ADATA XPG Lancer Blade 6000MT/s DDR5
Black RGB Up Close
Black RGB Up Close
If you’ve seen our coverage of their M.2 drive, you’ll recognise the person on the front of the box. Clearly ADATA want their XPG packaging to burn your retinas, and it does a great job of that. After a sea of black packaging we enjoy anything that differentiates itself from the norm.
Although the wavy heatsink catches the light, that massive light bar is what grabs your attention. You only have to glance at the image at the top – or bottom – of this page to see how imposing it is. Not for the understated stealth system builder.
The previous iteration of the Lancer Blade modules placed the XPG logo at the far end. This thickens the light bar width and enlarges the logo. All around a much showier setup, perfect for those who like the side of their face to be bathed in RGB goodness.
The heatsink itself is like the DDR5 equivalent of a Snickers. Rippled on one side and smooth on the other. Smooth first, with a nice brushed finish and simple XPG logo.
And the rippled side. Only half the heatsink is in this design. Or is that a quarter as it’s half of one side?
As people who chuck the packaging away, we have folders full of photographs of these stickers. Who can remember CAS timings? Exactly. Or maybe it’s just that we see dozens and can’t remember them all. Still, with 30-40-40 @ 6000 the XPG Lancer Blade won’t leave you twiddling your thumbs. With incalculable memory operations happening every second then even the smallest performance improvement has a huge cumulative effect.
We know that the kit will do all the RGB things you love, but as the box is so red and our MSI Godlike does red so well, it’s only fitting we make the XPG Lancer Blade into this bloody hue.
