`<div dir="ltr"><div>I think the confusion is partly on supermicro. The manual for the server states:</div><div>...<br></div><div>The 5017C-LF includes a CSE-RR1U-E8 riser card. This riser ﬁts into a PCI slot </div><div>to support a full-height, half-length PCI Express expansion card. (The riser card </div>
<div>provides a PCI-E x8 signal</div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Which appears to be at odds with the spec sheet that states:</div><div><ul class="" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,'sans serif';font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(93,139,96)!important">
<li class="" style="font-weight:100;padding-left:0px;padding-right:10px;font-size:11px!important;color:rgb(0,51,102)!important">1x PCI-E 3.0* x8 Low-profile slot</li></ul><div><font color="#003366" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans serif" size="1"><br>
</font></div></div><div><font color="#003366" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans serif" size="1"><br></font></div><div>It certainly looks like a full height slot but the spec sheet also states 2x2.5" bays maximum where the manual states 4x2.5". I can't see how 4x2.5" is possible with a full height card, so it's entirely possible that all the above statements are true depending on the how you order it. You'll need a reseller or someone with direct experience to be sure.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-mjf</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Saso Kiselkov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skiselkov.ml@gmail.com" target="_blank">skiselkov.ml@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/9/14, 11:48 PM, Michael Mounteney wrote:<br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> you need a Riser-Card (RSC-RR1U-E8) too.<br>
>><br>
>> Take a look at Supermicro add-on Cards:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/index.cfm</a><br>
>><br>
>> There you can find a 4 Port Intel Nic<br>
>> <a href="http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-i4.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-i4.cfm</a><br>
><br>
> I appreciate that you are trying to help, Alexandre, but there are two<br>
> points that I find puzzling in your advice.<br>
><br>
> Firstly that I've never seen any other reference to needing a riser for a<br>
> PCI card. SAS, yes; PCI, no.<br>
<br>
</div>Of course you need a riser. How else do you think the card's gonna make<br>
that turn from vertical to horizontal to fit in that chassis? PCI risers<br>
are simply (most commonly) passive mechanical adapters that allow you to<br>
route PCI ports to other physical locations within the chassis.<br>
<br>
And SAS risers? Never of that. Don't you mean expanders?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Secondly, Supermicro's own compatibility matrix for the product, at<br>
> <a href="http://www.supermicro.nl/support/resources/AOC/UIO_AOC_Compatibility.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.nl/support/resources/AOC/UIO_AOC_Compatibility.cfm</a> ,<br>
> excludes the NIC you mention from my hardware; it is a full-height card<br>
> and the 5017C-LF only accommodates low-profile.<br>
<br>
</div>Interesting, because from the pictures it *looks* like a full-height<br>
slot. But yeah, if it's low-profile-only, then you'd wanna get something<br>
that fits into low-profile (like the I350-T4: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ncwa92s" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ncwa92s</a> )<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Saso<br>
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