Yes, it has PCI-E slots in it. Yes, I'm aware I could build a 3D workstation fairly cheap. The requirements of the project make that not an option. I *MUST* use a Dell rack mounted server and the rack mounted workstations are off-limits. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:37 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > I miss Matrox cards. > > I don't know what kind of cards can go in a Dell R620, but (as mentioned) > it's a 1U chassis and that might limit the kind of cards you can put in it. > I can see it has a PCI slot, but I can't see if it has a PCI-E slot. That > will severely limit the kind of cards you can put in there. > > If you want to do 3D graphics, you should probably get a machine that's > dedicated to that. This server probably has other limitations that'll make > that a pain, other than just the video card. You can probably build a > half-decent 3D whatever workstation for fairly cheap. > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Jon Schewe 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 > > -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140221/86154a56/attachment.html>