[section_title title=”Overclocking”]Overclocking
Having previously had the chance to test the Patriot Viper 3 2400MHz kit, I really had high hopes for the black mamba variant. From what I was expecting to what I was experiencing however were 2 completely different things. This particular kit has pretty slack CAS timings of 11-11-11-27 which on a 2133MHz kit, could have been forgiven if there was some head room available. While only running at 1.5v I did say to myself “maybe a little bit more voltage might help”.
Having decided to start with pushing the clock speed on the memory, I tried the stock timings with 1.65v through the kit. Starting with the obvious step up in speed (2400MHz), I instantly hit a wall which I was kind of devastated about to be honest. I tried 2400MHz with slacker timings (12-13-12-27) but I still had problems with stability; it wouldn’t actually boot in to Windows.
I even did my usual bump the voltage up to 1.7v to see if it was the voltage holding me back I’m afraid this kit just didn’t want to go any further.
I managed an overclock of 2400MHz with CL timings of 13-13-13-34; disappointing I know!
To see if this particular sample could do any better than the abysmal overclock I managed to achieve, I thought I would see how far I could tighten the timings. The short answer is, not very far but still an improvement over the stock timings.
The maximum stable overclock on the latency of the memory was 10-11-10-31 @ 2133MHz.
Overall the overclocking potential of the Black Mamba Viper 3 was disappointing but that doesn’t mean other people with this kit will have the same issues I had.
