Dual Nvidia P5000

[TeleFragger]

Just picked up a computer from someone on FB Marketplace...
They said it doesn't work but the hardware pictures and price, couldn't pass it up.

There was no hard drive in it, so I looked around.

HP Z6 G4 Workstation
Dual Xeon Gold 6128 CPU
96gb ddr 4 ram
has fan error... so gotta figure that out.

but why on earth would there be 2x Nvidia Quadro p5000s in 1 machine? no SLI adapter between them but cards have sli connectors... I put Win10 on it, but does Linux use both cards?
sorry as this is a new thing for me and I have no clue!!!
also came with an x550 dual rj45 10gb Nic!!!!!

asked if he had more and he said he has to look...
need to gobble these things up!!!!

I put a 256gb nvme in it to get started as I noticed it had 2x nvme slots!!!!!!!


after that, if you have not figured out my question... here it is..
Why dual video cards and any reason to use both in win11? upgrading there next as my usb wouldnt boot win11 but boot win10...

 

[learners permit]

Retired medical imaging work station? They like those beastly systems. Friend does IT support for an imaging facility and the place is full of systems like that.

 

[wareyore]

Z6 G4 makes for a cheap, powerful compute system. Power hoggish by today's standards, but, still capable and cheap, due to age.

Windows will see both gpu's and there are plenty of professional applications that will use them, but not in an "SLI" mode the way gaming did. So, don't expect to SLI them and start playing COD.

Fire it up and start crunching distributed computing work, like BOINC or FAH, if you don't know what to do with it. That's what I use mine for.

 

[zandor]

The also could have just been driving 2+ screens with them. I could easily see medical or professional applications needing to render on 2 screens simultaneously.

If I were going to run one of those I'd look for a CPU upgrade for it. The Xeon Gold 6128 is among the least powerful chips of that generation. It's only 6 cores. Skylake is old enough now that there should be plenty of cheap used CPUs from corporate equipment recyclers on eBay. You'll just have to figure out what that old workstation can support. It could be a lot more powerful if you can get a bunch more cores cheap. First gen scalable Xeon CPUs topped out at 28 cores per socket, though depending on what you're using it for you might prefer fewer cores and higher clock speeds.

 

[TeleFragger]

The also could have just been driving 2+ screens with them. I could easily see medical or professional applications needing to render on 2 screens simultaneously.

If I were going to run one of those I'd look for a CPU upgrade for it. The Xeon Gold 6128 is among the least powerful chips of that generation. It's only 6 cores. Skylake is old enough now that there should be plenty of cheap used CPUs from corporate equipment recyclers on eBay. You'll just have to figure out what that old workstation can support. It could be a lot more powerful if you can get a bunch more cores cheap. First gen scalable Xeon CPUs topped out at 28 cores per socket, though depending on what you're using it for you might prefer fewer cores and higher clock speeds.

i agree on the cpu upgrade.. already been looking into that.

As to what I am going to use the machine for
contemplating taking my p710 and throwing my rtx 2070 in it for my son to do minecraft or cod... he has an xbox series x for cod and all other games but he wants to move to pc and i dont want to spend a ton... so then I am down a Hyper-V server or esxi server....
OR
Contemplating if this is a better machine to use for plex...
in signature plex is Lenovo M900 | i7-6700 | P1000 | 4x16gb ddr4 | 500gb | 10gb nic
so an old 6th gen cpu.... the p1000 card, while doesnt take power, is one slot, does the job for now... I do have a few remote users so the thought of is will I really see any real difference.