Glad you enjoyed it. Congrats on your new R610! :-) Check out my video series on the R710 as a lot of that info will apply to the R610; it's like the 1U version of R710 basically.
Yeah, it's as powerful as the R710 from a compute standpoint. It's just more compact so has less space for storage. BTW, I believe you can max out the RAM to 384GB!
@@ArtofServer i can't remember from the last time i checked but i don't think you can go that high given the number of ram slots it has or if you can it would be with the most powerful cpu it can handle which is the X5690 if i am correct. i do have two X5690 cpu's but there 130W and the last time i installed them with the correct heatsinks and power supplies i just couldn't get the fans to drop below like 3,600 rpm so i took them out, i never tried a custom fan script back then but even if you get it to go quieter it most likely wouldn't take long for the temperature to get too high.
@@razorx2024 no cpu upgrade necessary. Any of the westmere Xeon cpus will do, but you need both sockets. You have 12 DIMM slots, so using 32GB DDR3 RDIMMs, you can get 384GB total.
can't really comment about it as I've never used it. if it is of similar dimension as P2000 and requires no additional PCIe power, I think it shouldn't be a problem to fit as the P2000 did.
@@ArtofServer My use case is to run ML training models and I thought given the dimensions of both the cards very similar, having a 8GB card might be better suited. I could be wrong as I am very new to this field. But thanks for responding back, I will a bit more research on the points you mentioned above.
Thanks you for super video.., i have 2 R720 with dual grid k2 gpu cards can i upgrade them to nvidia tesla p40 (Power cable ??? Riser Card 3 R720 to Tesla P40)
You need to checkout the videos from my fellow cat lover and computer server buddy @computersales channel: ua-cam.com/video/qC7UdfQPMVI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/5xnv8vp5OME/v-deo.html
I just picked up an R430. I wish this guy or anyone had a video on GPU graphic card options/installs for us :( I just got a GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile card in today, trying to finagle it. It actually fits perfectly SAVE for the slightly too long/lengthy metal tab piece that the HDMI output is on. I forget the name of these common computer pieces.
I believe the R620 can only fit 3 at most if you have the 3x LP version. The R710 can maybe fit 3 or 4? But you have to open up the PCIe slots and it depends on how much power they will draw and if you are able to supply power beyond the PCIe slot's capacity.
Thanks for the video. I got a Dell T620 and bought a Quadro K2000 which thought was compatible. Managed to get it working with ESXi but when shutting down the VM it was attached to it caused a reboot of the ESXi host and bus errors in the iDRAC logs. I had a 8x PCIe nVME card in the same slot and that worked fine. The K2000 is a 55w card and from what I found the Dell T620 should be good for 75w in the x16 slots. Any idea what could cause this?? It has the 740w PSUs and currently had 2 x 2.5 SAS drives, 3 x 3.5 SATA drives, 1 Quad 1Gb NIC and a dual port 10Gb NIC. I love the Dells and more recently bought a 2nd hand Dell R730 for home use too.
I don't know for sure, as I haven't encountered that problem myself. It could be related to PCIe bus reset issues for that particular card/driver. I assume you did a PCIe pass-through of the device to the VM? Perhaps when it shuts down, the driver used in the VM OS is not resetting the PCIe card correctly on the bus, causing the bus to hang. That's what it sounds like to me...
I showed something like that in the R710 series boot drive options video. I think it's a fine idea. More recently, I've learned of other options too: 1) USB adapter mSATA SSDs, 2) PCIe adapter to M.2 SSDs, 3) PCIe slot SSD adapters. There seem to be a lot of options these days...
I've done just that in my R510 with a SATA ssd as a boot drive. It was a bit tricky to convince the bios to boot from it, but lets me use all eight 3.5" bays for storage drives (8x6TB!). I also found it easier to cut down the x16 connector on a video card to X8, than to cut out that stupid slot end.
I want to run a P4000 - How would you suggest best sourcing the power for the PCIe molex? I was considering stealing it from the DVD drive but I haven't torn into it yet to see how it's fed... (backplane?)
It's hard to say as the electrical specs are not public. The safest might be to tap into the PDB. You can try to tap into the drive power for the backplane too.
hello, thanks for you video. having some queries if you can help. I have R610 but when I access IDRac i am getting certificate error, Also when I am trying to install proxmox 7.2, once it boots I do not see anything on the screen attached to vga port and shoing error with max resolution error. Could you please provide any suggestion?
Yes, try watching my videos about iDRAC here: ua-cam.com/video/drhSo9Xl9M0/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/qxOk-AbIk9Y/v-deo.html Maybe those will help you out?
