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Patriot Memory Viper Steel Series DDR4 32GB 3200MHz Memory Kit Review

Memory by stefan @ 2020-11-10

The 32GB Viper Steel kit with its two memory modules does sport a modern design, without RGB lighting as we have seen with other models. These are made to be compatible with most AMD and Intel systems and should match the color scheme of a lot of gaming machines. While we could not squeeze any extra performance from the kit via overclocking by using safe voltages (up to 1.4V), this also means that the ICs are really accurately hand picked in the factory so they will only function error-free at the exact specifications mentioned by Patriot Memory.

Test Setup and Test Results Part I

Test Setup

CPU: Intel i7 9700K Retail

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Currently tested kit

Video: XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 RAW II Ultra

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master HAF 922

The pre-programmed timings and frequencies can be also found by using AIDA64; the DRAM IC manufacturer is listed as SK hynix:

Besides testing the memory modules at XMP timings, we have also compared the results with the ones obtained at 2133, 2400, 2666 and 3000. Afterwards, we tried a bit of overclocking by first setting a frequency of 3466 and using the stock timings; even at 1.4V, the system was not bootable and had to reset the test computer BIOS in order to make it operable again. Then we have tried at 3333MHz with the same CAS16 timings; the system was bootable this time but after running the TM5 stability test, it did start to throw errors just after 5 seconds; this tells us that the modules are very well binned/categorized in the factory, so they would only support the speed they were designed for.

Test Results

SuperPI XS 1.5 2MB

GeekBench 4

Blender Ryzen Rendering

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