Hi,
2009/1/8 steveydoteu alug@stevey.eu:
Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
My motherboard, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, supports 16GB DDR2 RAM. It has only 4 RAM slots. Crucial website says: "Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-8500 with a maximum of 2GB per slot."
So that's 8GB maximum... Why does the motherboard then support 16GB maximum?
I would not always take what the crucial scanner thingymajig as gospel.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValu...
Yes I've seen that page before. It does say it supports upto 16GB RAM. Also the memory support list shows a few RAM modules of 2GB each, but not 4GB.
I wasn't really taking crucial's scanner thingy as a gospel. But seems most consumer-grade motherboards can only take 2GB RAM sticks.
Srdjan