Bought a HD6450 but no x16 slots

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I bought an older Dell PowerEdge SC1420 server, to use as a home media server. The current old 8mb graphics card, couldn't even handle Ubuntu... So after some research, I bought the HD6450. Apparently, I didn't do enough research, because it doesn't fit in my machine!

So would the card work effectively if I bought an x8 to x16 adapter? Is there any other options out there?

The attached picture shows the slots I have available on my motherboard.

http://www.postmaplumbing.com/images/server.JPG

Thanks,
Andrew
 
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Kisianik


OOh. This is going to be amazing post, I think.

First, get all manuals I found (it was difficult to find, LOL)...
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OOh. This is going to be amazing post, I think.

First, get all manuals I found (it was difficult to find, LOL)
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-1420sc_User%27s%20Guide10_en-us.pdf
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-1420sc_Service%20Manual_en-us.pdf
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-1420sc_User%27s%20Guide_en-us.pdf
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-1420sc_User%27s%20Guide2_en-us.pdf

Next, just to let you know, you right, you almost stuck - there is no PCIE, but there is a way

Start reading here http://en.community.dell.com/what-do-i-buy/for_enterprise/f/4516/p/17616341/17739327.aspx#17739327

Continue here, since links are dead, but I found this post http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/p/17433109/17556095.aspx#17556095

So basically you need PCIE X 16 to PCIE x8 converter
It will take some time to find it, for now this what I have
http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm#PEXP4-SX-4/1

pexp-sx-la.jpg


I am not sure if this company still exists http://www.adexelec.com/adexhm.htm

So, start reading and I will continue looking for parts.
This is something, going to be interesting.

 
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Check to see if either your PCI-Ex8 or PCI-Ex4 slot is open ended:

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In the image above, the third slot from the right is an example of an open-ended PCI-E slot. If either of your PCI-E slots are open ended like this, you can install and use your graphics card. It will not run at full capacity, but I don't think you need it to and it is safe to do so.

-Wolf sends
 
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Nice to know, but it doesn't seems to be applied in this situation, this is OP motherboard (the best picture I was able to locate)

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Thanks for the help!

I actually came across this thread:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266540-33-pcie

Basically cutting the two blockers, on the x8 slot, allows the x16 card to fit and function. Unfortunately, about everything that could go wrong with this process, did. The heat sink was stuck on the cpu. So upon removal of the heat sink, the cpu came out with it, causing a pin to break off of the cpu. Then I possibly nicked a pin while cutting the blockers in the x8 slot. Since the cpu won't boot up, I have no way of testing the video card...

I guess, I'll have to write this off of as experience and start over on a different computer.

Thanks again for the help!
 
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Too bad you were on hurry, but s**t happened. So you cut part of PCIE slot to make an open end?
If you are interested in servers, remember this thread, it might get useful to you another time.
 
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