in theory you can run as many gpus as chipset allows you due to the number of pcie lanes.
sure if its a newer motherboard, but if its older then no that's not the case, older the mobo is the chance that it cannot do even 6 gpus becomes more prevalent, older motherboards and cpus do not have the same amount of pcie lanes as the new ones do but then there's also integrated stuff like sound,network etc that take up pcie lanes which does affect how many gpus you can run