Hello,
I own a Dell server that I am interested in turning into a gaming rig. I received this machine from my work and they had already made some very minor upgrades to it so I'll detail the specs below to help assist, but essentially my main concern is motherboard compatibility with upgrading the graphics card. My boss prior had used the machine as her home computer on windows 7, and I have used it with Linux for running various server style tasks and compiling Linux versions of my programs, and various other geeky tasks (I am programmer), so I'm sure it'll be fine from an operating and software standpoint, it just needs a better graphics card.
It is a Dell PowerEdge t110 ii
Processor: Intel Xeon e3 1220 v2 quad core 3.1 ghz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 6200 LE
Motherboard: Dell 015th9
Ram: 4gb DDR3
I would like to upgrade the RAM of this machine as well as the graphics card. Upgrading the RAM obviously won't be a big deal but the graphics card I would like to update to is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970.
I assume that since this motherboard is already compatible with a GeForce series graphics card that I wouldn't have any issues but I'd hate to spend $300 and be totally wrong.
So any verification on whether or not this is will work would be awesome. It seems plausible to me, but I'd like to be sure.
Thanks!
I own a Dell server that I am interested in turning into a gaming rig. I received this machine from my work and they had already made some very minor upgrades to it so I'll detail the specs below to help assist, but essentially my main concern is motherboard compatibility with upgrading the graphics card. My boss prior had used the machine as her home computer on windows 7, and I have used it with Linux for running various server style tasks and compiling Linux versions of my programs, and various other geeky tasks (I am programmer), so I'm sure it'll be fine from an operating and software standpoint, it just needs a better graphics card.
It is a Dell PowerEdge t110 ii
Processor: Intel Xeon e3 1220 v2 quad core 3.1 ghz
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 6200 LE
Motherboard: Dell 015th9
Ram: 4gb DDR3
I would like to upgrade the RAM of this machine as well as the graphics card. Upgrading the RAM obviously won't be a big deal but the graphics card I would like to update to is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970.
I assume that since this motherboard is already compatible with a GeForce series graphics card that I wouldn't have any issues but I'd hate to spend $300 and be totally wrong.
So any verification on whether or not this is will work would be awesome. It seems plausible to me, but I'd like to be sure.
Thanks!