HP Workstation with 2*Xeon 6core, 48GB memory, and SSD but only PCIe2 what card for a 4K display?

neil_66 · Nov 2, 2016

So, I'm moving my workstation to the desktop for some games given my ageing laptop can no longer cope.

I have a 40" 4K display, and a HP Z600 with twin 6 core Xeon processors, 48GB memory and a SSD main drive. But the existing card is somewhat lacking - FirePro V5800.

I admit I'm out of touch with what's in and what's out in hardware terms, so what's going to get me a 4K 60p display or is the older PCIe2 slot going to put a halt to this idea, without costing an arm and a leg?

chemmajorp53 · Nov 2, 2016

Basically anything with a displayport 1.2 connection or better will work, PCIe 2.0 isn't a problem. I'd pick up a gtx 1050 ti or something if you don't need professional color support.

bicycle_repair_man · Nov 2, 2016

Even the lowly GTX 1050 can run a 4K display at 60hz. The PCIe 2.0 slot isn't going to be a problem.

What exactly are you using the PC for?

neil_66 · Nov 3, 2016

MS Office, internet access, then the heavy stuff is GNS3 and VMware Workstation for network simulations - hence the memory and CPU choice.

Only a couple of games Civ5 (although I tried installing this yesterday and it didn't run), and soon Civ6 - not buying this yet till the previous version works, and a couple of others from Steam. No first player shoot them up type games needing really fast refresh rates.

Couldn't get any games working last night, this was on a clean install of Windows 10 Pro, even after installing the latest drivers from AMD's website. Pretty sure that this is above the min. spec. required even with the current card, so I'm guessing there's something missing in the way of run-time library(s).

I mainly want the desktop space and resolution to save having multiple monitors like I have in the office.

neil_66 · Nov 8, 2016

chemmajorp53 :

Thanks, just finished getting a new 4Gb Palit GTX 1050 Ti,. card installed and working at 4K. Took a while with different connections and cables, but looks good now. On Windows 10 desktop the card it ticking over at a mere 607MHz, 30% fan and GPU Temp of 28C. Ran Civ5 with all the settings to highest on a 4K display with no problems, and smoother than my previous card at 1080p

Thanks for the advice.

chemmajorp53 · Nov 10, 2016

Nice, glad we could help

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