Installation and Test Rig
For our tests, we used our Lian-Li Test Rig which consists of an Asus ROG Strix B360-F Gaming motherboard, along with and Intel Core i7-8700K (Coffee Lake) and a Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5) graphics card.
* ALL tests are conducted at specified default speeds and settings.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.7GHz / Turbo boost 4.3GHz |
| Cooling | Noctua NH-D15 Premium CPU Cooler |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Strix B360-F Gaming |
| Ram | Patriot Viper RGB DDR4-3000 16GB Memory Kit |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 15-17-17-35 @1.35v (2x8GB) |
| SSD | Crucial MX 300 – 750GB |
| PSU | Cooler Master GXII 750W |
| VGA card | Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5) |
| OS |
Windows 10 |
The RGB Lighting in Action!
You can sync these memory modules with any of the 4 major RGB eco-systems … Asus’s Aura Sync, MSI’s Mystic Light Sync, Gigabyte’s RGB Fusion and ASRock’s Polychrome Sync. In this case, we installed them on the Asus ROG Strix B360-F gaming motherboard with Asus’s Aura Sync.
CPU-Z and SPD Information
Ram timings show the correct figures … rated at 15-17-17-35. Notice the memory ICs are made by Samsung and they are “Enthusiast” certified supporting XMP 2.0 profiles.
