29 Mar
2018
29 Mar
'18
1:52 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:59:44PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its over 6 years old) has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many. (Just one point for where newer isn't always 'better' (whatever that means! - - grin).)
Faster memory has made putting that many dimms per channel a problem. New servers have even dropped to two dimms per channel, while they used to allow 3 per channel (of course when they went from 4 to 6 channels at the same time, at least the number of slots stayed the same). When ram was slow, having 4 dimms on one channel was no problem. -- Len Sorensen