Viper Steel Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz Performance Memory Kit - PVS416G320C6K

Viper Steel Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz Performance Memory Kit - PVS416G320C6K

Viper Steel Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz Performance Memory Kit - PVS416G320C6K

pros
Supremely inexpensive DDR4-3200
Competitive performance
No RGB

cons
Some buyers want RGB

BULLET FEATURES AND PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Patriot Memory’s Viper Steel memory modules are designed with true performance in mind. Built for the latest Intel® and AMD™ platforms, the Viper Steel series provides extreme performance and stability for the most demanding computer environments.

The Viper Steel utilizes a custom designed high performance aluminum heat shield for a clean sleek steel-look inside any motherboard. The Viper Steel is made to ensure rock solid performance even when using the most taxing applications. Built from the highest quality Build of Materials, Patriot’s Viper Steel Series memory modules are hand tested and validated for system compatibility.

Patriot’s Viper Steel Series will be offered at speeds from 3000MHz up to 4400MHz with XMP 2.0 support. Hand tested for quality assurance the Viper Steel series is backed by a limited lifetime warranty.

FEATURES:


• Series: Viper Steel
• Edition: Gunmetal grey sides with diamond-
cutting Viper logo / Black top
• Aluminum heat spreader with unique and
specific design element
• Compatibility: Tested on the latest Intel
premium/high-end platforms and i7 processors
• Limited lifetime warranty


 their new RGB series of their vipre memory and if ever there's been a ram kit designed with gamers in mind it's probably this one it checks literally every single gamer aesthetic box there is angular heatsinks giant snakehead RGB and that's not a knock on this kid at all I honestly think they look fantastic but looks mean nothing 

if a product doesn't perform well so are these nothing more than just a pretty face spoiler alert the Viper 3200 kit performs just as well as it looks but we'll get to those metrics in just a few minutes opening up the box reveals the dual Channel eight gigabyte DIMMs some Viper stickers instructions to download the Viper RGB software from their website and that's about it Viper Emory definitely has a premium feel to it and the aluminum heat sinks are both sturdy 

and very good-looking with the massive Viper logo on the side they also don't tend to collect oils or fingerprints from your hands or smudge up like some other kits that are out there the RGB channel along the top is not flat but pokes up on either end like a pair of fangs and the Viper name sits right front and center on the top installation was a breeze despite these DIMMs feeling slightly thicker than normal although I did test installing these side by side with no 

clearance issues at all powering on the system and we were immediately met with a rainbow inspired light show at its default settings so first things first we're definitely gonna want to get that RGB software installed and customized the lighting to my bill as the world of dishonored was filled with rat excrement not unicorn out of the box Patriot recommends downloading their viper RGB software to customize your lighting profiles or you can use nearly any motherboard 

manufacturers own suite to control them this includes MSI's mystic light gigabyte RGB fusion asus our a sink and asrock polychrome as my dishonored case mod has an EB Gaz 370 for the win motherboard I opted for the Viper software and was actually pleasantly surprised with both the level of customization available and how simple the software was to use you can keep five profiles saved with your favorite lighting effects and while you're limited to only a brown 7 

preset animations you do have full control over color lighting zones and speed allowing you to design quite a few very good looking effects now RGB memory is famous for falling out of sync when it comes to RGB effects so how did the Buy for spare both excellent and men while the RAM does remember what lighting effect you were using when you shut off the computer or close out the software within a few minutes the effect kind of goes all over the place and out of 

sync RGB is usually bad RGB I am happy to report though that as long as the vibra RGB software is running the RAM stayed perfectly in time never losing sync at all now as good as the software is it could be a little bit cleaner specifically I'd like an option to boot with Windows automatically as right now I have to open the application every single time I boot windows to get my memory to sync the RGB effect also being able to minimize the system trade when not in use rather than just down as an open application on the taskbar I did also test the memory on a 

gigabyte B 360 MDS 3h motherboard which does support gigabyte RGB fusion but sadly even with a clean windows build and only the RGB fusion software installed I could not get it to recognize the RGB memory installing the VIPRE software here again worked but you can typically only have one RGB software suite installed at a time so using fusion for the rest of the RGB in my build would not have been an option it may be compatible with RGB software out 

there and maybe I was doing something wrong but I could not make it work in my testing onto the performance our test fit again is an EVGA z 370 for the win motherboard running an Intel Core i7 8700 K along with our Patriot VIPRE 16 gig dual channel kit running at 3200 mega Hertz with 1618 1836 timing under XMP 2.0 benchmarking I went pretty light on this time around running only Ida 64 is built-in memory test to verify everything was running up to 

where it should be running with the RAM and in this case I did test it against a 16 gigabyte dual channel kit of kingston valueram running at 2400 megahertz stock speeds that being 20 133 megahertz according to ddr4 spec allows for transfer seeds on ddr4 of up to 32,000 megabytes per second and on our 24 hundred megahertz value Ram that's exactly where the numbers put us so 32 gigabytes per second that's great why do I need faster memory honestly 

