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Patriot Memory Viper 4 Series DDR4 16GB 2400MHz Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2015-10-13

The revised Viper 4 version with black PCB looks considerably better than the initial one which sported a green one and now also matches the heatsink color scheme; also, if you do have a black/red color scheme on your motherboard, this kit will fit right in. While the model we have tested is not the fastest out there, for tasks which not include encoding and rendering and mostly office work or gaming, the Viper 4 16GB 2400MHz should perform wonderfully.

Test Setup and Test Results Part I

Test Setup

CPU: Intel I5 6600K Retail

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard: BIOSTAR GAMING Z170X

RAM: Currently tested kit

Video: HIS 380X

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

The pre-programmed timings and frequencies can be also found by using AIDA64:

Right after confirming full stability thanks to Memtest86 in Windows at stock settings, we have dialed down to 2133Mhz while keeping the timings for comparison purposes. The overclocking stage came right after this so we were able to run at 2666MHz, with the stock timings but we needed at the same time to raise the voltage from the stock 1.2V to 1.35V, which Intel recommends as being the highest safe voltage for DDR4 kits. We have also run the validation thanks to CPU-Z:

Validation

Test Results

Synthetic Benchmarks

SuperPI XS 1.5 2MB

wPrime 32M

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