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@_shaggyrogers_

7 ай бұрын

That moment you question your life choices when you see someone build a gaming PC for less than the cost of the radiators, fittings, and blocks used to build your own. 🤔 Great video!

@marshalljordan4272

2 ай бұрын

What's up guys?! Could I get a Build list on this? Trying something like this and I would love to have the build list as a reference!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@BlkPhilDutch

21 күн бұрын

link gives error as of this morning.

These old pc transformation builds you guys show off actually gave me an idea earlier in this year. I have family and friends that live in countries without easy access to pc parts at affordable price so I started converting old workstations like Optiplex’s into gaming pcs and sending them internationally. Pretty amazing what you can squeeze out of even the smallest of optiplex’s

@yazi2879

Жыл бұрын

what they did right there is totally bullshit it's not cheap for waht you are getting and it is a nightmare to actually find cheap old workstations even if you do a machine like theirs without a gpu and most often offered without ram will cost you like 300$ already or you have to be on the hunt for ages and shoot one at a lower price of course they dont do it they just take it from their production cash and don't care other than that you can build a gaming pc on am4 much cheaper and probably in a way better range than this is here because for that amount of money they spend here you can build an actual gaming pc of used parts more easily without any stupid power supply oem bullshit parts headache literally buy a ryzen 3600 for 50$ and a used nice motherboard for whatever like 50-70 cooler for like whatever 10$ ram used ofc 20$ case used etc. I could go on you can basically end up at about right about 300$ for an entire build because let's face it who on earth is trying to have 1440p on a cheap system so if you go 1080p anyways you jusst don't need a 6700xt so roundabout 300$ for a 1080p machine or 400$ for a 1440p pc meanwhile they probably spend well over 600 there

@PapaVanTwee5

Жыл бұрын

@@yazi2879 I am seeing these for $150 with no GPU, $100 for no CPU/GPU/RAM. This definitely can be done n the cheap.

@yazi2879

Жыл бұрын

@@PapaVanTwee5 well not in eu and if you are in the us there are better options

@swiiishgin1515

Жыл бұрын

@@yazi2879 this is a US channel. obviously going to be buying the parts at US prices. so your big rant was useless. no shit you can get a bunch of used parts, spend time putting it together, and come out cheaper than a prebuilt with an added gpu. not rocket science.

@yazi2879

Жыл бұрын

​@@swiiishgin1515 that's why I added especially if you are in the us you can get much better builds done, to way less than they spend here. And you don't end up with some stupid oem motherboard. And weird oem power supply. So my point is for us in europ this is entirely not manageable. If they had just taken the workstation and thrown a cheapo gpu in sure, you can do that. It's less effort. But in my experience with a little effort and spending only a small amount more like 50$ or so you can have a decent build at cheap. There is no way someone buys a workstation like that and then intends to "upgrade" it, in the way they did it. So it's purely enetertainment and far from what anyone would do for their usecase. Except they were mislead by videos like this.

These turning old pcs into gaming pcs series is amazing!

Thanks for ordering from us, guys. Awesome video!

@blademan7671

Жыл бұрын

I just ordered one. Can you swap CPU or RAM in the build?

@dr1nkndr1ve

4 ай бұрын

bro please put it back in stock and ill make a $861 purchase.. i configured my a workstation with 10 core xeon and RTX 2080

I have this exact same PC with the 6 core/ 12 thread CPU and 32GB RAM. I'm running the Pulse RX 6800XT with no issues at all. 🤷‍♂

@GameDay

9 ай бұрын

Damn I literally just bought everything in this comment although I got the w-2145 8 core/ 16 thread instead. I was a little worried my pulse 6800 xt wouldnt fit, this makes me happy.

@glitchy_fnf

5 ай бұрын

@@GameDay Yeah I got the w-2145 one also and I was a bit worried my evga 1080 ti wouldn't fit but it did!! I couldn't be happier with my p520.

@JamesDeSimone-im7tz

5 ай бұрын

@@GameDay I got the W-2145 too with the 900W PS and an XFX 6800XT.

@fresco_dinero5155

4 ай бұрын

hey I just bought the p520 w-2135 with 32gb of ram. I bought a used rx 5700xt to put into it and I plan upgrading the CPU and GPU to a 2145 and maybe a 3080 or whatever is the next meta GPU for it. But do you guys think I’ll be ok with the 5700xt. Also I assume the 32gb will be in dual channel, is quad channel really crucial for this build, Also does it fit a 2230 SSD?

