[geeks] Amazing! Tales from the Dell T30 trenches...

[Mark Benson]

Multiple DisplayPort video outputs is pretty standard fair for Intel's
onboard video chipsets. All our Micro-form-factor desktops have dual
display ports and would probably have HDMI if space allowed.

As for lack of VGA, as you've found, it can be pulled from any of those
three ports via an adaptor so I guess they figured people will buy an
adaptor if they need it.

The PCI-e thing is a bummer, but I guess it's largely to stop it competing
with Dell's midrange Precision workstation offerings.

All-in-all it sounds like a tidy machine, though.

On 12 Feb 2018 00:02, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> So last week I got my new Dell T30 server - and I quite like it so far -
> but I
> had to drag a TV over to the workbench to start working on the box... it
> wouldn't work on my USB/VGA KVM. Seems the one feature I took for granted
> was
> that there was a VGA HD-15 connector on the server - there's not!
>
> As a server it has 2x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI video ports! (Along with
> basic
> audio in/out - again, on a server.)
>
> Anyway, I just picked up a $10 DisplayPort to VGA adapter.
>
> I've never seen that before, but that does tell me this would make a very
> beefy desktop for a user, but the video options are limited, as the PCI-E
> ports are limited to 4x.
>
> Just wanted to share...
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