The $80 PC Lenovo Doesn't Want You To Build | OzTalksHW
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- 3 months, 2 CPUs, and 4 GPUs later...Lenovo why are you like this ):
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That dance tho
My man!
Dude, you are a tech guy, dont you know first gen i5-700 and i7-800 doesnt have integrated Graphics? You NEED a Graphics card in order to boot, try again with the i7 870 and it Will boot now
1st line: "I'm a big advocator of re-using computer components"
you have my attention
Ya i respected him the min he said that.
One reason why I despise capitalism
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Balance is key.
hehe likewise fam, likewise. This man deserves a award for up-cycling/recycling electronic components and such, I thought I was the only one (or one of the few who still did) who didn't have the money to be able to purchase a decent computer, and through recycling/upcycling/trading/etc. I built several machines, sold them, built my own IT business, learned a ton of hardware/software stuff and eventually obtained enough resources to build my liquid cooled rig :) Keep it up everyone, much love!
@@jimmyspookyhackermanrustle8963 Actually, in third world countries, buying used is common and there are people who do recycle computer parts for a living
Those moves tho 👀🔥
Hey! Dude your vids have helped me so much with choosing parts and for setups at the perfect timings. Really good vid quality too!
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@@Graphics_Card don’t care
@@jaydenn_windley but you care to reply
@@Graphics_Card still don’t care
:( I got a huge smile on my face when I saw your joy once the computer booted with the 1030. I recently had a build similar to that where I was sticking to a VERY tight budget and had problem after problem. Unlike you, I gave up and ended buying a new Ryzen, MB, and RAM. I enjoy videos like this. I love doing video work for others, but am too much of an introvert to try making my own videos. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, I was doing exactly the same build, but with a k410 thinkcentre. Ended up with a Ryzen 5 1600, asrock 370x kill sli/ac, 16gb ram, and a 1tb nvme. Now I'm thinking of finishing the build.
Hot dog
His personality makes me wanna watch more of his videos.
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Showing your mistakes actually made the video better, IMO.
Man, that's a little too much trouble for me, lol. I'll just build from scratch.
@@violent_bebop9687 some people are on a very tight budget and will jump through a lot of hoops to get as much performance out of it
@@nathanhamman418 buying used retail hardware is nearly as cheap and more likely to work.
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@Terminator 7250 even working in a pc shop it took me a few months, either due to monetary issues or obtaining the right hardware. but with a vision in mind, any goal is achievable.
3:16 Oz: Pulls out gtx 1650 box, “I found an rx560”
Yeah I got all excited at the 1650 box 😲, but then thought oh yeah the WHOLE PC is less than $100USD 🙄
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Look who it is :)
RTX 560 lmao
Hey, I got one of those RX 560s from XFX, too! I paid... Uh... $140 for it. Hey, I was desperate and it was in the middle of the mining craze. It's still the best video card I've ever bought. ... Uh... That works. Yeah. I do have an RX 480 8GB model that the RGB lights up on. Nothing else worked at all. I might fool with it much later. Until then, I have a cool looking Sapphire Pulse that does nothing else that I paid $75 for.
I was able to build a nice system at the end of last year, though. All new parts. It's running an Athlon 200GE, 16 GB 3200MHz RAM, 1 TB NVME SSD, (It's an Intel 660 I was able to get for $80. I didn't need it, but I WANTED it!) It's in a fairly small form factor case, though I think my mITX motherboard is wasted in it. I want to put in a micro ATX later, and use the mITX for a true small form factor build using my 1600AF with a decent video card, once I can afford it. It will use that RX 560 until I decide what I want to pair with it. You know, once I get it built. It WILL have a 2TB NVME drive, though.
For the video card, at this moment, I'm thinking it'll end up being a GTX 1660 Super or an RX 580/590; Maybe a 5600XT. Maybe.
This is such a great video, showing this process with all of the road bumps is so valuable. thanks for this!
Love your videos man! I'm doing these kinds of builds in Norway and i'm loving it all the way from finding the computers cheap or for free, and then making gaming-PCs that anyone can buy. I can really relate to your troubleshooting and i must say - I have the exact same raction when I encounter the problems and/or solutions!! Keep on going man! Peace!
