YouTuber prototypes means to make use of DDR4 reminiscence on DDR5 motherboards

Why it issues: This week, a Taipei YouTuber who could also be a part of the Asus ROG motherboard crew prototyped an adapter for utilizing DDR4 reminiscence sticks on motherboards designed just for DDR5. This trick could alleviate a dilemma dealing with these constructing or shopping for new computer systems with Intel’s new Alder Lake processors.

When Intel launched its Alder Lake CPUs in November, it let customers lastly make the leap into DDR5 RAM–if they’ll discover any. Provide chain scarcity has affected DDR5 manufacturing as properly, so customers could wish to stick with DDR4 in the interim. Nevertheless, upgrading from DDR4 to DDR5 at a later date means changing your whole motherboard, as motherboards can presently solely assist one or the opposite.

YouTuber Bing—an Asus worker in accordance with machine translation of his profile web page—posted a video Thursday of his prototype adapter, which lets him use DDR4 RAM on an Asus Z690 DDR5 motherboard. We have embedded the video above, however it’s in Chinese language, so change the closed caption settings to auto-translate.

The problem lies within the elementary variations between DDR4 and DDR5 modules. From the seems to be of the video, Bing’s prototype remains to be in an early section and won’t flip into one thing you should purchase for some time. If it turns into an precise product, customers may go forward and buy DDR5 motherboards even earlier than they’ll get their palms on DDR5 RAM and easily improve to it each time it turns into extra out there and cost-effective.