Great video 👍🏾. I'm 64 and just wanted something bullet proof and cheap to store family stuff. I bought an HP Z440 with a E5 1650 V3 32g ddr4 and a Quadro k2200. I added an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme for $58 Australian. The PC cost me $230 on eBay Australia.
The HP Z440 is a solid system, as you have noted, and is more than capable of fulfilling the purpose you have in mind. How do you plan to backup files to your Z440?
Glad it was helpful! I have at least two more Lenovo S30 builds planned. My plan is to make each oen a little different, but at this point I have not decided on the upgrades.
I did something similar but with a Dell 5810 Precision dropping a e5-2683v3 in it and 96gb ram, plus a pcie-m2 carrier card with a 2Tb Kioxia SSD. It started with the same spec as this one. It has a 1Tb HDD in it but disconnected right now, it will be getting an 18Tb or so soon, all my networked machines will be having a disk like that and a copy of the working fileset of all of them. So the Dell will have a backup of itself and a local copy of every other machine on the network, so I could loose every machine except one, and still have all my important data intact. The GPU in the Dell is a P4000 so nothing spectacular but more than enough to get the job done for basic AI or even games if need be. It's running server 2023 so not exactly a gaming machine right now. Total cost for the thing including GPU etc except backup drive was $500 about. Maybe a tad more, don't recall all the prices off the top of my head, but yeah - 14 cores, 96Gb RAM, 2Tb SSD, P4000/8Gb GPU. Not very 'quick' in UI but it will handle a lot of stuff going on without slowing down. I don't sit using it locally so it's fine.
Thanks again for another great video!
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James
Great video 👍🏾. I'm 64 and just wanted something bullet proof and cheap to store family stuff. I bought an HP Z440 with a E5 1650 V3 32g ddr4 and a Quadro k2200. I added an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme for $58 Australian. The PC cost me $230 on eBay Australia.
The HP Z440 is a solid system, as you have noted, and is more than capable of fulfilling the purpose you have in mind. How do you plan to backup files to your Z440?
Good explanation thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I have at least two more Lenovo S30 builds planned. My plan is to make each oen a little different, but at this point I have not decided on the upgrades.
@@jamesturnertech I will be waiting for those
I did something similar but with a Dell 5810 Precision dropping a e5-2683v3 in it and 96gb ram, plus a pcie-m2 carrier card with a 2Tb Kioxia SSD. It started with the same spec as this one. It has a 1Tb HDD in it but disconnected right now, it will be getting an 18Tb or so soon, all my networked machines will be having a disk like that and a copy of the working fileset of all of them. So the Dell will have a backup of itself and a local copy of every other machine on the network, so I could loose every machine except one, and still have all my important data intact.
The GPU in the Dell is a P4000 so nothing spectacular but more than enough to get the job done for basic AI or even games if need be. It's running server 2023 so not exactly a gaming machine right now.
Total cost for the thing including GPU etc except backup drive was $500 about. Maybe a tad more, don't recall all the prices off the top of my head, but yeah - 14 cores, 96Gb RAM, 2Tb SSD, P4000/8Gb GPU. Not very 'quick' in UI but it will handle a lot of stuff going on without slowing down. I don't sit using it locally so it's fine.
You got a lot of bang for your buck with that build. Feel free to drop by again if you make future upgrades.