Just a few weeks ago we had our first look at OCZ's Gold PC3200 memory and were quite happy with its performance. Today its Crucial's turn in the spot light. Crucial, like OCZ, is new to BFR but I would assume it is safe to say that a vast majority of you might have heard of them before. They used to be on [U.S.] television quite a bit with their 'how to install memory' commercials and really emerged as a leader in the memory industry. However, like all industries, others decided to get into the action and we now have a nice array of memory makers including Crucial, OCZ, Kingston, Corsair, Geil, and several other sprouting companies. Crucial, from my exposure, only advertised their value memory on television to try and appeal to the general consumer. But as we all know the enthusiast market has recently exploded and now all memory providers have an enthusiast based line of memory. Crucial's enthusiast brand is called Ballistix and today we have a chance to compare 1GB of their PC3200 memory to OCZ's Gold PC3200 memory.