Hey all!
So I am the guy who does what others say cant be done or isn't worth the time and energy...
That being said I am trying to find the smallest (depth wise at least) dell, hp or something similar that has either 2 CPU's (1 CPU if it supports at least a 10 core Xeon). It must have at least 1 PCI-e 16x slot in order to run a NVIDIA graphics card (Tesla or Quadro). And of course, it needs to be pretty cheap (less than $100 with or without CPUs)
What I am wanting to do is place this server motherboard into a mITX form factor. It doesn't necessarily have to be that size since I am also making the case for it.
I've been looking around and found a Dell PowerEdge C8220 and that offers 2 CPUs, 2 PCI-e slots but its too tall (depth wise). It measures ~26" so that's way too big.
So in walks another Dell micro server. The PowerEdge C5220. Perfect size IF the 29" that it has in the doc is counting the hard drive connection board... If not then this is too big as well. But another issue is there are no PCI-e slots!
At 19.2" the Dell PowerEdge M610 is decently small. But of course it has no PCI-e slots...
So at this point I stopped. So any one that has information pertaining to what i need please feel free to post it!
So I am the guy who does what others say cant be done or isn't worth the time and energy...
That being said I am trying to find the smallest (depth wise at least) dell, hp or something similar that has either 2 CPU's (1 CPU if it supports at least a 10 core Xeon). It must have at least 1 PCI-e 16x slot in order to run a NVIDIA graphics card (Tesla or Quadro). And of course, it needs to be pretty cheap (less than $100 with or without CPUs)
What I am wanting to do is place this server motherboard into a mITX form factor. It doesn't necessarily have to be that size since I am also making the case for it.
I've been looking around and found a Dell PowerEdge C8220 and that offers 2 CPUs, 2 PCI-e slots but its too tall (depth wise). It measures ~26" so that's way too big.
So in walks another Dell micro server. The PowerEdge C5220. Perfect size IF the 29" that it has in the doc is counting the hard drive connection board... If not then this is too big as well. But another issue is there are no PCI-e slots!
At 19.2" the Dell PowerEdge M610 is decently small. But of course it has no PCI-e slots...
So at this point I stopped. So any one that has information pertaining to what i need please feel free to post it!
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