Figure96.DIMMconnectorslocation
DIMMinstallationsequence
Dependingontheservermodel,theservermaycomewithaminimumofone4GBDIMMinstalledinslot
1.WhenyouinstalladditionalDIMMs,installthemintheordershowninthefollowingtabletooptimize
systemperformance.
Ingeneral,allfourchannelsonthememoryinterfaceforeachmicroprocessorcanbepopulatedinanyorder
andhavenomatchingrequirements.
Table11.NormalmodeDIMMinstallationsequence
Numberofinstalled
microprocessorDIMMconnectorpopulationsequence
Onemicroprocessorinstalled
1,4,9,12,2,5,8,11,3,6,7,10
Twomicroprocessorsinstalled1,13,4,16,9,21,12,24,2,14,5,17,8,20,11,23,3,15,6,18,7,19,10,22
Foroptimalperformance:
Makesureallfourmemorychannelsofeachmicroprocessorarepopulated.Eachmemorychannelsshould
bepopulatedwiththesametypeandamountofmemoryperchannel.Eachmicroprocessorsocketshould
bepopulatedwiththesametypeandamountofmemorypersocket.1DPC(oneDIMMperchannel)or
2DPC(twoDIMMperchannel)memoryconfigurationarerecommended.Unlessthereisaneedformemory
Chapter5.Removingandreplacingcomponents167