Dell PowerEdge 1600: Registered Ram?

[logers]

Hi I just purchased a new Dell PowerEdge 1600 Server and am waiting for it to ship. I need to purchase some additional ram for it but I'm not sure whether it is using registered or unregistered.

If anyone has recently purchased one of these newer models and knows what the default ram is I would greatly appreciate the info. I called my Dell rep. AND sent an email to their Tech dept. and neither had any idea...typical Dell.

The specs they listed were 128MB DDR,200MHZ,1X128 DIMM

Thanks!

 

[LikeLinus]

Tech specs say

4 sockets for DDR DIMM support up to 4GB

Double Data Rate (DDR) memory for performance

Error Checking and Correcting (ECC) support for availability


I would make the assumption that it is indeed using ECC. From what I've heard, i think those serverworks boards only use ECC?

 

[RustyNale]

Yes, you will be using ECC ram for it.

 

[logers]

Does it matter whether the ram I buy is registered or unregistered? I'm not quite sure what the difference is.

 

[CrazyAL]

You need to buy ECC ram. It is more expensive and dependable that normal unbuffered nonecc ram. Does anyone know what we need to do to make these dual CPU machines? Is it just a matter of dropping an matching Xenon CPU into the machine or is there more to it???

 

[Yomicron]

you need Registered ECC Ram

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: CrazyAL
You need to buy ECC ram. It is more expensive and dependable that normal unbuffered nonecc ram. Does anyone know what we need to do to make these dual CPU machines? Is it just a matter of dropping an matching Xenon CPU into the machine or is there more to it???

Make sure you have a truly matching Xeon - they have to be the same stepping (ok, don't HAVE to but should)

You'll then have to convert your HAL to a multiprocessor in the operating system to take advantage of it.