Crucial Announces New SLI-Ready Ballistix and Ballistix Tracer Modules

Meridian, Idaho, and Glasgow, UK, 10th October, 2006 – Crucial Technology today announced the immediate availability of its NVIDIA SLI™-Ready Ballistix and Ballistix Tracer DDR2 modules. Crucial’s new SLI-Ready Ballistix modules are designed to heighten system performance with one single menu selection and ensure PC enthusiasts enjoy a powerful gaming experience.

NVIDIA SLI certification ensures compatibility of Crucial’s Ballistix modules with the rest of the SLI ecosystem components including NVIDIA nForce SLI motherboards, NVIDIA GeForce SLI-Ready GPUs, and SLI-Ready power supplies.

“Crucial makes it easy to get the best performance from your memory,” said Crucial Technology Product Marketing Manager Terry Groth. “With SLI-Ready Ballistix modules, both novices and enthusiasts can now push their memory to the limit with one single key stroke”.

When installed on NVIDIA nForce SLI motherboards, the NVIDIA SLI motherboard automatically recognizes the SLI-Ready memory modules and provides users with the ability to utilize the advanced memory settings that are embedded within the SLI-Ready memory module. Once the SLI-Ready memory feature is enabled in the BIOS, the system is setup to take advantage of the performance settings without having to manually adjust BIOS settings generating a drastic increase in memory performance. Ultimately, SLI-Ready memory elevates user gaming experience through a one-click hassle-free performance boost.

NVIDIA SLI technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows the user to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce SLI media and communications processor (MCP). NVIDIA SLI-Ready components are backed by a rigorous testing and certification process to deliver an entire certified platform solution ensuring unmatched system stability and platform compatibility.

Crucial SLI-Ready memory is readily available in 512MB and 1GB 800MHz Ballistix modules and 1GB 800MHz Ballistix Tracer modules.