MSI Motherboards Unleash Extreme Power with Memory Capacity Boosted To 256GB

[btarunr]

At the beginning of this year, MSI announced the pioneering support for a memory capacity of 192 GB. Today, we are proud to unveil an even greater milestone - MSI motherboards now support memory capacities of up to 256 GB for 4 DIMMs motherboards and 128 GB for 2 DIMMs motherboards. This significant enhancement empowers DIY enthusiasts with unparalleled flexibility to optimize multitasking capabilities and ensures a seamless computing experience.

This accomplishment underscores the strong collaboration between MSI and leading memory brands to achieve enhanced performance and remarkable milestones. The partnered memory for this achievement is Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 memory, offering an impressive 64 GB capacity per module. Built on Micron's industry-leading 1β (1-beta) technology, enables new capacities not seen before for dual channel PCs.



MSI is diligently working towards full support for the enhanced memory capacity of 256 GB. Stay tuned for further details on compatible platforms and BIOS updates from MSI.

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[Chaitanya]

Are those kits in for review? I would really like to get 256GB of RAM as photo editing with TIFFs goes seem to fill up RAM quite quickly.

 

[dj-electric]

Capacity sure, but speed is going to be the real challenge with these configs.

 

[AnotherReader]

Capacity sure, but speed is going to be the real challenge with these configs.

If you need the capacity, then a loss of speed won't hurt as much as inadequate capacity.

 

[Chaitanya]

Capacity sure, but speed is going to be the real challenge with these configs.

There seems to be EXPO profiles for DDR5-5600 and 6000 seen in those CPU-Z screenshots while with all 4 modules windows is reporting DDR5-4000 in task manager. having 128GB of RAM with just 2 modules even at 5600 would be great.

 

[unwind-protect]

Good to see that unbuffered DDR5 reaches 64 GB modules after all.

 

[Sarajiel]

There seems to be EXPO profiles for DDR5-5600 and 6000 seen in those CPU-Z screenshots while with all 4 modules windows is reporting DDR5-4000 in task manager. having 128GB of RAM with just 2 modules even at 5600 would be great.

Both GPU-Z and task manager show those 4 sticks actually running at DDR5-4800!
Assuming the board runs at least AGESA 1.0.0.7c that's kind of expected from properly binned memory which Kingston usually does very well.

 

[persondb]

We need to move into 256-bit bus, we have been stuck in 128-bit bus(two channels of 64-bits) for far too long honestly. This is important given how fast core count and multithreading performance is rising.

 

[aktpu]

Love to see this. When I'll upgrade from 13600k -> 14700k, I'll probably do 64GB -> 128GB as well (I have MSI Z690i Unify) If Intel got something right with 12-14th gen, it was the memory controller

 

[Canned Noodles]

The CPU-Z memory tab says 2x 32-bit channels. Is that a software bug?

 

[Dirt Chip]

4*32 is working bad for me now, will go 2*64 asap

 

[Sarajiel]

The CPU-Z memory tab says 2x 32-bit channels. Is that a software bug?

No. A channel of DDR5 consists of two sub-channels that are 32-bit wide each, unlike DDR4 that only has a single 64-bit wide channel.

 

[Wirko]

What happened while I took a nap under a rock? Have the 32-gigabit DRAM dies already entered mass production, and come to retail in the shape of consumer DIMMS? That's amazing.

 

[Alan Smithee]

What happened while I took a nap under a rock? Have the 32-gigabit DRAM dies already entered mass production, and come to retail in the shape of consumer DIMMS? That's amazing.

No, this is vaporware, it doesn't exist either on Kingston's site or in the channel.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Have the 32-gigabit DRAM dies already entered mass production

Yes.

and come to retail in the shape of consumer DIMMS?

No. First must to be soldered on memory stick PCB.

 

[ncrs]

No. A channel of DDR5 consists of two sub-channels that are 32-bit wide each, unlike DDR4 that only has a single 64-bit wide channel.

It looks like a bug to me. On my dual-channel DDR4 system it shows "2x 64-bit". On my dual-channel DDR5 AM5 system it shows "2x 32-bit" like in the screenshot, which is incorrect. Both AIDA64 and HWiNFO confirm that dual-channel DDR5 is enabled. It should probably show something like "2x (2x 32-bit)" for dual-channel DDR5.

