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I have a Dell T5500 0CRH6C motherboard with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 GPU and two Intel Xeon X5675 processors 8Gb of ram ~220 SSD running 64 bit Windows 7 Pro. I want to do a clean install though don't have a reinstall disk so exhausting all personally acceptable option will have to repurchase a legit copy of 7 or take advantage of the new Windows offer. I figure that I may as well make the move to Windows 10. NVIDIA does not have have drivers for my card to work with 10. I find that It will be some $160 more or less for Windows 7 Pro from a reputable dealer so that is the budget I feel I will place on a new GPU. All that being said I am new to the pc upgrading world. I know that I have need for a minimum of 3 display and eventually many more. I know that my computer is work oriented and I value having a 20+ tabs open all the time as well as several other programs. That being said I do on occasion play some Starcraft on the system and deal with low setting. In short workstation over gaming. I will begin to do minor video editing in the near future in some lines of my work; nothing extensive closer to light hobbist. I need help figuring out what kind of specs I am to be looking for in a GPU and perhaps suggestions or examples of GPUs that correspond with my interests. The internet is crowded with gaming this and gaming that and I need computing direction on increasing workflow. What are or suggestions? Opinions? Reasonings? Am I looking at this the wrong way? If so, what do you believe to be a more appropriate line of reasoning?

*Some text have been embolden and enlarged to increase easy of scan for post concept. Since the discontinuation of Digitalmedia hosting Windows 7 Microsoft now has the following web page. Download Windows 7 Disc Images (ISO Files) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 My key seems to be OEM. Due to that I receive the following message. "The product key you entered appears to be for software pre-installed by the device manufacturer. Please contact the device manufacturer for software recovery options." I found some helpful options at this vary appropriately named Microsoft Community Wiki Article; "How to: What are my options for obtaining Windows 7 reinstall media?" Following that I was routed to Dell. "If you have not created your restore media and are unable to access your operating system to create discs, customers in the United States or Canada may request a set of recovery media for their specific computer model. Media Dispatch Form (US & Canada Only)" Backup discs request To submit your request for backup and recovery discs, enter your Service Tag below and click Continue. The Service Tag is the 7-character code usually found on the bottom or back of your device. "The diagnostics results indicate that a part replacement is required for your system. Dell’s record indicate Your limited hardware warranty and/or service contract(s) associated with this system are expired. Please note that Dell PC Diagnostics tool solely verifies any parts replacement entitlement which you may have under Dell’s limited hardware warranty, where applicable, and/or any extended hardware services contracts which you may have purchased from Dell. You may still be entitled to (parts) replacement or to other remedies available under applicable statutory warranties – in order to verify any statutory entitlement please contact Dell Technical Support. Scroll down to review all results and additional suggestions for improving the operation of your system." I will be contacting Dell support and the guy I purchased this desktop from tomorrow as well as creating the new Topic in Troubleshooting for my adventure. By the way, found here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool, "When you download Windows from Microsoft Store, you have two options: You can download a collection of compressed files, or you can download an ISO file. An ISO file combines all the Windows installation files into a single uncompressed file." I am still not sure where the collection of compressed files may be located.

Just really getting into this stuff and for the moment just wanted to pop in and say this guide seems like it will be really helpful when I do my first install soon. I am sure that I will have some questions and suppose that I will make a topic for them then as I have placed myself in quite a position. In any case there are a few more things I will be researching first. Anyway like I was saying the guide seems clean and straight forward. Easy to follow though I have not yet read every single letter. I will do so, probably tomorrow.