Well the Xserve obviously uses FB-DIMM..so it is serial in nature and
the latency increases on each channel since all traffic is routed
between the first and any intermediate FB-DIMMs.
My experience is that you should place the fastest/largest FB-DIMMs
in slot one.
So: install your new 1Gb FB-DIMMs in the first two slots of each
channel and move the 4 x 512 FB-DIMMs to the the second two slots of
each channel.
This will also have the side effect of reducing your overall thermal
profile.
Karl
On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Seth Norris wrote:
I know this is not exactly the correct forum, but everyone that
responds to this list is so intelligent that I thought maybe I can
get a quality answer here. Now that the shameless flattery (all
true though) is over, here is my question: We just received a
brand new XServe today (2.66 Xeon / 3 - 750GB SATA / 2GB (4-512)
RAM) and want to add some more RAM to it. The thought was to add 4
1GB DIMMs bringing our total to 6GB. However, the Apple doc states
"for the best possible performance, install eight identical
DIMMs". Does anyone believe that 4GB (8-512) would be a better
choice then our original idea of 6GB? Also, does anyone have any
experience with DIMMs that did not come from Apple? I would
appreciate any advice on this matter as all configuration decisions
were made with out me (including the idea of the additional 4GB to
be installed by me)
Thanks and again my apologies for the non WO nature of this post.
Seth
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