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.
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.
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:
> 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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>> 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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