Can you remove the riser board and have total access to the base PCIe x16 port? This way you would bet all the lanes and bandwidth from your x16 video card.
I don't think so. There's a bit more to the riser than just extension of the PCIe lanes. Dell usually has a sensor signal on these, as well as some of a lid switch.
I was wondering if you can do review on good priced server with dual cpus with 24+ threads and capable of atleast 512gb ram with good amount of sas 12gbps bays. Possibly with electrical dual slot single 16x pcie.
Most of the dual socket haswell/broadwell and newer systems will be able to meet those requirements. Maybe even some ivybridge era stuff too if you add your own SAS-3 controller. See my video on the X9DRH-7F.
Hello, I purchased and installed one of your modified risers and it works awesome, thank you. I used it to install a Quadro K2200 GPU; however, I am getting no video out of the DP cable to my main monitor. I was able to get the display with a VGA plugged into the front. I can see the graphics card in the BIOS through the IRQ allocation area. I did notice that the GPU shares the IRQ with several other different slots, so I didn't know if that's the reason that it's not displaying over the PCIe GPU. I haven't installed an OS yet as I'm waiting on 2 new HDDs and upgraded CPUs (2 x Xeon X5675). I wanted to update the BIOS and the iDRAC and whatever else I could from USB. Luckily, the BIOS is already the latest. Are there any tricks to getting the video out from the PCIe GPU? Thanks in advance.
You can't use the GPU for primary video output. The system bios was never designed to output console to a add on GPU. That will always be from the onboard vga graphics. The GPU can be used for other purposes.
All the servers have onboard VGA video output. It's only good for basic console output though. Yes, you can add a separate GPU, but you cannot output console to the add-on GPU. You can however, make your OS output the GUI via the GPU once the system is booted up.
Hi There, Newbie here, I have a Dell Poweredge R720, would I need to change a riser card in the system? it says there's a Matrox G200eR2 Embedded Video Controller installed. also what GPUs should I be looking at? thanks Hayward
The R720 generation of servers usually already have a x16 slot for GPUs and also have a connector on the riser to provide auxiliary power for GPUs. However, keep in mind an add-on GPU is not to replace the onboard Matrox video because console output will not go to the add-on GPU. This is mainly for GPGPU applications or passthrough to VMs.
@@ArtofServer thanks for the update will I need a 9H6FV cable and anything else? What video cards should I be looking at that's not to expensive and provide passthrough to my proxmox VMs and CTs
these big server boards and enclosures have always fascinated me. Also why do Dell not put an open PCIe slot like it's often done on normal desktop boards if they are going to be used with all possible cards? seems not thought through to me.
These particular servers are a bit older and back when they were new, it was not common to stick a GPU in a server. If you got to the 12th gen servers and newer, they do have better options to accommodate a GPU.
When using this riser board, has anyone come across the following error? PCIe Degraded Link Width Error: Integrated RAID Expected Link Width is x4 Actual Link Width is x1 **System Halted!** I have tried to re-seat the adapter and RAID card but to no avail. I replace my original one that is the same make / model, and the server boots up fine. Any thoughts?
Hey AOS, Im just getting into learning about Homelabs for Home Automation and some VM projects and been looking into getting a couple servers. I found a guy locally who has (5) R610 dual Xeon X5660, 24gb, 717Wpsu's. no drives, caddys, rails, os or coa's. Not seeing an Idrac in photos either. needed? I was originally only going to get 2 servers for myself, then a buddy wanted one, but for an extra hundred i could get all 5. fixing to grab those Monday. thinking of flipping the other two. are there people still interested in these? seems like the 710, 20 series are popular. While 4 servers in my rack would be cool, I really would like to trade two of those out for a couple disk shelves, Any thoughts or recommendations? Greatly appreciated! ~B
R610 are pretty good server for starters. They are getting a little old, but not completely obsolete. You can try to sell them locally, but demand is highly dependent on your local market condition.
@@ArtofServer Yo thanks for the reply. gotcha. Im near Seattle so maybe... I'm going to go for it. at worst ill have extra parts. thanks for all the content definitely binge watching your stuff. I bookmarked your ebay store will be in touch and thanks again!
Its worked on r920 rack server , when i disabled the integrated video i was scared no display on screen but after few minutes its show me display , but keep rebooting , 😂
As long as you have the physical space, an available pcie slot, and your gpu requires no external power you can just slide it on in. That's the easy bit; the software's down to you ! Good luck !
