For starters, find me a mainstream Haswell board that supports over 32GB of ram. Don't ask why. Just do it.
Here's a hint: You won't because the platform doesn't support it.
People are always thinking mom'n'pop or "mainstream" box when they say crap like you said. It may be "obvious to the members on this site", but your generalization is still ridiculously invalid. At least you're owning up to your mistake somewhat.
Ok so my assumption that haswell is a good choice for a new build "mainstream" box is invalid
But your assumption that someone needs 32GB of ram is?
And is it necessary to say what I said was "crap" or "i'm owning up to my mistake" is any of that necessary in your rebuttal that stuff just leads to flame wars and I would expect someone with 29k post to know better.
We are allowed to have a difference in opinion on a public forum without the baiting. How do you think someone reading that is going to respond??
So other than 32GB of ram why do I need to skip over haswell?
If we are now talking about workstation builds then we are gonna have to start talking about the need for ECC memory because I don't think I would put that much memory into a build to do real work without that thought crossing my mind.
And even if you look at the members on this forum that have builds with that much memory, what is the percentage of them that only went that high up because memory was cheap and they wanted to fill all the slots vs those that actually need all that memory. No one in here can say they need 32GB of ram in a gaming box with a straight face.
I still stand by my post and I don't see any mistakes in it.