ASRock Motherboards Now Supporting Intel XMP 1.3 Memory Profiles
Intel is planning to release new XMP 1.3 memory profile standard in early 2012, but companies like ASRock have already started to enable this technology in their motherboards latest BIOS revisions! ASRock was able to team up with Kingston where they were able to get some un-released HyperX Series XMP 1.3 memory modules for testing and to use to develop the BIOS to load Intel XMP 1.3 profiles. ASRock appears to have implemented this technology first on the Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 motherboard and claims that works great and it obviously doesn’t run on rival ASUS or Gigabyte boards yet. This is all good, but we all know that ASUS and Gigabyte will release Intel XMP 1.3 ready BIOS updates when Intel releases the standard and the memory modules are public. We love to see that ASRock is on the ball with testing out early technologies, but you can rest assured they aren’t the only company internally testing Intel XMP 1.3!
Compared with previous XMP 1.2 version, XMP 1.3 can provide more precise DRAM timing settings! Simply load XMP 1.3 profile in the BIOS to explore the maximum speed of your DDR3 memory! For unbelievably powerful overclocking without having to adjust the settings in BIOS manually, the rig builder should look no longer than the XMP 1.3 support! The superb XMP 1.3 profile provides up to 19.2% performance boost in Sandra 11 SP2-Aggregate Memory Performance test. Its quite interesting to note that when users are using XMP 1.3 memory modules on ASUS and Gigabyt boards, though the BIOS indicates memory support frequency is 1776MHz or 1777MHz, actually the PC can perform at 1600MHz only.
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