ASUS PRL-DL memory recommendation

[plurpol]

Hi,

 

My old workstation board blew up ( Asus PC-DL ) However Im hoping the procs ( 2 x xeon 2.8 533 ) are all OK. I got a new board ordered off ebay, a server board as Im gonna use the xeons to do some rendering and file serving. The board I've ordered is the ASUS PRL-DL. I realise I will have to have EEC ram and registered also? Is there a corsair product sill available that will work with this mb/cpu config.

 

Can You confirm that my old Corsair Platinum TwinX XMS PC2700 CMX512-2700LLPT 1.2v will not work with the server board. Ive got 2gigs of those, I suppose Ill have to stick em on ebay...

 

matt

[RJLeong65]

My old workstation board blew up ( Asus PC-DL ) However Im hoping the procs ( 2 x xeon 2.8 533 ) are all OK. I got a new board ordered off ebay, a server board as Im gonna use the xeons to do some rendering and file serving. The board I've ordered is the ASUS PRL-DL. I realise I will have to have EEC ram and registered also? Is there a corsair product sill available that will work with this mb/cpu config.

 

Can You confirm that my old Corsair Platinum TwinX XMS PC2700 CMX512-2700LLPT 1.2v will not work with the server board. Ive got 2gigs of those, I suppose Ill have to stick em on ebay...

 

Your old CMX512-2700LLPT modules will likely not work on your new motherboard because the PRL-DL's memory controller requires the use of registered (buffered) memory modules (your existing memory modules are unbuffered). In addition, that motherboard supports only DDR266 (PC2100) memory. (By contrast, the PC-DL was designed to use only unbuffered memory.)

 

You'll have to find another use for your existing modules, and get yourself two CM72SD1024RLP-2100 modules for your system. Corsair's XMS lines no longer includes registered modules (all of the XMS/XMS2/XMS3 modules currently in production are all unbuffered).