 

[LabRat 891]

With a 7950X3D and 256GB of RAM...
What 'creator' needs Threadripper?

 

[HBSound]

This is pretty exciting.

I still do not see why the smaller boards do not support ECC RAM, the comment is rhetorical.

I am purchasing RAM and the processor soon, and this works out perfectly.

Quesiton - I have the MSI ITX 790i motherboard. I have two DIM slots.
Accoridn to Kingston, they do not offer a dual kit of the Renegate Pro ram. I can still buy the ram indivudally, right? I woant 64GB units, but Kingston only offers a Quad 64kit, and not a dual 64 x 2 = 128 kit? I guess I can not use the Pro module then???

 

[Tek-Check]

MSI has delivered 256GB support for AM5 desktop. Right...
- How about releasing the first Threadripper motherboard, where such memory support is really needed?
- How about finally releasing 7800XT GPU, which is a popular card?
- How about releasing AMD Phoenix laptops?

Has their relationship with AMD got sour? What's going on?

With a 7950X3D and 256GB of RAM...
What 'creator' needs Threadripper?

The one who needs more than 16 cores, for example modelling climate systems.

 

[LabRat 891]

The one who needs more than 16 cores, for example modelling climate systems.

This was the kind of constructive answer I was hoping for. Thank you

I know there's needs for many cores and nearing-TB RAM, even for individuals; I'm just not familiar with them.
Typically (and recently) I more see, 'budget' small/individual media creators-freelancers looking for the best bang for buck to get their work done quickly. To the point I've been seeing those import X79 and X99 boards be put to actual use.

 

[Tek-Check]

This was the kind of constructive answer I was hoping for. Thank you
I know there's needs for many cores and nearing-TB RAM, even for individuals; I'm just not familiar with them.

There are plenty of institutions, teams and individuals that need a lot of compute performance for all sorts of things, such as decodiing long sequences of DNA, research on 3D molecular structure of drugs, modelling nuclear reactions, testing and analysing aerodynamics, calculating predictions, making various simulations, rendering complex projects, etc.

Those entities usually buy ready-made HEDT and workstation systems from Dell, HP and other smaller OEMs that put together custom systems for them.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Power of the pocket book lol

 

[LabRat 891]

There are plenty of institutions, teams and individuals that need a lot of compute performance for all sorts of things, such as decodiing long sequences of DNA, research on 3D molecular structure of drugs, modelling nuclear reactions, testing and analysing aerodynamics, calculating predictions, making various simulations, rendering complex projects, etc.

Those entities usually buy ready-made HEDT and workstation systems from Dell, HP and other smaller OEMs that put together custom systems for them.

Like Puget Systems, here in WA, USA:

Puget Systems Publishes Windows 11 Content Creation Benchmarks

Puget Systems has recently performed a variety of tests to determine if Windows 11 or 10 is the fastest for content-creation tasks such as photo and video editing. The tests were each conducted on four systems with an AMD Threadripper 5995WX, AMD Threadripper 5975WX, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, and Intel...

www.techpowerup.com

Actually using all this Personal computing power, is very intriguing

 

[A Computer Guy]

I can't imagine running this much memory without full ECC support.

 

[efikkan]

We need to move into 256-bit bus, we have been stuck in 128-bit bus(two channels of 64-bits) for far too long honestly. This is important given how fast core count and multithreading performance is rising.

So quad channels? That's what HEDT is for.
I've been saying for years that I think it's been a mistake to have the top "mainstream" CPUs (only) on the mainstream platforms. I wish that CPUs like i7-13700K and 7800X and up would be on the Xeon-W and Threadripper platforms, respectively, offering the same high clocks, but quad channel memory and plenty of PCIe lanes. I think this mix is exactly what many developers and content creators needs these days. Today we have to choose between fast cores and memory + IO (+ lots of slower cores).

I do wonder if we get to see Arrow Lake and Zen 5 supporting 256 GB of RAM. I would seriously consider it.