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. In consequence, Asus’s newest platforms for Intel’s 12th, 13th and 14th Era 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 on the Asus web site.
The checklist of Asus motherboards with an LGA1700 socket supporting 256 GB of DDR5 reminiscence consists of 75 boards primarily based 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 masking all of Asus’s LGA1700 motherboards, which is sort of 200 fashions in complete. So 64 GB DIMM help has solely come to a fraction of their boards, a minimum of to date.
In any other case, it’s noteworthy that cutting-edge high-capacity DIMMs, resembling 32 GB, 48GB, and 64 GB, are usually not out there 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 price of peak reminiscence bandwidth, on prime of the standard DDR5 2 DIMM Per Channel (2DPC) frequency penalty. In actual fact, the quickest 48 GB modules at the moment supplied by Corsair and G.Talent (which could possibly be used to construct techniques with 192 GB of reminiscence) prime out at 6600 MT/s and 6800 MT/s, respectively. In the meantime, for now, there aren’t any Intel XMP 3.0-compatible 64 GB DDR5 modules from these two famend makers.
Finally, 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 associated 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 ought to be famous that Asus can be asserting (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.
