E5-2667 V2 Gaming

[Francesca Cruiz]

TheseHP workstations have two PCIe x16 "video" slots.... the top slot is the "primary slot", and where your boot/BIOS screen will be fed from. The bottom port on each Quadro card will be your "primary port" so hook that to the screen you want to see BIOS on. You can try my suggestion below and then could later add a second identical or near identical card into the lower secondary PCIe x16 slot. Virtually all the HP Z workstations I and my partners use are 4-monitor builds with two of these cards.

Later cards tend to run cooler with higher performance... a nice combination of attributes. The power provided up to the card by each video slot in the Z620 is 75W. Thus, if you get a card requiring less than 75W then you don't need supplemental PCIe power cables. If budget and quality is important to you then here is my advice, and you can always spend lots more. You can look at Brian's subscript to see the cards he has carefully chosen.

My advice for most bang for the buck is to buy one nVidia Quadro K2200 off eBay and expect to pay about $80.00 USD for a Buy It Now purchase. You might do better with a sniped bid... This card runs at 68W max, and is still actively supported by nVidia with new drivers. Same ones Brian is using on his Quadro P2000, released 12/15/20. Check every few months at nVidia if you want the latest and to stay ahead of Windows Update. If you choose to eventually run 4 monitors then just add in a second K2200, or a sibling (a K2000, or the K2000D which has two dual link DVI ports). These all run on identical drivers, and run under W10Pro64 without issue. We run the default latest drivers downloaded from nVidia directly. We have been very pleased with this combination. Some of us do play games and report this combination is fine for that too.

Compare the specs with Google... you will find that the Quadro K2200 is a poor man's P2000, and a wise buy. In my experience the K2200 is notably fast and if the other parts of your workstation are not subpar you will see a significant increase in user experience for an unexpectedly low cost.

Quadro NVS cards are designed mainly for 2D graphics applications, (Photoshop, Publisher, etc.), and definitely not suitable for gaming. You should be looking to install either an older generation GTX card, (10 series, e.g. GTX 1080), or one of the newer RTX cards, (e.g. RTX 2060, RTX 3060 Ti, etc.). These cards have been designed with gaming as the intended use. I have my Z620 setup for either gaming or professional graphics and have both a Quadro and GTX card installed. I would be looking for the latest generation GPU you can afford with the most amount of RAM possible, ideally 5GB+ VRAM. The maximum single GPU power requirements cannot exceed 250W, (HP state 225W but there is some wiggle room here).

You clearly have a v2 motherboard since you have 2x E5-2620 v2 CPU's installed. Unfortunately, these CPU's are relatively slow for gaming, (having a low single threaded performance), but also, only support up to 1600MHz RAM. Having a 128GB of system RAM won't improve gaming performance either.

If you are wanting to stick with a dual CPU configuration then consider upgrading the CPU's to E5-2667 v2 CPU's, or for a single CPU set up, I would recommend either a E5-1650 v2, E5-1660 v2, or a E5-1680 v2 CPU. These CPU's have significantly faster single threaded performance and support 1866MHz RAM. Even 16GB of RAM is more than sufficient for 99% of the games available. Only large programs such as fight simulators will possibly need more RAM. One final point, a single E5-2667 v2 CPU would be faster for gaming than a dual E5-2667 v2 configuration. This is because the 2x CPU's need to be syncronised, resulting in a slight reduction in CPU performance. Having more than 1 CPU is mainly beneficial for running engineering simulations, video rendering or running multiple VM's. By default, games are designed to run on single CPU computers for maximum compatibility.

I mainly use the Z620 for Virtualisation, running VMWare Workstation, so looking to increase the Graphics Memory from 1GB ro up to 4GB, in a cheap way. How do I know which Graphics Cards would run on a Z620.

the board is brand new, boots from the M.2 slot and works with ecc memory. I can say this guy paired with a 1060 is a very capable gaming machine. Just in case anyone else was thinking about trying out one of the boards, it worked well for me.

I wanted a board supporting USB3 for the Oculus rift S headset, but the usb 3.0 ports on this board use the intel controller which is not compatible with the headset at this time. So while i can use the on baord usb 3.0 for usb sticks and other perephials I cannot use it for the VR headset. Had to keep using the known compatible pcie usb 3.0 controller I had previously purchased.

I was interested in pcie bifurcation on the x99 board and learned some things that may apply in your situation. However these thoughts are all going to be dependent on the actual motherboard layout, BIOS, and then BIOS settings.

The BIOS probably has a ton of options that you may want to explore (if you have not already done so) esp related to PCIE lanes assigned, bifurcation etc. You can usually find these under the NB settings look for IIO0 or similar. you may also be able to find a screen showing what/how a card in a specific slot has linked up.

I have had the same problem and after alot of messing in the bios i got it.

go into Bios and set optimal settings save reboot.

Go in the bios to boot menu, select the last one, select video and change to UEFI

Go back to boot menu, select fast boot, enable video to UEFI.

SAVE and reboot?

If you get a blank screen on reboot trying to get into bios you will have to unplug , take battery out and reset cmos.

do same as above 3 times it will work.

Links provided for context. I am not endorsing any of the sellers. Not sure if you are asking for a link to purchase the motherboard or if I used an m.2 carrier card so answering both possible questions.

I am in a similar situation to Matt, currently using a high end gaming machine that is beginning to bog down with data sets of 2000 - 10mp images. I am looking at a Xeon (Xeon E5-2697V3) based machine with Quadro graphics (NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8GB), but before I fork out the many $$$ required it would be good to have a direction from the software developers. Further, would a dual Xeon processor machine with dual (or more) graphics be advantageous. I understand the software must be designed to use multiple processors, is this the case with Pix4d??

What are the average processing times (say per 100 images) I am wondering if an in house oc or server can be purchased and run (cost effectively) versus running a could computing server like AWS or DroneData? I would ideally have processing on site but not if the cost is far too high.

If thats a bit frivolous, what would some specs to tell a computer builder be to get a system that should last and run nicely. I tried the beta on my mac and I dont think 6-8 hours of processing is realistic for a business to run well.

As this is not a Pix4D product, it is not an official benchmarking tool but you can use it at your own discretion. Also, the information on the page is helpful if you have questions about how your system compares to another setup.

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