@glitchy_fnf

4 ай бұрын

@@fresco_dinero5155 The 5700 xt is a bit too much for the 2135, showing an 8.7% bottleneck in gpu intensive tasks in 1080p. I say if you upgrade to a 2145 either keep the 5700 xt or maybe see if there's a good 1080ti deal maybe? If you pair the 2145 with the 1080ti, you get a 6.7% bottleneck in gpu intensive tasks in 1080p. People say anything over 5% is bad, but my p520 has the 2145, 1080ti, and 16GB of dual channel DDR4 ram and it works fine. A 3080 would be WAY too much for the 2145 to handle. 23.8% bottleneck in gpu intensive tasks in 1080p. And although these server workstations were meant to have a lot of ram, 16/32GB in dual channel will do you just fine with gaming, but 16GB is starting to be the minimum for some games, so 32GB was a good choice. Quad channel isn't necessary. Also they can fit 2 NVME M.2 SSDS but need to be gen 3. My p520 has a 1TB Crucial M.2 SSD and it works just fine. Also with the 5700 xt you get only 0.8% of bottleneck in gpu intensive tasks, but 8GB is pretty much the minimum requirement of VRAM in new AAA titles. All in all, I'd say go with the 1080ti if you plan to upgrade to the 2145, dual channel ram is just fine, and buy a 1TB M.2 SSD at least, but make sure it's gen 3. Sorry for typing so much, I just had a lot to say. Hope this helps!!

After the first video y'all did on this PC, I was so excited to get into PC gaming for so cheap. I bought this Lenovo and added an m.2 ssd and a rtx 2080 super, for a combined total of $500. This thing is honestly amazing for the price and I thank you for making such great content.

@mjisurdad

Жыл бұрын

I got a 2080 super and it’s still a beast today.

@NoobShiesty

11 ай бұрын

how is this PC holding up? Is the power supply still good? i was thinking of making a build

@kobylarsen

11 ай бұрын

@@mjisurdad sure is! I'm very happy with the performance and price of it all.

@kobylarsen

11 ай бұрын

@mjisurdad This build is pretty awesome. I gotta say, there is some bottlenecking when pairing the Xeon W-2135 with a 2080 super. I notice it in Cyberpunk mainly. It's not too bad though.

@ddjohnson9717

10 ай бұрын

too bad I sonly found this vidoe after I jJUST built my first PC..... shame on me

I been watching toasty bros for years now. Always loved these diy office build videos

This is an incredible deal. If you already have some parts laying around, you can get this for even cheaper than $500. The fact that the barebones kit comes with a 900w psu, a CPU, a motherboard with 8 ram slots (quad channel), ecc support, dual m.2 slots, AND a case, with the ceiling for upgrades being virtually limitless. All for only $130. Just amazing.

Great upgrade!

literally been building pcs like this for yeeeeaaaarrrs. ppl love them too

That Merch on the side of the studio is bussin, still have the hoodie I bought 1+ years ago, full of cat hairs now but...that just makes it warmer :D

Sold my 5600x/3070ti custom build for the 8 core version of one of these p520's and popped a 2nd hand 6700xt into it. Getting roughly the same performance at 1440p for a build that cost less than $600. Considering upgrading the cooler and exhaust fan to keep noise down but its been a fun experiment. It will let me down some day and then I have a good reason to custom build again!

The "T" or "P" or several other alpha's are a Jedec code to represent the CAS latency of ddr4 sticks. You rarely saw those suffixes in consumer ram almost exclusively it was on OEM stuff or stuff that was made for server or workstations.

@bobstuckrath1805

11 ай бұрын

Yes, and with 6 you can interrogate up to 8 (full). If you have a 900-watt (and you are going to need it) or better. Really, you do need all 8 ports full. Do utilize all 8.

I did exactly that after seeing the first video. Friend of a friend needed a build, so I bought one of these things + RAM + storage + RTX 3060

@bananasut3804

Жыл бұрын

ROOBEER!

@Ray_Media

Жыл бұрын

@@bananasut3804 I have geforce RTX 3060 on lenovo T7 and think of going for a P700 Workstation, is it fine to run AE and premiere pro🤔

@bananasut3804

Жыл бұрын

@@Ray_Media i dont fucking know i just like mac n cheese

LOVE the Roadkill shirt!!!!! Big props!!!!

