Thank you for your research and reply. I will try to answer each item as there are some discrepancies with what I have learned.
* The motherboard is ver. 3.0 and Gigabyte says for this mb " 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32GB of system memory. "
Also: " Support for DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules. "
" To support a DDR3 1866 MHz (and above) memory, you must install an AM3+ CPU first. "
* The QVL list for RAM memory that you referenced is the original that was released for the ver. 1.0 mb in 2012. The ver. 3.0 mb was released in 2015. and we now know by the specifications that it does support 32GB RAM and speeds of 1866 MHz and higher. This was in response to the introduction AM3+ processor and was accompanied by the release of BIOS ver. FD in 2015, which included a modification to memory capability.
* I do have a need for 32GB RAM ... I do some very intense graphic and photo editing and on my current system16 MB can max out after several layers and then it is going to the scratch drive which slows everything down.
*I thank you for your replacement suggestions, but .... the FX 6100 is a six core processor which is what is suggested for my software. A quad core may not work as well. The B560M mb has some good points ... but it does not have the number and type of PCIe slots that I require and it has no RAID support. And, as to the memory suggestion ... well, believe it or not, there are many out here who have no need for components developed for gaming purposes.
An 11 year old six core is going to be vastly slower than a recent model quad core, and nothing says you have to stop at a quad core. i5-10400, i5-11400, i5-12400 are also available and are relatively cheap. If you are photo editing on an FX-6100 you are missing out on a decade of CPU improvements, instruction sets.
No such thing as a 'gaming' component. They are either decent quality or not. You can safely ignore motherboard marketing gibberish, we are looking at VRM quality and features.
If RAID is a requirement, that is easily selected with a higher end motherboard. If you need more PCIe lanes that is also easy to deal with by picking a higher end motherboard.
I stand by replacing it rather than trying to force an old system into a role it isn't suited for. I would even go so far as to say to pick up a decent HP, Dell, or Lenovo workstation rather than a consumer desktop.
I should add that the FX line up chips aren't true quad, six or eight core processors. Each pair of cores shares an ALU and other internal resources. They are more like AMD's early version of SMT, so dual, tri, and quad cores. There were very limited tasks in which an FX processor outperformed a similarly priced quad core from Intel at the time, let alone 5 or 7 generations of AMD and 10 generations of Intel later.
If you like AMD, Ryzen is still a good choice as a workstation processor. 5950X is pretty much unrivaled when it comes to small scale production work with its 16 cores at a quite reasonable price.