Best Low Profile Nic for Optiplex 150?
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My plans have been FOILED!
While it appears there are TWO slots when looking at the back of a Dell Optiplex GX150 SFF chassis, when you open it up it's a different story…
One backplane slot for an optional AGP card, one backplane slot for a PCI card. I am sad and feel dumb to boot. :(
It goes like this:
ASCII Art:
___ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------ ^ ^ ^ ^ A P L P G C o S P I n U g P P C I
The AGP slot has a cut-out in the backplane, the PCI slot has a cutout in the backplane, but the LongPCI slot does not - a regular NIC won't go in that slot because it's very close to the Power Supply. :(
The regular PCI slot and the longer (looks like a) PCI slot share a cutout looks like.
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The long pci slot is used for a two PCI riser card in the desktop chassis. The riser blocks the normal PCI slot in that chassis. Dell uses the same motherboard in all the chassis. Never used the sff, but we had a few mini-desktops before the caps blew in them…
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Hoba came up with a PCI low profile nic with three ports just the other day. Or was it PCIe?
If you can go with two ports then there is at least one dual PCI LP card from Intel. -
http://pyramid.de/en/products/3nic.php
…or consider using vlans with a small switch like the hp procurve 1800-8g.
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I'll look for a dual port low profile Intel card.
Right now I'm running the two Intel cards in a SD (Small Desktop) GX150. It's a bit bigger than the SFF GX150, but otherwise identical hardware.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106108
Found it… a bit expensive though. ;)
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$60 new:
http://cgi.ebay.de/INTEL-PILA8472C3-DUAL-PORTS-SERVER-NIC-NEW-BULK_W0QQitemZ350048168658QQihZ022QQcategoryZ51196QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem -
$60 new:
http://cgi.ebay.de/INTEL-PILA8472C3-DUAL-PORTS-SERVER-NIC-NEW-BULK_W0QQitemZ350048168658QQihZ022QQcategoryZ51196QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemVielen Dank! ;D
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Woot!
I just snagged 3 of them for $18.95 USD each. ;)
He's got more:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:11&Item=180235874462
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Woot!
I just snagged 3 of them for $18.95 USD each. ;)
He's got more:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:11&Item=180235874462
Thank you for the pointer. I snagged a Dell Dimension 4600C off Craigslist, and bought one of these dual cards off eBay for my replacement to a Linksys RV082.
Cheers, Liam