IBM EP-8KTA specifications Section System Memory Configuration Memory Layout, Dimm

EP-8KTA Installation

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System Memory Configuration

Memory Layout

The EP-8KTA supports (3) PC133 168-pin DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module). The DIMMs is for SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) only.

•DIMM SDRAM may be 83MHz (12ns), 100MHz (10ns) or 125MHz (8ns) bus speed.

•If you use both 50ns and 60ns memory you must configure your BIOS to read 60ns.

•When using Synchronous DRAM we recommend using the 4 clock variety over the 2 clock.

Figure 2 and Table 1 show several possible memory configurations.

	DIMM 1		Bank 0/1			Synchronous
	DIMM 2		Bank 2/3
						DRAM
			Bank 4/5
	DIMM 3	Figure 2
Total Memory	DIMM 1	DIMM 2				DIMM 3
	(Bank 0/1)	(Bank 2/3)			(Bank 4/5)
= 256MB	SDRAM*
	32MB, 64MB, 128MB,	None		None
Maximum
	256MB X 1
= 512MB	SDRAM*	SDRAM*
	32MB, 64MB, 128MB,	32MB, 64MB,		None
Maximum
	256MB X 1	128MB, 256MB X 1
= 768MB	SDRAM*	SDRAM*		SDRAM*
	32MB, 64MB, 128MB,	32MB, 64MB, 128MB,		32MB, 64MB, 128MB,
Maximum
	256MB X 1	256MB X 1		256MB X 1

Table 1

*SDRAM only supports 32, 64, 128, 256MB DIMM modules.

*We recommend to use PC100 Memory Module for bus speed 100MHz and PC133 Memory for bus speed over 100MHz.

*Using non-compliant memory with higher bus speed (over clocking) may severely compromise the integrity of the system.

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