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[Ian]

XTreme Computing take a look at the Patriot Extreme Performance Viper 3GB PC3-10666 kit, and it wins a "recommended" award from the author:

Intel’s decision to move the memory controller to the CPU (as AMD has done for several CPU generations now) has brought with it a massive memory bandwidth increase. What used to be what only AMD CPUs could achieve, Intel’s decision to take it to the next level with triple channel means that no application should be memory bandwidth starved.

This particular kit of memory seriously impressed me; at stock it’s nothing more than an affordably priced kit of entry level DDR3, but when I tried overclocking it I was astounded at how far it was pushed. Now with how overclocking works, there’s no guarantee that every kit will overclock to these levels, but if they do then this would be the only kit of memory you’d need to get for i7.

Read the review here.