Asus Provides Help for 64GB Reminiscence Modules to Intel 600/700 Motherboards
Asus on Thursday stated it has launched new variations of UEFI BIOS for DDR5-supporting Intel 600/700-series motherboards that allow help for 64 GB DIMMs. Because of this, Asus’s newest platforms for Intel’s 12th, 13th and 14th Technology Core processors with 4 slots for DIMM slots can now work with as much as 256 GB of DDR5 reminiscence, and motherboards with two DIMM slots can now help as much as 128 GB of reminiscence.
To realize help for 256 GB of DDR5 reminiscence utilizing 64 GB unbuffered DIMMs, one must obtain the newest model of UEFI BIOS for one of many Intel 600/700-series motherboards listed at the Asus website.
The checklist of Asus motherboards with an LGA1700 socket supporting 256 GB of DDR5 reminiscence consists of 75 boards based mostly on quite a lot of Intel’s 600 and 700-series chipsets, together with Intel Z790, H770, B760, Z690, W680, and Q670. Although taking inventory of Asus’s bigger motherboard choices, that is nonetheless a bit shy of protecting all of Asus’s LGA1700 motherboards, which is almost 200 fashions in whole. So 64 GB DIMM help has solely come to a fraction of their boards, no less than to this point.
In any other case, it’s noteworthy that cutting-edge high-capacity DIMMs, reminiscent of 32 GB, 48GB, and 64 GB, are usually not obtainable with the identical blistering XMP clockspeeds as a few of their lower-capacity counterparts, so equipping an Intel system with 256 GB of reminiscence will come at a value of peak reminiscence bandwidth, on high of the everyday DDR5 2 DIMM Per Channel (2DPC) frequency penalty. The truth is, the quickest 48 GB modules presently supplied by Corsair and G.Ability (which may very well be used to construct programs with 192 GB of reminiscence) high out at 6600 MT/s and 6800 MT/s, respectively. In the meantime, for now, there are not any Intel XMP 3.0-compatible 64 GB DDR5 modules from these two famend makers.
In the end, the prime marketplace for high-capacity UDIMMs at the moment goes to be content material creators, information scientists, and different workstation-light workloads that want a quarter-terabyte of RAM, and might justify the fee for the modern DIMMs. In any other case 16 GB and 32 GB DIMMs are prone to stay the candy spot for the LGA1700 platform for the remainder of its lifecycle.
Lastly, it needs to be famous that Asus can be saying (or somewhat, reiterating) help for 64 GB DIMMs on their AM5 motherboards. That stated, this help is already baked into that platform and BIOSes, and in contrast to the Intel boards, a BIOS replace isn’t wanted.
