Unboxing the Crucial Ballistix DDR4-5100 memory kit.

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[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

first. EDIT: Also I was right this 16Gb revB restricted to 8Gb.

[@dawxdio874]

no

[@cconnors]

Is the difference between your voltages to reach 5GHz and theirs to get to 5.1 because of the 8GB restricted?

[@shadowkiller5520]

Could you get the new B550-I Gaming and see how much better the memory layout is compared to the X570-I Gaming using this kit of memory?

[@thomasb1521]

You should clock it low enough to run on infinity fabric 1 to 1 with rediculus timing

[@MCMinerHQ]

no

[@Phynellius]

maybe they're hoping to piggy back your association with Gamers Nexus to get some more eyes on the goods. Sticks like this are wasted on less technical channels, so I'm glad it went to someone like you

[@TZLVredmist]

BuildZoid is always going to get the good stuff. We very much appreciate the real feedback, and I love the videos! Ryan Jacobson - Crucial Ballistix Product Marketing Mgr.

[@DatzBunz]

@@TZLVredmist love the crucial ballistix line. Found it was the only brand to not give me issues on my ryzen systems and on intel its also amazing for the price. I recommend it to everyone I can. Keep up the good work.

[@matasa7463]

@@TZLVredmist I'm going with you guys next time I buy ram just because of the good community interaction. Keep this up, and avoid doing what nVidia just did.

[@jackgleeson8321]

Lets all thank Crucial for sending you these items to enjoy.

[@deminybs]

I mean yeah that's cool but hell, last time he was sent multiple kits of RAM he said he'd do videos on ...he did like 2 of the 20 kits and never did more videos 😂😂

[@martinquintana2458]

Thanks Mr Crucial!!

[@sysakPL]

Already bought 2 kits from them and told my brother to get one too. Can't do much more ;)

[@MrMattumbo]

They're (Micron) building a huge new fab near me (Manassas, VA) not sure if they're gonna produce crucial products there or just fancy chips for the defense industry but either way it's pretty cool. There's not many American companies still on the cutting edge of consumer PC hardware so I always try to support crucial if they've got a competitive product (unlike Intel).

[@javaguru7141]

I'm willing to bet you have some fans over at Crucial who wanted to see what you have to say about their work :)

[@andersjjensen]

Yup! And now they're disappointed he didn't take it apart and say nice things about the build quality :P

[@shaneeslick]

especially after all the nice thing he said about the last shipment they sent, but hey do a good job & you get good reviews 😁 I bought their Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB (2x8GB) PC-25600 (3200MHz) DDR4, CL16, 16-18-18-36 after Builzoid's review & I think they look cool 😁

[@EURIPODES]

This is the simplest explanation. Who wouldn't want to watch Buildzoid nerd out on their work?

[@brendenweaver5107]

If anyone is going to truly appreciate this kit its you! They knew exactly who they were sending them to.

[@floodo1]

srsly

[@Nickeles020]

You are totally right! He is the Ram Guru. And in my opinion, he definitely deserves much more review samples from other companies as well.

[@shaneeslick]

Definitely think Buildzoid understands how special they are, Jay who got 2 sets for the RIP series not so much 😂

[@press_button_for_assistance]

I agree! I came here to say that. Buildzoid is my go to for RAM advice.

[@Kvantum]

You have 119k subs as of this, but what's your channel name? "Actually Hardcore Overclocking." If they have major confidence in their product actually living up to its specs, they need one of the few brave lunatics out there willing to push it to its actual Hardcore maximums. You got it because you can actually use it as designed. Most other tech channels? Not even close.

[@jonahhekmatyar]

Lol, most tech tubers probably don't even know what xmp is. They'd probably plug it in having it run at jedec speeds along with every other memory they test and come to the conclusion that memory frequency is just a marketing gimmick

[@shaneeslick]

Yeah, not a peep about the performance from Jay who got 2 sets sent to him for the Rip series

[@XDSDDLord]

Linus ended up running them sub 4000 I think?

[@shaneeslick]

@@XDSDDLord what a waste sending them to him then 🙄, If I was the Micron Rep I'd ask for them back 🤣

[@deeppurplefan]

Plot twist: The entire english speaking market for high speed memory watches your channel. Somebody at Crucial marketing is paying attention.

