Intel has unveiled the first major update to its eXtreme Memory Profile (XMP) technology since the standard was introduced in 2007, bringing more profiles and (finally!) the ability to name them, too.

JEDEC was founded in 1958 as the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council. It originally had two branches: one for semiconductors and one for vacuum tubes. Nowadays, the group is technically known as ...

I am not an overclocker, but the way that XMP is described makes it sound like memory is capable of far faster speeds than they are rated at, and XMP is an "unofficial standard" that takes off the ...

Hey,<BR><BR>So I just got my new computer parts, and I spent time last night getting it set up. I did notice a couple of things that I wanted to post about, so hopefully someone knows what's ...

Being somewhat of a memory addict, I couldn’t help but be intrigued with OCZ’s announcement of Intel XMP modules early last month. It was the first I had heard of the technology, as Intel kept ...

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At default your PC will always revert to 'safe' settings. On a Z170 / Intel Skylake DDR4 platform your memory will be configured at what is called an SPD JEDEC setting, the safe setting. For DDR4 on ...

We saw MSI's initial range of AMD Ryzen motherboards earlier this month via a landing page set up by the company. That page revealed five AM4 motherboards in total; two based upon the X370 chipset, ...