The Ultimate Budget Workstation

[The RAM Guy]

Let’s begin:

 

Components:

Fujitsu Primergy TX300 S7 with

320 GB RAM

2x Xeon E5 2640 

2x 800W PSU 80+ Platinum

350$
 

Xeon Phi 5110P 100$
 

SSD 240 GB

 

NVidia GT710

 

 

[The RAM Guy]

There occurred some compatibility issues under Windows with the GPU.

Windows neither found the GT 710 nor a GTX 970 which I plugged in for testing purposes so I got a blackscreen all the time.

Furthermore the video signal from the boot process is not pictured bc of no bios support.

How to get the display output via GPU working on Windows?

 

1. Boot without dedicated GPU.

2. Installing windows.

3. Downloading NVIDIA DRIVER

4. Extract driver and look up the nv_dispwi.inf 

5. installed it manually with pnputil

6. Reboot with grafics card.

7. now it’s working in Windows 

 

 

 

[RogerCanuck]

Nice work chasing that down.  Plug-and-pray still alive and well in the 21st century.

[The RAM Guy]

I have set up a virtual drive for some frequently used programs  like Maple Matlab Blender Notepad++ etc.

 

I got a big reduction in loading times.
 

The passmark results with GT710 and GTX970

[The RAM Guy]

17 hours ago, RogerCanuck said:

Nice work chasing that down.  Plug-and-pray still alive and well in the 21st century.

Thanks sir.

 

Such a good bang 4 your bug is hard to find.

[The RAM Guy]

Is there some headroom in the system to power an RTX 2080Ti.?

The 970 is obviously not bottlenecked in high resolution.