Dad gave his workstation what parts I need to upgrade to make gaming pc

[Doggo4hire]

Hey my dad gave me his workstation that has intel E5 1630 v3 @3.70Ghz (4 cores hyerthreded) with 8gb of ram , 2 Quadro k4200 in sli, 250gb Samsung ssd and 1tb western digital hardrive. Motherboard is some pre built Lenovo p500 server board. My intial idea is to sell the Quadros for 300$ each so I can get 600$ to buy a gtx 1080 I do my gaming on a 1440p monitor I would like to have a system that can run games at ultra no problem with around 100fps at 1440p so I was wondering what else I should upgrade.Thanks for the help:) 

[porina]

SSD drive would help with responsiveness a fair bit.

[Narnash]

Your plan to sell these to go for a 1080 doesn't sound to bad in my opinion. But which PSU is in it, might be worth to swap that before it fries something.

 

1 minute ago, porina said:

SSD drive would help with responsiveness a fair bit.

He said there is a 250GB ssd in it.

[Jumper118]

Mountain dew and some rgb fans. 

[H0R53]

14 minutes ago, Doggo4hire said:

Hey my dad gave me his workstation that has intel E5 1630 v3 @3.70Ghz (4 cores hyerthreded) with 8gb of ram , 2 Quadro k4200 in sli, 250gb Samsung ssd and 1tb western digital hardrive. Motherboard is some pre built Lenovo p500 server board. My intial idea is to sell the Quadros for 300$ each so I can get 600$ to buy a gtx 1080 I do my gaming on a 1440p monitor I would like to have a system that can run games at ultra no problem with around 100fps at 1440p so I was wondering what else I should upgrade.Thanks for the help:) 

Dude

 

that's already a really powerful PC and would have no problems running any games.

 

that thing could stomp all over GTAV and TW3

 

Don't sell the quadros, the market for them is too small

 

there is no difference between 60fps vsync and 144fps. None. Not many games support that to begin with

[porina]

5 minutes ago, Narnash said:

Your plan to sell these to go for a 1080 doesn't sound to bad in my opinion. But which PSU is in it, might be worth to swap that before it fries something.

The K4200 are rated at 108W each, so a single 1080 will come under that. Chances are what was originally a workstation isn't that bad in PSU.

5 minutes ago, Narnash said:

He said there is a 250GB ssd in it.

Oops, I missed that bit.

[Narnash]

7 minutes ago, H0R53 said:

 

there is no difference between 60fps vsync and 144fps. None. Not many games support that to begin with

You clearly don't own/used a 144hz monitor to be able to make that statement. It makes a hell of a differnce if you either run on 60hz or +100fps even on desktop. Sure it doesn't if you still use a cheapo TN 60hz monitor.

[Doggo4hire]

Thank you @porina , @Narnash and @H0R53 for the help but to further talk about preformace for games @H0R53 I thought it would be really good in games like gtaV like you said but when I boot up and play I play at normal settings and I still stutter around the 50 to 40 fps and also for some games it will run fine but later on the preformance gets worse and I figured out it was the temp of gpu reaching 99c wich i know is really bad and the prebuilt case had 2 really bad cheap exhaust fans that basically do nothing so Iv had to take the side panel off and but s box fan cooling them off with helps but I still experience not the best preformce in games. 

[porina]

Have you checked and cleaned the components to make sure they're not blocked by dust as can be the case with older systems? 

 

It may also be worth trying removing one of the cards. While it will reduce the potential max performance, it will reduce the heat and can help improve the cooling of the remaining card.

[Doggo4hire]

@porina I have dusted this system about 2 times this week I can keep both the cards under load around 80-86c but atm I'm considering selling these cards just to upgrade to a 1080 with a 3 fan style and maybe upgrading to a better case with more fans but I'm very new to building computes so Iv very scared of touching the parts and might break the system through a shock or something 

[Dash Lambda]

Just to make sure -Are the cards actually in SLI? Meaning, do they have an SLI bridge and is SLI enabled in the Nvidia control panel?

'Cause if not, then that could improve performance in the mean time.

 

I only ask because it's a workstation with Quadros (professional machines don't usually use SLI) and you said you're new.

[Doggo4hire]

@Dash Lambda yea I went to the nvdia control panel and it says that sli is on and they are both running.

[Praesi]

1 hour ago, H0R53 said:

 

there is no difference between 60fps vsync and 144fps. None. Not many games support that to begin with

Actual there is a difference. 60 to 75 hz is a noticable difference and 75 to 100 again. After 100 i couldnt tell what fps without counter tho.

