Sound card in a Dell 1950 R3

[GodAtum]

I am thinking of buying a cheap 1950 but i need to fit in my asus zonar d2X. It lists it as having a full size PCI-E 8X slot so i assume my card will fit. I am worried about whether there will be a required 4-pin cable available to power it though.

 

[dazholmes]

FEATURES DELL™ POWEREDGE™ 1950 III SERVER
Form Factor 1U rack
Processors
Up to two quad-core or dual-core Intel® Xeon® 5400, 5300, 5200,
or 5100 series standard or low-volt processors at up
to 3.16 GHz
Front Side Bus or
HyperTransport
1066 MHz or 1333 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)
(depending on the processor chosen)
Cache Intel Xeon 5400: 2x6 MB; Xeon 5300: 2x4 MB;
Xeon 5200: 6 MB; Xeon 5100: 4 MB
Chipset Intel 5000X
Memory Up to 64 GB (8 FBD DIMM slots): 512 MB/1 GB/2 GB/4 GB/8 GB
667 MHz Fully Buffered DIMMs (FBD) in matched pairs
Hard Drives2
2.5” SATA (7.2K rpm): 80 GB, 120 GB
or 2.5” SAS (15K rpm): 36 GB or 73 GB
or 3.5” SAS (10k rpm): 300 GB, 400 GB
or 3.5” SAS (15k rpm): 73 GB, 146 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB
or 3.5” SATA (7.2k rpm): 160 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB, 750 GB
Maximum Internal
Storage Up to 1.5 TB via two 3.5” 750 GB hot-plug SATA hard drives
Drive Bays
Two options: Two hard drive chassis with 2 x 3.5” SAS (10K/15K)
or SATA (7.2K) drives or four hard drive chassis with 4 x 2.5” SAS
(10K) drives; Peripheral bays: 1 slim
optical drive bay with choice of optional CD-ROM,
optional DVD-ROM or combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM
I/O Slots
Two slots on separate PCI buses with either PCI Express
riser with two x8 lane slots or PCI-X riser with
2 x 64-bit/133 MHz slots
RAID Controller Optional PERC integrated SAS/SATA daughtercard
controller or adapter
External Storage Dell Disk Storage Arrays, Dell Tape Automation, Tape Drives and
Removable Disk, Dell NAS systems and Dell SANs
Internal/External
Tape Backup
Options
Internal: none
External: PowerVault™ DAT 72, 110T, 114T, 122T, 124T, 132T, 136T,
160T and ML6000
Network
Interfaces
Dual embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II™ 5708 Gigabit Ethernet
NIC with fail-over and load balancing. TOE (TCPIP Offload Engine)
supported on Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, SP1 or higher with
Scalable Networking Pack. Supports many optional single-, dual-,
or quad-port 10baseT, copper, or optical add-in NICs
Power Supply 670W, optional hot-plug redundant power (1+1)
Availability
ECC FBD memory, SDDC, Spare Bank; hot-plug hard drives;
optional hot-plug redundant power supplies; dual embedded
NICs with failover and load balancing support; optional PERC6/i
integrated daughtercard controller with battery-backed cache;
hot-plug redundant cooling; tool-less chassis; fibre and SCSI
cluster support; validated for Dell/EMC SAN
Video Embedded ATI ES1000 with 16 MB memory
Remote
Management
Baseboard Management Controller with IMPI 2.0 support; optional
DRAC5 (advanced capabilities)
Systems
Management Dell™ OpenManage™
Rack Support Supports 4-post (Dell rack), 2-post and 3rd party Versa rails,
sliding rails and cable management arm
Operating
Systems
Microsoft® Windows® Server
Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server
Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise
Novell® Netware®
Novell® SUSE Linux
VMware® Virtual Infrastructure
Embedded
Hypervisors
VMware ESXi 3.5
Citrix® XenServer Dell Express Edition
Citrix® XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition
1 Source: Data for Q1 2003 through Q12007 extracted from IDC Tech Server Qview Report Q1 2007.
2 For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with

 

[ace-rimmer]

i would say getting power to the card will prove to be a challenge as there are no additional power cables


and why am i replying to such an old post