Buying A Server And A Graphics Card

DinoKiller129

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I've been looking around on E-Bay for some cheap computers and computer components, because they're so cheap, when I saw the "enterprise servers" section. I saw this server that's $133 for 2 quad core Xeon processors, 32GB of ram, and I was thinking of either buying it and using it for virtualization, or maybe even gaming.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-2950-III-Server-2x-2-33GHz-E5345-Quad-Core-32GB-RAM-PERC5i-DVD/222006085215?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D35605%26meid%3D55dbc99d5d4a4985b52db16b07eab519%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D181737950010

Is it too good to be true? Can I attach a graphics card to it and "Play GTA 5 at 60 FPS Max Settings?" Or can it be used for virtualization and vps hosting or just plain server hosting?

(Please don't say that it's "old" or "loud", because I already know that, just is it good?)

ps. drives are cheap for it and I would use linux on it with virtualbox for 1-2 instances of windows.

(btw holy shit the shipping is expensive should I go for another one?)
 
Solution
You might be able to put a lower end graphics cards because there is no supplemental power for graphics. The CPU in that box does support VT-x so it could be a virtualization host but it doesn't support extended page table virtualization.

kanewolf

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You might be able to put a lower end graphics cards because there is no supplemental power for graphics. The CPU in that box does support VT-x so it could be a virtualization host but it doesn't support extended page table virtualization.

 
Solution
2 CPUs is not better than 1 CPU. Games can't handle 2 CPUs. Also those are pretty weak CPUs when you get down to it.

Even if you put a graphics card in there it would probably get too hot and burn out, those cases don't really have very good ventilation.

For server work and virtualization it'd be fine, but not for normal PC use.