Almost every manufacturer of high-end PC components has already introduced various devices with customizable RGB lighting. Patriot was a bit late to the party with its Viper RGB memory (although it had Viper LED memory for a while), but it will be quite competitive in this space.
Patriot's Viper RGB DDR4 is equipped with the brand new aluminum heat spreader with the Viper logo that features five RGB LED zones, each of which can be customized.
The RGB LEDs are compatible with software from all major motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS Aura Sync, ASRock Polychrome Sync., GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, and MSI Mystic Light Sync. In addition, Patriot will offer its own app to control the LEDs on these DIMMs.
The good news is that all of the initial Viper RGB DDR4 kits are compatible with AMD Ryzen and Intel Core motherboards (obviously keeping in mind the Ryzen frequency restrictions), so fans of different CPUs shouldn't have to worry about compatibility. They will also feature XMP 2.0 SPD profiles for Intel Core processors, but there are no dedicated profiles for AMD Ryzen, meaning that other users will have to adjust the timings manually.
The Viper RGB DIMMs rely on specially designed PCBs to support the specific lighting and to handle the higher data transfer rates required by such types of memory. In any case, most of the modern DRAMs can operate well at 3200 – 3600 MT/s with 1.35 V, so the main question is how overclockable these memories will be.
Patriot's Viper RGB will be available from late May or early June of this year.
