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Support for registered memory is another one. I learned this the hard way when I bought a 2x16GB registered DDR3 kit, and then finding out my i5 won't boot wit
by lewisl9029 11y ago
Support for registered memory is another one.
I learned this the hard way when I bought a 2x16GB registered DDR3 kit, and then finding out my i5 won't boot with it. It was next to impossible to find unbuffered memory with 16GB per module last time I checked.
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- chefkoch 11y agoThis also means you need ECC memory.
- vardump 11y agoHe said registered. I don't think you can buy registered RAM that's not ECC. It's the type of ECC RAM you need for E5 & E7 Xeons - multiple physical CPUs. Many of these systems won't even boot with normal DDR3 sticks, ECC or otherwise. Must have registered DDR3 (and I suppose DDR4 now).
- kjs3 11y agoI vaguely remember you could buy non-ECC registered memory back in the SDRAM days for servers. It was before we really understood trans-gigabyte error rates.
- Freaky 11y agoYou typically don't get registered memory support on the basic single-socket Xeons. It's more a multi-socket thing.
- lsc 11y agoyeah, none of the E3 xeons, to my knowledge (and I own, let me see. more than five, less than ten) - none of them support registered memory. They do support unbuffered ECC, which is pretty great, but at least the v2 units I've got are limited to 32gb ram, which stinks.
- yuhong 11y agoXeon E3 vs E5, actually.