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I have a Dell Poweredge SC1420, and I want to put a decent graphics card in it

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June 27, 2014 9:06:17 AM

These are the available slots.

Six total: two PCI Express

slots (1 x 4 connector and 1 x 8 connector); three
PCI-X
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slots (64-bit/100MHz); one PCI slot (32-bit/33MHz)

I was wondering what the highest end card I could put inside it would be?

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June 27, 2014 9:25:26 AM

It is a standard pcie16 slot so physically most gpus will fit in the machine fine. However I don't believe the machine has any 6 pin connections so you are limited to anything that doesn't need one such as a gtx750ti. That being said if you pop open the side you can verify this.
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June 27, 2014 9:27:20 AM

Last I looked the poweredge bios doesn't support add-on gpus.
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June 27, 2014 9:32:24 AM

I haven't had any issues adding quadros for headless cuda in the past. So dunno why a normal gpu would be a problem or what issues you've run into.
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June 27, 2014 9:39:15 AM

Kraszmyl said:
I haven't had any issues adding quadros for headless cuda in the past. So dunno why a normal gpu would be a problem or what issues you've run into.


Never tried a workstation class card, but when using a gaming grade card the bios wouldn't detect the card.
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June 27, 2014 9:44:23 AM

A long long time ago when I worked at Dell you could buy a decently spec'd SC server for very cheap and people were buying them and trying to install GPU's to make them a gaming rig and when they wouldn't work they called tech support. I remember one case where it escalated and engineering said it was a bios limitation. On some of them you could force flash the sc bios to a precision bios and get it to work but that was many years ago, of course the sc1420 is rather old.
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June 27, 2014 9:51:53 AM

This is the board
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June 27, 2014 9:52:28 AM

I don't mind having to flash it a new bios, and it doesnt make sense that it wouldnt support an added graphics unit anyway because i had to take one of them out.
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June 27, 2014 9:53:14 AM

All I know is, it has two xeon processors in it, can hold up to 8gb of ram which i have done, I got this PC for free, and I would like to put something decent in it for gaming
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June 27, 2014 10:00:55 AM

Any decent gaming card is going to require a 16x pci-e slot and would also be bottlenecked by the old cpu's(the system is 11yrs old). You might be able to get a 1x pci-e card but not matter what you do it will never play games well and won't play newer ones at all.
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