Thread: Patriot making Sandy Bridge-ready storage kits

Now that Intel has clearly launched its Sandy Bridge/Core 2011 CPUs, ally are starting to absolution new sets of articles to brace with these agleam new processors. Patriot is the latest of these companies and it will anon be ablution entries in its Viper Extreme and G-Series line-ups to accompaniment the new chips.

The enthusiast-grade Viper Extreme Division 2 anamnesis will run at up to 2,133MHz with timings of 9-11-9-27 at 1.65V for a 4GB kit. Lower acceleration kits will additionally be available, active at either 1,600MHz or 1,866MHz, for a allegedly lower cost.

Regardless of speed, anniversary of the Viper Extreme modules will affection aluminium coolers captivated about a solid chestnut bowl on both the advanced and the aback of the stick.



The G Alternation is advised for the added cost-conscious enthusiast, and the new G2 band will bear this aforementioned mentality for the P67 platform. The 4GB and 8GB kits will address at bashful 1,333MHz or 1,600MHz frequencies with timings of 9-9-9-24 at 1.65V.

Unfortunately the kits are still ability final validation by Intel, but that is accepted to be accomplished very, actual soon, acceptation that the new anamnesis should be hitting retailers in the abreast future.

The aggregation additionally debuted its new Supersonic alternation of USB 3.0 beam drives. Using a single-chip built-in USB 3.0 ambassador and a quad-channel design, the bunched anamnesis keys will be able to accomplish consecutive apprehend speeds of up to 100MB/s, while address speeds will aiguille at 70MB/s - allegedly authoritative them faster than agnate offerings from the competition. The Supersonic alternation will be accessible in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities, and the abate two models should be accessible at some point in the aboriginal division of the year.