Backside line: Two main motherboard makers have introduced assist for reminiscence capacities as much as 256 GB. It is solely a matter of time earlier than competing board makers additionally develop their reminiscence capability assist. Luckily, there isn’t a hurry for it to occur as most folk constructing a brand new system today for basic objective use or gaming are more likely to go along with 32 GB of whole reminiscence capability.
Asrock mentioned its Intel 700 Sequence and AMD AM5 Sequence boards now assist the upper capability, made potential by populating every of the 4 DIMM slots (or 128 GB on boards with solely two RAM slots) with Kingston Fury Renegade 64 GB modules. The corporate shared screenshots from an AMD system (X670E Taichi board) in addition to an Intel machine (Z790 Nova WiFi) operating at max reminiscence capability.
MSI additionally introduced assist for 256 GB of RAM on four-slot motherboards (or 128 GB on two-slot boards). MSI shared proof of the identical Kingston equipment operating on AMD and Intel platforms however their screenshot is simply too small to make out many particulars.
Each board producers utilized Kingston Fury Renegade 64 GB modules, that are constructed on Micron’s 1-beta know-how. The modules are rated for 36-38-38 latency at 1.350v.
Supporting Kingston’s 64 GB modules is one factor, however discovering them on-line is an entire completely different problem. I used to be solely in a position to monitor down 32 GB modules – maybe Kingston hasn’t launched its 64 GB modules to most of the people but, and Asrock / MSI are utilizing pre-production elements for testing?
Most would agree that 32 GB is a snug quantity of reminiscence for a brand new construct, however I personally are inclined to splurge on this space. I’m within the means of placing collectively a brand new PC for the primary time in 12 years and opted for a 48 GB DDR5 equipment (24 GB x 2). The additional capability ought to assist to future-proof the system a bit, particularly contemplating the board solely has two reminiscence slots.