Check Device Manager and see if there is the iGPU (integrated Intel gfx) installed. If so, either right click and Disable it, and/or reboot into the BIOS and disable it. Once that’s finished retry your games...
Id rather get a 1070 for 20-40 smacks more...Damn 980TIs need to come down more to be tempting. Not smart to price them basically on par with a 1070 IMO...
Not sure if anyone cares, but I tried TISTHESERVER against the Xeon iteration to see if it was like the original deal in the OP (since that code worked on both)...sadly it does not...:'(
OK...interestingly enough some progress was made. As long as there are no DIMMS in slot 4 of the motherboard, the system will POST with the I350-T4 NIC installed. Any DIMM (I tried them all to rule out a faulty one) plugged into slot 4 results in the beep codes and the system WILL NOT POST...
Hello All:
Also posted this on Lenovo Support Forum but no love. Just picked up a Xeon Lenovo TS140 over BF from Newegg along with 32GB of ECC DDR3 (unregistered of course), 512GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD, and Intel I350-T4 NIC. I have VMware ESXi 5.1U2 up and running using the custom/slipstream...
I personally swear by these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121405&cm_re=supermicro_5.25-_-17-121-405-_-Product
They are fairly loud at stock, so I swap the fan out for a Noctua 92mm. Quiet as a mouse.