The American brand Patriot has taken a strong position in the east european memory market and has become a serious player on a par with Kingston/HyperX, Corsair, Crucial and other well-known brands. The company takes its toll thanks to affordable prices, impressive features and a wide variety. In the assortment of the brand there are several popular lines in which it is easy to get confused with unaccustomed. Viper Gaming memory is designed for gaming assemblies, Viper Steel with metal radiators will appeal more to overclocking enthusiasts, Viper RGB is created more for modders, well, and the Viper Elite series combines the best features of other series.


Viper Elite is a serious overclocking memory with high standard frequencies, excellent cooling and a low level of rejection. For the entire existence of the series, 2 generations of memory have been released in it, and from the point of view of production capacities in 2021-2022, the second generation of the Viper Elite is of the greatest interest, which can be called error correction. The design of the radiator has been modified, which is now made of aviation aluminium and covers almost the entire area of the chip. At the same time, it became smaller and neater, and its height decreased from 43 to 35 mm, which simplified the process of assembling a tower cooler or a graphics card.

Changing the radiator circuit in the Viper Elite II memory was a logical response to technological progress. It has significantly increased overclocking capabilities, thanks to which the most advanced models are started out of the box at a frequency of 4000 MHz, and with successful manual overclocking and the corresponding components can take the bar at 4200 Mhz. For comparison, the first-generation Viper did not raise the bar above 2800 MHZ, which was justified by the then technological progress and Intel's unwillingness to use high-level memory in motherboards on low-cost chipsets. At the same time, the first generation of the Viper Elite gives more freedom when choosing the right kit. Viper Elite II is most often found in 16 GB variations, which are not suitable for all users.