Posted on Tuesday, June 02 2015 @ 16:42 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Crucial announces it will start shipping 16GB Ballistix DDR4 memory moules towards the end of July. Available in 16GB or in kits of up to 128GB, these modules will come in Ballistix Sport LT, Tactical and Elite editions and feature lifetime warranty.
Crucial, a leading global brand of memory
and storage upgrades, today announced Crucial
Ballistix
DDR4 16GB performance memory.
Ideal for gamers and enthusiasts who deal with content creation, virtual machines, RAM drives,
and memory
-
intensive applications,
the new Ballistix
modules
leverage Micron’s
new
8Gb
DDR4 component technology to offer up the h
ighest density DDR4 memory to date.
Until now
, only expensive server systems
have been
able to reach these memory densities, but
with Ballistix DDR4 16GB modules, users can achieve greater densities on high
-
end desktop
systems like the latest Intel
X99
platforms.
Available across Sport LT, Tactical, and Elite
product lines,
each module includes Intel XMP 2.0 profiles for easy setup and support.
“This density of memory module will start to become broadly available in the desktop space with
our new 8Gb
-
based Ballistix DDR4 16GB modules,” said Jeremy Mortenson, worldwide DRAM
product marketing manager, Crucial. “We anticipate that our new modules an
d component
densities will enable smaller form factors and
the
next generation of computers to have capacities
that were traditionally limited to the server or high end desktop space.”