Clicked so fast love your videos btw

I just set mine up. These beasts are amazing!

I use the i9-7900x, which is basically this same chip but unlocked for x299. Hits 4.7ghz easy. Even at stock speeds it does great with my 6700 xt.

@biggu2082

Жыл бұрын

does this work in a p520?

@xXDarthBagginsXx

11 ай бұрын

Been wanting to move my x99/6900k up to a 7900/7920x, mainly since i don't have to buy a new CPU block lol (x99 Supremacy Evo is x299 compatible)

@error4159

11 ай бұрын

@@biggu2082 No. The W series Xeon's and the X series HEDT i7's and i9's are the exact same chips but incapable.

@gametime2473

10 ай бұрын

For this computer, the w-2145 is the one to get for gaming. There isn't even a question.

@tyonorshapzc7tjfvb7-caz

9 ай бұрын

omg keep that, ive had a R7 5700G before and the R7 3800x before, both got crushed by my I7 7820x, was so mutch smoother, not faster, cuz its not always bout FPS but nicer and inputlag is gone sooo yeah, and 64gb of ram, thats not asd crazy for gaming anymore as u might think especially as a ultitasker with 4 monitors :P

Dude just so you'll know I liked and subscribed just because you had the ROADKILL T-SHIRT ON....THEY ARE AWESOME... LIKED YOU VIDEO AS WELL...

Custom clear side panel mod!!!! The optiplex you did looked great

really enjoy this amazing content

I had a similar problem. When running some games it wold work ok, but the moment I tried somthing demanding the computer would crash an reboot. When I replaced the power supply, it worked great and I carefuly opened my old one and found some busted capacitor, that I'm guessing were part of the PCIe rail. All considered, that PSU was 7 years old, 2 years older than the warranty, I served honorably and now it can rest.

As a cripto miner i installed plenty of server PSUs to power GPUs in VERY high power draw rigs (up to 2000w a single rig) and i ran into the same exact issue, they will start but gave out 10/15 minutes in, or theyll start but not power all the cards, lets say there where 12 cards only 10 would start, this PSUs are cheap and extremely reliable but for GPUs you need a lot of overhead for some reason, lets say a regular 8 card rig thats 700-800 watts rig, youll need a 1200w server psu, or two 750w in tandem, when supposedly if this things are platinum a single 1000w should do, (especially since the motherboard had its own regular PSU) in the end cause they are so cheap i went for 50% overhead using combinations of 750, 1000 and 1200 watts units, using two when necessary

Love the build and I love the video! How hard do you think it’d be to change the case out for this PC?

that PC is a Workstation grade from Lenovo , you can see the "fin" slots for the quadro cards behind the graphics card, the p series of the Thinkcentre is awesome for long heavy loads.

Chill video, informative and fun! I rarely sub, but after this video I will sub to you guys. You guys are doing amazing work! Hope you have a great day, cause you made mine for sure! Also, that PC is a beast!!

I bought this PC with the 6700xt before the second video came out and I love this thing! Playing Horizon Zero Dawn at 1080p MAX I get about 120-130 fps off of a 2.5 SSD. I know it’ll only go faster when I get an M.2

some server boards have power allocation you need to set up in bios. I would look into that based on your board, and also I would swap out PSU and try that as well if first option doesn't work.

I just picked up 2 of these things great machine - solid thanks for your recommendation

@OShackHennessy

11 ай бұрын

I mean they’re so cheap you might as well buy an extra for parts 😂

I bought one of these and have it paired with a 3080 currently. No issues so far.

cheers. amazing build, where can i get those tiny boxs for the cpu? ive got plenty of cpu in a large box... those are right what i was looking for.

Amazing stuff

My 2nd PC ever was a Levono refurb tower with a I7 2600 and I added a new PSU and a used 1070. Then now gaming with a 5800X3D and a 7900XT.

I am, right now, replying on a rig I built for $700 that has two Xeon processors that each have 18 cores, 36 threads, for 36 cores and 72 threads that each have a 120mm AIO liquid coler. Inside a tempered glass case with RGB lighting, along with an 850 watt full modular PSU, 64GB RAM, a used 3060 12GB GPU, a 4TB gen3 m.2, and a gigabit wifi and bluetooth combo card.

