I have been asked to upgrade a T610 server that currently has 80GB of memory in it. I have been told that the system was setup in dual channel configuration and that it has at least 2 16GB sticks of memory in it. I cannot shutdown the system at this time to look what is in there, but just knowing the system total I'm fairly sure that it has 2 16GB sticks in bank 1 and 2 4GB in bank 2 on each cpu.
Looking at the manual for this server, it doesn't mention 16GB sticks at all. So my question is does this server support 3 16GB sticks per channel? Also is this the best configuration for this system? Would there be any performance reduction if we filled all three slots of bank 1 with 16GB sticks and all three slots of bank 2 with 4 GB sticks on each cpu?
Thanks!