Dell PowerEdge R730 Owner's Manual

The PowerEdge R730 system supports PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards, which need to be installed on the system board using expansion card risers. This system supports three types of expansion card risers. The following table provides the expansion card riser specifications:

Table 1. Expansion card riser specificationsThis table describes the details of the PICe slots on the expansion card risers. Riser 1 supports PCIe slots 1 through 3, with half height, low profile, x8 link speed cards. Riser 2 supports two PCIe cards on slots 4 and 5. PCIe slot 4 supports a full height, full length, x16 card and PCIe slot 5 supports a full height, full length x8 card. Riser 3 has two card options. The default Riser 3 option supports two PCIe cards on slots 6 and 7. PCIe slot 6 supports a full height, full length, x8 card and PCIe slot 7 supports a full height, full length, x8 card. The alternate Riser 3 option supports a single PCIe card on PCIe slot 6. The PCIe slot 6 supports a full height, full length x16 card.

Expansion card riser	PCIe slots on the riser	Height	Length	Link
Riser 1	Slot 1	half-height	low-profile	x8
Riser 1	Slot 2	half-height	low-profile	x8
Riser 1	Slot 3	half-height	low-profile	x8
Riser 2	Slot 4	full-height	full-length	x16
Riser 2	Slot 5	full-height	full-length	x8
Riser 3 (alternate)	Slot 6	full-height	full-length	x16
Riser 3 (default)	Slot 6	full-height	full-length	x8
Riser 3 (default)	Slot 7	full-height	full-length	x8