Dual GPU HP Z800

[SDH]

Let me just add in from personal experience:

All of our workstations use 4 monitors, and the cards are all Quadros.  We originally built these with a Quadro FX3700 in the bottom PCIe x16 slot and a Quadro FX1800 in the upper PCIe x16 slot, with the 6-pin PCIe power supplemental cable from the power supply into the FX3700.  This generation of the Quadro cards has not received any driver updates for quite some time, versus active upgrades for the two Quadro card sets described below:

With Windows 10 there came automated (forced) drivers updates which can mess a mixed-card approach up, and it is better to use the same cards in each of the two slots if you are using Windows 10.  It turns out that W10 can force the install of the most recent driver that exists for the most recent of the two cards.  With W7 you could find an older driver set that supported both cards (a more recent driver set might support only one of the two cards).  W7 would not force that more recent driver set onto the install (which would break function of the older card), but W10 has done exactly that to us despite our best efforts at blocking it.

So, my next step up has become:  Quadro 2000D in the bottom slot and Quadro 2000 in the top slot (our 2 hi-rez medical monitors are driven by the 2000D because it has dual DVI dual-link outputs.  The 2- or 3-MP side 2 color monitors seem to work fine off the single bottom DVI port and the next-higher DP port via a DP to DVI adapter.  The 2000D is quite a bit more expensive than the regular 2000, but uses exactly the same drivers (so no W10 forced driver updates issues).  Two of the D versions would be preferred, but not worth the extra cost.  A side benefit is that with these more modern cards they are faster with use of less power.  Thus, the supplemental power cable is no longer needed, and the fan runs significantly slower with less noise.  We have not transitioned over many of the workstations to W10 so the old approach still works fine for most.

Next step up:  Same idea but with the lower card being the Quadro K2000D and the upper being a Quadro K2000.  These cards are more than enough for us.... we're not designing jet engines here.

Not many know.... the Quadro ODE drivers have the special medical grayscale DICOM driver features and accelerators built in, and the Quadro cards are built to a higher standard.

[LDavidTheKid]

I just purchased a Quadro M4000 for my z800. Does anyone know where I can find installation and setup instructions?

Thanks in advance,

L. David