Expansion Card Installation Guidelines - Dell PowerEdge R530xd Owner's Manual

Expansion card installation guidelines

Your system supports PCI Express Generation 2 and Generation 3 expansion cards.
Use the following table as a guide for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical
fit. The expansion cards with the highest priority must be installed first by using the slot priority indicated.
Table 3. Expansion card slots available on system board only
Location PCIe
slot
System board 1
System board 2
System board 3
Table 4. Expansion card slots available with optional dual riser module and optional internal PERC riser
Location
Dual riser module
Dual riser module
Dual riser module
Dual riser module
Internal riser
NOTE: The optional dual riser module is installed on PCIe slot 1 and 2 on the system board.
NOTE: When your system is installed with the optional dual riser module in PCIe slot 1 and 2 on the
system board, you cannot install an expansion card in PCIe slot 3 of the system board.
NOTE: When x16 card installed in PCIe Slot 1 on dual riser module the PCIe Slot 2 on the expansion
card will not function. The expansion card riser can be used either with four x8 PCIe cards or with
one x16 PCIe card on PCIe Slot 1 and two x8 PCIe cards on slots 3 and 4 of the dual riser module.
NOTE: Only slots 1, 2 and the internal PCIe slot support Generation 3 PCIe expansion cards.
NOTE: The expansion cards are not hot-swap.
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Processor connection
Processor 1
Processor 1
Platform Controller Hub
(Mapped to Processor 1)
PCIe Processor connection
slot
1 Processor 1
2 Processor 1
3 Processor 1
4 Processor 1
5 Processor 2
Height Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Height Length
Full height Full
Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Low Half
Profile Length
Link Slot
width width
x16 x16
x16 x16
x4 x8
Link Slot
width width
x16 x16
x8 x8
x8 x8
x8 x8
x8 x8