[ale] Max RAM?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 18:08 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> I need to buy a server in the next several months that may need a lot of RAM.
> 
> I thought x86 machines had a limit of 4GB, but then I see the HP
> ProLiant DL380 can have up to 32GB max.

These have a 64-bit Xeon chip.

Be wary of the first-gen DL385 (Opteron) as they have buggy chipsets and
the RAM used during boot is not recoverable.
> 
> Does the CPU model effect it?  AMD? Intel? Xeon? Pentium 4?
> 
> Can someone explain what the restrictions are, or point me at a good url.
> 
> Thanks
> Greg
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