Crucial Technology Launches SLI-Certified Memory

SLI-Ready Memory Modules Provide Hassle-Free Performance Boost in One Setting

MERIDIAN, Idaho, & GLASGOW, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 set up 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.

About Crucial

Crucial Technology is a division of Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc. Crucial Technology Europe is a division of Micron Europe Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc. Crucial provides high-quality memory upgrades, graphics cards, flash memory and a host of products to enhance the entire computing experience on its Web site at http://www.crucial.com, http://www.crucial.com/uk and http://www.crucial.com/eu. Crucial offers over 200,000 upgrades for more than 25,000 desktops, notebooks, servers, routers, printers and electronic devices.

Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron manufactures and markets DRAMs, Flash memory, CMOS image sensors, other semiconductor components and memory modules for use in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking, and mobile products. Micron's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:MU). To learn more about Micron Technology, Inc., visit its Web site at www.micron.com.

Micron, Crucial, Crucial Technology, Ballistix and Ballistix Tracer are trademarks of Micron Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.