I'm also curious about this as well. From what I can see in the manual. The card would have to be a Half-Length card, which that alone limits your options and then add on the fact that the x16 PCIe slot is only rated for a power consumption of 15w (25w max) limits you to 2 videocards nVidia NVS300, 17.5w & ATI FirePro MV 2270 15w
If you want to use a videocard for processing capabilities, I'd suggest to look at a Precision Workstation R5400 or R5500. These systems are basically the same hardware as a rack server, but they are built to hold 'real' videocards. If you check the tech sheet (available from <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>, you can see that that system supports up to 2 PCIe 16x videocards (combined max of 450W).
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I'm also curious about this as well. From what I can see in the manual. The card would have to be a Half-Length card, which that alone limits your options and then add on the fact that the x16 PCIe slot is only rated for a power consumption of 15w (25w max) limits you to 2 videocards nVidia NVS300, 17.5w & ATI FirePro MV 2270 15w
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If you want to use a videocard for processing capabilities, I'd suggest to look at a Precision Workstation R5400 or R5500. These systems are basically the same hardware as a rack server, but they are built to hold 'real' videocards. If you check the tech sheet (available from <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>, you can see that that system supports up to 2 PCIe 16x videocards (combined max of 450W).