Workstation doubling as a gaming PC? How effective could this be?

Rykuu Disaga

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Ok, Before you start, yes, I know workstations are meant for work usage (ie. autocad, rendering, etc), I am getting it for that reason initially. What I want to know, is how good of a build will this be for gaming along side more professional usage.

HP Z820
Ram: 16GB DDR3
CPU: Xeon E5-2637 v2 X1
GPU: Quadro FX5800
Storage: 1TB HDD (Will be adding on in the future)

How well will that alone work for professional and gaming use? Please don't crucify me for asking this question, I just don't want to go dumping another $1k+ into a gaming PC, and like the idea of having one desktop for all my uses. So please give me your honest answers on how well this will work for gaming (it already suits my needs for professional use)
 
The cpu will be fine for gaming

The gpu is ment for encoding and wont be as good as say a GTX 970 for gaming, i dont know enough about workstation GPUs to tell you what that GPU would campare to performance wise for gaming.

The other issue you will run into is airflow and psu in that OEM case.