TIL DELL Server from 2018 use a 20 Year old GPU cause its reliable. I did honestly not knew this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Well, I guess you won't need it too much of you're just running web?

Not to be that guy but that article is written with the finest scientific language "Cards they produced were excellent Windows accelerators"

@ScriptCoded this is actually a internal company server, it runs 4 VMs for varios stuff (including a Mail Server for 80 People), copies over a second Server for Failover.

It just seems so strange, 128 GB RAM, ~20 TB of HDD/SSD Space in a Raid, vast amounts of CPU Power among 16 cores. Two PSUs...aaaaaannnndddd a GPU from 1998 cause why not. Its a 99,99% headless machine anyway.

@ScriptCoded that held true..at some point probably. One way or another, its Wikipedia, i guess you could raise and vanquish the foul language.

@BurnoutDV Yeah, see what you mean. Though if it's energy efficient the savings can add upp quickly.

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The only strange thig here is that the server has a graphics card AT ALL.

For those 0.01% where anyone even has a monitor attached to a server, that will be enough. Maybe DELL has huge stocks of these cards somewhere.

Actually, an APU would be enough, but I guess that server CPUs are not sold with APU variant.

It's reliable, drivers are available for virtually any OS and it's embedded in BMC chip. https://superuser.com/q/1372289/...

@gronostaj And what's more important, it has no dedicated vRAM so it can be accessed by iLO/(dell equivalent)/ME.