DDR4 ADAPTERS?
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They won't exist. I think what you're looking at are extenders more than anything.
Even if you could get an adapter that converts a DDR3 socket into a DDR4 socket it wouldn't work for several reasons , firstly DDR4 is 288 pins DDR3 is 240 pins , secondly your 4790k memory controller would have a fit, thirdly your bios on the motherboard doesn't have support for DDR4 and finally common sense (DDR3 to 4 adapters don't exist)
Wow I must have made it all up if they don't exist
That just looks like a riser.
That looks to be something to program the EEPROM.
Want DDR4 for some reason? Upgrade your system to something that supports it.
It is, you can see that the pins are chamfered at the bottom, just like on actual DDR4.
It is, it's for changing the baked in SPD settings on DDR4's EEPROM using old DDR3 programmers. So technically this converts a DDR3 socket to DDR4, but not for use in a PC.
The only way a DDR3 to DDR4 converter could possibly work is with some kind of active memory controller on the riser. Even assuming that could work, the latency it would introduce would outweigh any benefit of running DDR4 speeds on a DDR3 platform (assuming you could even clock your DDR3 memory controller high enough to begin with).