On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:28:59PM -0500, Scott Duplichan wrote: > I am no quad rank dimm expert, but I think few boards support them. One is > Serengeti > Cheetah. I remember asking why one processor socket has 4 dimm slots and > another 8. > I was told it was for quad rank dimm testing. The chip selects for two normal > dimm sockets > are combined and routed to a quad rank socket, if I remember correctly. I > don't even > have any quad ranked dimms to test with. I think they are rare.
Actually, they are not *that* rare, since they are readily available: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=ddr3+quad+rank&x=0&y=0 Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <w...@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
