I want to add more RAM to my motherboard (ASUS P6T) and I was looking through the manual and found this under the specifications:
I'm guessing this means 12GB total? I asked somebody else and he told me that it be better to check what the chipset (Intel X58) supports. I did a Google found that some are saying they have 24GB of RAM (some actually say they got 48GB) installed with the Intel X58 chipset. I currently have 6GB of RAM installed, so if I had another 6GB of RAM will that be it? Or can I add more than 6GB of RAM?
Answer
In modern consumer systems, the chipset doesn't have any impact on how much memory you can put in a system. The memory controller (formerly "North Bridge") is actually on the processor die now.
The limiting factor here is really how many channels your CPU supports, and how many they've actually "wired up" to DIMM sockets.
This ASUS P6T page indicates 24 GB max.
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