System requirements OLD but.... ?

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I have an “old” server I was looking to re-purpose for Unreal development, however I was curious how well you guys think it will work.

It has

4x 2.13Ghz 6 core Xeons (24 cores total)
128GB (DDR2) ram
2x 10k 146gb SAS drives

6 PCIe2.0 X8 full size Slots
1 PCIe2.0 x16 full size Slot

So the ram is old and slow but there is a ton of it.
(Maybe ram load the whole Unreal engine…)
The clock speed is low, but they are server processors and a lot of real cores

I can’t have a high end graphics card but I could load in a few Mid-ranged cards or older model workstation cards.
(If anyone has a graphics card configuration suggestion, I’m open to suggestions

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It would be great for baking lighting with Lightmass, all those cores and all that RAM. The biggest limiting factor would really be how good a GPU you can get into it, as that’s really the biggest bottleneck. I’ve only got an AMD FX6300 for a CPU with 16GB of RAM, but when I upgraded to an AMD Radeon R9 290 it really helped my performance.