I love the happy and dancing segments, give some really good vibes haha nice work
joro lima thank you! 😅
The dance scene deserves a Like all by itself, the rest of the video also deserves a Like as well, can I give 2 likes? I would love to see an update on this computer.
Finally, a video showing real life issues with used components. 🥵
Finally, An Person in the video showing real Life issues with used components.
Mostly Lenovo problems
Here's my frowny Face for more vids like this one. :(
Add my frowny face :(
@@zenniz1992 heres min:( Loved the video, and I have built one using the hp z600, for our work and media, center I did a lot of research before I jumped in, only thing I had to do was upgrade the cpus for a little more speed and power, and just like you throw a great video card, and its a done deal, I have had it two yrs, and the old girl is still going strong. Nice video, I knew when someone had the courage to do it it would touch all those like me.
Dude, this was such a good video! The struggle was real, so glad you showed it all. Awesome job👏🏽😎🤙🏽
Hotdog
ive been watching tech/PC related stuff on RUclips for a while, and have never came across you, just subscribed!
i use to do this, reminds me of my old days of salvaging old parts and building a PC together. you have a new subscriber keep it coming man
I’m 13 and starting a business to help my town get cheap PCs
I cobbled my first gaming rig together out of an old eMachines desktop when i worked at a pc shop in my early 20's. Eventually the only thing eMachines left when I was done was the case. I kinda miss those days
@@colinhensley9615 Nice. Lots of grannies and boomers will need your service, treat them well and your business will grow.
Its still fun even after you build a beast rig. I still do this just for the giggles and then flip them for cheap
Hotdog
"every single variety of Steve"
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The infinite Steve.
@@r1nc3w1nd7 I don't know that you will ever encounter a better situation for the use of that video, well done sir.
Stellar video! Super relatable and approachable! Went through a similar process last summer with a hand me down computer. Keep em coming!
Found your video after searching for some of the same issues, and share some of your frustrations. Thanks for posting this!
Laughed my ass off when you were dancing "Yay an i3 with GT 1030" x-D
This reminds me of the guy that outpizzad the hut
never out pizza the hut
LMAOOO
steaming hot 1 topping pizza topped with a steamin hot 1 topping pizza
man this takes me back to the highschool days! love the channel!
Hey I bought one of these Lenovo M series computers today I am glad I found your video as I'm going to look to upgrade it myself as a tech at your trial and error has taught me some valuable lessons about perseverance and patient thank you bro have a blessed evening
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Love that you are such a real person, which shows good and bad parts of his projects!
This is entertainment. You put so much effort into these videos and builds, I literally almost felt your joy when it finally booted as if I were there. Love how you built that up, even if unintentionally.
thank you :)
Great chill vid to watch before sleep! Good job.
Great video and great adventure ! Thanks for posting !
6:31 It sounded like it censor bleeped! 😂
Moral of the story: don’t use crippled vendor specific motherboards.
Isn't that all the motherboards?
Don't use Lenovo period. Its completely owned by china. I wouldn't use one if I got it for free. You can't trust ccp owned companies. Specially with computers.
@@XVRickXV western corps want you to think so, so that you'll be buying their overpriced counterparts (which they tend to produce in china btw)
@@XVRickXV So you’d rather have the US intelligence services keep an eye on you lol.
brilliant , i do the same here re-use parts and always try to upgrade as i go along, great video, mistakes and trouble shooting is all part of building and learning about pc's so another sub here buddy , great video
THANKS Oz glad to come across the info
Totally with you on the salvage, recycle , reuse, upgrade track. Thanks for encouraging others to do the same!
Hotdog
Definitely One of my favourite videos of yours 🤣 keep up the grind man ❤️
thanks man!
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This was great! I'm really loving your videos. They are so raw and clear. I'm thinking about pc flipping myself so these are really useful!
