One of my test systems is a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard. My understanding is that the x58 chipset supports up to 6x4GB DDR3 memory sticks, for a total of 24GB RAM.
Without thinking, I popped in a pair of 8GB DIMMs to test. Lo and behold, the system found the RAM and it tested just fine! Unfortunately, this motherboard still seems to have a "maximum" limit of 24GB total system memory. Still nice to know that there's a little more flexibility in memory selection on that platform. At least in this case, yes, the x58 chipset is capable of addressing 8GB DIMMs.
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