Hello Shine,

Correct. 

We can add that it *supports* x16 devices but works at half speed (x8). Because my concern was that it does not accept such devices at all! 

Hi,

That's good that you're in the same page as T140 does not support GPU cards. Here's the T140's specification page: https://dell.to/3qrct0z. The PSU has only 365W power, you might need to check on the GPU's requirement for power consumption. There is no upgrades for T140's PSU power, 365W is all it has. 

Let me know if you have any questions.

I did a lot of searches and finally could install ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini, and it's working fine. For the record, I list the important factors that one should consider when installing a video card on PowerEdge T140:

1- The PSU is limited to 365W. So, any video card that needs additional power needs to change the PSU! Otherwise, one has to compromise using fewer devices (fewer hard drives).

2- The mainboard designed in a way that a video card with a length of more than 21-22cm cannot be installed. Because, the only 16x connector PCI-e is right in front of the battery! This is the engineering limitation! That's why only mini versions of video cards can be physically installed.

3- The 16x connector PCI-e has indeed 8x connection to the cpu. As a result, any 16x video card performs at half of its performance. 

Hi have read your post i have a dell t140 server and iwant to install a vga card. I am thinking about quadro k2000 2gb it is 75w . I saw than you have an experiance on it .My question is if a have detection pronlem and what your opinion. If you want answer me .. it will help Thank you

how you can install driver for gpu ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini?

Hi, tuyenpt, thanks for choosing Dell. There’s no official guide that T140 supports that GPU. I’m afraid we could wait around to see if any other users have tried previously if any. Wish you a good one.

Hello

did you expirience any FAN noise issue when installing the card into that slot ? Just asking as i was also thinking about the same topic and i tested with a G710/x8 card first and if i install this card into the x16 slot FANs go crazy (70%), same card in the slot next to the CPU. 15% .

Hi

just in case somebody is interested.

I installed a Asus RX 6500 Xt and it works perfectly after applying the noisy FAN "patch".

Card i used: https://www.asus.com/de/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/Dual/DUAL-RX6500XT-O4G/techspec/

The patch as described here: https://www.dell.com/community/Power-Cooling/How-Do-I-Disable-The-Third-Party-PCIe-Card-Default-Cooling/m-p/8089455

Is it performing at half speed as others have suggested? What have you successfully run on it? I'm building my server with ESXi just to be able to use a GPU at its full speed. But it sounds like the hardware makes that impossible. I'm wondering what speeds you are getting, what OS you are using and anything else you find important. I really appreciate any feedback!