Re: Xserve Question

2007-02-08 Thread Fabrice Pipart
In case that can help you, here is more info on the RAM management in the MacPro (which I believe is close to the XServe's) : http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2816&p=6 Fabrice On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Karl Gretton wrote: Well the Xserve obviously uses FB-DIMM..so it is serial in

Re: Xserve Question

2007-02-07 Thread Karl Gretton
Well the Xserve obviously uses FB-DIMM..so it is serial in nature and the latency increases on each channel since all traffic is routed between the first and any intermediate FB-DIMMs. My experience is that you should place the fastest/largest FB-DIMMs in slot one. So: install your new 1G

Xserve Question

2007-02-07 Thread Seth Norris
I know this is not exactly the correct forum, but everyone that responds to this list is so intelligent that I thought maybe I can get a quality answer here. Now that the shameless flattery (all true though) is over, here is my question: We just received a brand new XServe today (2.66 Xeon / 3