The Ballistix series of memory, from Cruicial (Micron) represents a step up compared to the run-of-the-mill (fab?) stick of green stuff that you put in an aging Macbook to slightly delay the inevitable wallet-crushing upgrade. What’s your first clue? The PCB is black. The upgraded modules and kits also come with heatsinks, and more significantly for anyone interested in how his or her PC performs, hearty increases in timings and speeds. There are three tiers of Ballistix memory. According to Crucial’s website, Ballistix Sport offers, “faster speeds and timings than standard desktop and laptop memory.” The Tactical series modules and kits are, “engineered to deliver explosive speeds and new levels of customization.” Of course, by customization, Crucial means RGB LEDs. And finally, the subject of this review, the Ballistix Elite series, which is designed to “crush the memory bottleneck with some of the fastest speeds and bandwidths available.” Although in the year or more since this kit initially debuted, significantly faster memory has begun to seep into the market, but prices for memory kits rated faster than DDR4-3600 tend to be prohibitively high. It may not be the new kid on the block, but this Ballistix Elite kit is some of the fastest memory we’ve gotten our hands on.