domisdom

so the limit would be 16gb strictly for my board specifically crucial had its info wrong saying 8gb and their isnt any serious bios updates definitely none with UEFI no overclocking the best thing i can figure out for a solution is ASRock 970M Pro3 motherboard that will take all of my current components and supports up to 64gb of ddr3 with overclocking 2000mhz+ . and should fit in my case only $64.99 with free shipping on new egg and the pci ports are in a better configuration so my soundcard can go on top of my gpu instead of my gpu on top of my souncard . unblocking 1 of my gpu fans and utilizing the sheild on my sound card blocking interference from my gpu

is there a reliable bios update tool ? im runing american megatrends

https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-8-series-chipsets/880g they have newush drivers but there is not too much info on what changes and im already running 10 64 bit and playing gears 5 in fhd on high mode and benchmarking pretty well with the gears benchmark tool

the part where im hung up is that some websites that sell mb's with 880g chipsets hint that they are only lmitied because of the OS and it looks like theyre too old for reliable windows10 specific info in the add they list ram limitations for different os's but when they get to 10 they say no such limitations exist

but is that my limit ?

so i have a a acer/foxconn MB.GAY09.001 RS880M05G1 motherboard which is stock in a gateway dx4320-02e desktop with a phenom ii 1055t 120w x6 cpu , a 480w replace power PSU stock is 330w , evga Gtx1050TI ssc 4gb Gpu, soundblaster z pcie soundcard 1gb . 2tb barracuda hdd , originally i installed 2(2x2gb)=8gb AMD entertainment edition ddr3 ram chips because crucial told me i can only support 8gb of ram but when you look around for actual specs it says it can support 16gb ddr3 . however some sites lead me to believe that is a limitation of windows 7 . i used the anytime upgrade and have windows 10 64bit with some windows 7 remnants now windows 10 home 64bit supposedly can support 128gb of ram . i have dual channel with 4 dimm slots and id like to shove as much ram evenly into those slots a pc build calculator estimates im only using about 300 watts of my total 480 watts that are available . does anyone know the answer because windows 10 info on this older stuff isnt exactly easy to find.