workstation What is my PC good for?

[Kipper Klank]

So I bought this is old workstation off of eBay for about $200.(HP Z600) The specs are, 24gb ddr3 ecc ram, two xeon e5606 @ 2.13ghz at 4 cores each, and two old quadro600 graphics cards with a gig of VRAM each. Windows 10 On a 10k rpm SATA 500gb HDD. It's nice for medium grade gameing CS:GO, Skyrim, Mass effect 3, Minecraft (heavily modded). But there has to be something else that it can do? Or maby I just have lack of creativity.........

[TheRandomness]

Video editing/anything that can use a lot of cores would be what this machine is good for.

 

Welcome to the forums btw

[r2good4u]

8 minutes ago, Kipper Klank said:

So I bought this is old workstation off of eBay for about $200.(HP Z600) The specs are, 24gb ddr3 ecc ram, two xeon e5606 @ 2.13ghz at 4 cores each, and two old quadro600 graphics cards with a gig of VRAM each. Windows 10 On a 10k rpm SATA 500gb HDD. It's nice for medium grade gameing CS:GO, Skyrim, Mass effect 3, Minecraft (heavily modded). But there has to be something else that it can do? Or maby I just have lack of creativity.........

If you can fit depending on what your budget is a 1050ti or something even better than that in there. That could turn out to be an amazing budget machine for you.

[asand1]

Well it's FCLGA 1366. You can put two x5680 CPUs in it for 12 cores and 24 threads at 3.3Gb. It will game good even with x5650 CPUs.

[Kipper Klank]

Oh yeah. the case is massive I can fit whatever I want in there...;)

Also a follow-up question, why would I even need 2 graphics cards if they can't run in SLI or whatever Nvidia's is version is. The only thing I can think of is adding more monitors than necessary.....

[Kipper Klank]

16 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Video editing/anything that can use a lot of cores would be what this machine is good for.

 

Welcome to the forums btw

Thanks

[r2good4u]

10 minutes ago, Kipper Klank said:

Oh yeah. the case is massive I can fit whatever I want in there...;)

Also a follow-up question, why would I even need 2 graphics cards if they can't run in SLI or whatever Nvidia's is version is. The only thing I can think of is adding more monitors than necessary.....

SLI is only really nessasary for things like 4k 60 fps or 1440p 144fps or other crazy resolutions anyway. Nowadays a single video card will do you just fine for most everything. I run 3 monitors off a single gtx 1070 for instance. Though i typically only use one of the monitors for gaming.

[Kipper Klank]

OK....Thnx....