Meet the Viper

Patriot Extreme Performance  is engineered to expand your gaming and overclocking options. These modules are designed to operate at 1600MHz and are available in 3GB and 6GB kit flavours. Equipped with Patriot ACC (Aluminum Copper Composite) technology, these modules are designed for maximum performance and stability under extreme overclocking conditions. This should dissipate the heat much more quickly than other modules helping to ensure longitvity and the maximum performance possible.

Tall heatspreaders are a love and hate thing. They may offer better cooling performance, but those stranded on the limits of air CPU cooling with tall tower heatsinks and multiple fans can be left hopeless with RAM allocation being impeded by the heatspreaders spiking peaks. The Viper’s are no exception in this case.

Tuned at a respectable 8-8-8-24 at 1600MHz, this tri-channel kit offers the end user the means to take there overclocks a bit further than your average RAM. Paired with some pretty mean looking heatspreaders, they should cope rather well under strain from higher than stock speeds and more voltage.

Aesthetically, this kit is very pleasing to the eye with the sky blue looks, black PCB, and heatspreaders that look the business. Of course, its not all about looks. This kit is the LLK version meaning low latency. Whether they can be tweaked further, we shall find out. However  initial impressions seem to bold well. On these spercific modules, Patriot use D9JNL chips from Micron. Although not the best, they are proven to overclock better with lower voltage than extreme voltage for higher clocks. On with the testing!