[H0R53]

8 hours ago, Doggo4hire said:

Thank you @porina , @Narnash and @H0R53 for the help but to further talk about preformace for games @H0R53 I thought it would be really good in games like gtaV like you said but when I boot up and play I play at normal settings and I still stutter around the 50 to 40 fps and also for some games it will run fine but later on the preformance gets worse and I figured out it was the temp of gpu reaching 99c wich i know is really bad and the prebuilt case had 2 really bad cheap exhaust fans that basically do nothing so Iv had to take the side panel off and but s box fan cooling them off with helps but I still experience not the best preformce in games. 

Then don't get a 1080, get a custom case.

There are TONS under $100.

 

Here are some recommendations:

Zalmann T4 

Deepcool Tesseract

Zalmann Z1 Neo

Apevia X-Harmony (Red)

CM Storm Stryker

MasterBox 5T

SilverStone RL05BR

Antec 900

Cosmos II

FSP CMT210

Zalman Z11 Plus HF1

Corsair Graphite 760T

SilverStone PM01W

NZXT Guardian

InWin GR1
AeroCool DS230

InWin 805

8 hours ago, Doggo4hire said:

@Dash Lambda yea I went to the nvdia control panel and it says that sli is on and they are both running.

Toggle it before running the game.

 

Older nVidia drivers have an SLI bug where after a reboot the cards are forced to the minimum clock frequency in SLI.

 

Downloading MSI Afterburner and creating a stock profile to launch at boot will work around that problem.

Sources: Happened to me on two 550Tis and two Quadro 3800s.

 

Also try overclocking them.

[Doggo4hire]

Thank you @H0R53I will try that 

[H0R53]

30 minutes ago, Doggo4hire said:

Thank you @H0R53I will try that 

Personally I think your framerate problems are due to the fact that they are overheating. A custom case with some nice LED fans would work great.

[Doggo4hire]

@H0R53 any suggestions for case with good cooling under about 100?

[H0R53]

1 hour ago, Doggo4hire said:

@H0R53 any suggestions for case with good cooling under about 100?

Zalmann T4 

Deepcool Tesseract

Zalmann Z1 Neo

Apevia X-Harmony (Red)

CM Storm Stryker (over $100)

MasterBox 5T

SilverStone RL05BR

Antec 900

Cooler Master Cosmos II (over $100)

FSP CMT210

Zalman Z11 Plus HF1

Corsair Graphite 760T (over $100)

SilverStone PM01W (over $100)

InWin GR1 (over $100)
AeroCool DS230 (over $100)

InWin 805 (over $100)

 

Out of all of these, I would personally get the X-Harmony (Red) if I didn't need to house 5 HDDs.

 

Check all of them out and pick the one you like the best. I personally had some issues with these, mainly being me just being picky and none of them being able to support as many hard disks that I have, without the same level of inconvenience my current case offers.

 

I hand picked these from over 500, and they are all available on Amazon and Newegg.

 

My current case has excellent airflow, but my fans are just crap. Everything stays under 70C regardless, plus I've disabled thermal throttling in my BIOS.

 

The link for that build log is the first link in my signature.

[Doggo4hire]

@H0R53 thanks you so much and just a question cause my computer rn has a server board so should I upgrade to like a gaming motherboard or should I just keep it , I haven't runner into any problems with it, and would the server motherboard fit in these cases?

[Damascus]

Tell us the model number, need to know the size.

[Doggo4hire]

@Damascus the computer tells me it's a Lenovo p500 from a thinkstation 

[Jonathan Lemmens]

25 minutes ago, Doggo4hire said:

@Damascus the computer tells me it's a Lenovo p500 from a thinkstation 

Lenovo's website says its "custom ATX". The dimensions they give are the same as E-ATX, but it is still possible that Lenovo put the mounting holes in different places than standard.

[Doggo4hire]

@Jonathan Lemmens what you think I should do for a case then or should I justness invest in a gaming motherboard 

[Damascus]

32 minutes ago, Doggo4hire said:

@Damascus the computer tells me it's a Lenovo p500 from a thinkstation 

In that case I would try an eatx case that you like, if it doesn't work get a new mobo.

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, Doggo4hire said:

@Jonathan Lemmens what you think I should do for a case then or should I justness invest in a gaming motherboard 

Bottom line is you need a new case.  Your current on seems to be the root of your issues.