(PR) (Eric Born, ASUS Edge Up) Generations of gamers have trusted Intel processors for their PCs, yet the current CPU market has many wondering if the grass is greener on the AMD side of the fence. We ...

XMP profile is an Extreme Memory Profile that allows users to overclock their RAM. Supported motherboards have different XMP profiles, named XMP Profile 1, XMP Profile 2, etc. Users can enable and ...

If you're buying the best RAM in 2024, chances are it supports either Intel XMP or AMD Expo technology. Basically, these terms mean the same thing – RAM sticks are rated at an overclocked speed, and ...

Most PC gamers dive straight into a new build without ever touching their BIOS again, but that’s a mistake. Hidden inside your motherboard’s firmware are settings that can unlock more performance, ...

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 ...

We've talked a lot about CUDIMMs, or Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Modules over the past week or so, but that's not the only development in memory. In what we hope becomes a trend, memory makers ...

Before we discuss XMP, DOCP, and EOCP, it is important to know about RAM SPD. SPD stands for Serial Presence Detect. It is a chip found on every RAM module that stores the default RAM configurations, ...

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 ...