This is something i'm currently investigating. If you use a smaller form factor GPU, like Quadro P400, it's not a problem to fit into the R620. But a full height P2000 requires the R620 with 2 PCIe slots (full+half) at least, but there might not be enough length space. This last bit is what I hope to figure out, but I do not currently have a 2 PCIe slot R620.
Thank you so much for making this video! I just got an R610 for $60 from a local guy. Excited to start playing with it.
Glad you enjoyed it. Congrats on your new R610! :-) Check out my video series on the R710 as a lot of that info will apply to the R610; it's like the 1U version of R710 basically.
nice video :D
i love my R610, it's so quiet.
i also just installed a Nvidia Quadro K2000 in my R710 running UnRaid and it works well for plex.
Very nice!
Nice! I was playing with my quadro 2000 today. If everything is working I gonna upgrade it to a newer single slot NVidia without power connector :)
welcome Victor! :-)
wait? which Quadro 2000? The P2000? Isn't that already single slot nvidia?
the R610 is such a nice 1U server and with two X5675 (95W) CPU's in it you can install 192GB of ram which is amazing, that's what i did with mine.
Yeah, it's as powerful as the R710 from a compute standpoint. It's just more compact so has less space for storage. BTW, I believe you can max out the RAM to 384GB!
@@ArtofServer i can't remember from the last time i checked but i don't think you can go that high given the number of ram slots it has or if you can it would be with the most powerful cpu it can handle which is the X5690 if i am correct.
i do have two X5690 cpu's but there 130W and the last time i installed them with the correct heatsinks and power supplies i just couldn't get the fans to drop below like 3,600 rpm so i took them out, i never tried a custom fan script back then but even if you get it to go quieter it most likely wouldn't take long for the temperature to get too high.
@@razorx2024 no cpu upgrade necessary. Any of the westmere Xeon cpus will do, but you need both sockets. You have 12 DIMM slots, so using 32GB DDR3 RDIMMs, you can get 384GB total.
@@ArtofServer ah that's right i remember now, i checked the price of the 32gb ram sticks when i was upgrading mine originally and was like nope hahaha
On the money again, great stuff !
Thanks again!
Thanks for the detailed video, I have a question, what do you think of Nvidia quadro M4000? Do you think that can fit into a r610?
can't really comment about it as I've never used it. if it is of similar dimension as P2000 and requires no additional PCIe power, I think it shouldn't be a problem to fit as the P2000 did.
@@ArtofServer My use case is to run ML training models and I thought given the dimensions of both the cards very similar, having a 8GB card might be better suited. I could be wrong as I am very new to this field. But thanks for responding back, I will a bit more research on the points you mentioned above.
Thank you for the great content!
Sure! Thanks for watching!
Thanks you for super video.., i have 2 R720 with dual grid k2 gpu cards can i upgrade them to nvidia tesla p40 (Power cable ??? Riser Card 3 R720 to Tesla P40)
You need to checkout the videos from my fellow cat lover and computer server buddy @computersales channel:
ua-cam.com/video/qC7UdfQPMVI/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/5xnv8vp5OME/v-deo.html
I just picked up an R430. I wish this guy or anyone had a video on GPU graphic card options/installs for us :( I just got a GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile card in today, trying to finagle it. It actually fits perfectly SAVE for the slightly too long/lengthy metal tab piece that the HDMI output is on. I forget the name of these common computer pieces.
Thanks for sharing. How many GPUs we can fit in R620 and R710?
I believe the R620 can only fit 3 at most if you have the 3x LP version. The R710 can maybe fit 3 or 4? But you have to open up the PCIe slots and it depends on how much power they will draw and if you are able to supply power beyond the PCIe slot's capacity.
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!! I have a nvidia 16GB tesla card i want to use.
I love you too buddy! LOL ... I don't think that's going to fit, and you'd probably need to add a source of power for a Pascal Tesla card...
Thanks for the video. I got a Dell T620 and bought a Quadro K2000 which thought was compatible. Managed to get it working with ESXi but when shutting down the VM it was attached to it caused a reboot of the ESXi host and bus errors in the iDRAC logs. I had a 8x PCIe nVME card in the same slot and that worked fine. The K2000 is a 55w card and from what I found the Dell T620 should be good for 75w in the x16 slots. Any idea what could cause this?? It has the 740w PSUs and currently had 2 x 2.5 SAS drives, 3 x 3.5 SATA drives, 1 Quad 1Gb NIC and a dual port 10Gb NIC. I love the Dells and more recently bought a 2nd hand Dell R730 for home use too.
