The heat-spreader competition among memory manufacturers really began with Corsair's original DHX for their Dominator series. Not long after that, OCZ Technology released their Flex XLC and Reaper memory modules. Other companies have relied on old fashioned desings (A-Data, Kingston...) but, in the end, to be at the top of the performance curve, you need something better. Different high-speed memory kits for overclockers have become very similar to one another, because all of them use the same Micron chips. The only thing you can actually do to obtain the last hundred megahertz is upping the voltage; and you won't want to do that unless you pair your memory with really effective cooling desings.

Team Group also wants a piece of this cake, and they should. Being one of the bigger Micron D9 buyers, it was high time they did something better than to sell them with paltry aluminium "stickers". They had the chips, they had the PCB, now they needed the looks, the marketing and the edge.

If you read the list of common features for Team Xtreem memory kits, you will notice they offer a lifetime warranty even with a nominal voltage between 2.35 and 2.45V. And all that thanks to the cooling system: the Thermalright HR-07. Instead of developing their own heat-spreader, Team Group Inc. sought help by a third-party cooler designer.

Xbitlabs has tested a couple of memory kits from them, only to confirm that, no matter what the features list says, if you have D9 chips, and give them the same amount of power, they will perform the same.

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