Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36

The Patriot Viper Venom PVV532G600C36K is the number seven pick in this guide: a 32GB DDR5 kit made of two 16GB modules, listed at 6000MHz, non-ECC and unbuffered, on a 288-pin UDIMM. It is one of the nine kits in the guide that hit the 32GB / 6000MHz headline combination. What separates it is the timing underneath that headline — the listing's Column Address Strobe Latency field reads CL36, and the model number says the same thing in its own letters. A 32GB 6000MHz kit elsewhere in this guide is listed at CL30 and at £409.99; this one is £434.99, so you are paying £25 more for a looser latency figure at the same speed and capacity.

The listing is at least internally consistent, which two other listings in this guide are not. Capacity, Memory Speed, Data Transfer Rate and RAM Size all agree at 32GB and 6000MHz, and the title's "(2 x 16GB)" matches the RAM Size field of 32GB. It also has no RGB lighting listed anywhere, and one reviewer describes it approvingly as having "no rgb or frills". The rating shown is 4.3 out of 5 from 331 ratings, and the star breakdown reproduced on the listing accounts for only 100 of those, which work out at 4.39 — two numbers from the same page that do not quite meet. Everything on this page comes from the Amazon listing and the reviews left on it, not from any bench testing of our own.