Question Z87 Sabertooth Motherboard - Memory Capacity Question

[woodman1999]

So I have been working on upgrading my aging system which is currently using a Z87 Sabertooth board and a 4770. I bought 2x16GB of G.SKILL Ripjaw DDR3 which is on the QVL for the board to hopefully help out a bit since I was originally using 2x4GB. When I go to install it (trying in both the two beige slots as well as the two black slots) the BIOS and Windows are registering only 2x4GB of memory. I have updated to the latest (2017) BIOS 2032 and that still did not seem to help. Is something where clearing the CMOS might help me out a bit or is there a cap on what I can use for memory in the system? Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[bba-tcg]

According to the manual I found, it only supports up to 8 GB stcks.

SABERTOOTH Z87 - Support

www.asus.com

 

[woodman1999]

Well that's not great. Maybe I missed something in the QVL list. Time to see if I have any 8gb sticks lying around.

 

[woodman1999]

So I found 2x8gb G.Skill Sniper and dropped those in. Still showing up as 2x4gb sticks. Tempted to just pull the CMOS battery and see what happens

 

[bba-tcg]

Just the two sticks or all 4 installed?

 

[woodman1999]

Just the two. Figure worth starting there.

 

[bba-tcg]

Right. The manual had some other limiting parameters on the memory layout per DIMM.

 

[woodman1999]

Yeah, I've tried the sticks in both the beige and black slots as well with no luck.