Server gaming rig project

[travisg96]

After watching the LTT video on making a gaming rig out of a server. I found a Poweredge t110 with a I3 530, 8GB of DDR3 and a SAS controller at a computer salvage shop. I pulled out the SAS card which leavs me with Slot 1; 8X, Slot 2 16X on an 8X channel, Slot 3 8X on a 4X channel and Slot 4 1X. I believe all these are PCI-E 2.0. The nice thing is this is a tower so cards fit without modification. I also found a Xeon 3450 which I upgraded the system with. I really wanted to go to a Xeon 3480 but they are still running at $80 on EBAY and I was trying to do this on the cheap. with the Xeon I can upgrade to 32GB.  I installed a 1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series ATI AI that I had laying around and minecraft and fortnite run and that is what my son plays. I was looking at 2 other posible cards 01G-P3-2711-KR EVGA GeForce GT 710 or Genuine Dell AMD FirePro W5100 4GB he EVGA would be nice since It fits a 8x slot and I might be able to make it fit in slot 1 but the FirePro is a better card. I will post some pictures as soon as I figure out how.

[Firewrath9]

why not look for a gtx 660/ti, gtx 760, HD 7970? those are cheap and much better/

[travisg96]

But the GTX 710 fits in a 8X slot so I wouldn't be wasting a slot, I can get it in a 2GB version so if I am limited ti 8X wouldn't that be the better option?

 

[travisg96]

Picked up a GTX 550i from the computer salvage store so far it seems to be running ok. Had to replace the power supply, used a cooler master 460 I had from a previous build it is rated at 460W but acording to a wright up on it only puts out 420W, thats ok all I am running is a graphics card and the stock power supply was only 305W so I should be ok.

[travisg96]

Verified Novabench Score: 1108

Tested on Dec 14, 2018 at 18:39

• Intel Xeon X3440 running at 2.7GHz
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
• Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

CPU Score 617 Show details	RAM Score - 8GB 172 RAM Speed: 10416 MB/s
Graphics Score 299 Direct3D 11: 28 FPS OpenCL: 528 FLOPS	Disk Score 20 Write Speed: 55 MB/s Read Speed: 7                                   Comparison CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X or Intel Core i5-7600K GPU: AMD Radeon 580 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070   Your overall score is: 38% lower Your CPU score is: 5% lower Your GPU score is: 67% lower

[travisg96]

Take into account I am running off a WD green drive on a server  from 2011 with the GPU in a 8X configuration