HP Z800 Gaming Rig

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spiderbyte44

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Hey guys! I just was wondering if a HP Z800 Workstation with dual Xeon processors and a Gforce 760 would be good as a Gaming rig. I'm not sure the specs on exactly what the Xeon processors are, because I have yet to remove the heatsinks that are on top of them, but I know they're good. I received the computer for free due to a graphics card catching fire from too much dust (it was acquired from a business that was just going to throw the whole thing out) so it came with everything including the burnt out graphics card. Once my new board comes in, I will take out the processors and give more details, I was just curious if it'd be a good gaming PC especially while recording gameplay and such at the same time.
 
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You shouldn't need to touch the heat sinks. The BIOS can tell you all about the CPUs. A Z800 with a gaming graphics card should be a fine game machine.

I would try to borrow ANY graphics card first to see if you can get a BIOS screen or if it will possibly boot. Then you know if it is worth spending any $$$ on.
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You shouldn't need to touch the heat sinks. The BIOS can tell you all about the CPUs. A Z800 with a gaming graphics card should be a fine game machine.

I would try to borrow ANY graphics card first to see if you can get a BIOS screen or if it will possibly boot. Then you know if it is worth spending any $$$ on.
 
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far as i know, most generaly use hp workstations (at least in my country cant say to other places) for video editing, animation, designing like AutoCAD with quadro or firepro graphics in it. i doubt if games really utilize those dual xeon processors. it runs longer and cooler than desktop processors though. you best bet would be to try a good gaming graphic card in it and try some games, if you get pass through BIOS screen as kenwolf suggested that is. still not sure if you would have any amazing performace with those xeon processors in games.
 
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Hi Im in the market for a new pc and I found one of these beasts Refurbished with a year HP full warranty for $900 bucks

specks are:

Dual X5650 Six Core 2.66Ghz,
24GB RAM,
Quadro 2000,
1100W Power supply

Im just wonder if I could take out that Quadro and put in a GTX 970

Were you ever successful with this project?
 
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Yes I was! It runs games pretty smoothly but my processors are a bit lower than I'd really like 2.0 Ghz but it runs most games at high settings. I have a GTX 760 and took it fine but the aditional power ports just barely reach the card! Also can't have one of the air passages cause my card is hella big but without it is totally fine it doesn't even struggle with cooling at all. My power is 850 so you've probably got better aditional power than I do. I got an 8 prong and 4 prong for aditional power. Just make sure you got room for the card and enough aditional power to plug into the card.
 
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