Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
The memory buffer design tells me that they didn't learn that much after all of their customers complained about FB DIMMs. And Beckton will only support 1066 memory from what I have read.
FBDIMM has one mem buffer per slot while Nehalem-ex will have one mem buffer per channel so the power consumption of mem subsystem will be much lower.

The most I have seen are 12 DIMMs per socket and max speed of 1066.
In fact Intel claims up to 16 dimms per socket.
http://download.intel.com/pressroom/pdf/nehalem-ex.pdf