also provides M.O.D software which tells us some more about memory modules, can read memory temperature and control RGB illumination as long as the memory kit is equipped with such.
Ballistix Elite has no LED lighting so we can’t modify these settings, but we can check the temperature.
Above is the temperature in idle while below you can see maximum temperature after over half an hour of full memory load.
We’ve checked the temperature in a closed mini ATX case on the Z390 platform. This is also why you can see reading from two memory modules. The temperature is below 50°C and without direct airflow, what is a pretty good result considering that the memory load was at about 97% during the test.
Let’s move to the next page to take a look at the product and its package.