First of all I have only just started watchign this video but from the little i have seen and a quick look at your channel i see you do a lot of tech stuff and from the little i have seen i really like your attitude/vibe what ever you want to call it so I dropped a sub and I will now go watch the rest of the video.
this guy celebrates that 1030 works for him, me having rtx 2080Ti: i wish i had GT1030
Wat y
I'll trade you my 1030 for your 2080ti
The eye can't see beyond 1080p 60Hz 24 inch monitor, sorry.
@@josephherrera4771 *768p 60 Hz 18.5 Inch
@@josephherrera4771 so how can you tell the difference of 4k and 1080p with your eyes
lenovo is known for aggressively implementing whitelist stuff for hardware, i would strongly avoid thinkcentres etc. Dell for prebuilt desktop modding is the best, but you probably found that out already:(
nope
you just helped me not waste money!! Thank you 🙏🏽
HP isn't too bad either
I love your channel. I respect the fact that you are very knowledgeable but do have issues like the rest of us. I love how excited you get when things work. I want to learn your patience though. I have a tendency to get frustrated and walk away, to not return. or throw thing.
Keep up the great work. I am a loyal fan.
I love the perseverance! I don’t game but love your videos.
Feels like I'm watching on a 4K screen, superb quality man! Except the game recordings.
Abdul Rahman thank you!
@@OzTalksHW Keepup the good work!
This was so entertaining as well as informative. Thanks so much, Don Norman :)
Hi Oz. I loved your attitude! The dancing clinched it for me. 👍😎
Yes Lenovo's whitelisting of hardware is a pain the rear. I cannot understand how this is still legal in this day and age.
He should have tried with a equivalent dell computer maybe their whitelisting of hardware is less of a pain in the ass
@@mememaster64official89 it is I have 2 dell optiplexes theres tons of info online for them to making it easy to know what to use
tfw capitalism
@@qwertykeyboard5901 yeah its great unlike Chinas communism
@@electro740 says the person who doesnt even know what communism is
Snakebite MaGee here; this video is so epic for so many reasons. Your commitment to your content is just one of those things. You are amazing and talented my dude
:( The dance scene was funny af, keep em coming homie
Thanks for making this video. What an eye opening experience!
I've flashed other brand bios to get CPU and GPUs to boot, that would have been my first thing to do
You and the other youtubers all inspired me to build my first computer, and now I can't stop building them.😂
You've caught the bug!
Great video dude. I enjoyed it very much.
Good job mate! About time we shove it up theirs!
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Really appreciated the honesty. Beginners, like me, need to know that it's a process and not some magic trick we don't know the secret to.
yeah dude dont worry about messin stuff up sometimes
as long as you dont outright break something making mistakes is fine
Chances are someone out there has already modded the latest BIOS for that system to remove whitelists and improve CPU compatibility.
Hotdog
Incredible video! I descovered you just today! Subscribed!!!!
I love the video and especially the celebration! It has to feel good once you start that PC up and it works! I’ve always wanted to build a cheap gaming machine. I believe the time is now :-} You have inspired me! After watching several other boring videos. So glad I came across yours. Thank You so much! Now off to watch several more of your fantastic, with humor videos. :-}
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also, try updating the bios. maybe support for the i7 was added in newer microcode.
Thats likely, ive had to do bios updates to drop in xeons and i7s in Asus, Hp, lenovo and Dell prebuilts. So i just jeep a lot of old pentiums and i3s just for this purpose.
I'm not completely sure if I emphasized this in the video, but it was running the latest bios
@@OzTalksHW I like this guy 🤣
How about coreboot? have you considered trying it?
@@Pablo-so1df Thats a lot of effort to get a CPU running in a 10 year old PC. I've done 1vyrain and Coreboot to several ThinkPads and I never want to do it again.
:( I feel like we’ve all been through a build like this before. My latest was an 1150 motherboard trying to get an i5 4690 to work that I got for an absolute steal. After getting different processors and trying different memory and verifying my components on another motherboard I found that the ez flash bios update that you can do inside of the bios didn’t work as advertised and needed to be done inside of windows. Upon performing this process I was then able to upgrade to the new processor and now I have myself a fairly powerful and efficient machine to use to learn some of the programming I hope to wrap around automating a network.
