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Hello Mortals, I have situation that i need some serious help with. I am currently running a Windows 10 pro gaming system with 32GB ram and an Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.00GHz and a GTX 1070 and I am planning to upgrade to a ASUS  Z10PE-D16 WS with 2 Intel Xeon E5 v3 @ 3.20GHz. My problem is that I have a tone of games on this system ranging from modern warfare to fortnite. But recently I think that my workload as exceeded what this machine is capable of handling, So I purchased an ASUS  Z10PE-D16 WS with 2 CPU sockets and build it up: 2 Xeons, and 64GB for now(I will add more ram). I will be attaching the picture with specs. The problem: I am worried about migrating everything to the new Windows server system because I dont know if I will be able to play my video games on windows server. Please help me with this magration. I plan on selling my windows 10 system and buy a new RTX card for deep learning and video games. The windows Server System will be:

  1. Primary development machine,
  2. Deep learning project,
  3. Virtualization infrastructure project(ESXi, KVM, OpenStack),
  4. Storage server
  5. and best of all gaming system 

Will I be able to play video games on my Windows Server 2016?

 

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4 minutes ago, sputniq said:

Will I be able to play video games on my Windows Server 2016?

Yes. Windows Server is still Windows, just with a bunch of server tools/settings enabled.

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You could play games on Windows server they're still just windows. But the more important question is why do you need Windows server, why not just use your current Win10 Pro.

There is another version called Win10 Pro for Workstation, might want to take a look at that too.

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3 minutes ago, OlympicAssEater said:

What the fuck. 103 C temp for motherboard. 

Well the new build has a sensor issue. The 103 displayed on there is not the real temperature. 

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Short answer: Yes, you should be able to run it as long as your system is powerful enough.

 

Windows Server is essentially Windows, but more so made for servers. Anything that works on Windows will work on Windows Server, the difference between the two is there are some different server management programs preinstalled and a few things such as task manager and managing boot programs are different.

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1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

You could play games on Windows server they're still just windows. But the more important question is why do you need Windows server, why not just use your current Win10 Pro.

There is another version called Win10 Pro for Workstation, might want to take a look at that too.

I want to stick to windows server because i use it at work all the time, and I happen to get a free license from work. And from my experience, it is faster and doesnt have a tone baggage 

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Just now, sputniq said:

I want to stick to windows server because i use it at work all the time, and I happen to get a free license from work. And from my experience, it is faster and doesnt have a tone baggage 

Got a free license, then use what's best for you.

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2 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Are GeForce graphics drivers compatible with it? I thought only Quadro were

Also i have not tested any graphics card on the  Z10PE-D16 WS mobo, but I plan on going to either a TITAN x or RTX 2080 primarily for deep learning projects

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2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

But the more important question is why do you need Windows server, why not just use your current Win10 Pro.

It allows him to do alot of what he wants natively and with more ease than other Windows versions. Also, too late (supposedly).

 

1 minute ago, Caroline said:

Are GeForce graphics drivers compatible with it? I thought only Quadro were

Yesish. Some Driver versions have issues. No different from 10, 8,7, etc.

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1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

It allows him to do alot of what he wants natively and with more ease than other Windows versions. Also, too late (supposedly).

OP has a free license so he's all set. If he doesn't and want to buy one, I wouldn't suggest him going that route.

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The thing is my current mobo's limit for the ram is 32GB and I am sucker for ram. The mobo can handle up to a 2TB of ram. I feel that windows Server is the best option to support that. 

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26 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Are GeForce graphics drivers compatible with it? I thought only Quadro were

Should be just fine. I remember a few years back when I ran my laptop on Windows Server 2008 R2 and the drivers were not even an issue.

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