Does Skylake support +32 gigs of memory

amn_ron

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So in part because of my total uninterest in the recent skylake platform (also to spare me the headache of considering the technology for updating my rig, cause honestly my current rig will pull through another couple of years no probs. with no considerate bottlenecks, atleast for what i'm using it for) i've done no research on the platform (like none whatsoever). But recently i've become interested in the proposition so I'm considering a build and therefore would like clarification for a part of the puzzle i.e. does it support memory in excess of 32 gigs. I've a set of dual channel memory - G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 32 GB (16GBx2) at my disposal (or like can have).
So could i throw in two of these kits to achieve 64GB of theoretical memory or should i just stick with one kit.
(I could have toiled away at diff. places for the answer but figured asking here would be the easiest, so.... best of luck to me!)

Oh i forgot the processor i'm interested in is the i7-6700k.
 
skylake motherboards with 4 ram slots will support 64gb.

Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
A motherboard must manage all the ram using the same specs of voltage, cas and speed.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards can be very sensitive to this.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.
You take your chances.

DDR3 will perform about the same as ddr4, so performance is not an issue.

My thought is that with a high end build, I would buy a supported 64gb kit and be done with it.
And, fwiw, ram speed has very little to do with performance on skylake.
Read this:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1478-page1.html