Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) is an Intel-developed technology to increase motherboard performance when transferring data to and from RAM. It was implemented for the first time in the X38 version of the Bearlake family chipset presented in September 2007. Principle of working wikitesto
This is a very similar technology to NVIDIA's SLI Memory for the NForce4 chipset and allows you to leverage some of the features of RAM memory banks (in the case of Intel DDR3 only) high performance. >
The basic principle of technology is relatively simple: memory manufacturers program the frequencies and timing their modules will operate in overclocking in the SPD, a small integrated memory chip on the same memory bank whose purpose is to communicate to the motherboard what are the settings to best use that specific RAM module. Using this technology, it is possible to make sure that when the motherboard identifies a memory bank as XMP-compliant, it can set more push-pull settings than the default ones, offering a slight increase in performance.
The disadvantage of XMP technology compared to NVidia's SLI Memory, which was matched to AMD Athlon 64 processor systems, lies in DDR3 standard support, initially much more expensive than the most widespread standard at the time: DDR2 . Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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