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Hardware Installation
Refer to chapter 1 (System Memory section) for detailed specifi-
cation of the memory supported by the system board.
The three DDR DIMM sockets on the system board are divided
into 2 channels:
1st channel - DDR 1 and DDR 2
2nd channel - DDR 3
The system board supports the following memory interface.
Single Channel (SC)
Data will be accessed in chunks of 64 bits (8B) from the
memory channels.
Dual Channel (DC)
Dual channel provides better system performance because it
doubles the data transfer rate.
DIMMs are on the same channel.
DIMMs in a channel can be identical or
completely different. However, we highly
recommend using identical DIMMs.
Not all slots need to be populated.
DIMMs of the same memory configura-
tion are on different channels.
Single Channel
Dual Channel
