This information comes from a submitting noticed on the Eurasian Financial Union web site by Twitter leaker 188号, higher referred to as @momomo_us. The submitting describes quite a few extant and upcoming ASUS motherboards, however the ones we’re excited by at present are the fashions that finish within the telltale “D4”, indicating that they’re designed with DDR4 DIMM slots as a substitute of DDR5. These fashions are:
- PRIME Z790M PLUS D4
- PRIME Z790-P D4
- PRIME Z790-P WIFI D4
- TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS D4
- TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI D4
Avid gamers utilizing Alder Lake CPUs usually opted for motherboards mounting DDR4 reminiscence, and never simply because it was cheaper. Techniques utilizing DDR5 reminiscence want costly, high-speed sticks to hit the identical sport efficiency as techniques with current-day 3200 or 3600 MT/s DDR4 reminiscence. That is as a result of the latency of the DDR4 sticks is fairly a bit decrease than the cheaper and extra available DDR5-4800 RAM.
With the worth of DDR5 reminiscence dropping each day, and increasingly 6000 MT/s sticks hitting the market in preparation for AMD’s Ryzen 7000 platform (which is rumored to have a “candy spot” at that pace), it could be a greater concept for brand new builders to go along with DDR5 for Intel’s newest and biggest. The additional reminiscence bandwidth can actually be useful in sure duties, like file compression.
