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.
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?
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.
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Posted 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.