Asus Enables Resizable BAR Support For Z490 Motherboards in Beta BIOS

Well, well … AMD can’t just steal all the limelight can they. Asus shows off its Resizable BAR Support for their Z490 motherboards via their latest Beta BIOS. Is it any good? Well … you’ll have to pair it with an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT to find out

Taken fromTom’s Hardware… Resizable BAR (Base Address Register), the technology behind AMD’sSmart Access Memory(SAM), isn’t exclusive to Ryzen owners anymore. Asus has released an entire wave of new firmwares for various Z490 motherboards that enable the Resizable BAR feature.

固件,体育1002年的版本号, is fresh out of the oven as Asus evidently uploaded it just yesterday. The firmware is currently in the beta stage so there might be some bugs here and there. It also lacks a detailed description of the changes. We can, however, confirm that the 1003 firmware effectively brings support for Resizable BAR, as evidenced by the newly added “Above 4G Decoding” and “Re-Size BAR Support” options in ourROG Maximus XII Apexmotherboard’s BIOS.

Source:Tom’s Hardware

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