Id like to see faster, dual channel, dual rank ram , with stock timings vs your chosen config. A beefier gpu will make use of the faster interconnect between the cpu and gpu. Alternatively you could up the effects quality or resolution, outting more strain on the gpu, requiring less from the interconnect.

I like the look of workstation PC's.

I LOVE this! My wife and I have older HP G3 Full Towers with Intel 7700. She has an RX 5600XT which fits like a glove. I managed to shove an rx 5700 (2 1/2 slots) in mine, with a little case mod but it works great. I love building from scratch but if I ever do a prebuilt again, I'm going Lenovo as there is way more room in that ThinkStation! Thanks guys!

@milescarter7803

10 ай бұрын

These are workstation class. Socket 2066. Your 7700 is a desktop class processor. HP has a line of these workstations, just search by processor (I recommend w-2135 or w-2145). HP has some deals on those as well.

that was cool and it will help me when I want to bulid one for a low cost

Yep your not alone onetime I was lucky to score a Dell Precision T1650 Tower and it came with a 600 watt power supply and all it needed was hard drive and swap out the Nvidia Quadro K2000 for a GTX 1050 Ti, next thing you know it it was all set for gaming, but next thing you know it power supply died that I ended up selling off the parts. Also precaution I took was scored a dell optiplex and swapped out the stock power supply for EVGA 450 and months later still working fine. But I've might down the road want to get something like because want to be ready in case I gotta upgrade to newest Windows OS down the road.

The morning live stream was great

Did you use DDU? also are you resetting the BIOS to default and then going through the settings? Some Lenovo are limited BIOS and others, like these workstation, have support for all kinds of stuff you wouldn’t really need for gaming.

Just a quick note: With 6 you can interrogate up to 8 (full). If you have a 900-watt (and you are going to need it) or better. Really, you do need all 8 ports full. Do utilize all 8.

@milescarter7803

10 ай бұрын

Depends on if you can source some dual rank 2666, (or 2993 if you have a W-2200 series processor). I'm not sure if it's compatible with Unbuffered ECC, would be cool if so, Registered always introduces some latency. I was not finding the smaller (16gb) sticks in dual rank (2rx8), maybe the 32gb dimms? Then you'll need 128gb to fully benefit. Yikes.

There are many, many BIOS updates for this platform, some of them mention new GPU support, so this is a well supported platform BTW. Its probably worth it to do the BIOS updates.. Its probably a flaky PSU though.

I recently snagged a $300 PC that has an i7 8700k, which is on an MSI Z370-A PRO motherboard, a GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB of DDR4 RGB RAM as well as a Corsair H100i 240mm cooler installed. All of this is housed in a Kediers C270 open air case that has 7 pre-installed fans. All I had to buy was a hard drive and power supply. Did I get a good deal?

Did a close version of this for 500 dollars with a new monitor after watching this video. Thanks Toasty Bros.! It runs everything I play at max settings great!

How's the noise levels on these? When idle and under load?

This is really cool you can actually get a good decent gaming PC by just adding in a good GPU!

Will a 690W power supply work for the build in the video description? Or does it have to be 900W?

Actually like 2% of the steam survey demands 4k gaming =D But I do like watching these machines have life breathed back into them. Personally did this with a Dell T5810 during the lockdowns, added a e5 2678V3, m.2 on an adapter and first a 5500xt then a 3070. Served me well till the SSD kicked the bucket, then I built myself a new machine 13700k.

@iamatlantis1

Жыл бұрын

damn did the samsung ssd glitch get you? luckily i just fixed mine recently before it died. it was in the affected batch range. i also had a 2678 v3 based system that i played with during lock downs. it had only an rx580 8 gb in it and it played Apex Legends pretty well. The power limitation on the 2678 holds it back a bit sadly for some games though I feel. DId it actually keep up with the 3070? edit: also congrats on the new rig! these days I use a 10850k/6700xt system and its pretty enjoyable.

@fearthesmurfs

Жыл бұрын

I got one recently as all i do is some light gaming here and there. I got mine with an E5 1650v3 and amd 6600, do you think an update for 40-50 bucks to the 2678 is worth it? lot of guides say doesn't make a difference in gaming? Also do you run 2133 ram or 2400? Ram is one thing i need to upgrade soon.

@brugj03

8 ай бұрын

I don`t give a shit about the steam survey. I don`t seek comformation from the masses. I have an ultra high end gaming rig and wouldn`t want it any other way.

