Patriot Memory Viper Steel DDR4 2x8Gb PVS416G440C9K

American brand

Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 is RAM from the American company Patriot Memory, or rather its gaming division Viper Gaming. Metal radiators of medium height have their own natural silver colour, are devoid of backlighting (although there is a modification of Steel RGB) and decorated with a toothy snake.

Hot stuff

The 4400 MHz memory is based on Hynix D-die chips, obviously selected by hand. Less successful specimens are used in modules with a frequency of up to 4000. Such a high frequency forces the supply voltage to be increased to 1.45 volts. Thick-walled metal radiators here are clearly not only for beauty.

Backup plan

In case your processor or motherboard is not capable of pulling the frequency of 4400 MHz, the Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 has an alternative XMP profile — 4266 MHz with the same CL18-22-22-42 timings. At the same time, the supply voltage is noticeably lower — only 1.35 V, which is usually characteristic of memory with a frequency below 4000.

Not a child's toy

We can only advise owners of Intel Core processors with the K index, which implies an unlocked multiplier, as well as Z490, Z590 or B560 motherboards to buy Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 with overclocking potential up to 4600 MHz. Only these three Intel chipsets for the LGA1200 socket can overclock RAM.