Memory Cards; Memory Placement Rules; Memory Card With Four Dimm Slots; Memory Configuration Table - IBM p5 590 System Handbook

Table 2-1 Memory configuration table
System
Min. configurable memory
Max. configurable memory using DDR1 memory
Max. configurable memory using DDR2 memory
Max. number of memory cards
a. Number of installable memory cards depends on number of installed processor
books. (16 per processor book) Memory cards are installed in quads.

2.3.1 Memory cards

On the p5-590 and the p5-595 systems the memory is seated on a memory card
shown in Figure 2-5. Each memory card has four soldered DIMM cards and two
SMI-II chips for address/controls, and data buffers. Individual DIMM cards cannot
be removed or added and memory cards have fixed amount of memory.
Table 2-2 on page 29 lists the available type of memory cards.
Figure 2-5 Memory card with four DIMM slots

2.3.2 Memory placement rules

The memory features that are available for the p5-590 and the p5-595 at the time
of writing are listed in Table 2-2. The memory locations for each processor chip in
the MCMs are illustrated in Figure 2-6 on page 29.
Note: DDR1 and DDR2 cannot be mixed within a p5-590/p5-595 server.
IBM Eserver p5 590 and 595 System Handbook
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p5-590
1,024 GB
128 GB
a
p5-595
8 GB 8 GB
2,048 GB
256 GB
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