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‎02-12-2020 10:32 AM

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Product: Z820
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have two things I'd like to ask. One relates to Graphics Card upgrade and the other is HDD related.
I bought my Z820 "used/refurbished" and although I'm very happy with it, it's time for a graphics card upgrade. I'm planning on just removing the current one and putting the new one in the same slot. Is this always the right approach?

Current card is a Quadro K2000 and the new card will be a PNY Quadro RTX 4000 VCQRTX4000-PB 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 x16

 

The HDD question is maybe more complex. Right after I got the PC I ran some performance tests and it was reported that my HDD was not on the fastest connector. I will update the post with the exact model info on the SSD. I have a 1GB "regular" HDD in the PC as well, but the "warning" I received was related to the boot drive.
The PC also has a DVD-RW drive and, although I hardly use it, it would be good to confirm that this is also connected to the appropriate connector.

Lars T

 

HP Z820 Workstation, 2x Xeon E5-2690 2.9GHz Eight Core Processors, 64GB DDR3 Memory, 1x 256GB SSD, NVIDIA Quadro K2000, DVD-RW, Windows 10 Professional 64-bit Installed - OEM

Lars T aka Hornblower_LT
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