That's the big question, right there, indeed. This is an artificial limit by Intel, after all. 16GB DIMM DDR3 modules do exist, it's just that Intel put an asse

That's the big question, right there, indeed. This is an artificial limit by Intel, after all. 16GB DIMM DDR3 modules do exist, it's just that Intel put an assert into the firmware to not allow for those.