MSI 2U NVIDIA MGX Single Intel Xeon 6500/6700 AI GPU Server Barebone (CG290-S3063)

The MSI CG290-S3063 is a 2U GPU server built on the NVIDIA MGX architecture, supporting a single Intel Xeon 6500P/6700P series processor with 136 PCIe lanes up to 350W TDP with 16 DDR5 RDIMM slots across 8 channels (2DPC) at up to 6400MT/s (1DPC) or 5200MT/s (2DPC). It provides up to 7 PCIe 5.0 x16 expansion slots supporting up to 4 NVIDIA H200 NVL or RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition PCIe GPUs, 4 rear hot-swap 2.5" U.2 PCIe 5.0 NVMe bays, onboard TPM 2.0, and ASPEED AST2600 BMC with IPMI 2.0 and Redfish management, all backed by 80 PLUS Titanium power. A smaller, denser GPU server compared to the 4U CG480 models. Key differences: 2U instead of 4U, single-socket (not dual), half the GPU capacity (4 vs 8), 7 PCIe x16 slots (vs 13), only 4 rear U.2 NVMe bays (vs 8-20 front bays on the 4U models), and no onboard 10GbE (no networking listed beyond IPMI). Specifically calls out Intel Xeon 6500P/6700P "P-series" with 136 PCIe lanes, the high-lane-count SKUs for GPU-heavy configs. Positioned for small-scale inference, NVIDIA Omniverse, and edge compute rather than full-scale training.