Patriot Viper Steel DIMM DDR4

Patriot Steel provides a default frequency (3600 MHz) that will be enough for most users, and the XMP 2.0 profile makes life easier. If you want more, you can try to overclock the memory even further. With the reviewed kit, on our X470 and Z390 platforms, it was possible to CL16 and CL17 respectively while staying at 3600 Mhz in both cases. It’s a reasonably good result, but we didn’t expect spectacular achievements in the overclocking department due to the high density of the RAM.

The Patriot Viper Steel LL 16GB DDR4-4000 CL16 memory kit was listed for around $115 in the Amazon store when I was preparing the DDR4-3600 kit review. However, now I can’t find it on the list. I assume it will be back in the store soon. Either way, the price of such a high binned Samsung B-die kit is very reasonable. Most competitive brands won’t sell their Samsung-based kits so cheap. Most competitive brands didn’t decide to sell their memory kits at such tight timings.

Patriot are well known for their Viper Gaming series of memory products, which are designed for gamers at a reasonable price. The Patriot’s memory SKUs recently expanded to include the fastest DDR4 memory kits to meet the needs of the most demanding users. Today, we will take a look at their 16GB memory kits rated at DDR4-3600 with a super low latency of CL14. These memory kits are based on a higher-binned Samsung B-die IC, so they guaranteed outstanding results and high overclocking potential.