[@desaster00]

dude you really deserve more subs. you're the reason i got interested in overclocking and i love your rambling vids lol

[@Phynellius]

I can see where the line is though, tried introducing some of my PC buddies to the channel and their eyes just start to glass over once electronics knowledge starts droppin'

[@kvahlman]

Your recommendations made me snatch a 3200 ballistix kit from the recent Amazon sale, happily running it at 3600 for my Ryzen. So in my book you deseved the kit for sure, made me a fan of Crucial 👍

[@sysakPL]

Maybe you can do 3800 and you are 99% sure to get 3733. (Make sure to force 1:1 fclk ratio)

[@MadClowdz]

@@sysakPL Yeah I've got Ballistix 16gbx2 3600mhz clocked to 3733 stable with my 3700x on X570, don't wanna go over 3800 because of the fclk issue.

[@kvahlman]

@@sysakPL I did experiment going past 3600 (with 1:1) but seemed to lose performance so took the easy route for now. Need to do a more thorough clocking session at some point for sure.

[@shaneeslick]

I got the Ballistix 16GB 3200MHz Kit too, it is paired with a R9 3900X & X570Tomahawk but just running XMP so far, I really like the look & Buildzoid's praise of the performance sealed the deal, what an upgrade from i7-3770K editing Home Videos😲😲😲😲😲, I gotta take some time to back & find Buildzoid's vid for setting up the FCLK & OC to 1800/3600 or 1900/3800 depending on what my combo is happy with

[@Verpal]

@@kvahlman Damn, that's rough, your cpu is earlier batch?

[@garryarganis5801]

correction : you have 119 k of the most badass subscribers in youtube.

[@jamesthomson8659]

na some of us are just dirty casuals.

[@garryarganis5801]

@@jamesthomson8659 being a casual and being a badass are two different things, at least i think so pardon my poor english

[@jamesthomson8659]

@@garryarganis5801 Your English is great. I'm a subscriber, but not a hardcore overclocking badass. Buildzoid has called us dirty casuals in the past.

[@Rickbearcat]

Trying to get on my good side, are we now?

[@benchosei9878]

Zoid, Bill Zoid.

[@karasflowers4970]

One moment I thought it was a DDR5 Ram video unboxing, being so reckless to read the title😅

[@macktheinterloper]

The video didn't suck. It was very informative. Thank you.

[@atraismachina8748]

Bad ass kit. You are the most deserving person i can think of to receive them.

[@LCTRgames]

tbh, most cool press kits go to journalists to whom that's (understandably) 'just work'. So I'm glad that this time a cool press kit actually went to someone who's actually enthused my it and appreciates its rarity

[@scottwilson419]

120k subs and everyone knows your the authority in overclocking memory, so happy the vendors recognize that. Keep up the great work B Zoid

[@rikufinal4331]

Love your content . It feels Real I like it ✌️

[@chadmckean9026]

You got the review sample cause you are the best person on this platform to get a sample of this

[@tyber_roman313]

They sent it to you I bet because you have a huge super nerd audience who actually cares about getting in to the dirt and do memory OCs

[@c0gnus]

Buildzoid, you are one of the reasons Crucial sticks are so popular among enthusiasts. I'm not surprised they gave you one of this kits.

[@Sound_.-Safari]

$5 bucks says the engineers at crucial watch your channel haha. That’s why they sent you this kit.

[@YTHandlesWereAMistake]

Make that 20

[@aliensaxophone]

They were probably really sure you would actually dive into the depth and Details over these sticks and why they are awsome, more than the larger channels with 'yep they are pretty fast.' !Keep up the good work :), i learn a lot about the depths of hardware & traces & quality and the why's behind it Tnx to you, keep it up!

[@ApocDevTeam]

Nice DDR5 early sample kit!

[@calebfulton3992]

Was hoping you'd end up with a kit of this!

[@ligh7foo7]

lol I love the sas on the sticker :) I love the little padlock and the fact they are hiding the code in plainsight

[@faverodefavero]

You deserve it man

[@Carterthielftw_]

I'm a simple man, I see AHOC, I click. I could watch anything that you upload and I would likely enjoy it.

