Closer Look

The XPG V2 series makes way to a potential customer in a plastic blister which, once opened, is free to go directly into the trash bin as we could not figure out a way to successfully reuse it.



Trying to take the advantage of many manufacturers investing in gold colour schemes, Adata decided to pull one of their own on the XPG V2. Unfortunately, the shade of yellow that they use lies somewhere in between vanilla of ASUS and orange of the Gigabyte OC hence it doesn’t make a perfect match with either of the two.



As common these days, cooling function is delegated to aluminium sheets, which on XPG V2 rise above the black PCB by roughly a centimeter. Where things seem to differ from the rest of the field is the way heat is transferred from the chips to the heatsinks. Instead of going for the standard strip of thermal tape, Adata use a thermal pad sandwiched between two layers of thermal adhesive.




With sticky stuff out of the way, we see that the 2800C12 model is based on Hynix chips of 4Gbit density commonly referred to as MFR.



The SPD module on the XPG V2 provides information on the maker, model and production date of the memory, It also features five JEDEC profiles and an XMP that are designed to ease the process of getting the memory to run at advertised speeds.

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Page 3 - Photo Gallery

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