Patriot Gamer Series RAM

I recently purchased a Patriot Gamer Series kit. It’s the 4 gig DDR3 type that Patriot touts “works flawlessly with AMD Black series processors”. I don’t have an AMD processor, but I’ve got a Pentium i7 that’s designed for online gaming.

I ordered it back in late May and didn’t receive it until June 7, which aggravated me to no extent; but that really has no bearing on the performance and reliability of the RAM itself. I was actually pretty shocked at what I found out.

With the Patriot Gamer Series, I have frequently—over the last couple of weeks—attempted to overclock my Dell XPS system. It’ll sure get past the 1600Mhz standard, and with flying colors I may add. If you’d like to see the screenshot, just email me and I would be glad to show you.

The “enhanced” latency of 9-9-9-24 almost sounded too good to be true, especially considering my past experiences dealing with DDR2 (as well as the legacy DDR1). But, ALAS, it passed that test as well. I’m not saying it’ll always be that fast, but it’s a pretty good indicator that it’s on top of its game.

Henceforth, I feel compelled to review it to a couple of other RAM producers—Kingston and Mushkin (a couple of other highly-esteemed products, and of which Kingston I’ve actually used in the past). What I found out, in summary, is that I can’t say that the Patriot modules “far exceeded the other two”—but its definitely right-on par with the other two (with similar configurations).

When I finally got it, it arrived in tastefully-designed plastic covers—good for static electricity prevention (which will, subsequently, almost guarentee you don’t destroy a stick). Other than that, though, and the late delivery issue, it’s a well-rounded, awesome product.

1. Kingston HyperX RAM