I don't know for sure, as I haven't encountered that problem myself. It could be related to PCIe bus reset issues for that particular card/driver. I assume you did a PCIe pass-through of the device to the VM? Perhaps when it shuts down, the driver used in the VM OS is not resetting the PCIe card correctly on the bus, causing the bus to hang. That's what it sounds like to me...
@@ArtofServer Thanks very much I'll have a bit more of a play once I've sorted me network and VMs out a bit. Yes passthrough was enabled.
What are your thoughts about replacing the DVD rom with a Sata enclosure and add a hard drive or SSD for the OS. Great video.
Quite a lot of people do that. See @ArtofServer video(s) for examples...I know I have ! :-)
I showed something like that in the R710 series boot drive options video. I think it's a fine idea. More recently, I've learned of other options too: 1) USB adapter mSATA SSDs, 2) PCIe adapter to M.2 SSDs, 3) PCIe slot SSD adapters. There seem to be a lot of options these days...
I've done just that in my R510 with a SATA ssd as a boot drive. It was a bit tricky to convince the bios to boot from it, but lets me use all eight 3.5" bays for storage drives (8x6TB!). I also found it easier to cut down the x16 connector on a video card to X8, than to cut out that stupid slot end.
I want to run a P4000 - How would you suggest best sourcing the power for the PCIe molex? I was considering stealing it from the DVD drive but I haven't torn into it yet to see how it's fed... (backplane?)
It's hard to say as the electrical specs are not public. The safest might be to tap into the PDB. You can try to tap into the drive power for the backplane too.
great vid :)
Thanks Unkyjoe!
Very nice
Thanks
hello, thanks for you video. having some queries if you can help. I have R610 but when I access IDRac i am getting certificate error, Also when I am trying to install proxmox 7.2, once it boots I do not see anything on the screen attached to vga port and shoing error with max resolution error.
Could you please provide any suggestion?
Yes, try watching my videos about iDRAC here:
ua-cam.com/video/drhSo9Xl9M0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/qxOk-AbIk9Y/v-deo.html
Maybe those will help you out?
Can you remove the riser board and have total access to the base PCIe x16 port? This way you would bet all the lanes and bandwidth from your x16 video card.
I don't think so. There's a bit more to the riser than just extension of the PCIe lanes. Dell usually has a sensor signal on these, as well as some of a lid switch.
I was wondering if you can do review on good priced server with dual cpus with 24+ threads and capable of atleast 512gb ram with good amount of sas 12gbps bays. Possibly with electrical dual slot single 16x pcie.
Most of the dual socket haswell/broadwell and newer systems will be able to meet those requirements. Maybe even some ivybridge era stuff too if you add your own SAS-3 controller. See my video on the X9DRH-7F.
@@ArtofServer much appreciated on the pointer!
How do I add a Quatro to an old R200 without potential explosions?
Hello, I purchased and installed one of your modified risers and it works awesome, thank you. I used it to install a Quadro K2200 GPU; however, I am getting no video out of the DP cable to my main monitor. I was able to get the display with a VGA plugged into the front.
I can see the graphics card in the BIOS through the IRQ allocation area. I did notice that the GPU shares the IRQ with several other different slots, so I didn't know if that's the reason that it's not displaying over the PCIe GPU.
I haven't installed an OS yet as I'm waiting on 2 new HDDs and upgraded CPUs (2 x Xeon X5675). I wanted to update the BIOS and the iDRAC and whatever else I could from USB. Luckily, the BIOS is already the latest. Are there any tricks to getting the video out from the PCIe GPU?
Thanks in advance.
You can't use the GPU for primary video output. The system bios was never designed to output console to a add on GPU. That will always be from the onboard vga graphics. The GPU can be used for other purposes.
I'm assuming Dell Poweredge R610 have an igpu? And could support a Nvidia Quadro P400?
Thanks
All the servers have onboard VGA video output. It's only good for basic console output though. Yes, you can add a separate GPU, but you cannot output console to the add-on GPU. You can however, make your OS output the GUI via the GPU once the system is booted up.
I think I follow - I have also ordered your last riser board :)
I’m hoping to add a gpu so my r610 can take on some point cloud workloads.
wanted to order the modified riser but it looks like they're sold out :( will you be making more available?
Yes, I had just made a few and they sold out! I will be making more. Thank you for wanting to support my store! :-)
Hi There,
Newbie here, I have a Dell Poweredge R720, would I need to change a riser card in the system? it says there's a Matrox G200eR2 Embedded Video Controller installed.
also what GPUs should I be looking at?
thanks
Hayward
The R720 generation of servers usually already have a x16 slot for GPUs and also have a connector on the riser to provide auxiliary power for GPUs. However, keep in mind an add-on GPU is not to replace the onboard Matrox video because console output will not go to the add-on GPU. This is mainly for GPGPU applications or passthrough to VMs.
