Memory limit on 2850?

[Kurt_Olsson at Dell.com]

The cause of the limitation is the Lindenhurst chipset.  The chipset
only supports 8 ranks of memory.  The 4 GB memory DIMMS have density
issues which require them to be dual ranked, thus 2 ranks per DIMM use
all 8 ranks available to the system. You could also populate all 6 slots
with 4x single rank DIMMs and 2x dual.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of J. Epperson
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:13 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Memory limit on 2850?

Our Dell systems consultant says our 8Gb. 2850 machines can be upgraded
only to 16Gb, using 4x4Gb modules and leaving two of the six memory bays
empty.  Is this correct?  What's the cause of the limitation?

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