Motherboard makers will soon be rolling out their latest BIOS for AM5 motherboards which will enable support for faster DDR5 memory. Almost all vendors have teased the performance & the capability of the new AGESA 1.0.0.7b firmware but MSI and Gigabyte are taking things up a notch.
MSI & Gigabyte Showcase Their Expertise, Overclock Way Past DDR5-8500 Memory Speeds On AM5 Motherboards Using Latest BIOS
ASRock was the first to roll out the said BIOS for its motherboards and ASUS offered a preliminary BETA BIOS for specific ROG series motherboards. Now, we have heard that the AGESA 1.0.0.7b bios firmware is coming from more vendors in the current and coming weeks. So far, we have seen AM5 motherboards featuring up to DDR5-8200 speeds and while that's a huge improvement over initial firmware releases, the best is yet to come.
Both MSI and Gigabyte have teased some major overclocking potential and support for even faster DDR5 memory DIMMs. MSI's in-house overclocker, TOPPC, has already achieved an impressive OC speed of DDR5-8600 (52-56-56-126-168) on the MSI MEG X670E ACE motherboard featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU and a pair of OLOy DDR5-7600 DIMMs. This is a flagship-tier board and we have heard that this is just the beginning of what to expect from future optimizations on the AM5 platform.
Meanwhile, Gigabyte, who has announced their BIOS availability by the end of July, has teased up to DDR5-9058 memory speeds on the B650E AORUS Tachyon motherboard with a pair of AORUS "ARS32G8D5" memory modules which are rated at up to XMP-8400 speeds. This motherboard is a dual-DIMM design which means that it is specifically designed to support faster memory & serious overclocks. The timings were set to 54-56-56-126-127 and the PC was able to complete the SuperPI 8M calculations test in 1m, 8.497 seconds. The overclock was achieved by legendary overclocker, Hi-Cookie.
Even more interesting is the fact that the DDR5 voltage is set to 1.4 (1.380V offset). This isn't to be confused with the SOC voltage which should be retained under 1.3V which is the safe limit set by AMD to avoid any burnout issues. Talking to a few overclockers, it looks like most of them are very excited about these results and expect to see the AM5 platform hitting similar 10,000 MT/s+ clock speeds on these motherboards with the latest BIOS soon.
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