[@emike09]

You may only have 100k+ subs, but you're one of the most technical and trusted reviewers on the internet. Nobody else has deeply detailed content like you do and we (and manufacturers) appreciate your content.

[@imadecoy.]

Honestly you deserve it. Nobody else who actually overclocks memory posts how they do it on KZbin.

[@jake152]

That case and the extra stuff is sweet too

[@theMaster...]

I suppose Crucial thought they'd save you the bother of trying to overclock a 2,400mhz kit to 5.1ghz...

[@shaneeslick]

It's no bother for Buildzoid, it is what he does for FUN! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wobblysauce]

Indeed where is the fun to get something to work out fo the box?

[@hovant6666]

Definitely want to see these on the Apex!

[@Paddydapro]

Damn insane :o

[@SpuriousECG]

The Ballistics Max seem interesting in general, would like to see a more in depth review on the 32GB kit. Congrats on being deemed worthy of the 5100 sticks!

[@fossil8184]

I can't wait to see what you do with these and what the secret sauce is.

[@andyfalc]

Hi Buildzoid again, 16 years ago I bought an Asus Rampage Extreme, a QX 9650 and a 4 Gig kit of Crucial Ballistix Tracer. I managed to get the CPU to 4.2Ghz and the ram to just over 1900mhz. After messing with Gunning Transceiver Logic and memory timings and voltages for FSB which was on H2O I didn't think this was a bad OC. To get the FSB from 1333Mhz to 1907 and the CPU from 3.0Ghz to 4.2 after only 2 months of blue screens and failed posts was for me an exiting achievement. The main point is Crucial(Micron) make some awesome chips. PS. The LEDs on the modules were gimmicky at first but proved really useful because if the OC had failed they would freeze up way before you saw the OC failed post screen. Brilliant kit. Then again in 2004 £156 for 4 gig was a bit on the high side but well worth it.. Love your channel.

[@TheNubaHS]

I am so happy you got those, even if Crucial had sent it to me (a complete noob) I wouldnt be as happy as I am for them sending it to you, cant wait to see what you can do with it on a Ryzen 5950X

[@UltraDXSASC]

Agent Bullzoid, has been upgrated to 007 Status.

[@Serphilith]

Hey dude, love the deep dives on hardware, watched you ever since GN started featuring you! Question: What is the chance we'll see a mobo analysis of the TUF X570 pro, to see if there are any upgrades compared to the X570 Plus?

[@Carterthielftw_]

A while back he was talking about finishing up X570 overviews because he wanted to get back into actual overclocking content.

[@futurepastnow]

You may have "only" 100k subscribers, but I bet a larger percentage of them would be willing to buy this than most channels.

[@dmtphone]

I snagged some 32gb ballistix for prime day as I was in need of an upgrade. I'm hoping to run them at the 3200 with my zen plus until I am able to drop a ryzen 5000 series in then I'm gonna shoot for 3733. Appreciate the recommendation, really happy so far.

[@Targetlockon]

5/15 wow 👏 I mean Buildzoid does a lot of memory overclocking on this channel

[@GlassFoxGear]

I've been buying crucial memory ever since you recommended them (at a time when it seemed like everyone was only recommending pricey samsung b-die memory) - so to me at least it makes sense that they sent this kit to you

[@decree72]

thats some real binning 5/15 kits from their line.

[@MartianGopnik]

World's most rambly unboxing video ❤ If you hear back from Crucial that they are in fact special unicorn chips (edit: I just read your "first" comment and it seems like they are!), please de-catastrophe your flat enough to run them sub-zero! But either way, I'm sort of excited to see what you can extract from these and see all the juicy data (and how they compare to regular RAM)...

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Nice video.Do you think the New Ryzen cpu's will be able to use this ram at it's full speed without too much effort?

[@penguinton7691]

Are you going to tighten timings on video card memory?

[@js-gc2hk]

I finally get to see this crucial memory kit on youtube would like to see the test on timings on an R9 3950X and the Asus rog crosshair hero VIII

[@OninDynamics]

The words on the box though xD

[@dariob467]

perfect kit to overclock infinity fabric to the max, then downclock the ram to run 1-1 with infinity fabric, and then go crazy on timmings!

