Unexpected gaming rig

THORs_Hand · October 24, 2019

Hello!

Because of happiness i want to share my experience getting together a gaming rig.

I had a Dell PowerEdge T610 server that i had it up for sale, and then it struck me, i had a nVidia Quadro NVS310, i wanted to put it into the server and see if it works, after cutting a random PCIe X8 slot to accept the x16 card, it worked, although i had no video output before getting to the OS Boot stage.

3 days ago, i tried it again, to see if i can get an output, before though i got into bios and randomly turned off it's integrated Matrox GPU, aand eureka! it worked so out of happiness i got out and bought a R9 270X Windforce 2GB card, jerry rigged some Molex to PCIe power adapters and it worked... sort of, i got a respectable 11FPS 1080p ultra in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, i first assumed the CPU's were the problem, but when i checked with task manager, not at all, the card was the bottleneck, it couldn't run even Distance, witch is a very light game, so, i returned the R9 270X and got myself a RX 570 Pulse, 4GB, and just like magic from 11FPS 1080p Ultra in SOTTR, i got 47FPS sustained, up to 60 and down to 35. i am still shocked that a 10 year old platform still holds up today.
I kept testing it, and most things i threw at it it handled it with ease, 1080p 60FPS, most intensive games i have take that down to 33, but never below.

Full specs:
2x Intel Xeon E5645 2.4GHz (boost up to 2.7GHz) 6-core 12-threads (for a grand total of 12 cores and 24 threads)
24GB DDR3 ECC 1366MHz RAM
Sapphire Pulse - AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB VRAM
Sound Blaster Audigy 5
Dell PERC H700 RAID card
1x 250GB and 1x 640GB HDD's (had them thrown around the house, after putting all of it's previous HDD's in my new NAS. can't wait to upgrade to a SSD for the boot drive
and 1x 570W PSU (80+ Gold), the second one i have i keep it as a spare.

I didn't attach any pics since it looks just like a T610 on the outside, and just has some extra cards on the inside.

To be honest, i would have loved it to have a sexy case that has silent fans (sounds like a jet engine right now) and a glass panel on the side door, hell, even some RGB, but, i'm already asking too much from my budget.

Anyone knows a program that would let me control it's fans? i think it's controlled by the iDRAC card, and speed fan can't change their speed, it works only on the GPU fan.

Thanks for reading and for the eventual advices!

Have a great day everyone!

SupaKomputa · October 24, 2019

The clockspeed is the downside, and putting it in a dual socket would have terrible latency.

THORs_Hand · October 25, 2019

On 10/24/2019 at 4:30 PM, SupaKomputa said:

The clockspeed is the downside, and putting it in a dual socket would have terrible latency.

I agree that it's inefficient, but it works, i'm not a professional gamer or something, to my eyes and brain it seems fine. From what i've tested, the GPU is connected to CPU0 where most games run, so no NUMA node usage for that, i would add more latency if the game runs on a different CPU then what the GPU is connected to, but, most likely it wouldn't be noticeable to me.