The Viper VP4300 SSD utilizes PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe technology and includes a DDR4 DRAM cache.

More traditional non-VR games were affected by lower reading times as well.

Even the initial load from the main menu to the most recent checkpoint took a little bit more time.

A Patriot Viper VP4300 on a desk

Adding to those longer-lasting capabilities are the two heatsink options.

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