Must be ECC. Otherwise, your 4x2GB DDR2-667 configuration will work.
Processors are a bit fuzzier:
According to the original system specs: Processors Single Dual Core Intel® Xeon® 3000 Sequence processor at up to 2.66GHz; Single Intel Pentium® D processor at 2.8GHz; Single Intel Celeron® D processor at 2.8GHz
theflash1932, thanks for reply! Memory options are rather limited and thus clear: 4x "2GB DDR2-667 ECC" memory modules or 2x "2GB DDR2-667 ECC". Am I correct, that I can use non-registered ECC memory as well?
According to BIOS release notes, the A04 version supports even "Core 2 Duo E4400" and "Xeon X3320" :emotion-1: According to specifications both are decent CPU's, but I think I'll go with "Xeon X3320" because it has larger L2 cache, supports newer instruction sets and most important of all, it supports VT-x.
Any other suggestions regarding processor/memory upgrade on PowerEdge 860? :emotion-43:
theflash1932
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June 24th, 2011 21:00
Must be ECC. Otherwise, your 4x2GB DDR2-667 configuration will work.
Processors are a bit fuzzier:
According to the original system specs:
Processors Single Dual Core Intel® Xeon® 3000 Sequence processor at up to 2.66GHz;
Single Intel Pentium® D processor at 2.8GHz;
Single Intel Celeron® D processor at 2.8GHz
And, according to BIOS update release notes:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/bios/PE860-BIOSA05.TXT
theflash1932
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June 25th, 2011 11:00
Yes, unbuffered (non-registered) memory is also called for in the specs.
Good luck.
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theflash1932, thanks for reply! Memory options are rather limited and thus clear: 4x "2GB DDR2-667 ECC" memory modules or 2x "2GB DDR2-667 ECC". Am I correct, that I can use non-registered ECC memory as well?
According to BIOS release notes, the A04 version supports even "Core 2 Duo E4400" and "Xeon X3320" :emotion-1: According to specifications both are decent CPU's, but I think I'll go with "Xeon X3320" because it has larger L2 cache, supports newer instruction sets and most important of all, it supports VT-x.
Any other suggestions regarding processor/memory upgrade on PowerEdge 860? :emotion-43: