MrMarcus

Cool. I already have my main build for gaming, but I will probably throw a mid range gpu in that board just for fun and see how she performs. May end up selling it to someone in need, who knows.

I'm looking at the GTX 950. I found an extra six pin PCI cable coming out of the power supply and it's a 6 pin card. The card is rated for 350 W and my power source is 400 W. It's PCIe 3. Plenty of space for it's dimensions. It's only $150 - $170 bucks. I'm thinking its worth a shot. Worst comes to worst I can return it.

No, that Quadro is crazy overpriced. I'd rather just buy a gtx 950 and test it out. If it doesn't work I'll sent it back. If I can find an output on the powersource for it...

This card seems to be a bit of an improvement over the Quadro 600, for it on partsurfer: NVIDIA Quadro K2000 2GB GDDR5 PCI-e graphics card. Question is can you game with this? I can't find much info on it, except for sites like amazon or newegg that are just selling it. Seems kinda pricey too.

Thanks, I will check this site.

Ok, I opened it up. The motherboard has a single PCIe3 x16 slot. It also, has a PCIe2 x16, but I don't imagine I'd use that for anything. The PCU is only 400 W, but the issue here is that it is in some sort of cage. I need to open up the cage and see if there are even any extra outputs to plug a gpu into. The Quadro 600 draws power straight off the motherboard.

Does anyone know if there is way to tell what type of motherboard I have on it?

Yeah, it's an HP workstation. Honestly I haven't even opened it up yet, I just checked cpu and RAM in Windows. You are right tho, I need to check the PCU and motherboard for compatibility before I do anything. Also, cooling is limited. Another reason why I don't want to go with anything high end. I really just want something good enough to get me running 1080p on decent settings with decent framerate. I already have my main gaming build, what I'm on now.

That's what I figured, or at least what I was hoping. The rig I am on now will always be my main gaming rig. I don't plan on getting anything extraordinary for the workstation. I'm thinking a mid range graphics card should work. I only plan to use it with a 1080p monitor.

So, I have this workstation that i inherited from my father when he passed away a couple of years ago. It's older, I'd say 2010, 2011ish, but not incredibly old. I named the processor in the title, it seems decent, it's quad core, and the PC has 32 gigs of RAM... don't ask me why. What I am wondering is if a workstation can be converted to a reasonable gaming PC. The graphics card in this thing is stock Quadro 600 I think. Do workstation CPUs support gaming GPUs? If so, and if I replace the graphics card what can I reasonably expect this CPU to support? What would be the best GPU it would support?

My humble offering... wish I could fit a 4K screen shot in a file that will upload here. Hell, I had to crop this one.

This confirms what I was thinking, but with more detail.

I understand the concept of raid 0, I am wondering if it is worth while if my pc is mostly used for gaming. Also, take into account that I am currently using my 500 GB SSD as my boot drive, so I'm pretty sure I will have to reload my OS, which isn't that big of a deal, but still kind of a pain. I guess my question is will I get an uber super duper performance boost for games, if not, I'd rather not go thru setting up raid and reloading my OS, especially since I just did that for Windows 10. Also, in raid 0 you do keep all of your capacity correct? I have one 500 GB so if I get another 500 GB, I will have 1 TB? Pretty sure this is the case, but just want to hear what you all have to say. I currently have the majority of my games on a 1 TB HDD, I try to keep my SSD mostly for the OS, but I have room for of my most played games without filling it up. I want another SSD, so I can have all my games on SSD and leave my HDD for whatever, music, pictures, etc. I almost think it would be better to keep my OS drive separate and not in raid. But, I'd like to hear the pros and cons. Hit me up with the 411 guys.

So, I have noticed in my many google searches that people have experienced problems with the start menu and modern apps in Windows 10. My issue is not exactly what I am reading about however. The text of menu options on my start menu are mostly unreadable. The same thing happens with icons in modern apps. Everything else seems to be running fine. I've scanned for viruses, malware, adware... no issues, at least not any being detected. This persists after reloading windows. I am left only to assume that this is an issue with Windows 10, not any type of malware. Also, the start menu issues seem to come and go, usually it's all scrambled when I reboot, but after a while it goes away... sometimes. The apps seem to be permanently scrambled. Once I hover over an icon with my mouse it goes all janky and never recovers. I love windows 10 when it is working properly, it is preferable to windows 8.1, but if this persists I almost have not choice but to revert back. It's very annoying. Idk, hopefully their will be a fix in an update soon. Is anyone else experiencing something like this?

Working on it. Reloaded Windows several times, still having issues with start menu and modern apps, but at least I seem to have resolved my sli issue. Benchmarks in unigine seem to be on par.