Gaming on a Blade Server?

[Illusio]

Someone recently gave me an Intel SE7501WV2 Blade Server. It has Dual Xeon processors and 2GB of ram. I was hoping to be able to use it to run some games (like COH and WOW, nothing to hard). But it has a horrible graphics card and no AGP slot. It seems like its only expansion slots are PCI-X. Not sure what that is, do they make graphic cards for that?

Specifications

Form Factor SSI TEB
Compatibility PC
ChipsetIntel E7501
Compatible Processors Intel Xeon
Front Side Bus Speed 533 MHz

Technical Features
Expansion Slots PCI-X 64 Bit (100/66 MHz) x 1
Integrated Input/Output Ports USB 1.1 x 2 · Serial Port x 1 · PS/2 Mouse x 1 · PS/2 Keyboard x 1 · Floppy Port x 1 · RJ45 Lan Port x 2
Storage Controller Type(s) DMA/ATA-66 (Ultra) x 1, SCSI Ultra320 x 2
RAID SupportIDE RAID 0 · IDE RAID 1

Processor
Max supported CPUs qty 2
Socket Type Socket 604

Memory
Memory Type DDR SDRAM
Supported RAM Speeds 266 MHz · 200 MHz
Number of Memory Slots 6 x 184 Pin DIMMs

Audio / Video
Video Interface PCI
Integrated Graphic Card Integrated Graphic Card
Video Out Ports15 Pin D-Sub VGA port x 1
On Board Graphic Processor ATI Rage XL

Communication
Networking Type Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet

 

[jameswhite1979]

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

PCI-X is a revision to the PCI standard that doubles the clock speed (from 66 MHz to 133 MHz)

Normally with these types of servers you will have to speak with the manufacture of the server and see what cards if any they can supply they normally costs a lot.

What about pulling out the CPU and memory and HDD and building the rest of the PC I would expect it to be a cheaper option!

 

[Tegeril]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161074

Maybe? Probably not.

 

[drjman]

To really make your gaming work you will need one of these.
link
it has PCI express. I couldn't find any with agp
Good luck, it should perform quite well