Both the cards are x8. So putting one of them in a x4 slot inhibits the performance of the card.
And I did consider dumping the graphics card all together and just remote in, which is how I usually manage the system anyway. The only problem is if something goes wrong and I actually need to screen from the system it self then I'm kind of screwed. And with an x4 slot open I'm just wondering it there is a graphics cards I could put in it and have everything be fine.
And when I try and run the Expansion Slot Utility I get the feed back that "Expansion Slot Utility is not intended to run on this system." I don't know if it's because it's a 2008 MacPro or that it's running Lion Server or what, but no dice on that.
Thanks,
Jay
On May 20, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Greg Huson wrote:
> I may be late to the thread, but check the speed of your I/o cards- they probably don't take advantage of the higher speed slots anyway.
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> A 4-gig atto only needs a 4x slot, but an 8gig can use 8x. Are you using the 8 gig? (I think they're called en?). The atto sas controllers seem to want 8x, though.
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> Certainly don't need an 8800 for the video card... But I'm not sure what the 'smaller' card would be.
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> On May 20, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Jo Hermann <lists@filter-media.net> wrote:
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>> You can dump the Graphics Card completely and run a headless server. Just control it with Screen Sharing - but enable this first in System Preferences and get comfortable with it before removing the card.
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>> On May 19, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Jay Mahavier wrote:
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>>> In the MacPro workstation I have running as a server there are 4 PCIe slots. 2 x16, and 2 x4 slots. The graphics card is sitting in one of the x16 slots. Ideally I would want my I/O cards in the fastest slots, my Fiber card and SAS card. Since it's a server, and I mostly remote in to tend to it, do I really need to have a card like a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT? And do I really need to have a graphics card using one of my x16 slots? Can I get some lowly graphics card and put it in one of the x4 slots? I mean the workstations always show up with the cards in Slot 1, and I never questioned moving it before. Would I be ok doing that? And does anyone have a suggestion for a card I could use in a x4 slot?
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>>> Thank you,
>>> Jay
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