MSI delivers high-speed CXMT DDR5 memory support on AMD and Intel platforms
MSI has delivered strong CXMT memory support on its AMD and Intel motherboards
Following their announcement for AMD platforms, MSI has confirmed that its Intel 800-series motherboards are now fully optimised for DDR5 memory from CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies). With MSI Z890 motherboards, DDR5-8000+ memory speeds are now available with CXMT-based DDR5 modules.
This news follows reports that CXMT will soon have a DRAM wafer capacity comparable to that of Micron. That means that CXMT DDR5 memory should become much more widely available in the future. MSI has prepared for this eventuality by delivering stronger CXMT memory support on its AMD and Intel motherboards.
MSI today announced that its Intel 800-series motherboards are now fully optimized for DDR5 memory built on CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) DRAM. Following dedicated BIOS memory tuning, MSI Z890 motherboards deliver stable DDR5-8000+ operation with CXMT-based modules, spanning from flagship overclocking designs all the way to mainstream 4-DIMM boards.
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Firmware matters
MSI has confirmed that it has optimised its motherboard firmware with dedicated memory training and timing optimisations for CXMT’s memory ICs. This enables support for much higher memory speeds, which is great news for PC enthusiasts.
CXMT-based DDR5 modules have rapidly gained popularity thanks to their strong value proposition, but their frequency headroom has historically lagged behind established DRAM vendors, which is a gap defined less by the silicon itself than by how well motherboard firmware understands it. MSI took on exactly that challenge, developing dedicated memory training and timing optimizations for CXMT ICs and validating the results with rigorous stress testing.
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In time, CXMT DDR5 memory modules should soon become much more readily available worldwide. While the US government has implemented a sales ban on CXMT memory, that won’t stop CXMT memory from becoming available elsewhere.
MSI’s latest AMD and Intel motherboards now offer robust support for CXMT memory modules. This positions MSI well for the future DRAM market. Until now, Chinese DRAM has mostly been sold in China and Taiwan. Soon, this memory will be more readily available on the global market. Perhaps your next DRAM kit will be using CXMT chips.
Ready on Both Platforms
This Intel milestone completes the picture MSI began on AMD, where MSI became the first motherboard brand to publicly break the long-standing DDR5-6800 ceiling for CXMT-based memory. With optimizations now in place on both Intel and AMD platforms, users can count on consistent, class-leading CXMT memory support from MSI motherboards.
These optimizations are also being integrated into MEMORY TRY IT, MSI’s one-click memory overclocking feature. Instead of manually tuning frequencies, voltages, and dozens of timing parameters, users simply select a validated profile in the BIOS — making high-frequency memory performance accessible to everyone, not just overclocking veterans. As validation continues, higher-frequency profiles will be added over time.
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