Remaining Ideas
Going into this evaluate I used to be positive it will be so simple as dropping the brand new DIMMs into our AM5 check platform, operating a couple of benchmarks, and naturally taking pictures and writing every part up. However that wasn’t the case in any respect, as reminiscence overclocking – EXPO or in any other case – has turn into an train in frustration with our specific pattern motherboard and processor.
I’d like to suppose I’m simply doing one thing incorrect, however the information of potential points with voltages concerned in EXPO on AM5 feels only a bit too near dwelling. I’m genuinely afraid of wanting on the pads on my Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D, each of which I ran with reminiscence voltages of over 1.3V for prolonged intervals of time.
However this isn’t a evaluate of Ryzen reminiscence overclocking, as it’s as a substitute a take a look at a reminiscence equipment from Lexar that simply occurs to hold the EXPO certification on the package deal. Whereas I used to be not in a position to corobborate compatibility with AMD’s overclocking profile, I used to be in a position to drop these DIMMs into an Intel board and have them work flawlessly on the rated velocity and latency with a single click on.
The sky appears to be the restrict with DDR5 frequency on Intel, with even 8000 MT/s kits out there from a number of distributors. However for AMD customers, I feel 6000 MT/s is as excessive as they ever have to go, due to the entire FCLK / Infinity Cloth factor, and right here I hope there finally ends up being no barrier to entry for potential consumers as Lexar has set these to 1.3 volts with the EXPO profile – the sensible restrict for a reminiscence OC on AM5, it appears.
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