dmidecode showing less Memory Capacity than Motherboard spec?

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Published on 2012-12-07T10:29:23Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 11:07 UTC
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We got a supermicro server, http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5016/sys-5016i-ur.cfm, according spec, the server supports up to 32G memory when using ECC Register Memory.

However, when I tried the dmidecode command, it says 24G max memory:

[root@c1 ~]# dmidecode | grep Maximum
Maximum Size: 256 kB
Maximum Size: 1024 kB
Maximum Size: 8192 kB
Maximum Memory Module Size: 4096 MB
Maximum Total Memory Size: 24576 MB
Maximum Capacity: 24 GB
Maximum Value: Unknown

Which one I should trust?

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