Dell T620 GPU > use kit from T630?

Happy to help out. 

Forgot to mention that you would also want this cable, 3692K. That is the cable that I show as paired with the power interposer for GPU support.

Hello,

I would not recommend installing a power board designed for another server. However, this is a power board for the T620 that was intended to support a GP-GPU. The part number I am looking at is VDY5T. If this is something you want to pursue, you may consider contacting Sales to see if you can get a GPU enablement kit. That should include everything you need to use a GP-GPU.

Hello all,

I've registered for the sole purpose of recording a tried and tested result. I've used the GPU power distro. board 'for' a Dell T630 PowerEdge (Part no. X7C1K) in my Dell PowerEdge T620 just fine.

Close examination of a large quantity of photos of both the OEM distro. boards (T620/T630) shows that the circuitry/components is the same, including the large caps. The connectors are the same etc, etc. It's just a revision of the old item, most likely to improve manufacturing process', switch to cheaper components (of the same specification) and to make small tweaks to the physical board. The pin layout for connectors is exactly the same. The board does nothing to voltage, so there's no voltage concerns.

The only thing to note is Dell use proprietary connectors as mentioned elsewhere, so you will need a specific (not generic) GPU cable for it to fit the connectors on the X7C1K board. There are plenty on ebay, both official and unofficial.

I've currently got an old Radeon HD5770 running in my server, running Proxmox using GPU passthrough to Windows 10 to improve the experience, powered by this board.

Yes, It works! This is not insignificant because the T620 'genuine' part is like hens teeth to find, and is at minimum (in the UK) 3 times the price of the T630 part, for no reason other than scarcity.

Thank you very much for the advice.  I'm planning to buy a T620 to run my Nvidia tesla k80 and two Xeon Phi coprocessors for different tasks of machine learning and physics simulations.  The  VDY5T is very expensive compared with the X7C1K one you mention. It helps me a lot.

Thanks for posting. Whatever version is in my system now I'm getting only half the pinouts giving power. I think one of the big capacitors is dead... And buying the X7C1K is cheap enough to just go for it. Thanks for taking the time to post.

Anyone know if the GPU cables are the same between the X7C1K and the VDY5T?

Hello thanks for choosing Dell.

Anyone know if the GPU cables are the same between the X7C1K and the VDY5T? -> They are not the same.