There won’t be any DDR4 motherboards for AM5, as AM5 is pressing forward with Dual-Channel DDR5 Memory Support for the platform and that’ll no doubt give you the best performance too. The platform will support (up to) DDR5-5600 Native (JEDEC) Speeds
EXPO or AMD Extended Profiles for overclocking, if you want to run out of air saying it, is a new feature for AMD’s DDR5 support. It will memory OC on the new platform, similar to Intel’s XMP and while AM4 got off to a rough start with memory support, it’s come a long way, and I expect all those lessons will be put into practice for AM5.
I would have liked to see even the B-series boards support DDR4, but I guess sometimes you just have to move on. DDR5 is more expensive, but the prices have been dropping consistently in the last year, and will no doubt fall into line in the not-too-distant future.
It’s been said that DDR5-6000 will be the sweet spot for the new AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs once optimized with EXPO as this will allow the CPU to fully utilise what’s on offer, at the lowest latency in a 1:1 FCLK mode. It’s suggested you leave the BIOS FCLK setting at auto, while also performing any memory and memory controller overclocks in 1:1 mode. However, I’m sure for most users, the default profile settings of their memory will be absolutely fine. Of course, I fully expect knowledge of “sweet spots” and overclocking settings to mature in the coming months, as is often the case with a new platform.
The AMD Extended Profiles for Overclocking (AMD EXPO™ Technology) was developed to allow for user-friendly memory overclocking support of all types of memory, giving users an easy path to accelerated power to achieve accelerated memory in their system.
While I’m sure other memory brands will work with AM5, and many more partners will follow, so far, these are the ones that are fully onboard, confirmed and tested.
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