- Populate DIMMs in a balanced configuration to yield best performance
- Near Balanced configurations are second best
- Unbalanced configurations are not recommended
- DIMMs must be populated symmetrically and in sequential order, starting from A1-A16, as described in the section Memory channel population.
- Each memory slot should have identical DIMMs
- Each server must contain identically configured CPUs
Figure 7. Bar graph illustrating expected performance variation as # of DIMMs increases