Patriot Viper 3 DDR3 RAM 16GB (2X8GB) 1866MHz CL10 Desktop Memory

**NOTE**: Bear in mind that my ratings are provisional & subject to adjusting should an issue arise. I just got the 16 GB of DDR3 RAM yesterday & I installed it in the wee hours of the night. Installing it was relatively painless. It may be even easier for folks that have more experience than I do swapping PC parts in/out than I do (this was only the 2nd time I swapped out RAM, so I'm fairly inexperienced). I t did take a few minutes, if only because I don't exactly have a steady hand. The RAM seems to be working just fine. Now, here's the thing - I cannot say for sure if it was a RAM issue, just sheer coincidence, or there was user installation error, or something related, but not too long after I installed the RAM, powered up my PC, etc. I did get my 1st Blue Screen of Death & my PC restarted automatically. Since I am not positive as to what to attribute the BSOD to with 100% certainty, & (so far) it only happened once, I won't factor the BSOD into my rating/score. I haven't done anything too intensive just yet since installing the RAM - watched 1 video, installed 1 PC game (Panzer Dragoon Remake), & just briefly ran the game, So it's difficult to judge performance based on that. If need be, I will edit this review later on or write a separate addendum

Ordered this to replace my old Corsair 1333mhz kit that I've had forever and lately had been dying to get rid of. This Patriot kit is noticeably faster; I could immediately tell the difference in a variety of tasks (gaming, video streaming, etc.) Even just doing something as mundane as dragging a window across the desktop or closing out of a game is noticeably smoother. One major benefit is that Patriot has a very high compatibility with motherboards in general; so if you have a DDR3 board, the Viper line is pretty much guaranteed to work with it. As a sidenote, some people will tell you that memory bandwidth doesn't make much of a difference, and I will tell you that's false. It largely depends on what you're doing and how low you were to start with, as there are diminishing returns the higher and higher you go. If you're at something like 1333mhz, jumping up to 1866mhz or more is a sizeable boost in bandwidth and will provide an immediate benefit to almost everything you do on your machine, especially if your CPU is overclocked. It can also provide a few more fps in many games as well (especially at higher resolutions where bandwidth becomes more important), if that's your thing. All in all, this Patriot RAM is pretty good stuff and I don't think you'll be disappointed.

My system previously had two 4 GB DIMMs present. I took those out and replaced with four of these 8 GB DIMMs. The system came right up, sees all 32 GB, and runs great. I normally run Windows 10, but I also booted to Linux and ran a memory tester that writes and reads back all 32 GB of memory in many different ways, and found no errors. I ran that twice. So far I am only running this memory at the "default" speed of 1600 Mhz. To get the advertised 1866 Mhz, I would have to go into my BIOS and turn on the overclocking, which I'm not sure I'll do. This is all normal. Memory essentially comes with 2 speed ratings... the default (which typically is a max of 1600 Mhz, but sometimes is much lower, such as 1333) and then potentially a higher speed rating that the manufacturer may have tested / certified. This memory defaults to 1600 and manufacturer says is good at 1866 as well.

Item as described, AAA +++Experience

I have an old AM3 board computer that had only 16GB of memory. These were older premium chps that I could not find a currently available reasonably priced match for. Wanting to upgrade to 32GB I bought these as the fastest currently available on Amazon. One pair of this memory (either pair either slot) works at the rated speed. However, with both inserted, they will not work at the rated speed, and I have to de-clock to JEDEC-5 (800MHz). I honestly can't say if this is the fault of the memory or of my motherboard, all I know is that it doesn't work at the rated speed.

As ordered

I am sitting at a perfectly good PC and it has been good since I built it in 2014. It had 16 GB of fast ram and up until recently it was never not enough. I have been playing a long time game(since 2004) and some aspects of it required I run a java based client. I just started playing some parts of it very differently. It requires(I require) running 8 of these java clients at the same time and on a normal day in day out thing they all used 4 GB memory, but this new thing I'm doing spiked that up to 1.5 or more GB for each machine. Win10 and my PC got very upset when I used up all the 10 GB it had reserved and asked for ram beyond that. It would hard lock to the point I had to unplug the thing and it left my game sessions in a mess when trying to pick up where things went belly up. So I was reduced to playing half of these machines, meaning a day of this game took twice as long(4 hours). My old ASUS board is very forgiving, and I might have been fine tossing in the no-name(supposedly 2400 speed) Chinese ram you will see advertised here along with the Patriot ram. But you just know almost with a certainty this ram will snap in and boot up. It did, and setting the XMP was a piece of cake and I'd be shocked if I could not bump it up to the next speed level with some minor timing tweaks. The best $50(I bought two kits for 32 GB) I've spent on this old PC in years.

After installation I noticed a dramatic improvement from previous memory. The computer boots much faster. The default clock is 1600 and XMP has to be enabled in the BIOS to get 1866. The temp is great it doesn't run hot

This product is at ’end-of-life’ but I needed it anyway

Buscaba unas memorias nuevas DDR3 para mi placa Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC, la cual tengo más de 10 años en mi equipo principal. Las que tenía me estaban dando muchos problemas de reinicios en bucle, no cargaba el S.O, no podía ponerlas con su perfil XMP porque me petaban el equipo y la hora iba desfasada. Puse una fuente nueva más potente y funcionó un tiempo, pero cuando monté 2 discos en RAID0 volvieron los problemas. Creo que es por algún problema de voltajes, que me freían la placa y no me funcionaba correctamente. Probé a cambiar la pila por otra nueva y nada, seguía afectado por una pérdida de corriente que no sabía localizar. Fue comprar estas memorias (que aproveché para pasar de 16Gb a 32) e instalarlas y me equipo revivió como si nada. Definitivamente tenía mis anteriores memorias defectuosas. En la BIOS le puse su perfil XMP correcto y sin problemas. El PC va como un tiro. ESTOY MUY CONTENTO CON EL CAMBIO. Son unas memorias excepcionales, fáciles de configurar y a muy buen precio.

The product is so good in performance, & in looks, and quality.

Installed and working great! Price equally appreciable!

Ben satın aldığımda performansına göre en uygun fiyatlı ürün buydu, bugüne kadar sorun yaşamadım.