Thumbs up just for ALL THE WORK you went through to make this video/build lol :) it was fun to watch.
i am in the middle of this right now. same desktop. same problems. im so glad you posted this sir!! thank you!
This was basically how i built all my gaming pc's when i was younger. 10yrs ago when i was oems made upgrading horrible but i never ran into such ridiculous gpu compatibility issues.
:( thanks for taking us along the struggle haha, I know this all too well. I've run into the issue of using AMD RX cards on mobo's that don't support UEFI GPU's.
The reason why i sticked to nvidia for so long cuz of that trouble. My friends callex me nvidia fan boy but they never knew the truth.
Just discovered your channel. Loved the video and subscribed.
Great Video. Cant believe you kept picking up cheap Video Cards until you got the one that wanted to play nice in the OEM board. Keep it going and make more videos :)
The Dell T3500 I see in the background is one of the best upgrades I've done. Super gamer!
X5690 6c 12t 3.4 ghz
24 gb DDR3
GTX 1070 ti
SSD
80+ FPS with ultra settings on everything (within reason).
Killer!
Assist me please in upgrading mine
i don't know why...
...but somehow...
...this video makes me think i'm still too poor.
Keep up the good work btw! You earned yourself a new subscriber. : )
God bless your soul! I wouldve thrown out of the window after the first let down lol. Subbed!!
Glad I found your channel brother!
Watching you go through all of this reaffirms my thoughts on building new or newish using new and my own used parts. Not buying used over ebay.
Yay man I bought a used server then canceled it and they sent it anyway. Now what am I going to do with this free Dell PowerEdge 710.
Don't be scared off. The money savings are great but you do have to know what you're doing. I bought the same used rig as this but with a faster CPU (i74790). All I did was change the PSU and it runs a GTX1660Ti no problems. I haven't bought a new PC for 20 years.
That $80 PC got expensive pretty quickly...
Having said that, I appreciate that you were willing to admit that things don't always go smoothly with these homemade builds. Also... where the heck are you getting these deals on GPUs? Smokes the GT 240 I bought for my Batocera system for $34 with S&H.
Right! I was just thinking..... GOT damn an i7 for cheap. WHERE?! lol
@@NiNjaTurtLe697 The fact that it's an i7 doesn't really matter... it's absolutely ancient and gets smoked by any modern i3. Look on ebay, guarantee you can find one for next to nothing.
@@BIGAPEGANGLEADER I would not say it will get smoked. It performs about the same as a modern I3 but the fact he got the I7 so cheap. Still many I3's still is shipped with 2 cores and 4 treads, while the I7 870 has 4 cores and 8 treads and can handle overclocking.
@@ikramshahar44 no i3 has shipped with under 8 threads since the i3 10100k released in early 2020 , well over a year and a half ago.
The 10100k can be found for absurdly cheaply in the UK, US and Europe. The i3 10100k has 8 threads, turbos to 4.3ghz and has massive, massive IPC improvements over the i7 870. Yes, it smokes the i7. It has approx double the single threaded performance and nearly triple the multi thread according to passmark, which is a good general benchmark. In some applications, I imagine the i3 pulls even further ahead.
@@BIGAPEGANGLEADER Well still the I3 sucks when it comes to price and performance. Even modern I3's are way more expensive than Ryzen 3 which is can out perform a I7. Even the U model core I3's suck in laptops.
Subbed cuz I leaned alot. Thank you
Love your videos I to want to try and build a budget gaming pc thanks for all the tips I had no idea you can find some great stuff for less!
i did the same thing with that PC, an M79 Lenovo. I flashed the bios so I could put in a quad core Xeon. It works great.
Bro I’m trying to do my m79 . What all did you upgrade ? Idk where to start lol
@@tyy567 I used this: www.delidded.com/lga-771-xeon-microcode/
Great Video very Good quality and i love your smile :)
Tuberwolf Aw thanks man
@@OzTalksHW Anytime :)
I'm happy that there is someone to show people whats the limit to those pc's, cuz i'm one of those people who went through every single one of these problems and would hope that people who want to try to build pc's like these know all of this before startin. Have a nice day all and thumbs up for the video.