@nadtz

8 ай бұрын

@@brugj03 and? Did you just want to flex or was there a point?

Could it have been the CPU overheating that was causing the issues? It says the max operating temp for a W-2155 is 68c.

Nice pc and definitely refreshing with all the rgb going around

Hi there, I am using P520 with W-2135 , I found that the Tjm temperature for w-21xx series xeon is just 65C around ... seems it can get thermal throttle very easy......... what is your temperature in CPU-Z stress test?? p.s. P520 have two series, Type 30BE and Type 30BF 30BE type is not able to upgrade to W-22xx series Xeon.

I have been inspired once again to buy an off the shelf type computer so I can stuff it with higher end parts and it look very basic as most PCs should.

getting mine in just a few days!

Hi, thanks for your videos . quick question could i use a 1080 ti with the p520 ? thanks in advance

hi just did the same build but where is the M.2 ? i have metal heat sync..

wondering if doing a case sweep with this will work.

im so excited to be playing on a 6700xt,,, until i look on KZread and feel like its a super budget build. still the best PC i have ever had and knowing (thanks to you and other youtubers like you) i built it myself.. thanks for all your vids

I’m surprised this has just recently become popular to do. I have been doing this for years as the various companies I work for allow for cheap old gear purchases from time to time. The SFF Lenovos are good too but you almost have to gut em and add PS. Also: Not surprised the PS was bad, I mean its a USED workstation.

To Comment on the 4K statement: I don't really think that many people are looking to play at 4K because its simply to expensive for most people. 1440P is in fact the sweet spot that most people tend to gravitate toward these days. I build up to 200 machines a year and this is the trend that I see.

How's the noise level on these Lenovo workstations? I have a Dell T5810 which basically is almost completely silent but I look for an upgrade with more HDD bays. I use it as a HTPC in my home theater so my goal is to keep the beast as quiet as possible.

I enjoy your videos a lot. Have you ever upgraded a Dell studio XPS 7100 for use today at decent resolution ( hopefully at least 1440p) and frame rate? Is this even possible? The reason I'm asking is my grandson wants a gaming PC and I have a 7100 and need to do a budget upgrade (if possible) so he can play games.

so with the parts it comes with off ebay, is it game ready? or do i have to add or upgrade parts?

Does the 4070 not have those extra data pins along with the power ones? The way the 4080 and 4090 communicate with the power supply? Also, how is the power supplied to each part? Does everything go directly through the motherboard? I've never dealt with a server/workstation mobo before so I honestly have no clue. Does it have like dedicated 12v and 5v power rails?

W-2155 is real nice. It's cheaper to find one with a W-2145 than add a bunch of $$$ for a used W-2155. They can be had but most of these systems have sadge W-2135s.

The Xeon W-2135 draws 140w TDP. It has a nice 3.70 GHz base clock speed to help avoid bottle necks. Are there any of these Xeons with lower power but which still have a base clock speed that can keep up with GPUs? I also wonder if these older chips are wasting a lot of energy. But they have such an awesome build quality and often come with cheap RAM etc. they are irresistible.

Would i be able to achieve the about the same result with a different cpu? I love this build but would it. Be possible to get one of the 6 cores and acheive about the same thing

hey Bros not sure if you will get this being 6 months ago video but what Ram did you use in the video and can you share a link please mine came with 2 8gb ones for 16gb and i want to use quad channel if i can and full all the slot like in the video for up to 64gbs

Got one of these with a w2135 paired with my gtx 1650 4gb for now . Had to supply my own m.2 1tb and os but came with 2x8gb ram 900w psu and the above listed cpu all for $168 shipped from ebay !

Do these workstation motherboards have any advantages or any significant difference?

Thanks for the video. Would you please provide a link to the 4070 card? It was hard to get all the details of the card. Have a nice week.

I love the look of these workstation cases, so much better than rgb and glass sidepanels imo! But I'm wondering if you could fit a regular ATX motherboard and modular PSU for future proofing?

@thachamp05

Жыл бұрын

u can fit whatever you want with a drill and u want to mod it... it wont just fit tho.. u can see them swap the psu it goes in a slot on the motherboard u see the pcb finger. then the cables come off the motherboard to the gpu so u would have to swap the board and psu at the same time.

@milescarter7803

10 ай бұрын

Lol its already a 900w PSU, what do you need?

