Upgrading Prebuild Servers

[DesecrantErebos]

Hey guys!

I recently got some prebuilt servers from a friend and I wanted to try and find a way to upgrade them to do some gaming and light content creation. I have absolutely no experience dealing with servers and know nothing about their compatibility with windows 10 and certain graphics cards. The server unit I have is the Dell Poweredge R710. Mine specifically has 8 gigabytes of ram and 2 open PCIE 3.0x16 slots. Is it even possible to create a system like this from a server? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[TheCherryKing]

4 minutes ago, DesecrantErebos said:

Hey guys!

I recently got some prebuilt servers from a friend and I wanted to try and find a way to upgrade them to do some gaming and light content creation. I have absolutely no experience dealing with servers and know nothing about their compatibility with windows 10 and certain graphics cards. The server unit I have is the Dell Poweredge R710. Mine specifically has 8 gigabytes of ram and 2 open PCIE 3.0x16 slots. Is it even possible to create a system like this from a server? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

It could probably be done. The tricky part is powering the PCIe slot. 

[emosun]

yes, provided it has decent cpu's in it it could be very fast. the system supports x56 series cpus so two x5680's should outperform most ryzen cpus

it should run windows 10 and any gpu just fine , what cpu's are in it and whats your budget?

[Timothy11]

45 minutes ago, DesecrantErebos said:

Hey guys!

I recently got some prebuilt servers from a friend and I wanted to try and find a way to upgrade them to do some gaming and light content creation. I have absolutely no experience dealing with servers and know nothing about their compatibility with windows 10 and certain graphics cards. The server unit I have is the Dell Poweredge R710. Mine specifically has 8 gigabytes of ram and 2 open PCIE 3.0x16 slots. Is it even possible to create a system like this from a server? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Should be fine to drop in any GPU as long as you can power it, but do not change the RAM unless you check the compatibility list online and check which slots it should be put in or you will find that it does not post.

[TheCherryKing]

Make sure you use ECC memory when there are multiple CPU's in a single system.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

3 hours ago, DesecrantErebos said:

Hey guys!

I recently got some prebuilt servers from a friend and I wanted to try and find a way to upgrade them to do some gaming and light content creation. I have absolutely no experience dealing with servers and know nothing about their compatibility with windows 10 and certain graphics cards. The server unit I have is the Dell Poweredge R710. Mine specifically has 8 gigabytes of ram and 2 open PCIE 3.0x16 slots. Is it even possible to create a system like this from a server? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

youll probly have to use a 1050ti unless it happens to have pcie 6 pin power connectors 

[DesecrantErebos]

13 hours ago, emosun said:

yes, provided it has decent cpu's in it it could be very fast. the system supports x56 series cpus so two x5680's should outperform most ryzen cpus

it should run windows 10 and any gpu just fine , what cpu's are in it and whats your budget?

It has 2 Xeon E5520 Processors, and my budget is about $800. Thank you for your response.

[emosun]

8 hours ago, DesecrantErebos said:

It has 2 Xeon E5520 Processors, and my budget is about $800. Thank you for your response.

ok , swap out the two e5520's for two x5680 or x5690's and that should be upto par with a sort of ryzen setup in terms of multicore performance.

the machine has either two 570w power supplies or two 870w power supplies which should be enough for a gpu.

something like a gtx 1060 6gb would be pretty good for your budget. you may have to chop the back of your pci-e slots if they are 8x only , or I've heard you can buy x16 risers for the board. but 8x will serve you just fine as well

[DesecrantErebos]

15 hours ago, emosun said:

ok , swap out the two e5520's for two x5680 or x5690's and that should be upto par with a sort of ryzen setup in terms of multicore performance.

the machine has either two 570w power supplies or two 870w power supplies which should be enough for a gpu.

something like a gtx 1060 6gb would be pretty good for your budget. you may have to chop the back of your pci-e slots if they are 8x only , or I've heard you can buy x16 risers for the board. but 8x will serve you just fine as well

Awesome! Thank you!