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Your motherboard is Intel built and has an Intel E7520 chipset.<br />
<a href="http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/e7520.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/e7520.htm</a><br />
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Your particular board is set up to take DDR2-400 ECC Registered 240-pin, (PC2-3200R) <br />
Crucial wants to sell you PC2-5300R which is backwards compatible to PC2-3200R.<br />
It's common.<br />
The only thing you need to watch is the number of ranks which will be 1 or 2 and is expressed like:<br />
1Rx4 vs 2Rx4<br />
You can use either kind but it's easier if you use all the same kind in your system.<br />
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Thanks. I knew that in most circumstances it should work, but wanted to see if there are any *advantages* to system-specific. Good to hear that it simply means they tested it.
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I just wanted to clear a couple things up on your last commend PCBONEZ:<br />
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It is NOT true that you can always use either 1R or 2R. I was confused about this and did quite a bit of research.<br />
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In this specific situation, slots 1-4 support both single and double rank memory, however, slots 5&amp;6 ONLY support single rank.<br />
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The reason for this limitation is the motherboard only supports a total rank count of 8. I could not use 6x2GB 2R modules, as the total rank count would be 12.<br />
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So, if at all possible, it is better to use single rank. Single rank is always supported, and will not potentially limit your upgrade path.
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As i said &quot;you need to watch is the number of ranks&quot;.<br />
Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
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I was looking to upgrade the memory in my Dell PowerEdge 1850. I see that Dell sells their own branded memory at a very inflated price. I found that Kingston offers System-Specific Memory for the Dell PowerEdge 1850. I also found on Newegg, that a server memory module with the same specifications that is not &quot;System-Specific&quot; is about 1/2 the price.<br />
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In general, should I be fine with getting memory that is not &quot;system-specific&quot;?
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I was looking to upgrade the memory in my Dell PowerEdge 1850. I see that Dell sells their own branded memory at a very inflated price. I found that Kingston offers System-Specific Memory for the Dell PowerEdge 1850. I also found on Newegg, that a server memory module with the same specifications that is not "System-Specific" is about 1/2 the price.

In general, should I be fine with getting memory that is not "system-specific"?

Should I use system-specific memory on a server?

Components are those devices that are internal to a computer -- the PC boards, the central processor (CPU), the memory (RAM), disk and video controllers and so on.