MSI on Friday announced Intel 600 and 700 series motherboards fully support 24GB and 48GB DDR5 memory modules. As a result, Intel’s latest 12th and 13th Generation Core processors can now support up to 192GB of DDR5 memory on MSI’s platforms based on Intel’s latest chipsets. Other manufacturers of motherboards will follow MSI’s statement soon.
Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs for desktop pack up to 24 cores (8 performance cores, 16 efficiency cores) and can certainly take advantage of the over 128GB of random access memory currently supported by desktop platforms. increase. MSI has rigorously tested the MEG, MPG, MAG and PRO series motherboards based on the Z790, B760, Z690, B660 and H610 chipsets and says they are now available with new 24GB and 48GB memory modules.
These motherboards currently support configurations with 96GB of DDR5 memory and 192GB of memory (if you want to get the most out of your rig) using 4 DIMMs. It has 192GB of DDR5 SDRAM, so all cores get 8GB of memory, which isn’t bad at all.
MSI also claims that the motherboard supports 24GB and 48GB memory modules using the existing UEFI version, so no firmware update is required.Meanwhile, Intel’s own Ark database lists the company’s Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors (the recently launched Core i9-13900KS CPU) only supports up to 128 GB of memory. Probably because Intel itself hasn’t validated his 24GB and 48GB modules in different configurations.
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All three major manufacturers of DRAM have already officially announced, or at least demonstrated, 24Gb DDR5 memory chips capable of building so-called non-binary 24GB and 48GB memory modules. Micron was the first to introduce Crucial branded 24GB and 48GB DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 SDRAM sticks supporting AMD’s EXPO and Intel’s XMP 3.0 profiles for desktops.
Micron’s Crucial should start selling 24GB and 48GB memory modules in the US (currently not available in the US). official online store), but now that major motherboard manufacturers have announced support, we can see that it’s only a matter of weeks before these DIMMs are available.
