How To Get More From Non XMP DDR5 - ASUS AEMP UEFI BIOS Feature Overview & Guide

hi everybody jj here with asus and i'm excited to talk to you today about a brand new exclusive feature that we have on asus ddr5 and z690 based motherboards specifically asus enhanced memory profile or aemp this brand new exclusive feature is going to allow you to take your non-xmp ddr5 based memory modules and essentially enhance or unlock additional levels of performance by simply entering into the uefi environment you can enable either profile 1 which will lower or tighten essentially the timings for your ddr5 memory module or enable profile 2 which allow you to go ahead and actually increase the operating frequency allowing you to have even more bandwidth in both situations ultimately giving you a better level of system performance and a better experience for your non-xmp ddr5 memory modules so let's go ahead and talk a bit more about ddr5 overclocking ddr5 memory how amp works as well as actually how to enable it on asus z690 based motherboards so let's quickly talk about which motherboards will support this feature any one of our motherboards that feature ddr5 support will offer amp support now it's important to keep in mind that this includes our prime series our pro art series as well as our rog strix series in our rog maximus series our tough gaming series currently is limited ddr4 so as such does not support this feature and again this feature is exclusive to ddr5 and not applicable to ddr4 now beyond this it's also important to keep in mind that this feature is only for non-xmp based memory modules an example this will include that right here we've got this kingston ddr5 memory kit and this features xmp profile if we actually load this up and we take a look in the actual spd tool which is offered in asus series motherboards as well as we actually go ahead and check if it does have an xmp profile we'll see that it does have an xmp profile which means that it would not allow you to set an aemp profile now if we go ahead and let's say take another memory module such as this patriot ddr5 memory module which does not feature an xmp profile you'll actually see within the uefi environment that it will expose an option that lists itself as aemp so now let's talk a bit about understanding some of the basics behind performance tuning or overclocking memory now before we go into that it's important to keep in mind some of the baseline specifications now generally when you're looking at a stick of memory uh take for instance this memory right here if you're looking at the product page or maybe you actually look at the memory itself and you take a look at the label you'll see that the actual label will denote a couple of key pieces of information one the actual operating frequency this kit of memory is a 4800 megahertz kit of memory and then generally the timings for the memory this is a cl-40 kit of memory now both the frequency and the timings will vary depending on one the type of memory that's used on the actual memory module this can be from different vendors like micron it could be from sk hynix it could be from samsung there are many different manufacturers that produce the actual memory modules and different modules themselves have different ranges of speeds that they can support this also aligns not only with the frequency that we talked about but also i'd say the range of timings that can be applied for the memory now most situations you generally don't need to worry about this because the specifications when you purchase the memory are pre-programmed and you essentially just have to have those profiles loaded up and they will automatically be good to go and you'll be up and running now when we talk about the performance tuning there is the actual opportunity to exactly enhance the performance of those baseline specifications meaning either one you could attempt to tighten up your timings generally the lower the timings the better so an example would be here if we have a cl 40 kit of memory it would mean maybe tuning it down to like 38 or 36 or 34 or maybe even something like 32. in terms of the frequency the higher the better so just like cpu frequency if we go ahead and increase this we're going to offer a higher level of performance and more bandwidth so again if we've got let's say a 4800 megahertz kit of memory if we went to 5 000 5400 5600 or 6000 megahertz these would offer us better performance now one of the key things to keep in mind though is that generally to be able to either tighten up memory or to increase its frequency you actually have to modify the voltage so one of the key things that changed when we transitioned from ddr4 to ddr5 was the implementation of something that was called the pmic this essentially pmic is a little bit more readily visible here if we take a closer look at this actual exposed pmic that's on our non-xmp ddr5 memory module essentially this pmic is a voltage regulation module which defines essentially how much voltage can be provided to the actual dram module itself this is important because generally voltage aligns with the frequency as well as timings and what you'll generally find is actually that in xmp based ddr5 memory modules and overclocked ddr5 memory modules that they will generally feature a higher operating voltage this is actually what helps to allow for the scaling as far as frequency or the tightening of timings as well as also helping to ensure stability at those corresponding values now there's generally two types of pmics that are currently implemented right now when it comes to ddr5 memory modules you have a more kind of conservative basic pmic which is found generally on these