Review: Patriot Viper Steel 4000 MHz DDR4

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/29/2019 12:36 PM | source: | 20 comment(s)

Today we are reviewing Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 memory. This is a new variant of the Patriot Viper series, which quite surprisingly doesn’t have RGB support (unlike the Viper Gaming RGB kit that we checked out previously). A kit running a 4000 MHz frequency.

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nizzen
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#5632983 Posted on: 01/29/2019 03:33 PM

I have never understood the allure of high speed memory considering a 1 to 2 fps gain and most benchmarks within the margin of error from regular memory. What does appeal to me is no nonsense (no RGB BS) good cooling design, small footprint and solid lifetime reliability.

You are wrong

fellix
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#5633051 Posted on: 01/29/2019 06:35 PM

Consumer and most professional workloads aren't really bound by memory speeds. While lower latency is always preferable (for single-threaded bottlenecks), architectural and physical limitations of the current DRAM tech present a very steep curve to any meaningful solution. As far as the bandwidth, applications that benefit it already rely excursively on the GPU, while the rest (large DB, data mining, etc.) are way out of scope for the PC users. From my experience, paying premium for anything over DDR4-3200 is not worth it.

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#5633064 Posted on: 01/29/2019 07:08 PM

Thanks boss! Another awesome review!

Also it's articles/reviews like this that remind why and that I glad spend a bit more on my 2x TridentZ 16GB 4266C19 kits (1 used kit and 1 new) running at 4000 17-17-17-38@1.425v memetest stable.

Obviously 3200C14 and 3600C15-16 are usually the sweetspot performance/price wise but 4000-4400c19 aren't bad either. :p

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#5633156 Posted on: 01/29/2019 09:24 PM

Guys, do you think that I should upgrade RAM in combination with Hashwell-E? currently I have Kingston 16GB KIT DDR4 2133MHz CL14 HyperX Fury Black Series and I have 2 questions. Should I upgrade to 32 GB kit CL15 3000-3200 MHz? Should I use dual or quad channel in combination with ASUS X-99A? It supports DDR4 up to 3200 MHz.

Thanks!

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#5633241 Posted on: 01/30/2019 04:49 AM

You are wrong

In cpubound games with 2080/2080ti, higher memoryspeed (higher bandwidth) can increase minimum fps by 10-20%. Read: New Tombraider, BF V etc...

If you trying in non- cpubound and memorybound scenarios, the result is equal to zero.

Running asrock taichi 370 with 8700k oc'd to 5ghz, vega 64, I originally purchased a cheap g.skill 2066 set 16GB from the qvl list for the build, a few months later I decided to upgrade the memory to a g.skill 4266 16gb set B-die also on the qvl list in hopes of getting more performance.

I literally noticed no difference with the upgrade in real world gaming, benchmarks or anything else, maybe a few fps here and there, a slightly quicker boot time, but I did notice a much more responsive bios, never understood that one.

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