Dell PowerEdge R530 - General Memory Module Installation Guidelines; Mode-Specific Guidelines

Table 32. Memory channels
Processor Channel 0 Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3
Processor 1 slots A1 and A5 slots A2 and A6 slots A3 and A7 slots A4 and A8
Processor 2 slot B1 slot B2 slot B3 slot B4
The following table shows the memory populations and operating frequencies for the supported congurations.
Table 33. Memory populations and operating frequencies
DIMM Type
DIMMs Populated/
Channel
Voltage
Operating Frequency (in
MT/s)
Maximum DIMM Rank/Channel
RDIMM
1
1.2 V
2400, 2133, and 1866 Single rank or dual rank
2
Related link
Mode-specic guidelines
General memory module installation guidelines
NOTE
: Memory congurations that fail to observe these guidelines can prevent your system from booting, stop responding
during memory conguration, or operating with reduced memory.
The system supports Flexible Memory Conguration, enabling the system to be congured and run in any valid chipset architectural
conguration. The following are the recommended guidelines for installing memory modules:
• x4 and x8 DRAM based memory modules can be mixed. For more information, see the Mode-specic guidelines section.
• Up to two dual- or single-rank RDIMMs can be populated per channel.
• Populate DIMM sockets only if a processor is installed. For single-processor systems, sockets A1 to A8 are available. For dual-processor
systems, sockets A1 to A8 and sockets B1 to B4 are available.
• Populate all sockets with white release levers rst, and then all the sockets with black release levers.
• When mixing memory modules with dierent capacities, populate the sockets with memory modules with highest capacity rst. For
example, if you want to mix 4 GB and 8 GB memory modules, populate 8 GB memory modules in the sockets with white release tabs
and 4 GB memory modules in the sockets with black release tabs.
• In a dual-processor conguration, the memory conguration for each processor should be identical. For example, if you populate socket
A1 for processor 1, then populate socket B1 for processor 2, and so on.
• Memory modules of dierent capacities can be mixed provided other memory population rules are followed (for example, 4 GB and 8
GB memory modules can be mixed).
• Mixing of more than two memory module capacities in a system is not supported.
• Populate two DIMMs per processor (one DIMM per channel) at a time to maximize performance,
Related link
Mode-specic guidelines
Mode-specic guidelines
Four memory channels are allocated to each processor. The allowable congurations depend on the memory mode selected.
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