Acer At350 Gaming Conversion?

[HexGaming5]

Hey guys
so i found a guy selling an Acer AT350 dual socket server pc and ive wanted to do a xeon gaming pc for a while now so i just wanted to know can this motherboard take a GTX 780 (pcie x16 of some sort) and does this pc need two power supplies to run because the original pc had two little power supplies.
heres the page that i understand but i just want to know if anyone can point out any major problems with converting this thing to a gmaing/workstation:
http://static.acer.com/up/Resource/Acer/Servers/Tower/AT350_F1/Docs/20110427/AT350_Long_Spec_v1_4-26-11.pdf
cheers Guys

 

[Snipergod87]

It does not look like it will support a ATX power supply, only those server slim power supplies.
The two PCI-Express 2.0 16x links are wired to 8x links, just an FYI.
(this is in the linked documentation)
These processors are based on the first generation Core i series (5-6 years old). If you intend on gaming a newer system with a faster quad core will do you alot better as games cannot use the amount of cores and threads this system has available.


Driver support for operating systems beyond Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) may be challenging.

 

[HexGaming5]

It does not look like it will support a ATX power supply, only those server slim power supplies.
The two PCI-Express 2.0 16x links are wired to 8x links, just an FYI.
(this is in the linked documentation)
These processors are based on the first generation Core i series (5-6 years old). If you intend on gaming a newer system with a faster quad core will do you alot better as games cannot use the amount of cores and threads this system has available.


Driver support for operating systems beyond Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) may be challenging.

Ah ok fair thank you, i mean i only just upgraded from a q6600 gt 220 to an i3 2120 gtx 780 setup xD so im a bit behind the latest tech my pc's are all generations old so thats why i thought something like this would be cool but if it the mobo and cpu connectors dont fit standard atx connectors and the pcie lanes don't work the same way as a normal board then ill give it a miss.

 

[Snipergod87]

If you are using the i3 2120 setup currently upgrading it to a i5 2500 or i5 3xxx series would help greatly.

 

[HexGaming5]

If you are using the i3 2120 setup currently upgrading it to a i5 2500 or i5 3xxx series would help greatly.

Yeah i plan on going to an i5 2400 or if i find a cheap i7 2600. because their really the best cpu's this board supports because it is an acer oem board. to put into context why im using an oem board. when i had my q6600 pc i found a thrown out Acer x3990 with a broken hdd and i used it for the base of my gaming pc which is now a i3 2120, x3990 board, 4gb ram (upgrading next week and a coolermaster B600.