Patriot G2 Series Designed for Sandy Bridge Memory Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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now if you go on the Patriot website they have a lot of different series of
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RAM tons and tons of different series have G2 and sector and Sector 5 and
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sector 7 and different numbers they have all these different kinds of rams and
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Vipers and Gamers and why that is the
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question that is the question I'm asking and that is the question that I'm also
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going to answer the reason is that their different
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series of RAM are optimized for different platforms so right here I have
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the Patriot memory G2 series now this is kind of a sort of a value performance
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memory so you don't have you know super fancy heat spreaders you don't have that
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kind of stuff going on but what you do have is decent spec okay in this case
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this is a PC3 uh sorry PC3
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1280 but the DDR3 1600 MHz so this is a
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dual Channel kit and it is designed for the Intel 6 series platform so that is
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another thing that you get by going with an optimized kit so this is optimized
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for the 6 series platform that means you can use it with p-55 just like you can
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use their p55 optimized memory with a p67 board or with a z68 board but you
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might not get the same level of compatibility that you do if you use the
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correct RAM with the correct platform so inside we find another retail package
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look at this this has a hanger on it how is the retail
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supposed to know that there's a hanger
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inside fascinating you know what's cool about Patriot actually I was on a trip
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down into California um a couple weeks
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ago and I got to see the Patriot facility in in California and they have
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actual smt machines in their office
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where they were producing memory dims right there in the USA go figure right I
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had no idea they're actually one of the few memory manufacturers so they don't
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manufacture the chips that are under the spreader so they're not a Samsung or or
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a micron but they do actually
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manufacture modules in the United States
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still they have more manufacturing facilities overseas but it was pretty
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cool you got to like like it was just open and there's like a like a line that
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goes along and then it goes puts all the components on it and then it goes
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through the oven you can actually just like stand there and watch it very very cool anyway this is the G2 Series so
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right here you see we've got a fairly standard Fair heat spreader on there all
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right this is a DDR3 memory module it is dual Channel as I mentioned before in
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terms of latencies these are not too super aggressive by any stretch so 1600
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MHz 99920 run at 1.65 volts so these
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aren't a super low voltage kit either but they are definitely suitable for
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Intel core I3 Core i5 and core i7
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processors on LG 1155 so that is your
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h61 h67 p67 and z68 motherboards thank
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you for checking out my unboxing of the Patriot G2 series don't forget to
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subscribe to L techtips and also please note that it comes with an installation
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guide check that out