ASRock and MSI boards now guide 256 GB of DDR5 reminiscence

Two leading motherboard makers have announced support for reminiscence capacities as much as 256 GB. It is likely best a count of time before competing board makers additionally make bigger their reminiscence capability aid. Fortunately, there is no hurry for it to appear as maximum parents constructing a new device these days for wellknown purpose use or gaming are possibly to go with 32 GB of overall memory capacity.

ASRock stated its Intel seven-hundred Series and AMD AM5 Series forums now support the higher capacity, made feasible by way of populating each of the four DIMM slots (or 128 GB on forums with simplest two RAM slots) with Kingston Fury Renegade sixty four GB modules. The organisation shared screenshots from an AMD gadget (X670E Taichi board) as well as an Intel device (Z790 Nova WiFi) jogging at max reminiscence capability.

MSI also announced assist for 256 GB of RAM on four-slot motherboards (or 128 GB on two-slot boards). MSI shared proof of the equal Kingston kit strolling on AMD and Intel platforms however their screenshot is just too small to make out many details.

Both board producers applied Kingston's Fury Renegade sixty four GB modules, which are constructed on Micron's 1-beta technology. The modules are rated for 36-38-38 latency at 1.350v.

Supporting Kingston's 64 GB modules is one element, however finding them on-line is an entire specific challenge. I changed into handiest capable of track down 32 GB modules – possibly Kingston hasn't launched its 64 GB modules to the overall public yet, and ASRock / MSI are using pre-manufacturing elements for testing?

Most would agree that 32 GB is a snug quantity of memory for a new construct, but I individually generally tend to splurge on this vicinity. I am inside the system of placing collectively a new PC for the primary time in 12 years and opted for a 48 GB DDR5 package (24 GB x 2). The greater ability must assist to future-proof the system a bit, mainly considering the board best has memory slots.