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Patriot Viper Venom DDR5-7000 2x16GB 7400 CL36 RGB
DDR5 · 7400 MT/s · CL36 · 2×16GB
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Price per GB
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32 GBSpeed
7,400 MT/sCAS latency
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Overview
Viper Venom is Patriot's high-speed DDR5 desktop line, and this family covers some of the fastest rated kits the brand sells — several distinct speed grades sharing the same naming, which is exactly the kind of family where the actual listed spec matters more than the product name. Capacity is fixed at 32GB across every configuration, sold as 2×16GB kits.
Speed inside the family runs from 7400 MT/s at the low end up to a considerably faster bin, and CL36 moves accordingly — the fastest-rated kits are typically a different silicon bin entirely rather than the slowest kits simply overclocked. A board's memory controller and BIOS support for the higher end of this range is worth confirming before buying, since not every DDR5 platform reaches the top-rated kits' full speed even with the profile applied.
It's unbuffered, non-ECC UDIMM, built for desktop sockets, and reaching any of these speeds requires enabling the kit's XMP or EXPO profile.
Technical Specifications
Memory
- Memory type
- DDR5
- Capacity
- 32 GB
- Modules
- 2
- Module size
- 16 GB
Speed & timings
- Speed
- 7,400 MT/s
- CAS latency
- CL36
Form factor & features
- Form factor
- UDIMM
- Category
- desktop
- Brand
- Patriot
- ECC
- ✗
- RGB
- ✓
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