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if i buy a motherboard with ipmi, i don't need to get a GPU, right? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry, I'm not very used with server stuff, if I buy an Intel CPU without an integrated GPU like most Xeon, then I wouldn't have enough pcie lanes for a GPU because all is taken for nvme drives

Specifically, the motherboard ipmi is powered by aspeed ast2500

If I understood right, that chip will act as a 2d basic graphics card that's enough to see what happens that day the server is unresponsive

I don't plan to connect a monitor, it's just that I'm scared if I break truenas and I can't connect via ssh, then I could still see the local screen from the management Page on the browser

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[–] olosta 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never ran across a server motherboard that needed an extra PCIe card to plug a video display regardless of the CPU used.

This BMC advertise the remote display feature you seek.

[–] nomecks 2 points 1 year ago

ATi Rage 128 gang.