Hi
On my Dell PowerEdge T410 there is a single 8-pin connector that comes straight out of the PSU's and provides 12v to the motherboard. I really want to install a graphics card on this server to improve graphic performance but there isn't any additional connectors to give the GPU extra power.
I have looked over the specifications in the manual and it is indeed a PCIe ×16 slot but running at ×8 speeds. The current card I have currently installed is a really old 512MB, DDR2 GPU with a large heatsink and there is no extra power needed for it.
I had to disable the integrated graphics in the server's BIOS settings to get the card working and I had to run the driver installation in Windows 7 compatibility mode.
The interesting thing is 8-pin splitter cables do exist and it's the same connection that is required to power graphics cards. Could I not take the 12v connector from the PSU's and feed one line to the motherboard as normal and the second connection to the GPU?
I know that Dell doesn't recommend a GPU in this server but I got a fairly cheap deal with it and had intentions of running virtual machines on it using something like Windows Server 2012 R2 or Server 2016 as the host operating system. The on-board Matrox GPU has 8MB of video RAM and is so laggy when running a GUI based virtual machine such as Ubuntu. In fact, even when I have no Hyper-V servers running, I often find the mouse and keyboard input slow just navigating around Windows.
I know my way around Linux fairly well through command line if I really had to install the server flavour of Ubuntu as a last resort. On the other hand I was just hoping that I could test GUI based operating systems like I would on my personal PC considering the server has more physical cores and 32GB RAM.
Many thanks in advance.
On my Dell PowerEdge T410 there is a single 8-pin connector that comes straight out of the PSU's and provides 12v to the motherboard. I really want to install a graphics card on this server to improve graphic performance but there isn't any additional connectors to give the GPU extra power.
I have looked over the specifications in the manual and it is indeed a PCIe ×16 slot but running at ×8 speeds. The current card I have currently installed is a really old 512MB, DDR2 GPU with a large heatsink and there is no extra power needed for it.
I had to disable the integrated graphics in the server's BIOS settings to get the card working and I had to run the driver installation in Windows 7 compatibility mode.
The interesting thing is 8-pin splitter cables do exist and it's the same connection that is required to power graphics cards. Could I not take the 12v connector from the PSU's and feed one line to the motherboard as normal and the second connection to the GPU?
I know that Dell doesn't recommend a GPU in this server but I got a fairly cheap deal with it and had intentions of running virtual machines on it using something like Windows Server 2012 R2 or Server 2016 as the host operating system. The on-board Matrox GPU has 8MB of video RAM and is so laggy when running a GUI based virtual machine such as Ubuntu. In fact, even when I have no Hyper-V servers running, I often find the mouse and keyboard input slow just navigating around Windows.
I know my way around Linux fairly well through command line if I really had to install the server flavour of Ubuntu as a last resort. On the other hand I was just hoping that I could test GUI based operating systems like I would on my personal PC considering the server has more physical cores and 32GB RAM.
Many thanks in advance.