I'm new to the forums. I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to post this question, but I didn't see any section labeled ram. I was wondering if this RAM http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-24GB-6x4...7a1f535&pid=100009&rk=1&rkt=1&sd=261888048317 would work with a SuperMicro X8DTH-iF. And if it will does that price sound fair? Thank you for your time.
Ram and Brands
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16.7$ is on the high-end for 4GB RDIMM sticks, but not out of ordinary. I try to stay at $12/avg for 4GB RDIMM, which I've found to be easy to do on ebay you just have to watch it closely for a couple days. If you only need 6 sticks it's not a ton of money saving but it is some 
I'm not sure if "BRAND" matters at all to be honest, it's more of the specs of the RAM in my opinion. I've used memory not on the approved list with no problem, and OEM RAM with no problem. There is a ton of rebranding by OEMs so a lot of RAM will work, its just figuring it out or testing it.
I'm not sure if it matters as much with the tripple channel but single, dual and quad ranked DIMMS are important depending how many slots you're using and how many channels there are if you want to use to capacity.
I'm not sure if it matters as much with the tripple channel but single, dual and quad ranked DIMMS are important depending how many slots you're using and how many channels there are if you want to use to capacity.
Ok. So are the DIMMs double or tripple or quad channel or does the board decide that? I'm just afraid to buy a decent amount of RAM where the specs are the same as needed, but since its a HP not SuperMicro it not work. This is my first full server build so I'm new to the ECC RAM and all that jazz.
The RAM is either single, dual or quad rank.
The CPU/motherboard will be dual or triple channel depending on the generation, and then quad channel for higher-end I've seen.
The motherboard should tell you how many "ranks" you can have per channel. IE: Some SM boards allow 8 total, so if you have 4 slots and you use 4x Dual Rank = capacity, but if you use 2x Quad Rank = capacity. Some of the HP ram I've purchased in 8gb sticks is single rank, so it just depends which server it came out of --- google the part# to get the "ful specifications". I have HP RAM in a # of my SM boards, same with Samsung, Kingston, Micron, and Hynix.
I recently made the mistake of forgetting to check, and ended up with a ton of 4gb quad rank Luckily at $12/stick it's not too huge of a mess for me.
The CPU/motherboard will be dual or triple channel depending on the generation, and then quad channel for higher-end I've seen.
The motherboard should tell you how many "ranks" you can have per channel. IE: Some SM boards allow 8 total, so if you have 4 slots and you use 4x Dual Rank = capacity, but if you use 2x Quad Rank = capacity. Some of the HP ram I've purchased in 8gb sticks is single rank, so it just depends which server it came out of --- google the part# to get the "ful specifications". I have HP RAM in a # of my SM boards, same with Samsung, Kingston, Micron, and Hynix.
I recently made the mistake of forgetting to check, and ended up with a ton of 4gb quad rank
Luckily at $12/stick it's not too huge of a mess for me.ok. This is the RAM I just purchased to upgrade from the 3GBs to 15GBs. It works but does it take advantage of the tripple channel? I couldn't find info when I searched the part number. I apologize for all the questions. Samsung 12GB 3X 4GB PC3 10600 DDR3 1333MHz ECC Registered CL9 240 Pin DIMM | eBay