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3 PCIe Card Cooling with Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 PCIe Cooling Strategy in Dell PowerEdge Servers ...................................................................................................... 6
2.1 PCIe Airflow Settings in iDRAC9 ........................................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Dell-qualified cards and optimal cooling response ............................................................................................. 7
2.3 Third-party cards and its thermal management .................................................................................................. 8
2.3.1 How do I know that the system has identified the card to be a Third-Party card? ............................................. 8
2.3.2 Manually customizing PCIe card cooling ............................................................................................................ 9
3 References ................................................................................................................................................................. 13