User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Mac Pro (8x)
- Contents
- Basics
- Take Apart
- General Information
- Opening the Computer
- Hard Drives
- Optical Drive Carrier and Optical Drives
- Memory (FB-DIMMs) and Memory Riser Cards
- PCI Express/Graphics Card
- Power Supply
- Power Supply Fan
- AirPort Extreme Card
- Bluetooth Card
- Battery
- Processor Heatsink Cover
- Front Fan Assembly
- Mac Pro RAID Card and Battery
- Memory Cage with Rear Fan
- Processor Heatsinks
- Processors
- Speaker Assembly
- USB Cable
- Logic Board
- Front Panel Board
- Power Button
- AirPort Antenna Board with Cables
- Optical Drive Power Cable
- Optical Drive Data (Ribbon) Cable
- Ambient Board
- Ambient Board Cable
- Bluetooth Antenna Board and Cable
- Hard Drive Cable Harness
- Hard Drive Temperature Sensor Cable
- Hard Drive Temperature Sensor
- Power Cable Harness
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrades
- Views
Mac Pro (8x) Take Apart — Memory (DIMMs) and Memory Riser Cards 25
Memory (FB-DIMMs) and
Memory Riser Cards
The Mac Pro (8x) computer has two memory riser cards with a total of 8 memory slots. On each
card, the slots are arranged as two banks of two slots each. The computer comes with a minimum
of 1 GB of memory, installed as a pair of 512 MB fully buered, dual inline memory modules (FB-
DIMMs) in two of the DIMM slots. Additional DIMMs can be installed in the open DIMM slots, as
illustrated below.
Note: DIMMs must be installed in pairs of equal size from the same vendor. In the illustration
below, DIMMs in one colored pair do not need to match DIMMs in a dierent colored pair.