Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s Inside Tour & Adding Ram
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- A tour of the internal workings of the Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF desktop computer.
We will also add another stick of Kingston DDR4 ram while we are inside.
Enjoy!
In case anyone wanted to run KVM on this, here are the IOMMU groupings. You can use NVME as BOOT, passthrough Sata Controller and a PCIE (x1 slot 1) as NIC for something like OPNSense.
Can add another NVME in the smaller M.2 or in the PCIE x 16 slot (granted leaving 12 lanes on the table).
If you can pick one up for < $200 w/ the i7-8700 it's hell of a hypervisor for a homelab. Remember, that PSU won't support anything except a GT 730 or 1030 due to the low power requirements without some modding. Enjoy your build!
IOMMU Group 0 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:3ec2] (rev 07)
IOMMU Group 1 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [8086:3e92]
IOMMU Group 2 00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
IOMMU Group 3 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:a36d] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 3 00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM [8086:a36f] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 4 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller [8086:a360] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 5 00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SATA AHCI Controller [8086:a352] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 6 00:1b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #21 [8086:a32c] (rev f0)
IOMMU Group 7 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a308] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 7 00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller [8086:a323] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 7 00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller [8086:a324] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 7 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V [8086:15bc] (rev 10)
IOMMU Group 8 01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN750 / PC SN730 NVMe SSD [15b7:5006]
Thanks a lot for the info!
Is it possible to replace the psu?
@carlapr97 yes, you need a 24 pin to 10pin converter. Apevia & Silverstone make TFX PSU's, the latter being the higher quality unit.
glad I ran into this channel
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Thanks for sharing this video, these case opening methods will also work on ThinkCentre M920S. I think I'll release a video of my machine when I'll receive my graphics card and the hard drive
I think you are right on them opening the same. Wish I had the cash flow for the 920!!!! That machine comes pretty decked out.
@@SFLocker I bought Gigabyte GT 1030 and 2.5" Gigabyte SSD 240GB for it :)
@@Smirkku I had no idea you could upgrade the graphics past the GT-730 on this machine...
Like you said, the GT-1030 looks like it will fit. It REALLY fits for the price :-)
Thanks for the info on the upgrade!
Nice video man
Can you install 4x16GB DDR4 2666 Kingston Fury?
Wanna bye this machine...
Can you install two 3.5" hard drives? ... or only one 2.5" plus one 3.5 " ? Thanks
Nice details. Thanks. Didn't see an hdmi port or is that history? But there's still the vga port? Incidentally, could you say what the approx. cost was or did I miss that?
Hi, I work at an elementary school. Some kids broke the headphones and the metal piece is stuck inside the headphone port. Could I open up the computer like this and get those pieces out? What do you recommend. Please reply soon.
I can swap my Optical Drive on my T420 for a drive cady and install a 2nd drive. Can you do this on the M720. Did I see a m.2 connector on the motherboard? The manual shows one behind the SATA 3 connectors and next to the WiFi card slot.
Hi, Aaron! Thank you a lot for your video! I'm thinking on buying a LENOVO M720s SFF, but I saw that it doesn't come with WIRELESS/BLUETOOTH basic preinstalled. You told that you ordered it as an optional item, but it isn't possible to order this additional card for the models sold in Brazil. So, I'd like to know if your WIRELESS m.2 card works well (which is its brand) and if there is, besides the WIRELESS slot, another m.2 one, where I can plug a SSD card in. Thanks for your attention! Best regards.
I have a Intel 8265 which came as the upgrade. I never used the Bluetooth 4.2 but everything shows up good in the device manager. There also should be another M.2 slot in the PC as well.
Great informational video! I noticed two additional green slots when you were installing the RAM. Can I install 4 separate RAM cards? I also noticed that in my m720s only the blue slots were used, just like yours. I'm thinking about replacing my 2 4GB cards with 2 8GB cards, but I would just as soon add the 2 8GB cards into the green slots if that's possible. Do you know if that can be done?
Yes. I have 16 GB in the system now made up of 4x 4GB sticks but I would suggest balancing the DIMMS as best as possible with the same spec of ram. The color coding is for the dual channel memory so you install a stick in "both lanes" of traffic and get the most benefit. I would think the system would work with a mix of 4GB and 8GB sticks but I am not sure if you would get maximum performance from them. You could always try it and sell off the lesser ram if it didn't work correctly :-/
So I wanted to add a better graphics card to my M720s Thinkcentre. The one I want is to large to fit in the case, is it possible to remove the motherboard and all other components into a larger case?
Hi. Same situation and I see your comment is 1yo. What did you do?
Is it possible to change the processor or remove it?
@@SFLocker ty for the answer, good chanel
Sorry for the late reply... Yes, you can remove the fan, heatsink, and OEM processor- as to what it can be upgraded to, I have not checked yet. Perhaps in a year or so if the prices of CPUs come down.
Aaron Sorry to a further question. Do you know the type of chipset? Can this motherboard support upcoming ZEN3 (Ryzen 4000s) cpu? Thanks
@@damienwang9662 This board will not support AMD infrastructure. They do offer a model that is this same form factor that is an AMD machine though I believe it was the Ryzen series though not sure which one.
Can you install extra video card?
@@SFLocker thanks for the info
@@SFLocker I'm interested in what dimensions will fit. Did you take any measurements?