Crucial Ballistix Sport LT

A no fuss 32GB kit that’s all about value.

Here we have the first of two 2x16GB kits in our roundup. Crucial’s Ballistix Sport LT doesn’t have any RGB lighting and is in fact quite subtle with its simplistic design, but that’s something that won’t bother a user who doesn’t care about looks.

The Ballistix Sport LT kit is the only standard profile kit in our test. This makes it well suited to users who use very large air heat sinks. While it’s not as big a problem as it used to be, tall RAM can still interfere with air coolers that don’t take RAM height into consideration.

As a 2x16GB kit with a dual rank design, Crucial’s was actually the best performing kit in the entire roundup. The margins as always are small but a look at the benchmarks shows how dual rank memory helps performance, though it does means there’s a tiny latency hit.

Where the Crucial Ballistix LT kit excels is its value. At $268 it’s proof of just how much DRAM prices have fallen in recent times. It’s not all that much higher than some of the 2x8GB kits and it adds that extra degree of future-proofing. Of course if you’re dealing with large data sets, several memory hogging applications or even alt-tab out of games and want to minimise page file access, then 32GB can come in handy.

The Crucial Ballistix Sport LT offers terrific value, which along with great performance and a highly compatible low profile design makes it a solid choice for those looking to make the jump up to 32GB.