Socket LGA 1155 motherboard recommendation to take 32GB RAM

[boing]

I've got a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4 rev 1.0 motherboard at the minute (core i7 860) with 16Gb RAM but annoyingly I'm hitting my memory ceiling. I work with 3Ds Max and Autopano Giga both of which suck up lots of memory.

So I bought 32Gb of RAM and then discovered my motherboard has a 16Gb limit....

I'm planning on building a second machine in the next year or so as this one is 6 years old now and don't want to throw a ton of money at this one but I do need to push the memory up if I can. I've looked at some lga1156 boards but they seem to share the same memory limit.

My question is, can anyone recommend an lga1156 board that will take 32Gb of RAM? I don't know if this is a fundamental limitation as I haven't built a machine in 6 years and am fairly rusty on the tech. If it's not a fundamental limit a board that has USB 3.0 too would be great.


Thanks.

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, the i7-860 has a 16gb limit, it seems.

http://ark.intel.com/products/41316/Intel-Core-i7-860-Processor-8M-Cache-2_80-GHz

 

[boing]

Crap, never even thought of checking the CPU, thanks for that.

 

[Sheep221]

I assume that at the time this CPU was sold, 16GB was very much fine. LGA1366 i7s support 24GB of max RAM, 32GB support has been added in sandy bridge and 64GB in skylake. So I guess if you really need more RAM you need to upgrade your whole platform.

 

[boing]

Yeah, as I say that's on the cards this year but I was looking for a cheap fix until then.

I'll just have to dive down the back of the sofa and upgrade sooner than planned.

 

[ronbo613]

I have the same motherboard. It's been mostly OK, but I think it's starting to fade away. Lost an SATA port and seeing some glitches so I think it's time to start looking for a new rig. Wouldn't sink any money into it, that's for sure.

 

[.vodka]

Well, you already have 32GB of DDR3. You can go z97 + i7 4790k and have quite the upgrade over your i7 860k if you can't return the RAM to do a Skylake build.