when it comes to Intel systems outside of a few specific games speed doesn't make much of a difference in terms of increasing your average FPS and I know I know controversial statement there and yes speed certainly does matter when it comes to rising systems as Infinity fabric does depend on that raw speed but for Intel latency is what will improve your game experience and I am very happy to say those 1618 1836 timings on the VIPRE RGB scored very well measuring a full twenty nine percent faster than the Kingston's I did try to overclock the memory as well 

but unfortunately VIPRE seems to have gotten every bit they could out of this memory without over volting it I had absolutely zero luck of getting the timings any tighter and while I was able to post at thirty four hundred megahertz it seemed to have any appreciable effect the good news is though you're getting every last bit of that advertised thirty-two hundred megahertz speed so there you go one dashingly good-looking kit of RGB memory from Patriot VIPRE the software 

works great the RAM looks even better and the lights they synchronized a strangely rare trick in the world of RGB memory these days and as far as performance goes they measure exactly where they should just no higher than that and honestly  for a 16 gigabyte dual channel kit of 32 hundred megahertz memory their price right around their non RGB counterparts I'd say if you're looking for a no-fuss RGB kit to spice up your build you certainly can't go wrong here but what do you guys think is a couple extra money worth it for a very good 
kit of gaming memory - through RGB on top let me know down in the comments below .

Viper Steel Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz Performance Memory Kit - PVS416G320C6K

 the original set of memory that I had in here has gone on to bigger and better things namely they're running in one of my servers over there it was a kingston 16 gigabyte kit of 2400 ddr4 i had upgraded to a set of patriot viper RGB 32 hundred megahertz memory however if you recalled that video this really didn't push anywhere beyond 3200 megahertz and so while it's a good performer and really really good-looking RGB ram it was never given me the 

performance that i really wanted out of this kit the only other upgrade to the system from the original video has actually been the graphics card i swapped out the 1070 TI that was originally in here for a gtx 1080p 1080 was donated and I only had a water block but I needed another air-cooled card for another project so it got swapped out and honestly I didn't film that project and I really should have because working on this machine oh it sucks and that brings us 

current to today where I've swapped out the Patriot VIPRE RGB memory for the Patriot VIPRE Steel series memory but what's the difference between these two kits well this is running at 3200 megahertz and this is rated to run all the way up to 40 400 megahertz but I think the more important difference is the price this kit of RGB memory at 3200 is running as 

low as of late and in fact there are some other kits at 3200 megahertz speed running for as low a meanwhile the 44 hundred megahertz SteelSeries memory is selling now so the question we're going to attempt to answer today is is there a noticeable performance difference between thirty two hundred megahertz and forty four 

hundred megahertz and is it worth the price premium I really wanted to see what a difference high performance memory would make to the system so I tested this in three different steps part the first I ran the 8700 K and the GTX 1080 at 100% stock speeds and the original 32 hundred megahertz memory at its XMP profile that is thirty-two hundred megahertz at Casa latency 16 test number two I ran this exact same 32 hundred megahertz kit but this time with 

pretty hefty overclock on both the CPU and the GPU the i7 8700 K managed a four point nine gigahertz overclock at 1.32 volts and the GT x 1080 manage a 2130 eight megahertz overclocked over the 1948 stock speeds that I was getting test number three I ran the exact same overclocks but this time swapped out for the patriots SteelSeries memory spoiler alert though i didn't quite make it all the way to forty four hundred megahertz let's talk about this 

memory can't really quick and then we will dive into the results like I said I was not able to get forty four hundred megahertz memory speeds running out of this kit that's not to say that it's not entirely possible but remember overclocking depends on the quality of a number of components in your system not just the memory itself so in my case with the Z 374 the wind' 

motherboard and the i7 8700 K it just wasn't in the cards to get 40 400 megahertz out of this kit however I was still a little bit disappointed that even XMP profile 1 wasn't able to post on this kit it is rated for 4,000 133 megahertz at one point 4 or 5 volts with Casa latency 19 and setting that just resulted in a boot loop every single time I did leave XMP profile 1 enabled however I did have to step down my frequency from 41 33 down to 4000 megahertz as well as loosening 

my timing slightly from cast latency 19 to CL 20 to get this to actually post however at those settings this was rock-solid stable not crashing even once during my testing starting with our synthetic results Cinebench r15 ran a 1614 multi thread score with the 32 hundred megahertz kit and a 1654 with the 4000 megahertz kit that's an increase of about 2.5 percent however the single thread we only gained a single point from 215 to 216 or a difference of about 0.4% 

