Closer Look

After the purchase, the modules are to be extracted out of a plastic tray sitting inside a thin cardboard box, which broadcasts some printed marketing.



The shade of red used on the Venom might look classy inside, say, an ASUS ROG board but the green color of PCB certainly exposes Viper’s humble beginnings and can serve as a distraction for modding perfectionists.




All submodifications of the Viper 3 series use medium height heatspreaders made out of stamped aluminium. To improve overall performance with this lightweight design, Patriot’s engineers have gone for the holes in the top part of the heatsinks which are meant to catch some perpendicular flow that is very likely to come from a nearby CPU heatsink.




Thanks to weak adhesive, the heatsinks are easy to remove. With the metal out of the way, we found our modules to be based on a modification of Hynix memory chips of 4Gbit density, commonly referred to as MFR.



SPD is where things get interesting on this version of the Viper. As usual, it has five JEDEC profiles meant to make things work out of the box, but whereas the DDR3-1600 profile usually has all the timings in dual figures, on 2133C11 we surprisingly see 9-9-9-24.
Another unusual thing about is the presence of AMP profile next to the usual XMP. Patriot stand behind all the AMD-branded memory so they are using their expertise to create a profile which will automatically set the memory to rated speeds not only on Intel, but on AMD-based platforms as well . A very nice touch, we think.

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Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Closer Look

Page 3 - Photo Gallery

Page 4 - Results

Page 5 - Conclusion