On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:05 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, computer gurus - > do any of you know if the AMD Opteron downrates the PC3200 400 MHz DIMMS > (DDR400) to 333 MHz (DDR333) performance when the system has more that 2 > Gbytes of memory installed? > > i was told that when an opteron socke has more that 2GBytes of memory, then > the cpu will automatically downrate the memory rate to an equivalence of > DDR333 memory.
It doesn't necessarily depend on the amount of memory installed. It depends on the total number of ranks in your memory DIMMs which is likely determined by the number of DIMMs installed. You get downclocked to PC2700 once you hit 8 ranks total on a memory controller (one per Opteron CPU.) So you could get 4GB of RAM on a processor if you use single ranked DIMMs. See section 4.1.3.4 here: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/26094.PDF Find previous coverage of this subject here: http://beowulf.org/archive/2005-July/013377.html -- Nate Faerber, Senior Engineer - Clusters Tel: 415-954-2866 Fax: 415-954-2899 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN PENGUIN COMPUTING www.penguincomputing.com _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
