Bus Speed / Memory Speed	Timings	Int Buff'd	Float Buff'd
1333MHz / 1600MHz	7-7-7-20	7729MB/s	7732MB/s
1600MHz / 1600MHz	7-7-7-20	9003MB/s	9094MB/s
1600MHz / 2000MHz	9-9-9-24	8809MB/s	8902MB/s

Linked is definitely the way to go as long as your CPU can handle it. As you can easily see, the memory suffered a major blow to performance with timings of 9-9-9-24, even with the memory overclocked to 2000MHz. So far it appears the sweet spot is 1600/1600 at 7-7-7-20.

 

Everest tests the memory in a bunch of different ways.  That's one of the reasons I like to use it.  Overall, the memory performed pretty well.  The latency scores are high, but that's typical for high latency DDR3. Again, the score suffered slightly at 1600/2000 but only in the read benchmark.

Tight timings are always important, but Super Pi didn't seem to mind as much.  Patriot Memory's DDR3 performed very well at 2000MHz. Even at 9-9-9-24 timings. 

Conclusion

It's great to finally see DDR3 coming into the price range of normal people and this 4GB kit for only $255 will definitely be a hot item. As far as performance goes, Patriot Memory has released some very fast memory here.  The speed was great and overclocking was even better. I was very surprised to see that this 4GB kit had as much overclocking headroom as it did.  At 2000MHz the kit performed very well, but the performance did go down due to the slower timings.  At 1600MHz linked with the FSB at 1600MHz, the memory performed absolutely great.  If you can run your FSB linked with your memory speed, you can really see the performance increase.  Although we're probably biased on the color scheme, we like it a lot.  Overall, this memory performs very well and is competitively priced.  Club Overclocker Recommended!!!