Question Dell T7910 project

[mrclownface]

Hi there,i purchased a refurbished Dell T7910 with 32gig ram and one Zeon E5 2637 V3 CPU,
i planning to add a second CPU and ram and a decent graphics card to do some gaming with my son,just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on upgrades and the most suitable graphics card for this system.

 

[USAFRet]

"a second CPU"...for what use?
What software?

 

[mrclownface]

"a second CPU"...for what use?
What software?

no real purpose,should i just buy a faster CPU and replace the one i have,im open to suggestions

 

[USAFRet]

no real purpose,should i just buy a faster CPU and replace the one i have,im open to suggestions

The VAST majority of software does not work with multiple CPUs.

 

[USAFRet]

And, you're looking at a system that is over a decade old.

Any different CPU you could put in there is dwarfed by anything a little bit recent.

 

[mrclownface]

And, you're looking at a system that is over a decade old.

Any different CPU you could put in there is dwarfed by anything a little bit recent.

yes true,but its cheaper,its a budget project for some hot swapable storage and games

 

[USAFRet]

yes true,but its cheaper,its a budget project for some hot swapable storage and games

Cheap, yes.
Games, not really.

But, do give it a try.

 

[das_stig]

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2637 v4

Q1'16

4

3.70 GHz

3.50 GHz

15 MB Intel® Smart Cache

135 W

So its a bit power hungry 4 core CPU (think average 4core Zen is 40w or less and superior in almost everything) and probably be lucky to get a couple of those cores to boosted 3.7GHz and yes there a more powerful cpus with extra cores and slightly better speeds, but again you would be using a lot of power. for a gaming machine makes no sense, these things designed as workstations were they can use many cores just under the thermal boost limits to crunch data and keep the workstation class GPU's fed with data.