I'm asking this because when I built this PC in 2008 using this motherboard, I am POSITIVE 8 gb of RAM was the maximum supported by the motherboard. I filled it up at that time with 4X2gb corsair XMS2 sticks and that's worked well with Vista 64 bit.
Then I became ill and I didn't use the machine at all for 3 years.
Now I'm back and trying to get the machine lean and mean for Photoshop CS6 and while I was updating the bios from F4 to F10, I see on the Gigabyte website that the board is rated for 16gb of RAM! How did this happen or was I previously mistaken? Was there a bios update that allowed for this increase in RAM? Is there any chance the info is wrong and the board supports only 8gb total?
If indeed the board supports 16gb of RAM, are there any suggestions as to what RAM to use? It would have to be 4x4gb ddr2 (I think).
I'm not overclocking or gaming --just photoshop but with BIG files.
This is a core2 quad Q9550 with Windows 7 64 bit.
Thanks up front for the help and information!