Patriot’s new DDR3 1866MHz memory kit vs. OCZ 1600MHz parts

This is the new Patriot Viper DDR3-1866 2GB Memory Kit and it’s Intel’s latest push at making the Core 2 line-up even more attractive, its quite fast and these are some of the top clocking DDR3 modules available on the market, but you will pay for it. With XMP you can overclock without the worry of voiding warranty. Tweak Town have given Patriot’s new DDR3 1866MHz memory kit a ten page hands-on, they have also compared them to some high-clocking OCZ 1600MHz parts.

In their final thoughts they said “Patriot has managed to impress us on a number of occasions, and the new Viper Fin DDR3 memory is extremely impressive to say the least. In fact, it managed to achieve some pretty high scores while keeping the voltages at the moderate level. Most boards will be able to supply 1.9v to the DDR3 memory bus without much effort, but it’s when we need beyond 2v that we start to see things getting interesting. Cooling needs to be improved and the boards get a bit more selective.

The Viper Fin modules were extremely well designed for the cooling aspect; while we didn’t have our temperature gun on hand for this review (it arrived after testing), the touch test at full load when overclocked was extremely good as it was only mildly warm. With good case flow these modules will cool themselves quite nicely.

As for price and availability, at the time of the review we weren’t able to find many vendors with these modules, but they should start to appear pretty soon. As for price, they are on the high side, but for modules of this speed caliber, you’re naturally going to pay a premium.”

Read the ten page review.