A Closer Look at Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 3866 MHz
Patriot’s Viper Steel looks much like most other kits of any Viper branded memory from Patriot. The heatsinks on the Viper Steel memory have a gunmetal finish with a black top and a diamond cut viper head logo in the center. Viper Steel is backed by Patriots limited lifetime warranty.Patriot’s Viper Steel DDR4 comes on a variety of speeds from 3000 MHz all the way up to 4400 MHz. The kit we tested for this review was a 16 GB (2 x 8 gb) kit of DDR4 3866 MHz. Viper Steel is non-ECC, unbuffered DIMMs. Being DDR4, Viper Steel has the standard 288-pin out.
The base frequency of this kit of Patriot Viper Steel is DDR4 2133 MHz and has base timings of 15-15-15-36. Patriot’s Viper Steel supports Intel’s Extreme Memory Profile, or XMP 2.0 and is designed to work on both Intel and AMD platforms. The tested frequency for XMP profile #1 is 3866 MHz and for profile #2, the tested frequency is 3733 MHz. With XMP enabled, the tested timings are 18-22-22-40. Both profiles are set to 1.35 volts.
In all memory reviews, we remove the heat spreader to get a better look at the PCB and the memory modules any given company uses. Removing the heat spreader also allows us to see what brand the memory modules are. In the case of the Patriot Viper RGB memory, they used Samsung memory, model number K4A8G085WB-BCPB. https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/dram/ddr4/K4A8G085WB-BCPB/ Each DIMM has 8, 1GB memory modules on the PCB. There is also a thermal pad running the length of the PCB covering the modules.
