Just learned that event though my motherboard will easily fit and detect all of the 128GB of ram I just installed, if I do that, it'll only allow me to use 3.5GB.
I was upgrading because the services that run on start were taking up most of the 32GB I had. This meant that trying to boot with a tenth of that was loading down my computer to the point that it was nearly unusable. I eventually was able to SSH in and shut down some services.
Now I'm running with 64. Double what I had but have of what I've spent the past week looking forward to having.