Well, I saw grab a PCI-E video card you happen to have lying around and put it in there, and see what happens (: On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Jon Schewe wrote: > 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 > > >