OLD Mobo Upgrade: Which nVidia GeForce/GTX will work with my S5520SC Server Mobo?

Mohamed_Hussein

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Hello everyone,

I have an Intel S5520SC server mobo with two Xeon E5645 Processors and an ATI Radeon HD 5700 GPU. I work in the 3D and Video Compositing industry so apparently the ATI is the weak point of my build.

I have two simple questions:

1- What nVidia Card will be compatible with my mobo? It has two PCIe x16 slots and supports up to 1333 MHz Memory speed and DDR3 Memory slots. It would be also a HUGE plus if that GPU supported SLI as I'm planning to replace my Mobo in the near future (this one doesn't support SLI).
I plan to use this GPU for Rendering purposes using CUDA cores as well as Real Time 3D visualization.

2- If I would keep my old build as is, what would be the best way to link it to my new build for 3D Rendering purposes?

Thanks!!
 
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Well i mean any gpu should work with your mobo though in some cases mobo BIOS might need to be updated. Actually even the newest graphic card should work with that mobo.

As for those x40 and such i was refering to series. X being the number of series.

700 series: 780, 770, 760, 750ti, 750, 740...
900 series: 980, 970, 960, 950....

and so on.
Any geforce (based on pci-e interface) should work? As for SLI usually x60 based model will have support for SLI. for x50 only certain of them will support SLI. x40 and below will not support SLI at all. But to my knowledge most pro application did not support SLI but instead supporting multi gpu in their own way.
 

Mohamed_Hussein

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Thank you for your answer! That clarifies a lot. So this means that I can't get a decent GTX being compatible with my motherboard? I also didn't understand the "x40,x50" sorry for such silly question, but I'm no expert so I don't know what that means ^^
 
Well i mean any gpu should work with your mobo though in some cases mobo BIOS might need to be updated. Actually even the newest graphic card should work with that mobo.

As for those x40 and such i was refering to series. X being the number of series.

700 series: 780, 770, 760, 750ti, 750, 740...
900 series: 980, 970, 960, 950....

and so on.
 
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