With prebuilts ive always had to do research to try and upgrade! It was nice to see you showing us the issues and time it takes with working on it most people dont have the parts just laying around!
Hot dog
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Sad that the update vid hasn’t been released yet.
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Back when one of our team had to come up with an emergency rig he ended up on a family members old HP Pavilion prebuilt that seemed promising (i5 2310, 8gb RAM) nothing wanted to cooperate, the AMD Radeon 6770 in it was fried, the psu blew shortly after ripping that out which led to buying a replacement, the replacement wasn't what was ordered (an unrated Coolmax with super amazing blue led fans labelled as Coolermaster,) it wouldn't work with a 750ti and would just cause the fans to start spinning like it wanted liftoff, the front panel usbs decided to take a vacation at some point which is still a mystery, it wouldn't work with any other RAM than what was already installed, and overall it became the build from hell, even the parts now occupying that case have since suffered a string of bad luck in terms of sudden failures, its like that things cursed or something.
When things keep going wrong on a machine and you're used to seeing people just knock it out through internet magic or being awesome/lucky/both it can add to the frustration a lot, its pretty cool to see people like you embracing the side of pc building where it can really suck sometimes and everything can go wrong for sometimes the most ridiculous of reasons, because in a way its like saying its okay for stuff to hit the fan sometimes because it happens at any skill level. It can really help motivate someone who's having a hard time with their rig to keep trying to find a solution.
I really enjoyed this episode, the best part was the troubleshooting.
It was like a day at my workplace 😂
I've done similar builds in the past but nothing to the degree you are here...I've taken used Dell desktops and workstations with working RAM, CPU and storage, wiped the hard drives, put in graphics cards, and used them for gaming, or given them to friends or relatives as gifts. I love that you made such an effort to keep the build within your target budget, and TBH I've been in a position before where a budget salvage build like this was my only option. I also love that you keep the language G-rated so I can watch these with my kids. Keep up the good work brother!
You also could have tried to find a modified bios to flash it to allow you to use an AMD GPU (does away with the GPU whitelist) and do away with a lot of limitations in the BIOS. I had to flash the bios in my laptop to remove the whitelist so that I could use an external GPU on my laptop, Because the whitelist only allowed WiFi cards to be used on that socket.
I flashed one of my old hp rigs and was able to overclock on a oem mobo. i also used a program to overclock my other hp rig before i built my own.
@@skippingbear92 yeah, it's amazing on what OEMs hide
i had an intel 3rd gen Lenovo "gaming" pc and the bios stopped being supported immediately and had no updates and there were ZERO modded bios for it. I could not run any 900 series or newer cards or any 600 or 700 series cards that had more then 2GB VRAM. nothing after UEFI worked, including SSDs! it was a nightmare waste of time and money upgrading it.
@@gradient602 Its crazy to think how oem's block so much stuff like this. back when i was messing around with oem's i could put any cpu and any gpu in there. last oem i had was a dell xps 420. q8300 and 8800gt
I'll look into this when I update the system!
That dancing though
I liked this video not because the pc works but your dance is so good man!
Awesome video dude! I feel dumb for buying a new GPU when I could’ve bought one on eBay...(didn’t think ahead). Very intertwining and informative video. Keep up the good work 😎
That was an epic quest! Question is what do you do with these builds once they're done?
Thx for very unusual and entertaining content, subbing now!
Hotdog
Man I know that feeling when you bring an old hunk of junk back to life
Thanks for the info man....
I'll be saving lots with you're videos..
By the way I've subscribed..
Keep it flowing man.
More power...👍👍👍👍
Dope, just started fixing up this exact model 👍
Some people think we’re magic, they (probably) didn’t see the journeys we went thru .. there’s no magic with out a price ...
I believe those HP Z workstation power supplies are proprietary. They have the usual atx plug, but several wires are different.
Even worser are SFF units, it doesn't work out nicely
The connection are all proprietary!
