Looking to upgrade Dell T1700 from a Quadro K2200

[adriandmangan]

Hi, I am new to this forum, I use Autocad (Advance Steel to be exact), mostly use my Lenovo Mobile workstation and am looking to upgrade my outdated Desktop to accommodate Advance Steel and Revit. It current runs the K2200 graphics card. Was hoping to upgrade to P1000 or P2000 or GTX 1050ti, depending on price. Was wondering if i would have compatibility isssues? I have researched and seems I may have a power supply issue (pins).
Plan was to upgrade to CX-650m power supply, SSD and 16GB of faster DDR3.

I am not super knowledgable in this area, prior warning.

Thank you in advance

 

[hang-the-9]

That system uses a custom power supply and motherboard power connector, you can't just get another power supply for it. Going to a P1000 from your card is probably not worth it, for the cost of a P2000 I would look into upgrading the system first with a better CPU or just replacing it.

Really it's a bit of a so-so system to upgrade, it's a "workstation" system but it uses a weaker custom connection power supply. You may just want to do the SSD and RAM upgrade on it. Did you check on benchmarks for the programs you want to run to compare the video card rendering speeds vs CPU upgrade?

 

[adriandmangan]

That system uses a custom power supply and motherboard power connector, you can't just get another power supply for it. Going to a P1000 from your card is probably not worth it, for the cost of a P2000 I would look into upgrading the system first with a better CPU or just replacing it.

Really it's a bit of a so-so system to upgrade, it's a "workstation" system but it uses a weaker custom connection power supply. You may just want to do the SSD and RAM upgrade on it. Did you check on benchmarks for the programs you want to run to compare the video card rendering speeds vs CPU upgrade?

Yea had kinda figured that may be the case, it is really my secondary computer my Lenovo is my primary and I'm buying a new Lenovo P52 in the next couple of weeks so has kind of hoped to just throw something into the PC to get Revit working acceptably.
Day to day I use the laptop for Advance Steel (Autocad) and Fusion 360 and wanted to use desktop in the evening for Revit.
Maybe I'll just go with the RAM and SSD and see what happens from there.
To be honest I don't know much about checking benchmarks and all that, I should really try firgure that out I guess to see what I'm working with.
Thank you so much for your feedback, maybe the small upgrades will do for now, I was concerned as I received a Revit model for a job and it looked a little choppy just looking at the model.