3dmark firestrike ultra shows a 0.7 percent increase and times by shows a 1.5 percent increase kind of splitting the difference the single threat and multi-thread results from Cinebench before we get into the gaming results I'm going to explain a little bit of my testing methodology and philosophy as far as how I approach reviews like this I don't judge everything on a 100% even plane now that might sound a little weird but hear me out someone buying the 21 33 megahertz 

k2 memory is probably putting it into an entry level system and buying all entry level parts to go with it however at someone buying a 44 hundred megahertz kit of memory and spending the premium that goes with it likely isn't putting that to pair with a 2200 G they've got an 87 hundred K or a 99 hundred K they've got a GTX 1080 or higher I could test this kit at 1080p and probably show a wider disparity in the performance level between the 32 hundred 

megahertz K and the 44 hundred megahertz kit however I don't think in reality either of those kits of memory is going to be used that way someone who's buying this particular kit of memory is likely going to be gaming on a high resolution high refresh rate monitor and playing all at Ultra settings and so that's how I do this testing so with all that said all of my testing today was ran on my Ben qtx 3501 R it's a 100 Hertz 1440p ultrawide monitor and something 

that would be easily paired with a system like this starting with csgo our frame averages jump up about 1.8 percent which is pretty consistent , here in the middle of this review you're witnessing a comedy of errors so originally I really liked the way that video turned out unfortunately pretty much after I started talking about the second benchmark my audio cut out and I lost all the rest of the footage so weary filming now four days later coincidentally it's pi day so there you go so as I said let's start off our gaming 

benchmarks with csgo at our four point ninety degree Hertz overclock on the 8700 K with 32 hundred megahertz memory we saw an average of about two hundred and thirty-eight frames per second moving that to four thousand megahertz only saw about a one point eight percent increase to two hundred and forty two however that's pretty much within the margin of error and that's bored out by the one percent end point one percent loads that I got which actually 

went down moving to four thousand megahertz speeds but like I said with csgo that's pretty much within the margin of error especially the low frame times as those seemed to be pretty inconsistent run to run Doom showed me the results that I expected to see out of this kit across all the gaming titles however that really didn't pan out what I got out of doom was about a seven point eight percent increase from 156 frames per second to 167 the 4000 megahertz kit 

also flex its muscles when it came to the one percent end point one percent low frame rates showing an increase of ten and twelve percent respectively project cars two showed similar gains improving by about five point eight percent in the average frame rates the one percent lows raised by about one point eight percent and the point one percent actually dipped off a little bit however again kind of like csgo your low frame times can be a little bit inconsistent 

depending on what you're doing in the game and there's no pre-scripted things that you can run to get a solid benchmark so if you go off the road or your CPU has to work a little bit harder your frame times can drop off a little bit and then there's hitman the 2016 reboot of the franchise and this one left me scratching my head a little bit as I really can't explain why I got the results that I got however the results were repeatable in between each test I actually flashed the BIOS and reset my overclock settings both on the CPU and on the memory and I got the 

same exact results every single time at 4.9 gigahertz with 32 hundred megahertz memory we saw an average frame rate of about eighty FPS with a low of 54 doing nothing but overclocking the memory to 4,000 megahertz we saw the average frame rate to jump up 52 percent with the one percent lows jumping up a solid 14% in their own right now again I can't explain these results and I highly doubt the memory was to blame it could be a bug in the game it could be a 

setting that I missed but again I reset the BIOS and verified my game settings before each and every test multiple times in this case because the results were not what I expected so if you want the best overall hitman 2016 experience upgrade to 4000 megahertz memory and that is gonna wrap up our testing for today so like I said not the most comprehensive list of games I've ever tested but some interesting results nonetheless so the Patriot VIPRE SteelSeries 40 400 

megahertz memory kit what do I think about it I think this is a remarkably good kit even if I couldn't quite get the 40 400 megahertz out of this on my Hardware 4000 megahertz was still remarkably stable and definitely a recommend from me however I don't recommend this memory kit for everyone this really is kind of a niche overclocking product for people who have overclockable i v i7 or i nine processors I would even hesitate recommending this for AMD users to go out and buy it simply because the memory controllers even on the 2700 X don't 

allow you to hit 4000 megahertz on the regular so if you are an overclocker seeking that extra 5% absolutely I recommend picking up this kit if you're anyone else honestly 3200 megahertz is probably fine that's gonna do it for this one guys let me know down in the comments what overclocks are you running on your hardware and could you benefit from a 40 400 megahertz kit like this standard outro you got it .



Learn more about the Patriot Memory PVS416G320C6K

ModelBrandPatriotSeriesViper SteelModelPVS416G320C6K
DetailsCapacity16GB (2 x 8GB)Type288-Pin DDR4 SDRAMSpeedDDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)CAS Latency16Voltage1.35VECCNoBuffered/RegisteredUnbufferedColorGunmetal GreyHeat SpreaderYesFeaturesPatriot Memory's Viper Steel memory modules are designed with true performance in mind. Built for the latest Intel and AMD platforms, the Viper Steel series provides the best performance and stability for the most demanding computer environments.

The Viper Steel utilizes a custom designed high performance aluminum heat shield for a clean sleek steel-look inside any motherboard. The Viper Steel is made to ensure rock solid performance even when using the most taxing applications. Built from the highest quality Build of Materials, Patriot's Viper Steel Series memory modules are hand tested and validated for system compatibility.

Patriot's Viper Steel Series will be offered at speeds from 3000MHz up to 4400MHz with XMP 2.0 support.

Viper Steel Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz Performance Memory Kit - PVS416G320C6K

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