Patriot Memory Viper Steel DDR4 2x8Gb PVS416G320C6K

Steel giant

RAM designers have always had a hard time: they need to come up with something that looks beautiful on the box and looks better than the competition. Therefore, heavy artillery went into battle in the form of RGB lighting and unusual, but not always appropriate, radiators. The Viper Steel kit from Patriot managed to stand out in comparison to this too: massive gunmetal-painted aluminium radiators look futuristic, but never clumsy, reminiscent of either the Transformers logo or the new gadget from the Batman suit in Arkham Knight.

3200 MHz at the price of a regular office RAM

Although the kit in question is the initial solution in the Viper Steel line, the youngest model of the series already starts at a frequency of 3000 MHz. At the same time, a couple of slats of 8 GB each with a frequency of 3200 MHz, for which they actually ask for the same money as for the simplest "office" memory such as Crucial Value. At the same time, its potential turned out to be expectedly higher than that of many mass solutions, and when sorting through XMP profiles, it allows you to achieve stable operation at a frequency of 3600 MHz. With manual tuning, the results will be slightly higher, but here it’s already how lucky you are with a specific instance of memory.

Look for options with memory from Samsung

And now one important nuance. The fact is that both Samsung B-die RAM chips loved by all enthusiasts and variants with Hynix memory can be hidden under radiators. It is the first option that you need to look for on the market, since the memory from Hynix can behave capriciously, refusing to work with the selected XMP profile. You can, of course, go into the BIOS the old fashioned way and manually play with the voltage and timings, but why these difficulties if you can do without them?