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Team Group supplies the Xtreem LV modules in a transparent clamshell-style package which is surrounded by a cardboard sleeve. A sticker located in the sleeve's top-right corner indicates the kit's model number, frequency, timings, and voltage.
Outlined on the packaging is the modules' ‘LV', or low voltage, operation. Team Group is clearly referring to older 1.65V models, the ranges that have been all but extinct for at least a year. We can't agree with Team Group's low voltage advertising; 1.5V is the norm for today's memory products.
Containing an eye-catching, metallic red strip, the Xtreem LV modules' high-rise heatsink features a unique design which should allow for effective heat dissipation.
Team Group supplies an installation manual with the Xtreem LV 2133MHz memory kit, although we would be very surprised if somebody buying these modules didn't know how to install them.
Due to the heatsinks' large dimensions and overpowering appearance, the ugly green PCBs aren't too much of an eyesore. On the modules' reverse side, the vibrant sticker makes way for the black heatsink, which in itself features a good appearance.
A sticker located on right side of each heatsink gives an indication of module capacity, speed, timings and model number. Our kit's model number is actually incorrect – it doesn't exist, according to Team Group's website. According to the packaging and our own research, the actual model number is: TXD38G2133HC9NDC01.
With a height of 53mm, these modules have the potential to interfere with large CPU coolers. This somewhat excessive heatsink size is understandable, given the kit's possible appeal to extreme overclockers that may be using LN2 pots.
In reality, Team Group has slashed the size of its target audience, as many gamers and enthusiasts will consider the modules' size to be an unnecessary inconvenience.
The wave pattern of the Team Xtreem LV memory modules is a unique design which creates an appealing style when installed in a motherboard's DIMM slots. Incidental airflow should be received by the memory, thanks to the ridged heatsinks' angular fins and solid metal material.
At around 22.5mm taller than a standard DDR3 memory module, the Team Xtreem LV sticks are reserved for users without interference-causing CPU coolers. Users of liquid coolers, such as Corsair's H100i, won't have a problem with the memory's large height.