You can get an adaptor to use a ATX supply. You need to add a plate where the old supply and pop the sence pins of a fan into the slim connector. And the power for the fan over to the CPU cooler with a splitter. I made a mount with a steel ruler to hold the PSU and cut a slot for a pcie x16 riser. So it's got a Rx 580 8gb as well. Works fine as a editing pc. The z series has sata 3 and pcie 3. So it was a bargain. 3770 4c/8t 32gb ram added a olmaster 4 bay drive cage for 4 SSD intel pro duel slot nic. Thing is a little beast and didn't spend that much on it. The intel NIC is grouped so it pulls from the Nas and the onboard NIC is for a net connection. SSD scratch disk SSD render drive SSD network drive and SSD system drive. And it has hardware raid options from the bios set up
thanks bro this help me alot in upgrading my pc
only 2 vids i watched and i am already a fan aksjaksjaskj
I love your appreciation for value. Often lacking in modern society :(
Wouldn't a cheaper route have been to just get a motherboard that supports the i7 (really strong CPU, esp at the price you got it) and the GPU you alread had?
Granted, the i3 was dirt cheap, but it's definitely throttling this build hard. Still a super fun project, definitely earned you a new sub here and on Twitch :)
Really liked your look of true happiness when it posted and when the splash screen showed 😅 I also buy used parts, pimp it up and resell and what this video did highlight is also the risk we take for the good deals. If you were truly only had the 80 dollar then you would not have a functional PC.. Also it shows the time and effort taken to get these older things to work properly, so if you were to resell this your time spent would make a lousy salary 😬 New sub here!
I love that you show us the ups and downs of your project the frustrations and the anxieties, you're just not showing, hey I put this computer together, I'm the greatest and best in the world, you know you're actually a human being doing this not some super dude on the internet
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Had a very similar story when building my younger brother's PC.
2:58 I'm dead 😂😂 so accurate tho
Just discovered your channel. I’m hooked!
Definitely a good idea to check research on the various OEMs. Having experience with Thinkpads I know Lenovo is big into whitelists. I went with an HP 8200 because I got a cheap deal on a barebones model and so far it has worked with anything that will physically fit in the case.
“This computer only costs $80, 64 hours of trouble shooting, 41 hours of deal hunting, and 4.6 hours of driving around to pick up components and a completion time of 3 months. But it only cost $80. Manufacturers don’t want you to know this secret!”
You forgot all the money spent on faulty HW.
Ryan Winters you right, big miss on my part! This video is a real life rendition of why people shouldn’t DIY using Lenovo/HP etc. parts because there are ALWAYS issues. That is the reason you can find $12 motherboards on eBay.
I hope people trying to save a buck on their first DIY computer pay a lot of attention to what happens in this video and not focus on the “$80” price tag
@@nicholaslamborghini9286 Tbh i think if u want to build something of this style i think the optixlex mini tower 790,970 and etc from dell work fine but unfortunately they dont sell for cheap, i think these builds are fine but you have to do some research beforehand especially when you are going this path. He just went in got a computer and after getting all the fucking parts just realized that there is a bios whitelist lmfao. And this is why u dont order used parts on ebay UNLESS the buyer is trusted and has enough rep, he did the ebay noob mistake and just bought whatever cuz "it was an amazing deal" imo if you are buying used parts you always want to test them. Tbh i think the video should have been named "How to NOT build a rig on a budget"
@@ryanlwinters Yup, that sounded like the best part of an additional $120. And even if the original hardware selected had worked it would have been more than $80 - he even says so at 4:47 ($83.70)
But I did like his little jig of delight when it booted into Windows 😂
The prebuilts I've used were dell and HP. I remembered when I first considered using a prebuilt for a gaming pc, I learned that Lenovo is a pain to work with.
The old Dell's were alright, just needed a bios update and uefi support fix.
I've had pretty good luck with HP and dell and lenovo's newer systems (excluding proprietary mobo connectors on lenovo). i guess their older machines were just tougher compatibility wise
I often use the HP Z lines the Motherboard connection is remedied by an adapter.
Love the dedication keep it up. FYI the HP Z series PSU's have a different pinout of the 24pin atx plug, so lucky you didn't toast the motherboard:)
Really loved this. Thank you