more standard modules and then from there you also have a kind of more overclocking centric pmic which you might find essentially on xmp based ddr5 memory modules now what we've gone ahead and done is essentially implemented specialized design and firmware implementation on asus z690 series motherboards that feature asus enhanced memory profile technology to essentially bypass the limitations that are imposed by the pmic this allows us to essentially exceed the 1.1 voltage parameter that's defined by the pmic and be able to scale up to let's say 1.25 or as much as 1.45 in these scenarios alongside with specially tuned memory profiles that are designed by a performance team which are matched to the different types of memory ics that are out there again whether they're from micron from sk hynix whether they're from samsung allows you to essentially have an easy access to essentially either one profile which is tuned for better efficiency with essentially tighter timings or one that focuses on giving you even more memory bandwidth by increasing the memory frequency with profile 2. when this is ultimately all put in the form of an easy profile option they have available in the uefi they both ultimately give you a better experience so let's go ahead and actually find out how to enable this function within our uefi firmware so to take advantage of this feature all we need to do is essentially install our memory onto the motherboard and once we've gone ahead and installed this memory on the motherboard we just need to enter into the ubfi environment now once we get into the uefi it's going to be a pretty straightforward process you essentially just need to either go to your primary easy mode interface or you can go to the advanced mode interface and toggle on the asus extreme memory profile option once you toggle this you essentially have two options you can go ahead and select either the baseline profile one which is going to be designed for superior efficiency essentially it won't add any additional voltage but just through careful analysis and through specialized profiles that we've gone ahead and tuned which are specific to the type of memory that is going to be on your ddr5 memory module we will go ahead and tighten up the timings overall giving you better efficiency and better performance if you actually want to attempt even higher level performance you can shift over into profile 2 which will go ahead and extend the frequency from its baseline in our uh case here we're going to see an actual improvement from the baseline of 4800 megahertz all the way up to actually 6 000 megahertz in addition to this we'll also see actually a reduction in the timings as well so we're actually going to get both areas which are critical to the overall performance of memory uh improved upon by utilizing excuse extreme memory profile now once you apply this you just go ahead and save and exit essentially the f10 key on your keyboard and reboot and you will be good to go now it is important to keep in mind that because this is a form of overclocking it is not necessarily 100 guaranteed there may be certain configurations which may produce instability and if that's the case you would essentially just want to reset your motherboard by using the clear cmos option on your motherboard or by removing the battery and then reinstalling it to revert your motherboard back to its default operating parameters for most situations the most conservative setting which would generally produce the highest level of reliability and assurance in terms of use will be profile 1 but we'll generally find that many users can confidently use profile 2. now once you've done this you can go ahead and re-enter into the uefi environment and you can check that the actual corresponding asus extreme memory profile has been applied and you can check that the actual corresponding frequency is present if you actually have one of our rog series motherboards that feature our integrated memtest technology you can actually run a memory test to validate the actual new profile which is currently running or you can also attempt to go ahead and go into windows and also take advantage of the ada64 license which comes included with our rog series motherboards this is a great way to also again validate not only the speed of the memory but also actually run a stress test and you can even run a performance test helping you to create a compare and contrast between the baseline frequency as well as the higher end frequency so that wraps up our amp video hopefully you found it interesting exciteful and ultimately useful and ultimately helps to validate why picking an asus board was the right choice in terms of giving you the best ddr5 experience this alongside many other features and functions that we've got detailed in other videos which you can check out really help to give you the best pc diy building experience if you have any questions comments concerns feedback feel free to go ahead and drop them in the comment section down below or email us at pc diy asus.com or join our pc diy facebook group which is linked in the description as well so with that take care take it easy enjoy the rest of your day and best of luck with your build

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Keywords: ASUS Intel BIOS, ASUS UEFI BIOS, build a pc, pc setup bios, PCMR, guide on computer setup, DRAM overclocking, DDR5 overclocking, DDR5 XMP, SK HYNIX DDR5, Samsung DDR5, Micron DDR5, Corsair DDR5, GSKILL DDR5, TeamGroup DDR5, Kingston DDR5, intel z690 overclocking guide

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Length: 9min 43sec (583 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 15 2021