HP ProLiant DL360e Configuring and using DDR3 memory with HP ProLiant Gen8 Ser - Page 1

Configuring and using DDR3 memory with HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers Best Practice Guidelines for ProLiant servers with the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processor series Engineering Whitepaper, 1st Edition Introduction ...3 Overview of DDR3 memory technology 3 Basics of DDR3 memory technology...3 DDR3 Memory Technology ...3 DDR3 Speeds ...3 Basics of DIMMs ...4 DRAM technology...4 Ranks ...4 Speed ...4 DDR3 DIMM types...5 Unbuffered DIMMs...5 Registered DIMMs...5 Load Reduced DIMMs ...5 HP SmartMemory ...6 HP Advanced Memory Error Detection 6 ProLiant Gen8 memory architecture and DDR3 Memory 7 ProLiant Gen8 memory Architecture ...7 HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers...8 HP ProLiant Gen8 Processors ...8 DDR3 memory for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers 9 Populating memory in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers 10 HP ProLiant Gen8 memory slot configurations 10 Population rules for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers 10 Rules for populating processors and DIMM slots 10 Rules for DIMM types ...10 General rules ...11 DIMM Population Order...11