@krunge

10 ай бұрын

​@@milescarter7803in general, not this specific model

@timfountain98

5 ай бұрын

Nope, PSU is smaller than regular ATX and Lenovo proprietary and the front panel i/o is all kinds of non-standard. I'd go with a normal case if you want to use standard parts

The roadkill shirt made me sub

This is the greatest video you have ever made now this is a beast of a machine I know I have too lenovo thinkstation p500 and lenovo p710 recently bought and I've also bought a lenovo thinkstation p910 these workstation are not to be played with it will pretty much take on any pc in its class range and then sum beast mode activities 😜👏💯💯💯💯

Is the Predator 280hz 0.5 ms respond time for $359 from walmart is it good or bad? And I don't understand what is overclock a bad thing or is it good

I repasted my CPU cooler. I first started with an AMD Vega 64 I have laying around. But finally I added an Asus Aorus 6800XT, it barely fits and it's working just fine with the PSU from Lenovo. I am not running any bottleneck with 6800XT and the Xeon 2135 CPU. Overall I love it. For the price, it's awesome. Only wish is the machine is a little smaller. The case is big and it has a lot of empty space which can be shed to save weight.

@affieuk

9 ай бұрын

What's the idle power consumption on this?

@timfountain98

5 ай бұрын

Yep, I have the same card (Asus Auros RX 6800 XT) and it's a chonk of a GPU. It fits, but only just, the 12V PCIe cables have to be carefully routed to ensure the side of the case will close....

can you make some recommendations on a budget pc that will run FS2020 well with best detail? TIA! 😃

Just curious, why did it show the w-2135 being used in the Halo benchmarks?

what psu pin adapter would one need for this to work with 6750/xt?

Are those really high temps I’m seeing or did I misread that chart?

Crazy that I'm seeing NOS w2155 P520 for just 600GBP now. A lot of bang for your buck!

I did the same thing with 6 Lenovo Thinkstations P700, each with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2699V3 processors (18 Cores / 36 Threats Each CPU) (5 are connected in a Proxmox cluster) and each with 768 GB RAM on 12 banks, 2 NVME SSDs (2TB) connected via the Flex connector in RAID 1, and one NVIDIA 4080TI (for the cluster, each has NVIDIA QUATTRO K6000). I can say that this is a monster performance. Even games like PUBG, Cyberpunk, and other AAA titles run at 4K with over 60 FPS. MY Next Step is To get Thunderbold 4 and Wifi 6E into the Workstations :)

@nothingiamjustsomekindofdu5744

Жыл бұрын

dual x99s? holy hell did you do turbo unlock?

@someguywithmtndew5691

10 ай бұрын

there’s a 4080 Ti??

@afgaadf9652

9 ай бұрын

how big is the power supply?

@timfountain98

5 ай бұрын

@@nothingiamjustsomekindofdu5744 Not a thing on these Xeons....

@Kevin-vh6nn

2 ай бұрын

Was you able to get thunderbolt 4 and wifi 6?

I'm going to build this exact build with a noctua CPU cooler and a 6800xt all tossed into a Mac G3 case. It'll bring me back to when I was a kid playing Freddy fish on my old Mac tower in blue and white. It'll take some gutting but I think it'll all fit with some modifications. The ultimate sleeper PC.

Interesting video. I may have (fingers and everything else crossed) a P720 arriving with me at some point soon with a Xeon Silver 4210 in it (with space for another), only 16GB RAM and a Quadro P2000 for the other bits and pieces, but I am thinking of using it as a base for an upgraded system from the Ryzen 5 2600x and 980Ti that I am currently running. Of course I shall be swapping out the Quadro for something a little more gaming orientated (Quadro in there as it is an ex CAD workstation) and then looking into more RAM and possibly filling the other CPU slot at some point.

@Fallen_Family

11 ай бұрын

Could swap the card for an rtx a2000 that's a decent card with super low power requirements

@milescarter7803

10 ай бұрын

Odd choice for gaming, does your current motherboard not have 5600 compatibility?

Can you guys say what type of fan plugs these have on the motherboard? Are they standard PWM?

I had a precision t7500 workstation with dual xeon 5690's. It had 96gb of ECC ram, and 12TB of storage running the OS on a 1TB ssd, paired with two 8gb rx580's in crossfire. I loved that thing! Using these workstations are awesome. Try and find a dual cpu workstation and you'll just be amazed at the efficiency, stability, and processing power you will have. What a great build you guys have here.

