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PE-2950 can support 16GB Memroy in Each slots
Hi
My Respected customer need to upgrade memory in each slot 16 GB in Dell PE-2950 Server, My question is:
Is it possible to go for this solution?
Waiting for your response with thanks & regards
Asim
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February 22nd, 2011 09:00
Per the information update for the 2950 (available from here<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>), with the 2950 III (and possibly a bios update), you can run 8GB DIMMs.
If you need more than 64GB of memory, you'll have to upgrade to a newer/bigger server.
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February 22nd, 2011 09:00
On single proc? Your limited to 4 dimms or 32gb ram. To use all 8 ram sockets you have to have 2 procs.
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February 22nd, 2011 13:00
There's no mention of that in the memory installation section of the hardware installation guide<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>, unlike on the R710's memory installation section.
The Xeon 5400 didn't have the memory controller in the CPU. With the Nehalem (Xeon 5500 and now 5600 (Westmere)) architecture this changed and the dimmslots are tied to the CPU socket, so if there's no CPU in the socket, there's no way to use the memory in those slots.
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February 23rd, 2011 15:00
Pretty darn sure on this one with the 2950II's and 2970's..... We have tried it even.
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February 23rd, 2011 20:00
With the 2970 you are correct; it uses Opteron processors and AMD has had the memory controller in the processor since the Athlon64 I think, but Intel just started with that with the Nehalem architecture (Xeon 5500 and later series).
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February 24th, 2011 07:00
Interesting. You are correct we have not tried this on the 2950's because they were all ordered with full ram and dual procs.
Thanks for setting me straight on it. The 2950's and 2970's seem like the same exact boxes, but there are little things here and there for sure.
We scored some awesome deals on the outlet store on our 2970's. We cluster the Intels with each other and the amds with each other.
I did read of the 2970, that there is a way the procs can gain access to each others memory. But if we add ram to the other side on a sngle proc? The 2970 won't even post.