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Hetzner AX-51 and AX-41 showing as having gpu - GeForce GT 710???
Hey all, been lurking around here for some time but first time I post!
Long story short here, I'm hoping someone could potentially put an answer to this long drawn out mystery of mine and/or point me in the direct of where to look or what to look for to solve it myself. God knows, I've tried on my own!
So, I've picked up 2 AMD boxes - AX-41 and AX-51 both with nvme's, both out of FSN.
Both servers show as having a gpu in them. Running a sudo lspci -v -s $(lspci | grep VGA | cut -d" " -f 1)
provides me with the following output:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.GT710-SL-1GD5 .
I'm wondering if anyone is aware of hetzner indeed having these gpu's inside the AX line of servers? Or am I getting a false result when I run that command? I don't seem to be able to find any info, nor can I enable the thing myself as of yet... I've tried a ton to get it active .
If anyone knows where I can find some sort of guide and/or some detailed info as to how I may be able to get this gpu (if it exists) enabled, I would very much appreciate that!
Cheers, and thanks so much!
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You're playing with fire if you start making that box heat up beyond what they planned for.
on my ax-51…
lspci -v -s $(lspci | grep VGA | cut -d" " -f 1)
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 41) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at f000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel modules: ast
I just checked on 2 of my AX-51's, I'm getting the same output as @network33
@burkely001 maybe you lucked out?
I had also GT on my AX-51 plan.
It's lottery. It all depends what kind of motherboard Your unit has. If its asrock rack then it has intergrated gpu on the motherboard. If its "civilian" model then they need gpu for output. That's why some of You have GT710.
I checked my order in HEL, seems it had it.
Can you use it tho for encoding/decoding/transcoding?
Not for encoding as it lacks nvenc. You can use it for decoding process tho so it can speed up some work
Hey guys, sorry for not replying sooner. I was expecting a response when a reply was added - well, that never happened
So yeah, I've got her active and running as a matter of fact. Encodes and transcodes perfectly... I'll be it, something seems off about it, I'm sure we're not "supposed" to be unlocking the gpu for use - but hey, you only live once right...
I know nothing about these gpu's or what I'm looking for, but they definitely work...
As for nvenc and the encoding part, I'm not too sure @AXYZE is completely correct about that.. While doing my research, I did read the card was capable of encoding.. Who knows, maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me!
But output from funtioning card is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GT710-SL-1GD5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 122
Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?> Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
Thinking part of my is nouveau is still present.. Again, not too sure about that one!
This GPU is old and slow, it is also passively cooled so it is not meant for heavy loads.
Yes. They have, oddly enough, a video card. I noticed it a long time ago. When I installed Windows 10.
I absolutely agree. And while I did enable it, test it out I have no intentions of limiting my transcoding ability by passing everything through that gpu... A note to add, you mentioned passively cooled. Well, you're 110% correct and it does show. I ran nvtop while testing 2 simultaneous transcodes, and boy, that baby got extremely hot!
No. It doesn.t
No GK208 here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC
No> @burkely001 said:
GT710 is not present on official Nvidia NVENC support matrix, neither on Wikipedia NVENC page. If you are sure that it works for some reason then you can further improve its capabilities with https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
Your much safer requesting KVM access and rising CPU clocks on bios compared to enabling this and using it to transcode Plex. Both, of course are idiotic attempts on a rented server with limited cooling.
FYI servers in Finland can arrive with AST1000 or GT710 depending on Datacenter. So, don't expect you'll always get GT710. CPU on those machines can transcode probably better than GT710
If anyone here wants to give up their AX 41 with a GT 710 let me know, happy to give you in exchange one without the GPU - would also pay a fee on top. I got around 20 non GPU ones which are for no use for me now, and I don't want to cancel them all which might get my account closed.