Supermicro X8STE DIMM SIze compatability

[aneil1998]

I'm looking at purchasing a Supermicro X8STE and noticed that on supermicro's site, it says under system memory, that the DIMM Sizes are,"256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB" .

 

Would this mean that an 8GB DIMM not work, would it only recognize it as a 4GB DIMM or would it work as normal(i.e recognize it as an 8gb and fully utilize it)? Also, would normal ram(such as kingston hyperx) work or would i have to get new ram as well?

 

 

 

 

[Curufinwe_wins]

52 minutes ago, aneil1998 said:

I'm looking at purchasing a Supermicro X8STE and noticed that on supermicro's site, it says under system memory, that the DIMM Sizes are,"256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB" .

 

Would this mean that an 8GB DIMM not work, would it only recognize it as a 4GB DIMM or would it work as normal(i.e recognize it as an 8gb and fully utilize it)? Also, would normal ram(such as kingston hyperx) work or would i have to get new ram as well?

 

 

 

 

It's hard to say... dual socket x58 is old enough that 8GB sticks weren't a thing yet, but honestly I'm not sure if it will or won't work. In theory, it should, but memory capacity off SVL is pretty much a crapshoot. Normal DDR3 is fine.