Asus to Allow 192GB of DDR5 Memory on 600 and 700 Series Motherboards

(Credit: Asus)  If you’re a hardcore multitasker, Asus has some good news: The company has partnered with Corsair to allow up to 192GB of DDR5 to run in all of its high-end Intel motherboards. The support comes via updated BIOSes for its Z690 and Z790 motherboard that allow using Corsair’s new 24GB and 48GB DDR5 modules. If you have an Assus board, you can now set up RAM parings that equal 48GB, 96GB, or 192GB. That’s a lot of RAM, but now you have options if 128GB isn’t enough.

Asus announced the news along with Corsair as part of a marketing campaign via Techpowerup. Corsair first spoke of its new UDIMMs in late February, but now it’s officially selling them on its website. Asus is the first company we know to announce support for these capacities. The memory kits range in speed from DDR5 5200 to 7000 MT/s. Asus has already released BIOS updates for its range of Z790 boards, and it says it’ll do the same for B760, H770, and 600 series shortly. It’s currently available for ROG Maximus, ROG Strix, ProArt, and Prime 700-series boards. The new memory kits are available in RGB and non-RGB versions.

The new capacities allow 96GB of DDR5 on ITX boards with only two RAM slots. (Credit: Corsair)

One unsurprising detail is the 192GB package is crazy expensive. Corsair’s website lists the RGB version at $750, with the non-bling version at $725. There’s also a 48GB kit for $275 or $284 without or with RGB. The 96GB kit will set you back around $400, depending on which sticks you prefer. The 96GB kit might be hard to find, though, as Corsair isn’t selling it in its web store.

Asus says you can run 48GB kits at 7000 MT/s or 192GB kits at 5,200 MT/s. Intel’s 12th or 13th gen CPUs also support slower-speed kits. However, you’ll need a Raptor Lake CPU to run DDR5 7000 MT/s modules at full speed. The Corsair memory kits also support Intel XMP 3.0 for one-click overclocking.

The move by Corsair and Asus comes as the market is seriously moving to DDR5. Intel’s Raptor Lake platform supports DDR4 and DDR5, but AMD’s AM5 is DDR5 only. It’s also been rumored that Intel’s Meteor Lake will only support DDR5. That would make sense, as DDR5 is now easy to acquire, and its performance benefits are non-trivial depending on the application. For example, it’s been shown that DDR5 can increase performance on Raptor Lake by up to 20% in some applications. AMD is also pushing DDR5 adoption by adding EXPO overclocking to its newest platform. Sadly, AMD seems to have been left out of Asus’s update, but perhaps that will change.

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