Intel® Server Board S2600WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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4.3.1
DIMM Population Guidelines for Best Performance
Processors within the Intel Xeon processor Scalable family include two integrated memory controllers (IMC),
each supporting three memory channels.
Figure 26. DIMM population diagram
For best performance, each processor should have matching DIMM configurations and DIMMs should be
populated using the following guidelines:
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1 DIMM to 3 DIMM configurations – DIMMs should be populated to DIMM slot 1 (blue slots) of
channels A thru C.
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4 DIMM configurations – DIMMs should be populated to DIMM slot 1 (blue slots) of channels A, B, D,
and E.
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5 DIMM configurations – Not recommended. This is an unbalanced configuration that yields less than
optimal performance.
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6 DIMM configurations – DIMMs should be populated to DIMM slot1 (blue slots) of all channels.
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7 DIMM configurations – Not recommended. This is an unbalanced configuration that yields less than
optimal performance.
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8 DIMM configurations – DIMMs should be populated to DIMM slots 1 and 2 of channels A, B, D, and
E.
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9 DIMM, 10, DIMM, and 11 DIMM configurations – Not recommended. These are an unbalanced
configurations that yield less than optimal performance.
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12 DIMM configurations – DIMMs are populated to all DIMM slots.
