Memory limit on 2850?

J. Epperson Dell at epperson.homelinux.net
Mon Nov 5 12:13:30 CST 2007


On Mon, November 5, 2007 12:26, Kurt_Olsson at dell.com wrote:
> 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.
>

So I could fill the two empty slots with 4Gb and get to 16Gb?  Or is it
possible that the 2Gb modules are dual rank?  My Dell presales guy is
saying I have to pull the 2Gbs out and put in 4x4Gb.



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