E5-2670 - Upgrade from Quadro 4000 to GTX 960

[di11on]

Hi folks,

I have a home office (separate from the main house). In an attempt to separate work from leisure, I have my gaming PC in the house. It's a i7 4790k + GTX 960. `

In my office I have a workstation with with dual e5-2560s, 48GB ram a quadro 4000 graphics card. I do play the odd game on the workstation and I would like to boost it's performance a little. I don't use graphics intensive packages for work so losing the quadro card is not a problem.

So I was thinking of upgrading the gaming PC to a GTX 1060 and then dropping the 960 card into the workstation.

Am I right in thinking it's the quadro card that's the bottleneck when playing games?

Thanks in advance folks

 

[LilDog1291]

It is indeed the bottleneck according to http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Quadro-4000-vs-Nvidia-GTX-960/m7693vs3165

I would drop it in and give it a try before I would pull the trigger myself just to make sure something else isn't in play here. Haven't used a dual CPU computer before but I imagine that would have nothing to do with the problem but I always error on the side of caution.