The company is the first to disclose the timings of the modules

Sep 1, 2014 12:20 GMT  ·  By

DDR4 is flooding the retail channel now that Intel has formally launched the Haswell-E series of central processing units. Team Group has made its contribution in the form of a memory series composed of four different products.

You see, the new Core i7 Extreme Edition CPUs from Intel are the only ones that support DDR4 memory at the present time.

This may change next year, when “normal” desktop CPUs will gain support for the RAM technology, but for now only extreme-performance computers are eligible.

Because of that, you would think that memory makers with DDR4 products on the way would try to go as high as possible.

Which is to say, releasing quad-channel kits of four or eight 8 GB modules, leading to a total of 64 GB RAM on motherboards powered by the X99 chipset.

This is not what Team Group has done. Instead, the company went for a much tamer option. The new RAM line still has four products under its name, but that's not quite accurate.

After all, there are only two types of modules. The other two are kits composed of two such modules. It kind of defeats the purpose of implementing quad-channel support (DDR3 only had dual-channel), but such is life.

We suppose Team Group didn't want to give the impression that it was pressuring prospective buyers into acquiring sets of four or eight modules.

Besides, you can easily buy two sets of two, or four independent modules, and they'll enter quad-channel state just fine, so long as they're similar enough.

Team Group calls its DDR4 line the Elite/Elite+. You can buy 4 GB and 8 GB modules individually, or in kits of two, for 8 GB and 16 GB total capacity.

In all cases, the RAM has a clock of DDR4-2,133 (as long as you don't start overclocking the living lights out of it) or DDR4-2,400, and timings of 15-15-15-36 and 16-16-16-39, respectively.

Team Group has also prepared a different product series, called Team Server and featuring a largely similar performance range.

In all cases, the DDR4 works at 1.2V and ships with lifetime warranty (not including damage from mishandling, like overclocking). Unfortunately, Team Group did not reveal prices, so you'll have to check retailers for that information.

No doubt Team Group will eventually unveil quad-module kits as well, of up to 32 GB capacities. 16 GB modules will only debut in 2015 though, around the middle of the year.

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