I have a Supermicro x9dri-ln4f+ connected to a microscope. It needs to have USB3, a high-res lag free display and 10GbE in same server. Currently my 6 PCIe slots look like:
- #1-4: important cards,
- #5: GPU, and
- #6: USB3 card
Using the on-board graphics or IPMI is too slow. Using a USB3 DisplayLink card for graphics also does not work. The on-board Matrox G200eW has a known problem which prevents it from working with DisplayLink cards:
... the Matrox G200e video card is not capable of supporting DisplayLink devices — it doesn't support WWDM or Aero, graphics technologies that are part of Vista/Win7 which USB graphics relies on on those platforms.
That seems to leave me with two options:
- Getting a PCIe expander or somewhat weird PCIe->Thunderbolt->USB3&10GbE chain,
- or removing the GPU card that runs the display (2440×1440 HDM/DVI/DisplayPort).
I have an on-board USB2, PCIe USB3 card and VGA graphics, with no Thunderbolt technology devices.
The OS has to be Windows 7.
Question: Is there a way to run a monitor independently of an on-board graphics adapter without using a PCIe slot for a discrete GPU?
