Maximum System Memory on Motherboards

[Saint_Technika]

I'd like to know if I'm misssing something on why do top spec & high end Intel motherboards support as much as 128G memory(Asus X99 Socket LGA2011-v3 ATX Motherboard (X99-E)) vs 32G limit on AMD based motherboards (Asus Sabertooth AMD 990FX Socket AM3+ ATX Motherboard).

Because such limits what you can do with the system beyond the realms of gaming.

 

[agentrfr]

The limit is defined by the processor architechture, they've been designed differently. AMD is targeting games/gamers and can save the money/space/design/time provisioning for 32GB of RAM to be available. Intel targets consumers and datacenters, so it makes sense to design for much larger RAM profiles.

Also AMD builds CPUs and GPUs (for PCs and the new xbone and super PS4), whereas Intel specialises in CPUs.