Did you just get a brand new Dell R740xd2 and noticed that for some odd reason Dell didn't pre-install an PCIe x8 card?
Did you then go looking around for a PCIe x8 slot and find everyone one already taken up?
Well, what you may have missed was that slot 5 is actually an open slot where you can put in the x8 card...
This is why the Dell docs list slot 5 as an option for a variety of cards:
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/us/en/04/poweredge-r740xd2/per740xd2_ism_pub/expansion-card-installation-guidelines?guid=guid-b1d52a5e-f568-4a7a-a2cc-eb5ddb6dedc5&lang=en-us
Page 20 of https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/en/dell-emc-poweredge-r740xd2-technical-guide.pdf also has the following table for PCIe mappings:
Did you then go looking around for a PCIe x8 slot and find everyone one already taken up?
Well, what you may have missed was that slot 5 is actually an open slot where you can put in the x8 card...
This is why the Dell docs list slot 5 as an option for a variety of cards:
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/us/en/04/poweredge-r740xd2/per740xd2_ism_pub/expansion-card-installation-guidelines?guid=guid-b1d52a5e-f568-4a7a-a2cc-eb5ddb6dedc5&lang=en-us
Page 20 of https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/en/dell-emc-poweredge-r740xd2-technical-guide.pdf also has the following table for PCIe mappings:
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