Quote Originally Posted by Sumanji View Post
Having soo many RAM slots on a desktop board is a bit ridiculous. The vast majority of high-end power users and gamers will have 3 x 1GB or 3 x 2GB RAM, so why not use just 3 slots and save a load of space
Because a high number of users might want to use more than 3 sticks, just like lots of them use 4 sticks now... the Intel reference board has only 4 slots if you want that.