[@martindarlington3862]

open the bloody box! 😁

[@WayStedYou]

They probably appreciated the shoutouts for their memory in recommendations and thought not many others could show the full potential of it on youtube

[@rsmk4712]

sayin you do 5100 on ryzen, could it be clocked down and tighter timings to work better with the IF?

[@-eMpTy-]

15:38

[@BrophyMichael]

Open the box Open the box!!!!!

[@malphadour]

Lurve my Ballistix e-die. Also, dude I make this ram overclock pentagram shirt look good :)

[@XX-121]

yeah me too. got my 3200 kit to 3666 using ryzen memory calculator.

[@jamesvincentcarrollII]

Lol 20 minutes into the video and you still can’t believe you got your hands on these 😂

[@ShaneIsbister]

Will be interesting to see these with the new Ryzen cpus?

[@samihamouri]

where can we see benchmarks ?

[@Buffinator1988]

You seem surprised they provided you with a review sample. I'm not surprised at all. Yes there are bigger creators and outlets out there... But your subscribers are easily the most likely to purchase or be interested in this sort of product.

[@UltraDXSASC]

Hey BZ, how well do you think i can do with My X370 Taichi with a 3600, just got 4x8 3200mhz on prime Day for 90 box.

[@Altair-Fan]

If anyone should get this kit, it is you for sure!

[@mryellow6918]

What are your thoughts on the ballistix 3600mhz cl16 16gb sticks

[@jimmahT]

Do you think you could run this at something like 3600 or 3800 with insanely tight timings?

[@jowarnis]

no, these mem chips are made with high frequency in mind, timings gonna be loose by design

[@robertdunlop5247]

I got my 4400 cl19's at 3867 cl14. A nice little upgrade in speed.

[@terrytibs3365]

@Actually hardcore overclocking would there be an advantage to running everything at the same speed EG cpu and ram at 4100? I was looking at it in Amazon and it was nearly £900 WOW

[@XX-121]

can't you use thaiphoon burner to get info instead of pulling the heat spreaders?

[@tjcarey]

What about testing it with a 3300X? No infinity fabric right?

[@awsan111]

can this actually be tighter @ 3800mhz than the viper steels? (Or best B-dies)

[@marcusborderlands6177]

The infinity fabric connects the two ccx's right? So couldn't the 3300x ignore the infinity fabric for really high performance as it only uses one ccx?

[@mcbrite]

A video with these on Ryzen 5000? Please?!?

[@JayzBeerz]

I asked Crucial for one 16GB kit for review and they said no. But they sent Linus over 200 kits all at once.

[@ImTheSlyDevil]

I would love to see how tight the timings can get on these @ 3600-3800 1.5v on a Ryzen 3000 system.

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

holy crap a pelican case?!

[@plonk420]

so how well does it run an APU???

[@jayhsyn]

What can you down clock them too for ryzen ??

[@laggitech]

Buildzoid-berg Crazy frequency. Try them with zen3 on 1:1:1

[@MKhurramAziz]

Isn't Zen3 FCLK limited to 2200 Mhz?

[@mat.quantum2671]

@@MKhurramAziz nobody really knows yet, we don’t know how high it will clock. Highest I’ve heard is 2000 mhz, but I could be wrong. If it really runs up to 2200, then I’ve got some memory tuning to do

[@Mirage_Unknown]

@@MKhurramAziz I heard it's only going to be 2000 mhz if your lucky.

[@-eMpTy-]

The 4000 series APUs can do 2200.

[@Mirage_Unknown]

@@-eMpTy- really? I want to get my hands on a ryzen 4000 apu for desktop, but i cant find them anywhere.

[@henryjulianmurillogutierre3421]

Will they work with a threadripper 1950X?

[@MrThirumalar]

How about running these RAM kits with Ryzen 5000 series CPUs ? They should work @ 1-1-1 ratio, right ? November 5 isn't far from now, and you could get an earlier sample, couldn't you ?

