A couple of thoughts: 1) frequently the PCI-E slot on a server is taken up by a raid card or other storage controller. 2) does anyone make a 3D pci-e or pci-x card that fits in a 1U unit? I don't think I've ever seen one. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:02 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Well, I saw grab a PCI-E video card you happen to have lying around and > put it in there, and see what happens (: > > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Jon Schewe wrote: > > Yes, it has PCI-E slots in it. >> Yes, I'm aware I could build a 3D workstation fairly cheap. The >> requirements >> of the project make that not an option. I *MUST* use a Dell rack mounted >> server and the rack mounted workstations are off-limits. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:37 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >> I miss Matrox cards. >> >> I don't know what kind of cards can go in a Dell R620, but (as >> mentioned) it's a 1U chassis and that might limit the kind of >> cards you can put in it. I can see it has a PCI slot, but I >> can't see if it has a PCI-E slot. That will severely limit the >> kind of cards you can put in there. >> >> If you want to do 3D graphics, you should probably get a machine >> that's dedicated to that. This server probably has other >> limitations that'll make that a pain, other than just the video >> card. You can probably build a half-decent 3D whatever >> workstation for fairly cheap. >> >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Jon Schewe wrote: >> >> I know there are a number of Linux sysadmins on this >> list and I'm trying to >> decide if Dell is pulling my chain or not. I've got >> a Dell R620 server that >> we need to do some 3D graphics on. >> The onboard graphics card is a Matrox chipset that >> appears to have very poor >> 3D performance under Linux. I asked Dell if I can >> get a graphics card in the >> server that performs better for 3D graphics. Their >> response was "3rd party >> video cards in servers don't support 3D and are only >> for dual monitor use at >> standard VGA resolution". >> Can anyone confirm that there's no solution that >> will provide better 3D >> performance in such a machine? I find it hard to >> believe that the server >> somehow disables the 3D support on the card. >> Although I don't know that much >> about video cards and how they talk to the CPU. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Jon >> >> -- >> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140221/4dccc072/attachment.html>