Posts made by sickless316

@ccwtech hello I know it’s been years but if anyone ever wants the answer to this question...

The T410 is a tri channel board with Dimms have white and black sides in the Dimm slots

A 1,2,3 plus 4
B 1,2,3 plus 4

The first three on A or B cpu must be filled in order with identical types of Ram. The 4th can be different size but not frequency... But if you try to do a 4gb in slot one it will try to give errors if you skip slot two ORRRR you put in 8Gb to slot 2 and 3.

Filling slot four isn’t necessary but can maximize Ram, and the dimms for dual cpus need to be put in the same order. Single cpu you can get away with flex but if you use dual put the same size Ram and frequency in the same A1 and B1 slots as well as the rules above dealing with trichannel dealing with the rest of the slots for A and B.

Dimms Slots 1,2,3 in both CPU will have white tabs on the Ram slots while slot 4 will have black locking tabs. This is the Ram channel you won’t use unless you have filled the rest of both CPU channels. So basically if cpu 1 has two Ram cards then cpu 2 needs two of the same type as cpu 1 in the same slots. If you do have Ram in slots 1 & 3 then from what I’ve read it will ignore slot 3 without 2 being filled as well.

@sickless316 for anyone else that crosses this thread all previous. Here’s the specs https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/T410-SpecSheet.pdf

It clearly outlines a capability to use 16gb up to 128gb of Ram total.

I’ve heard but been unable to confirm that with the first version of its BIOs update from the original they allowed 1600mhz PC3L-12800R type RAM.

The second BIOs update supposedly allows the board to go up to 256gb of RAM which is insane for a local home server or small thing for not “project”.

Alone if this is used as a “media server” with two Xeon 5675 then it’s a great machine to meet needs. Servers are normally ahead on technology anyway and the components (besides the cpu) and the components for this machine were used into late 2015 at least. As a home media server OT can support up to 30-50 devices easily depending on stream quality and setup...

The worst part is finding or making a case that isn’t the original case because of the EATX type layout that’s oversized even for EATX because it’s a server motherboard shoved into a tower.

I have a build that’s only cost me $250 so far to use the Xeon 5675s with 128gb with a Corsair case, 16Tb of storage with 16Tb of backup and leftover components like a Sas controller out of larger decommissioned server rack. I looked for good deals on eBay, CraigL, Mercaria and FB marketplace till I gathered everything for cheap and it’s a monster small platform media server ready to server... don’t expect to game on this server or anything but to say it’s useless or costs too much makes me second guess most the answers on these forums...

I’m just serving out media to family members as running personal VMs in my spare time for other tasks and projects. Dual CPUs are hard for gamin unless your able to access an API like Vulkan which splits gaming performance among all the cores equally (unless the game is coded for single core usage) and easily format this machine to do with the multiple cores. Just don’t go directX cause the single core power of the 5500 Xeons leaves apt to be desired

@pete-s how does any of this make my sense at all??? Did anyone even read any of this thread before posting???

You say he CANT use 16gb sticks which he has CLEARLY done already and have worked but instead of giving good answers you guys pressure people to move on because the people commenting on here either can’t read or don’t know enough already...

This is aggravating because every post about the T410 gets cut off with nonsense like this crp...

He used 16gb sticks so remove your comment, or don’t make one and move on if you didn’t have the answer to the question you just made the question more confusing