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Does anyone know what "CPH" stand for?
It's listed in the System Board Connectors section of the PowerEdge T320 user manual (excerpt below).
4 SLOT1 PCIE-G2-X4(CPH) PCIe card connector 1
5 SLOT2 PCIE-G2-X1(CPH) PCIe card connector 2
6 SLOT3 PCIE-G3-X16(CPU1) PCIe card connector 3
7 SLOT4 PCIE-G3-X4(CPU1) PCIe card connector 4
8 SLOT6 PCIE-G3-X4(CPU1) PCIe card connector 6
DELL-Josh Cr
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May 4th, 2015 17:00
Hi,
It stands for chipset. Some of the pci-e lanes are run by the CPU and some are on the system board.
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May 4th, 2015 19:00
Thanks for the quick answer!
Do you know if it matters which slot a video card is installed in?
I was told by sales that it should go in one of the CPU1 slots, but I would like to be sure they were correct. I'm looking for a second opinion because they could not tell me what CPH meant.
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May 5th, 2015 09:00
The GPU is supposed to go in slot 3. Page 86 http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/poweredge-t320_Owner's%20Manual_en-us.pdf
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May 5th, 2015 14:00
Duh! I have a copy of the PDF manual here (that's how the original question about CPH came up, because that's where I read it), but I totally overlooked that information. THANKS!
Looking at page 86, I see in the GPU Card Installation Guidelines section that you can only install a GPU in a system with a redundant power supply? Really?
The following link is what Dell Sales sold me when I told them "Hi, I need a recommendation for a video card to put into a Dell PowerEdge T320 server to support a Dell S2340L monitor." I also provided the Service Tag, so they should have known exactly what configuration the system was shipped with.
PNY Technologies Quadro NVS 300 512 MB Graphics card - DDR3 - PCI Express <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
Can you tell me if I'm going to run into trouble when I go out to install this card tomorrow?
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May 5th, 2015 14:00
Since it isn’t a validated card I am not sure. Max power consumption is only about a 1/10th of the validated cards, so you may be fine.
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May 5th, 2015 15:00
Okay, I'll give a shot.
Thank you so much for all your help and quick replies! :)
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May 6th, 2015 20:00
Just to follow up. I went out there today to install the video card mentioned above, and all went well. So, that card will work with that server even though it only had a single 350W power supply.
Thanks again for your help!