I don't know how long this has been going on (I mostly buy lower-end motherboards that don't have weird limitations), but it seems like a natural consequence of a specs-driven competitive market in motherboards built from monopoly chipsets. If ASUS has four slots and Gigabyte has five[1][2][3] slots, people are going to buy Gigabyte.
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I don't know how long this has been going on (I mostly buy lower-end motherboards that don't have weird limitations), but it seems like a natural consequence of a specs-driven competitive market in motherboards built from monopoly chipsets. If ASUS has four slots and Gigabyte has five[1][2][3] slots, people are going to buy Gigabyte.