My friend is studying engineering and looking to upgrade his year old HP desktop by adding a graphics card. Ive been looking into some workstation cards in the 100-150 range (his price), but I'm not familiar with the cards. He has 2 PCI-E X1 slots and 1 PCI-E X16 but Im not sure how to tell if its 2.0 or not, any tips?
I was looking at these http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... 02.0%20x16
but none of them seem to support windows 7, and again Im not sure if he has a pci-e 2.0 or not.
Finally, hes been talking for a while about going from 2 to 3 monitors, would these cards be able to do that? Would it make more sense just to get a gaming card of equal price? He runs solidworks so a workstation card seems most ideal, but maybe something else would work better.
Thanks