Does the X58 ASUS Sabertooth motherboard support 8 GB stick of RAM?

[Cats869]

Hey guys,

I am wondering if anyone here has experience or know if an 8GB stick of RAM is supported on x58 motherboards in general. Now if they do, how about the X58 ASUS Sabertooth motherboard? http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/specifications/

It says that the max is 24GB and there are 6 DIMM slots so I guess 4GB for each but I am wondering if 8GB will be fine as long as I put only max of 3 of those?

I have a friend who is trying to get this resolved but the board won't recognize the ram even after reading the MemOK button.

THe 8GB stick of ram are the crucial ballastix sport XT (blue) RAM. It is 1866 MHz at CL10 speed.

Thanks.

 

[jimmysmitty]

That board supports a max of 24GB so 6 4GB DIMMs.

http://support.asus.com/QVL.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&m=Sabertooth X58&hashedid=AM2RChl84MZrKh6J

That is the memory QVL. If it is listed to work there then it will work.

 

[smorizio]

you can also email asus support and ask them too. the memory list is over 4 years old.

 

[Martell1977]

Run this from Crucial Memory:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/systemscanner

It will give you all the information you need. I'm surprised more people don't use it.

 

[jimmysmitty]

you can also email asus support and ask them too. the memory list is over 4 years old.

The memory limitation is actually fro that CPU generation and not so much the board.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52585/Intel-Core-i7-990X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-12M-Cache-3_46-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

The best CPU, the 990X, only supported 24GB of RAM.

The motherboard has some limitations based on the VRM design and quality of components in the board so that can limit clock speed and voltage but it wont limit the size of the DIMMs supported, that is normally decided by the CPU as the memory controller is on the CPU itself.

 

[Cats869]

Thanks for the answers guys. I was just curious since I have read from other forums where people stated that they managed to get 8GB sticks to work on other X58 boards.