@@ArtofServer thanks for the update will I need a 9H6FV cable and anything else? What video cards should I be looking at that's not to expensive and provide passthrough to my proxmox VMs and CTs
these big server boards and enclosures have always fascinated me. Also why do Dell not put an open PCIe slot like it's often done on normal desktop boards if they are going to be used with all possible cards? seems not thought through to me.
These particular servers are a bit older and back when they were new, it was not common to stick a GPU in a server. If you got to the 12th gen servers and newer, they do have better options to accommodate a GPU.
Is this the same for 9860 servers? I mean powering up n checking or a diff method ?
I don't know what 9860 server means?
@@ArtofServer sorry, i meant dell xe9860- ua-cam.com/users/shortsxrumO8mdT1Y
When using this riser board, has anyone come across the following error?
PCIe Degraded Link Width Error: Integrated RAID
Expected Link Width is x4
Actual Link Width is x1
**System Halted!**
I have tried to re-seat the adapter and RAID card but to no avail. I replace my original one that is the same make / model, and the server boots up fine.
Any thoughts?
I thought those slots could only support 25W each? The P2000 pulls 75W.
I think they can easily handle up to 50W, perhaps more.
Hey AOS, Im just getting into learning about Homelabs for Home Automation and some VM projects and been looking into getting a couple servers. I found a guy locally who has (5) R610 dual Xeon X5660, 24gb, 717Wpsu's. no drives, caddys, rails, os or coa's. Not seeing an Idrac in photos either. needed? I was originally only going to get 2 servers for myself, then a buddy wanted one, but for an extra hundred i could get all 5. fixing to grab those Monday. thinking of flipping the other two. are there people still interested in these? seems like the 710, 20 series are popular. While 4 servers in my rack would be cool, I really would like to trade two of those out for a couple disk shelves, Any thoughts or recommendations? Greatly appreciated! ~B
R610 are pretty good server for starters. They are getting a little old, but not completely obsolete. You can try to sell them locally, but demand is highly dependent on your local market condition.
@@ArtofServer Yo thanks for the reply. gotcha. Im near Seattle so maybe... I'm going to go for it. at worst ill have extra parts. thanks for all the content definitely binge watching your stuff. I bookmarked your ebay store will be in touch and thanks again!
Where can I buy this dell server for my home lab ? From Virginia
I have several available if you are interested in getting one from me. Reach out to me from my channel about page if you like.
@@ArtofServer yes I am interested. Are u on eBay?
@@SK-PODCAST I have an ebay store, but I don't sell servers through ebay. just reach out to me directly as mentioned above.
i bought an r610 with 64gb of ram for 100 $ and now i would wanna know if it supports the worst gpu called nvidia gt 710
Sorry, I don't know and have never used that GPU. But congrats on your server acquisition!
Its worked on r920 rack server , when i disabled the integrated video i was scared no display on screen but after few minutes its show me display , but keep rebooting , 😂
Glad it worked for your R920.
@@ArtofServer yup it's worked but my GPU was old one and now I have tested so i can bring new GPU and replace and can use monster for gaming 🤣
What about dell poweredge r620? How can we add gpu in that server?
As long as you have the physical space, an available pcie slot, and your gpu requires no external power you can just slide it on in. That's the easy bit; the software's down to you ! Good luck !
This is something i'm currently investigating. If you use a smaller form factor GPU, like Quadro P400, it's not a problem to fit into the R620. But a full height P2000 requires the R620 with 2 PCIe slots (full+half) at least, but there might not be enough length space. This last bit is what I hope to figure out, but I do not currently have a 2 PCIe slot R620.
This GPU works on Dell R620?
Yes
Any risers for the r730?
I don't think it is necessary.
would this work for a 620?
R620 has no need for a modified riser. It should already have x16 slots.
Will this work on a R720xd?
Not necessary. The R720xd already has x16 slots available, as well as PCIe power for extra gpu power.
@@ArtofServer Thank you for responding. Perhaps I didn't ask the question properly. I understood that you couldn't add a GPU to the R720xd.
@@jamesaikens actually, yes you can. Very easy to add gpu to R720xd.
can use gpu p2000...?
Or p400...?
I think I demonstrated this here...
Missing two DIMM's.....
LOL.. you mean for the full triple channel setup for Westmere-EP? this was just for testing the riser+GPU combo...
Does this this also apply to the R620?
No, I think the R620 has x16 slots in some configurations so you don't need this.