HP z820 as a Gaming Rig?

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mrdude42

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I know a lot of people are gonna tell me I'm crazy for asking this... please just stay on topic.

Could an HP z820 be used for gaming? I know it's a workstation but if the workstation graphics cards were traded for a gaming graphics card would it be a good gaming computer then?

Here are the specs currently:
2 Intel Xeon E5-2665 20MB L3 Cache @ 2.4GHz
128GB of DDR3 1600 Ram
2x Nvidia Quadro 2000
250GB SSD
 
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MC_K7

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I don't know what you mean by having both a gaming and a workstation card?

I don't think you can have both at the same time. If you use SLI or Crossfire I guess they need to be the same type. Don't think you can SLI a Quadro with a GeForce, or crossfire a Radeon with a FireGL. You'd either need 2 x GeForce or 2 x Radeon. Or if you want to use only one, you would have to remove the other Quadro card.

My piece of advice: If you have money for a dual Xeon workstation with 128GB of RAM which probably cost you $10,000, you certainly should have a little money to buy a secondary decent gaming machine. You can get a very good gaming machine for less than $1,000 nowadays. Unless, maybe that workstation isn't yours and you were planning to use your employer or university computer for gaming, which wouldn't be really ethical if you ask me.
 
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I guess so... But not necessarily faster than other standard gaming rig... And since this is a high end workstation designed and optimized to do something completely different it would be kind of a waste to use it as a gaming rig...
 
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A guy on sweclockers (swedish hardware and overclocking site) had something of a similar build. However two xeon x5650, 48GB ram and dual GTX 680's.
Main use of the rig was 3d modeling however gaming wasnt a issue either. Atleast not from what he posted in the thread about it.
So i would guess it would work fine for gaming aswell.
 
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Thanks!
 
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I have an HP Z800 and first of you cannot run Geforce SLI, only Quadro SLI. I use a single gtx 660 right now and it works fine. I used to have a single gtx 590 in it which will run sli since it's on the graphics card not mobo.

My advice with this system is to get a higher speed cpu at least 2.8ghz. I currently have the 2x 2.27 ghz and in d3 when there's TONS of stuff going on screen my fps drops to 10, I've isolated it to cpu speed not graphics card.

The sweclockers PC is a evga dual xeon board capable of GeForce sli, the hp z800/820 is not.
 
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Same here, my machine is HP Z800
- dual Xeon 5560 2.8 Ghz
- 24 Gb RAM
- 512 SSD Samsung pro (win7/OS)
- 256 SSD Samsung pro (No RAID)
- 2x WD Raptor 500 Gb (in RAID-0) total 1.0 Tb combination
- DVD/R/WR
- Quadro K2000
I use this machine mainly for video editor, also do some game due to the cost of Nvidia/Quadro/CUDA
I'm thinking to replace Quadro K2000 with GTX 660 Ti or GTX 760, reason is that GTX more CUDA
and bandwidth than my current K2000. Anyone ever use GTX 660 Ti or any GTX gaming on the
Z800/Z820 Workstation. Your suggestion and help is greatly appreciate

Best Regards
 
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