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I am in the process of upgrading the RAM in our single-processor R710 and would like to verify the configuration before buying the memory. If I am reading the documentation correctly, I believe the following memory configuration should work giving us a total of 96GB.
using dual-rank 16GB DDR3 RDIMMs (Kingston KTD-PE313LV/16G)
- A1 - 16GB
- A4 - 16GB
- A7 - empty
- A2 - 16GB
- A5 - 16GB
- A8 - empty
- A3 - 16GB
- A6 - 16GB
- A9 - empty
Can anyone confirm that this configuration should work correctly?
Could I even go up to 144GB by populating slots A7, A8, and A9?
DELL-Josh Cr
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Posted May 20th, 2013 09:00
That configuration looks correct. From the user guide starting on page 130 here are the memory requirements ftp.dell.com/.../poweredge-r710_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf
Quad ranked dimms 2 per channel.
A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6 for the slots.
Your configuration meets both of those requirements so it should work fine.
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Posted June 27th, 2013 20:00
I may be wrong, but if you fully populate, you need to be aware memory speed will drop back to 800.
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Posted June 27th, 2013 21:00
Isn't that what I said - "if you FULLY populate"?
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Posted June 27th, 2013 21:00
No, you're not wrong ... page 130 of the manual:
For single or dual-rank memory modules:
• One memory module per channel supports up to 1333 MHz.
• Two memory modules per channel supports up to 1067 MHz.
• Three memory modules per channel are limited to 800 MHz,
regardless of memory module speed.theflash1932
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Posted June 27th, 2013 22:00
When you said "I may be wrong", it left some doubt as to how sure you were about it ... so, I showed you where and what the manual it says, so you can be more sure next time. ;)
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Posted May 20th, 2013 10:00
Yes, if you use dual ranked DIMMs you can fully populate with 16GB DIMMs, so on a single processor 144GB.