@DrJackJeckyl

9 ай бұрын

Also shifted from T series Precision. Nearly went with HPZ, as my kids rock those and they're pretty solid... but this P520 creature is nuts! NUTS!@#!

@Spencerwalker21

8 ай бұрын

Mike any advice is greatly appreciated are there any office PC that have dual 6 plus 2 pin power supplies. I know the Lenovo p520 featured in this video does but do you know of anything else. I was also looking into z440 hp but it's just dual 6 pin. The Lenovo p520 I'm looking at on eBay seems legit I'm hoping they accept my 229$ best offer it's got 8 core 3.7ghz xeon but no ram SSD windows.

@jamesbrendan5170

8 ай бұрын

why use CrossFire, by the way? I heard that dual-or-more GPU setups are nigh-useless, except for AI/virtualization stuff nowadays.

@mikeholguin84

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesbrendan5170hey! Good question . Aside from the cool factor having dual GPUs, despite what reports and articles mentioned, I had performance gains for the work I was doing using what I had. I could have easily thrown any other GPU in that setup, but with xeons running in the configuration I had, any other GPU would have been bottlenecked by those cpus. That's the real reason. Bigger isn't always better

@mikeholguin84

8 ай бұрын

@@Spencerwalker21 hey man I'm sorry I'm getting to you days later, but I'm not too sure. What I can say is, if I had to do it all over, I would definitely upgrade any factory PSU to an aftermarket one. The one I had was great, but I definitely ran out of power many times, so I had to scale down the work I was doing. I feel a problem you may run into is gonna be proprietary connectors (like Dell loves to use). But thankfully, there is a market for adapters in such cases

Using old workstation hardware makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of money.. I built a 2x 18 core Xeon, total 36 core 72 thread, Dell workstation based machine with 1300W PSU, water cooling, RTX2060 super, 128 GB DDR4 ECC for only $399 using eBay parts. It may not be the latest over hyped RGB toy but it can do everything I put it through gaming, video & audio work, SDR radio work, and more while just idling along at less than 10% resource use 99% of the time.

I have a HP Z4 G4 with a Xeon W2255, 64GB of DDR4-2933 ecc memory, 2x 1TB HP Turbo Z drives and and Intel ARC A770 LE 16GB. There is space for a larger card but the original 750W power supply only has 2 6 pin connectors. It plays everything I throw at it at 1440P max settings

@danielhorchatadanielhorcha5356

11 ай бұрын

you could easily upgrade your cpu for like $60 bucks by buying an i7 7820x

I think the playstation 5 when running 4k on games, uses upscaling technology and truly runs at 720p and upscales to 4k from there . the Xbox series x when playing games at 4k , upscales to 4k from 1080p .. so neither console runs native 4k when playing games at 4k.

@memesyandhorrorshorts

Жыл бұрын

Facts 😂 and on pc there's a bunch of tweaks u can do to get more FPS I'm thinking about running Pop OS on a Z440 with a E5 2690 v3 12 core 24 threads and 16gb ddr4-2133 ecc ram and a 500gb samsung Evo Ssd and a Rx 580 8gb $380 build and it can play any game out rn at at least 60 fps

@ifuckedyourmom

Жыл бұрын

​@@memesyandhorrorshorts pop os?

@umric

Жыл бұрын

@@ifuckedyourmom it’s linux

@marcusb3795

Жыл бұрын

That's not how they work for all games. For some it is.

@XsaviXander

Жыл бұрын

For some games it doesn't run native 4K, not all.

love when u guys post can u help me out i bought i high end pc that’s 12 gen it’s lenova but it hasnt got any pcie slots idk why but what do i do?

how would this be for higher end emulation like rspc3 or xenia?

Fantastic

Been trying to get my old hp pavilion elite m9600T and turn it into a gaming machine you think it's possible???

2dx225w cards in the manual i have.. anyone know where i can get a front grill for a P500?

which motherbord is it? it it old old one? can inte really support this?

You guys slept of the listings for what upgrades you bought. Like the CPU link ?

Is it possible to do a case swap with this PC?

I'm having the exact same problem with my RX6800XT. Were you able to find the problem?

Does the PSU seem extremely loud to you? I have one of these and it is audible from a different room. Any fix work for you guys?

Bro I got a new Asus tuf laptop but it's System SKU number column is blank , so is it a new laptop or an republished one?