Dell t7600 video card for gaming

[nosralc]

I'm looking to upgrade my video card for gaming. I'm looking for something reasonably priced that will get the job done. I have a Dell T7600 with a 8-core Xeon processor. I use it primarily for number crunching and haven't cared up until know about the video card. I currently have a Nvidia NVS 300. I just started playing Dragon Age: Origins. It can handle it, but not well. What types of cards are compatible with my machine and what do you suggest? Thanks.

 

[bambiboom]

nosralc,

It's always a help in making this kind of recommendation to know the CPU model / speed and the exact applications you're using. The key is to think of something that can be useful for all the uses of the computer.

I'm assuming that the subject under discussion is a Precision T7600 with one Xeon E5-2687W, which would indeed be one of the best crunchers of numbers, which uses a PCIe X16 3.0 card and has the slots and power connectors for cards up to probably 225W and possibly for two of those (The point being that the T7600 will allow you to use about anything going> highest quality and powered cards.

However, I can't immediately think of a graphics card worse for gaming than a Quadro NVS. The NVS series are gigh quality cards, made for long, continuous slogs in single and double precision but strictly 2D / Typical Quadro NVS uses are> servers, scientific / mathematical, financial analysis and etc applications - anything without images! The 2D is excellent, but the 3D performance with NVS is abysmal. They are at least not expensive- an NVS 300 is about $110.

For a good value for gaming use, I'd suggest >

ASUS GTX650TIB-DC2OC-2GD5 GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card > about $170

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121728

> and with high clock speeds, 2GB, this should do quite well in the gaming world. Depending on your other uses, it might not be so bad there either, and with 768 CUDA cores, may actually provide some coprocessing capacity to any CUDA-accleerated applications you might be using.

If you need, both high double precision and high 3D gaming performance, the only cards I can think of would be the high end of Quadros- K4000 and K5000 and Firepros > W8000, V7900, but none of these are what I would call "reasonable priced." The ideal card for everything is probably the Quadro K5000, but those are ober $1,800.

If you would care to list the applications, you may receive more optimal suggestions.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

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