pshipkov wrote on 2025-09-29, 05:32:With the PG-13 lights now off, the unpopulated dram slots become the biggest feng-shui disruptor.
I’ve heard that in some areas this is treated as a crime. : )
I agree! 😀
I’ve installed the GPU bracket and it blends in nicely and looks spiffy!
Irinikus wrote on 2025-09-29, 06:06:pshipkov wrote on 2025-09-29, 05:32:With the PG-13 lights now off, the unpopulated dram slots become the biggest feng-shui disruptor.
I’ve heard that in some areas this is treated as a crime. : )I agree! 😀
How about creating some tasteful DIMM blanks, similar to these DDR4 ones 😀 ... https://www.printables.com/model/940485-ram-m … m-filler-blank/
Irinikus wrote on 2023-09-23, 04:33:The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-09-23, 04:20:Irinikus wrote on 2023-09-23, 03:30:I want absolutely no compromise, otherwise this build is senseless!
Please allow me to express my highest respect to you ！
weilun777 wrote on 2025-10-04, 16:47:Irinikus wrote on 2023-09-23, 04:33:The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-09-23, 04:20:Please allow me to express my highest respect to you ！
Thanks! 😀
Here's my latest benchmark of this machine:
Sorry if I've revived too old thread, but still we need to keep it alive as do we with Netburst 😁
And welcome all, this is my first post.
PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2023-09-07, 09:13:Sorry, just to be clear, I wasn't talking memory capacity (yes 16GB) but memory addressing ranks - both the E7525 & E7520 chipsets are limited to a max of 8 ranks, so to achieve 16GB (installed as DIMM pairs) you're limited to either eight single rank (1R) 2GB DIMMs or four dual rank (2R) 4GB DIMMs.
I had same dilemma when I've tried to max out some dual Xeon IBM servers based on the same Lindenhurst chipset. And I can confirm indeed it is true, you can't really get past 16GB, opposing to some sources. I can confirm that 4 sticks of dual rank DDR2 ECC Registered will work fine, but if you throw another pair of those sticks it will just beep out memory error. And I've believe you can't get single rank 4GB sticks.
Just to add, I can also confirm that memory sticks marked as PC2-5300P (opposing to R designated by the board manufacturer) will also work with this chipset. It is basically ECC Registered module with additional parity, that is probably ignored on this chipset. Those sticks came some time after introducing plain "R" sticks. You shouldn't only mix P with R's at the same time. Plain DDR Registered/Parity is much harder to find than Fully buffered "FB-DIMMs"designated to Core2 based dual Xeon platforms (also have maybe 2 of them in my collection).
So overall very early DDR2 stuff wasn't more dense than DDR. It got more dense later with introduction of 4GB and later 8GB sticks. I also have maxed out earlier IBM server with 32 bit Netburst Xeons with 6 sticks of 2GB registered DDR modules, but even then only 32 bit Windows server can use more than 4 GB RAM in 32 bit CPU. And even better those 2GB Registered sticks also works with Socket 939 Athlons 64, bumping total RAM to 8 GB! Okay enough of this off topic 😁
