Yes it's a 1U, so that could be a challenge too, but there are cards that will fit. As far as why not on the workstation, because the requirements for the project changed. The server is the workstation as well as the server. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:58 PM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> wrote: > And, I might ask - why are you trying to do the graphics processing on the > server and not on the workstation you're using to connect to the server? > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com>wrote: > >> at issue is that the R620 has a 1U profile . . . >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: >> >>> I know there are a number of Linux sysadmins on this list and I'm trying >>> to decide if Dell is pulling my chain or not. I've got a Dell R620 server >>> that we need to do some 3D graphics on. >>> >>> The onboard graphics card is a Matrox chipset that appears to have very >>> poor 3D performance under Linux. I asked Dell if I can get a graphics card >>> in the server that performs better for 3D graphics. Their response was "3rd >>> party video cards in servers don't support 3D and are only for dual monitor >>> use at standard VGA resolution". >>> >>> Can anyone confirm that there's no solution that will provide better 3D >>> performance in such a machine? I find it hard to believe that the server >>> somehow disables the 3D support on the card. Although I don't know that >>> much about video cards and how they talk to the CPU. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Jon >>> >>> -- >>> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140221/63391cdc/attachment.html>