Installing Gaming Card In Workstation

[rwinegar]

I just purchased a Dell T5400 workstation for home use. It has a crappy Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 64 bit/6.4 GB/Sec graphics card. I am thinking about installing a gaming card in order to breath a little life into the system and to improve graphics. The card I am thinking about using is XFX PVT84JYAJG GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2.

Is this unheard of? Installing a gaming card in a workstation? Would it work?

[Train]

A 290 has 256 MB of ram.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_14605.html

Might want to check to see where that card sits in the various charts.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/g...score,538.html

[Train]

What Dell says about the spec's.
http://www.dell.com/content/products...en&s=bsd&cs=04

[rwinegar]

Thanks Train. I know the computer's specs by heart.

Is there any reason why a gaming card would not work in a workstation?

[Train]

None!

Just though you might like/want a, so called, better card is all.

Seems it does have "2 PCI-e x16 " Gen2 graphics slot w/ Dual 150W; (300W total).


Ship it to me, that is one nice setup.

[rwinegar]

I bought what I thought was best for what I could afford. One can always get something better. I guess I could spend $3,000 - $4,000 on a graphics card. The reviews on the one I bought are pretty good.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150247

I didn't post here to debate which is the best graphics card. The question I had here is, is there any inherent reason why a gaming card will not work in a work station? Would installing this gaming card give me any better graphics performance?

[Train]

Gaming wise, yes it should respond much better.