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HP Z420 Workstation (GPU Upgrade)

Omar Wanis
By Omar Wanis
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Hey guys, i recently bought a new workstation (which i didn't know a thing about when i did) and i'm trying to catch up to see if what i bought is really worth it or can be upgraded.

What i know of its components that is not strong enough is the GPU (as i was told), but i don't know to what extent is it not good and if i want to upgrade it and still maintain the workstation compatibility (as i was told also!), what should i do?

I use my workstation for editing and motion graphics (After Effects & Premiere) and recently for 3D and VFX (Houdini), my main focus was an excellent CPU with a lot of RAM but lately when i worked with stuff that required powerful GPU, i felt that it was dragging me down!

I have read a lot and watched videos about tech, but still i'm pretty much a newbie, so please help me out, my workstation specs are as follows:

 

Workstation: HP Z420 Workstation

- CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2650 @ 2.0 GHz.

- GPU: Nvidia Quadro K600.

- RAM: 32 GB DDR3 (1600 MHz).

- Motherboard: HP 1589.

 

Thanks a lot!

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amd cards are great for workstation use, look into something like a rx 580.

If you have a lot to spend you could look into quadro's

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11 minutes ago, Omar Wanis said:

I use my workstation for editing and motion graphics (After Effects & Premiere) and recently for 3D and VFX (Houdini), my main focus was an excellent CPU with a lot of RAM but lately when i worked with stuff that required powerful GPU, i felt that it was dragging me down!

Workstation: HP Z420 Workstation

- GPU: Nvidia Quadro K600.

It can definitely be upgraded, and that K600 is over five years old. Both the RX480 (580) and the GTX 1060 are on Houdini's supported list, so I would recommend those as decent cards. I'd also recommend a Quadro card, but according to Sidefx's website it doesnt support anything less than the P4000 (not sure how up to date it is) so I'm not sure id a P2000 or P1000 would be supported.

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Okay excellent, so are there some GPUs that fit better into workstations in general than other GPUs? or each specific workstation build requires a specific list of GPUs to be compatible with at best? or neither of those options and it just doesn't matter at all as long as i have a strong enough GPU?

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