INTRODUCTION

   RAM may not affect the performance of any system nearly as much as the CPU (or the GPU when it comes to gaming and 3D applications) but its capacity/amount has always come no less than 2nd for people looking to get the best possible outcome. Of course, speed/frequencies are also important and even though it's been proven time and again that these may not affect the performance of your PC nearly as much as capacity/amount still the highest possible speed possible is always good to have. For good or bad looks (more specifically RGB lighting) have also come into play lately and so this too is a feature that happens to matter to quite a large number of people (gamers and enthusiasts primarily). With their latest Viper Steel RGB line of DDR4 RAM Patriot Memory wants to cover most users out there and with me today i have the 32GB 3200MHz kit (PVSR432G320C8K).

   Viper Gaming is a brand of Patriot Memory, a global leader in performance memory, Solid State Drives (SSD's), and flash storage solutions. Viper Gaming was established in 2007 with the unveiling of the well-known, top-tier line of computer memory. Since then, the Viper Gaming brand has become synonymous with elite performance and reliability among gamers worldwide. In 2015, Viper Gaming decided to expand its product categories to include gaming keyboards, headsets, and mice. Offering entry, mid-level and high-end solutions with rich feature sets. Viper Gaming's award-winning peripherals provide gamers everywhere the best price-for-performance and reliability that enables every Viper Gamer to dominate in their sport.

   The brand new Viper Steel RGB line of DDR4 RAM is currently available in both single (8/16/32GB) and dual-channel (16/32/64GB) kits with frequencies up to 3600MHz (3200/3600MHz), CAS latency timings as low as 18 (3200MHz CL18 / 3600MHz CL20) and voltages set at 1.35v for all kits. Under the black aluminum heatspreaders we find single rank 16GB memory chips by Micron (others seem to be using Hynix modules) and just over them a plastic RGB LED bar (contains an unknown number of LEDs) which is fully compatible with all the popular mainboard sync technologies (including ASUS AURA Sync, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light Sync and ASRock Polychrome Sync). As with other RAM lines Patriot covers their new Viper Steel RGB kits with a limited lifetime warranty.