MSI Announces A-XMP for AM4 Motherboards

[Raevenlord]

In news that would have been very well received some 5 years ago (but is still relevant today), MSI has announced an approximation (of sorts) of Intel's XMP Profiles. Named A-XMP (how clever), MSI has essentially adapted Intel's XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) for the AM4 platform. A-XMP enables support for higher rated DDR4 memory kits, enabling them to work without any hassle. You are probably reminded of AM4 and Ryzen's peculiarities when it comes to memory support. A-XMP aims to at least mitigate those issues, whilst allowing for increased performance in a platform which is particularly sensitive to memory performance.

MSI is calling A-XMP "the world's first 1-second DDR4 performance and stability feature", and has announced the feature will be rolled out in soon to be available BIOS updates for all MSI AM4 motherboards.



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[uuuaaaaaa]

Good news! Too bad that they still use Nikos mosfets on their motherboard cpu vcore vrms...

 

[Ubersonic]

Haven't AM3/4 boards been able to interpret XMP for years, what's new about this? (read the article three times and couldn't see it).

 

[RMX]

What's new is the fact that MSI is the first brand to have enabled XMP support on the AM4 platform. Until now, AM4 was lacking this functionality, even though AM3 already had it.

 

[Ubersonic]

What's new is the fact that MSI is the first brand to have enabled XMP support on the AM4 platform. Until now, AM4 was lacking this functionality, even though AM3 already had it.

That can't be right, Gigabyte had it at launch.

 

[lightofhonor]

What's new is the fact that MSI is the first brand to have enabled XMP support on the AM4 platform. Until now, AM4 was lacking this functionality, even though AM3 already had it.

Yeah, my ASRock board has it as well. Doesn't boot with at the correct speed/timings, but it does read the XMP profile.

Hopefully what this means is it can read XMP and adjust it to work on AM4. Like I had to increase voltage, raise the timings, etc. Although hopefully it doesn't have to do that

 

[Slizzo]

Lots of speculation that this is the AMD AGESA memory update, just covered in MSI marketing BS.

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cp...edly_released_new_agesa_microcode_for_ryzen/1