Memory RANKS, ECC / ECC-R: Thunder n3600B S2927A2NRF-E

Hi,

I've just bought Thunder n3600B S2927A2NRF-E now I need to find good
memory for that. It is possible that we will have enough cash for
32GB, or buy 16GB this year, and another 16GB next year. Now I've run
into rank issues. And ECC, ECC-R issues....

Ideally I'd like 16GB or 32GB of 800MHz (DDR2, ECC-(R?))

1. does anybody know how many ranks this motherboard has? 8 or 16 ?

2. on kingston site I can't see Single Rank 4GB 800MHz sticks, so if
this motherboard has only 8 ranks, then I'm in a trouble, and maybe
you know where I could get 4GB single rank sticks?

3. From the manual http://www.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2927_100.pdf I'm
still not sure if that's ECC or ECC-R memory

thanks a lot for your help
Janek Kozicki

On Apr 2, 1:35 pm, Janek Kozicki <cosu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just bought Thunder n3600B S2927A2NRF-E now I need to find good
> memory for that. It is possible that we will have enough cash for
> 32GB, or buy 16GB this year, and another 16GB next year. Now I've run
> into rank issues. And ECC, ECC-R issues....
>
> Ideally I'd like 16GB or 32GB of 800MHz (DDR2, ECC-(R?))
>
> 1. does anybody know how many ranks this motherboard has? 8 or 16 ?
>
> 2. on kingston site I can't see Single Rank 4GB 800MHz sticks, so if
> this motherboard has only 8 ranks, then I'm in a trouble, and maybe
> you know where I could get 4GB single rank sticks?
>
> 3. From the manualhttp://www.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2927_100.pdfI'm
> still not sure if that's ECC or ECC-R memory
>
> thanks a lot for your help
> Janek Kozicki

http://shop.kingston.com/PartsInfo.a...VR667D2D4P5/4G

is a great price for KVR 4G chips. Priced in Canadian dollars so if
you are in the US you'd be spending about $58 US each. These are
suitable for my Tyan m3600 S2932 - ECC - Reg. dual rank

Also I think you can use 1 stick per cpu, less than optimal but ok, or
two per cpu for full dual rank performance. My maximum memory
bandwidth went up about 50% when I went from one chip to two. Also
from my read of the manual I think 667 MHz is the top end for this
board.

Dave