What graphic card upgrade suitable for HP Z800 workstation

[ramaohara]

Recently my brother lend me this Workstation. Unfortunately, it is a workstation and can only play Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor on lowest setting, and it only get 27 FPS max. Right now, it has Nvidia Quadro 600 as its GPU and I want to upgrade it for gaming performance, at least to be able to play Shadow of Mordor in high setting with 60 fps. I'm willing to spend about $300 on it, so what best GPU to get to satisfy my needs for gaming? Thankyou

 

[aquielisunari]

Recently my brother lend me this Workstation. Unfortunately, it is a workstation and can only play Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor on lowest setting, and it only get 27 FPS max. Right now, it has Nvidia Quadro 600 as its GPU and I want to upgrade it for gaming performance, at least to be able to play Shadow of Mordor in high setting with 60 fps. I'm willing to spend about $300 on it, so what best GPU to get to satisfy my needs for gaming? Thankyou

The Quadro is a productivity GFX card. It's is used by graphic designers and photographers(just to name a couple users) but not by gamers.

In order to answer your question we need specifications. Can you please download, install and run this https://www.piriform.com/speccy/download . When that is done can you reply with a C+P of the summary page? We also need you to power down and open that PC. We need the complete make and model number of the PC. Finally we need your region. There's no need for me to offer a products and price if it isn't available where you live. SPECIFICS. They help us help you.

Just to be clear that is not designed to be a gaming rig. Into health sciences or CAD? The tesla or Xeon CPU with a Quadro gfx card is great. For a gamer? No.

 

[marctom]

Hello, I have the same issue and want to put a good video card in my Z800. Only for CAD work. NOT gaming. A Z800 WS. Running windows 7 Pro. I have 96 Gig of RAM.
I bought it used from Techboost. Wanted all the ram for computational use in CAD design. FEA.
I only use the machine for Engineering design.

My machine will crash with an "An application has requested more GPU memory than is available in the system.
The application will now be closed"

The ProEngineer (PTC Creo) closes and it's a pain for me.

I ran Speccy.

Here is the summary.

Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz 40 °C
Westmere-EP 32nm Technology
Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz 41 °C
Westmere-EP 32nm Technology
RAM
96.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Hewlett-Packard 0AECh (CPU0 PROCESSOR) 38 °C
Graphics
DELL3007WFPHC (2560x1600@60Hz)
1023MB NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (HP) 43 °C
Storage
931GB ATA ST31000525SV SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 30 °C
119GB PNY USB 2.0 FD USB Device (USB)
Optical Drives
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device
hp DVD A DH16ABLH
Audio
High Definition Audio Device


Can anyone recommend a Graphics card I can replace the 1023MB NVIDIA Quadro 2000 with?
I'd love to salvage this machine. I know the processor is outdated.

Any help very much appreciated.

 

[RobCrezz]

Best not to get something too new due to compatibility with the older board, but something like a GTX 660 would be much better for gaming and available cheap on the used markets.

 

[marctom]

Hi RobCrezz
Would this be good?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MF7EQJZ/ref=psdc_284822_t1...

When I ran Speccy it says the Quadro 2000 is on a PCI Express X16 Bus Interface
NVIDIA Quadro 2000
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Model Quadro 2000
GPU GF106
Device ID 10DE-0DD8
Revision A2
Subvendor HP (103C)
Current Performance Level Level 0
Die Size 228 mm²
Release Date Oct 04, 2010
DirectX Support 11.0
OpenGL Support 5.0
Bus Interface PCI Express x16
Temperature 40 °C
Driver version 9.18.13.5306
BIOS Version 70.06.31.02.02
ROPs 16
Shaders 192 unified
Physical Memory 1023 MB
Virtual Memory 1024 MB

 

[RobCrezz]

As I said, the modern 10 series cards may not work with your old motherboard/bios.

 

[marctom]

Thanks for the help. It's the best information I have. I'll just have to go for it. This guy is cheap on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GIGABYTE-GeForce-GTX-660-2GB-GV-N660OC-2GD/182691586159?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D41375%26meid%3Dbd2558fe953f4a7ab1a19a1490bee14d%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D142460825975&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

Marc

 

[Denis_54]

Hi guys, just a warning here, you can seriously damage your HP z800 power supply if you use the gaming cards.
Trust me I overloaded the rail with a GTX 560TI card and needed to get a new power supply unit. These workstations are not designed to run the Gaming cards, but cope well with the workstation cards. And they are pricey true, but way over the gaming cards. So if you are looking for a CAD machine then dont waste your time with the Gaming cards they are too power hungry and will damage your machine.

Here is the HP recommended list
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA4-6106ENW.pdf

Your current card has the following rating
NVIDIA Quadro 2000 => 1310

Else look at these

Quadro K2200 => 3523
Quadro M4000 => 6740
Quadro M5000 => 8508
Quadro M6000 => 10091

SLI Certified
2x Quadro M5000 => 16000
2x Quadro M6000 => 20000

The last one is a monster card, probably worth more than the PC itself

You can also setup 2x these cards if you have the 1100w power supply.

You could drive 8 monitors with two M6000 in SLI and they will work, with HP guarantee for 24x7x365, )k it will cost you around $4,000, but you did ask what can you do with a HP Z800.... quite a lot is seems