Would this be good for gaming?

[OleST]

I have a hp z600 with two xeon x5679 processors and 12gb of ram per processor (24gb in total) if i added an rx480 8gb to this system, would it b e able to run gta on some decent settings?

[The Sloth]

yup just change out the power supply 

edit: read this for more info http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/workstations/files/13277_na.pdf

[OleST]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

yup just change out the power supply 

Its not a standard case tho... It has a weird hotswap supply, should be decent quality tho. I mean, its a server so it has to be good?

[The Sloth]

Just now, OleST said:

Its not a standard case tho... It has a weird hotswap supply, should be decent quality tho. I mean, its a server so it has to be good?

yea the server is good it should be good for gta 5 i am just saying be careful with the power supply. 2

[OleST]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

yea the server is good it should be good for gta 5 i am just saying be careful with the power supply. 2

I understand. Would the dual cpu system require a win10 pro liscense?

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, OleST said:

I understand. Would the dual cpu system require a win10 pro liscense?

not necessarily a window 10 home will work also if you feel unsafe trying home get a cheap licence from https://www.kinguin.net/category/19429/windows-10-professional-oem-key/  

[manikyath]

28 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

yup just change out the power supply 

edit: read this for more info http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/workstations/files/13277_na.pdf

the power supplies in those things are actually really good quality, they just dont look like it. (because looking like it is wasted money in HP's pro lineup)

 

so as long as the wattage is there (which, i'm sure they have a spare 6-pin in a system like that) they are good to go.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

the power supplies in those things are actually really good quality, they just dont look like it. (because looking like it is wasted money in HP's pro lineup)

 

so as long as the wattage is there (which, i'm sure they have a spare 6-pin in a system like that) they are good to go.

 

i am just concerned with age but yes i agree. as time goes on the caps degrade.

 

 

[OleST]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

the power supplies in those things are actually really good quality, they just dont look like it. (because looking like it is wasted money in HP's pro lineup)

 

so as long as the wattage is there (which, i'm sure they have a spare 6-pin in a system like that) they are good to go.

It has a 6pin connector and its 600w so 100w more than required for an rx480 8gb rs

[manikyath]

24 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

not necessarily a window 10 home will work also if you feel unsafe trying home get a cheap licence from https://www.kinguin.net/category/19429/windows-10-professional-oem-key/  

a quick google backs this up, win10 home "should" support two physical processors.

[OleST]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

a quick google backs this up, win10 home "should" support two physical processors.

Would pro perform better?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i am just concerned with age but yes i agree. as time goes on the caps degrade.

 

 

i have a 10 year old 250 watt box from one of their office critters that still gladly pushes its rated wattage, and about everything else in the machine i got it from was a balloon, so i'm not overly worried on that field

[manikyath]

Just now, OleST said:

Would pro performance better?

an OS doesnt "perform"

[OleST]

8 minutes ago, manikyath said:

an OS doesnt "perform"

Would the os be better optimized for two cpus?

[manikyath]

Just now, OleST said:

Would the os be better optimized for two cpus?

there's no such thing really, it's the software that runs on top of your OS hat needs to be optimized for the amount of cores.

[OleST]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

there's no such thing really, it's the software that runs on top of your OS hat needs to be optimized for the amount of cores.

Ok

[OleST]

8 hours ago, manikyath said:

the power supplies in those things are actually really good quality, they just dont look like it. (because looking like it is wasted money in HP's pro lineup)

 

so as long as the wattage is there (which, i'm sure they have a spare 6-pin in a system like that) they are good to go.

Psu is powerfull enough but only has one 6pin, is there a way to adapt one molex and one 6pin into one 8 pin?

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, OleST said:

Psu is powerfull enough but only has one 6pin, is there a way to adapt one molex and one 6pin into one 8 pin?

i thought the rx480 was 6-pin, or am i wrong?

 

certainly in these instances, i REALLY recommend against using adapters, you can do it, it's most likely fine, but on the off chance bad things happen, i'm not involved

[OleST]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i thought the rx480 was 6-pin, or am i wrong?

 

certainly in these instances, i REALLY recommend against using adapters, you can do it, it's most likely fine, but on the off chance bad things happen, i'm not involved

The refference rx480 is six pin, no-one sells that card here tho... I went out to buy a rx480 nitro+ 8gb but noticed it was 8pin....