[@dipanpatel6808]

Zoid - You may be a young buck, quirky, and super prolific in regards to video lengrth (I don’t care). BUT you should be at the top of the list of reviewers for something like this. Don’t sell yourself short. You rock (from a 50 year old overclocker) !!

[@ken444444]

Need to see how the screwdriver works.

[@andyfalc]

Hi Buildzoid Is this kit actually XMP 5100

[@platin2148]

Would we see a better perf with a new ryzen e.g gen3? I suspect so..

[@juniperburton7693]

Do you think they'll redo their memory stuff on Ryzen when they move to DDR5?

[@STORMFIRE07]

Can you pair it with AMD's latest APUs and test the performance bump in games using the iGPU of those apus only?

[@malimarinko8090]

Is posible to downclock IF to 2550MHz to have 1:2 on ryzen. How will that impact performance? I'm not overclocker, and don't know if my question make sense!

[@bindkeys]

Will you try running this at 3600, 3733 or 4000 at some crazy tight latencies?

[@Nathan-gn3ls]

I just happened to be browsing Amazon for deals on PC components that I don't need before I saw this and as of 4:15pm EST there were 8 2x8gb kits left for the bargain price of $899.99. Sadly I'm not independently wealthy or so I can't add these sticks to my collection. Pretty cool I can get to check it out here though!

[@bodasactra]

You have 120,000 subs, but many times that number know who you are and quote you daily in the social media bundle. You have achieved Bundaroo guru level 10.

[@xynostasos9022]

Hey Buildzoid! Is it possible that this TeamGroup kit is Micron B-die? TLZGD416G3200HC16F01. It's FOR SURE single rank, 16GB DIMM. TLZGD416G3200HC16C01 on Gigabyte's X570 QVL returns "Micron", "SS" (single sided), and 1RX8 (so single rank). I need a cheap 32GB kit to pair with a T-topology Gigabyte X370 board and a Ryzen 5 5600.

[@DSDSDS1235]

I'd like to see these sticks later with rocket lake. Wonder if that'd be a new mem controller since they're swapping cores and offloading the iGPU to another chiplet. Gotta see how much bandwidth these bois can delivery on a system capable of handling them, rocket lake and perhaps the upcoming zen 3 apu's are probably the last two chances we have at it.

[@s0litaire2k]

Might be nice to see how they run with the Zen 3 Ryzen 5900x/5950x

[@stigi3849]

BuildZoid is MY bestfriend:)

[@BusDriverGames]

Yall think a 5600x will work well with the Asus TUF GAMING X570 mobo and Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 memory?

[@Qyngali]

Do you still have the Threadripper CPU?

[@TankParts]

I really want to see how these sticks go underclocked with an every day setup for Ryzen 3000/5000

[@ProfDrOetker]

How much you would gain if you could run your memory at double the 3800MHz, 7600 MHz so that your IF clock is still 1900 MHz but your memory clock doubled. I think, to simplify, I'm trying to ask, how much memory clock change has impact on memory latency? Maybe this could be tested by these sticks downclocked to 2550 MHz with same latencies and same IF clock? Also, do they bin the chips or the sticks?

[@dragoneyeshatesg00gle76]

looking like a wait for the 5000 series plus a 500 board. the 29-16-16... seems way out there. guess you have a fan at Crucial who wanted to see these put to the test.

[@subsidio27455]

Doesn't the b in the end mean the color? B for Black, W for White and R for red?

[@AlexandrosGidarakos]

It does, for the 2020 non-MAX Ballistix kits at least.

[@Cinnabuns2009]

What we need is 7200mhz RAM so we can run 2:1 FCLK. Maybe Ryzen 3rd gen has an adjustable divider instead of just 2:1?

[@jukkapekkaylitalo]

Are y going to do some memory oc? Id love to see can y do low cl with high Hz with that memory. Id really want to get like cl 11 with over 3000MHz

[@jukkapekkaylitalo]

Y high MHz means S for me CL means much more. If i could get CL 1 would mean every change of stage would read or write to memory. With 5100 memory y can write or read like every 19 or so change of stage.

[@skoopsro7656]

@buildzoid i think you need to talk to Jacob about getting a z490dark KP edition to run this kit on... he sounded willing to send you one when we asked on twitter back towards the z490 launch