DDR4 memory for Supermicro X10 board

[Jeff Robertson]

Hi folks, I am looking at building two servers based on a couple of these:

Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SRM-F

I need 64GB per machine which means 8 16GB sticks in total. Any idea if these memory modules will work with those boards?

New Micron 16GB PC4 DDR4-2400 PC4-2400T 2R x 4 ECC REGISTERED Server Memory | eBay

Better yet, any idea on how to get 16gb sticks cheaper?

Thanks!

 

[MiniKnight]

Sometimes you can find 16GB sticks for around 75. These are the best I see now 16GB DDR4 PC4-2133P PC4-17000R REG ECC Server Memory M393A2G40DB0-CPB SAMSUNG 4053162691506 | eBay

 

[Jeff Robertson]

Good find! My biggest concern is compatibility. Are supermicro boards picky? Can I use any brand as long as the specs line up?

Thanks

 

[MiniKnight]

Good find! My biggest concern is compatibility. Are supermicro boards picky? Can I use any brand as long as the specs line up?

Thanks

They aren't picky until they are. Stick with Samsung, SK.Hynix and Micron/Crucial and that'll help. Normally they'll work but you'll see plenty of cases on this site where people got non-HCL RAM and it worked and other where it didn't.

 

[StevenDTX]

Micron MTA36ASF2G72PZ-2G1A2 work great on my X10SRA-F.

MICRON 16GB PC4-17000P-R DDR4-2133P REG ECC 2RX4 MEMORY MTA36ASF2G72PZ-2G1A2IG | eBay

 

[Jeff Robertson]

Good to know! I'm worried that if I buy a bunch of sticks from ebay and they don't work I'll be stuck with them, it may be worth the cost reduction on the off chance it does happen however.

 

[dicecca112]

Just check the Memory List, as long as it's on there it'll work. MiniKnights suggestion is 100% the best way. Got most my sticks around 75-90$.

 

[Jeff Robertson]

Just check the Memory List, as long as it's on there it'll work. MiniKnights suggestion is 100% the best way. Got most my sticks around 75-90$.

Unfortunately for the specific model motherboard I'm looking at the memory compatibility list is almost completely empty! It uses the same chipset as their other boards so I'm hoping it will work with the same memory modules.

 

[dicecca112]

Samsung M393A2K40BB1-CRC0Q 16Gb | eBay

Not a bad price. In my experience I wouldn't waste the money or time with memory that want on the list.

Also don't trust the seller you listed, he marked it as DDR3 when it's listed as DDR4

 

[Rand__]

Not to put you off but I just sent back 2 16GB sticks (M393A2G40DB0-CPB which are on the HCL of both the X10DRi-T4+ and the X10SRI i tested them with) to a thankfully very understanding seller.
In fact, the other 14 sticks of the same model work fine - just those 2 cause errors.

I have not contacted SM as the seller has seen similar issues and offered to swap the modules, but I am not too keen to go the Ebay route for those again. Never had an issue before though, but this time its a mess.

 

[Jeff Robertson]

Well I ended up deciding on 32GB sticks since the boards only have four slots it will give me the opportunity to upgrade to 128 in the future. I purchased these:

1X 32GB Samsung M393A4K40BB2-CTD6Q 2Rx4 PC4-2666V Faster than 2400T 2133P DDR4

The seller says they have a return window and I'll know almost immediately if they work so here's hoping!

 

[Rand__]

Nice
You will most likely only be able to run them at 2400 as that's the max that the board supports on LRDimms - On RDimms you might only see 2133, not sure what those really are.