Crucial Ballistix Sport LT White 16Gb DDR4 Memory Review

Gaming next, and we benchmarked some Team Death-matches using Battlefield 4. Played online and with a ping always below 50ms, we set up the graphics as follows;

Take your pick, but there’s nothing between them. Differences in gameplay would account for most of the gaps, we wouldn’t claim the overclock made any difference.

Dual Channel Verses Quad Channel

We have a long held belief that the lesser amount of DIMMs the better the responsiveness across the RAM capacity. This is logically and mechanically, as no matter how you look at it, the buses and bridges need to negotiate twice as many handshakes when dumping code into the RAM, at least for large programmes.

Quad Channel, amongst other things, should have that covered though, the extra two Channels have been logically woven into the Chipset and can be utilised as needed. So, with this in mind, will two DIMMs be better than four? We clocked both sets of RAM at stock speeds using XMP and we used the Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 kit which consists of 4×4 DIMMs enabling the Quad Channel setting.

First up again we have the AIDA64 Engineer. There is a substantial difference between Dual Channel and Quad Channel set ups.

The Read, Write and Copy tests are where we should be seeing differences if there was going to be any. Memory Write for example is more than double the bandwidth, bearing in mind that it’s 16Gb for both set ups, 4x4Gb Quad Channel, verses 2x8Gb Dual Channel.