Introduction

There is a long trend in marketing to latch on to a trending idea and use it relentlessly regardless of whether it relates to a given product or not. The most notorious in the hardware industry is the adding of "gaming" to anything and everything. These "gaming" optimized products often feature bold color schemes and radical marketing friendly names and, in recent years, a liberal application of RGB LEDs.

To be clear, I am not against having products with distinctive looks, nor do I really mind the overuse of "gaming" in marketing as that is the target audience. However, I do find it refreshing when I come across a product that is advertised as exactly what it is. The XPG SPECTRIX D60G is just such a product.

The XPG SPECTRIX D60G is a "DDR4 RGB Memory" kit; it says so right on the front of the box. This is a memory kit that has been designed from the ground up to be the ultimate RGB LED solution for the memory market. The XPG SPECTRIX D60G has more RGB lighting per square millimeter than any other memory module on the market, and a massive "diamond cut" diffuser to show it off.

It's not all about looks, though. No matter how pretty a kit, performance has to be there to match. The XPG SPECTRIX D60G comes in speeds of up to 4133 MHz, with my two kits coming in at 3200 MHz. I now need to find out if the XPG SPECTRIX D60G can truly outshine the competition.

Specifications

Packaging

The packaging for the XPG SPECTRIX D60G is a nice matte black cardboard box with a picture of the stick dominating the front. Across the top are the software compatibility badges from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock. The bottom-left corner has the "XPG SPECTRIX D60G DDR4 RGB Memory" mention and the right a model sticker.

The back of the box has little extra information except for a QR code that can be scanned for more details, and a model sticker. There are cutouts in the box designed to show the product stickers on the sticks as well.

The box is both an eye catcher and simple, featuring everything a prospective buyer might want to know in plain sight. I would say this is an excellent example of good memory packaging; I particularly like the cutouts for the specification stickers.


Inside the box is a molded plastic tray. The memory sticks are held firmly and kept quite safe from all but the most careless of handling.