I have a Z8O0 with dual Xeon E5-2699 V4, it’s a 44 core beast. Don’t let anyone bash the HP Z series, because they are built tough. I love both my Z420 six core and my 44 core.
I find stuff like this all the time at Goodwill stores . My main computer ,a high end HP desktop computer year 2020 I bought for $5 at a large community yard sale It had 16 gigs ram a core i7 8 core . I added hard drives and serves as my main computer . Some people have no idea how useful older computers are . Good find .
Old machines are still useful. I just recently retired my old dual core laptop as a daily driver. Light weight Linux distros extended it's live by years. Only reason I stopped using it was because the frame cracked almost in half.
Those old HP Z series are awesome finds. Got a Z620 dumpster diving when covid first hit, 2x 8-Core Sandy Bridge xeons, 64GB RAM, I recently uograded it with RX7600 GPU, 2TB SSD, and Win 11 (TPM Check Bypass). runs like a dream machine despite being 12 years old! Thanks HP 💪
I love these HP systems; they are very good builds. I recently picked up a Z440 with an E5-1650 V3 and a GTX 1070 installed for $90. It runs perfectly, is quiet, and has the memory coolers installed. Overall, these are solid old systems for general use or light gaming.
I really appreciate your videos. Most of us don't have thousands upon thousands of dollars to go out of spend on expensive hardware. You have inspired me to go yard saling and find goodbyes for computers. Just recently made my own home lab based off of one of your videos. Thank you very much
We don't have yard sales as such much in the UK, wish I could find some of the stuff you get. I got a similar machine as that where the power supply clips out plus on the one I have there is a hard drive compartment that swings out. I had to buy a seperate converter cable to connect to a GPU unless I put a self powered one in. I only connected it up to see it it works, it does but for now its stuck in my workshop, I need to set it up properly.
Great video as always. When selling it, maybe also offer it as a workstation/server. If that's what they want change out the CPU and sell it as that. Even more people might want to buy it if there's an option for the work they want to do on it... or I think there'll at least be a bit more interest.
I'm so jealous that you got that system for 10$. Those go for like 160-200 on ebay. I live in a 3rd world country and I'm trying to build a similar system and it's gonna cost me over 200$ probably.
I just picked one up too. I just need to add memory and a drive. Mine came with the second CPU/memory riser card. That's why the cooler is offset, to make room for the second CPU riser and cooling ducts. Its Dual Xeon E5-2690 V4, 28 total cores, 2.6 base, 3.5 max turbo. It's over kill for what I'm going to do with it. Will put Linux on it running some docker containers and a webserver. That includes Home Assistant and other toys for my home lab. Do I need it? NO, because I already have a slower server in use. But its just fun to repurpose things and build up your home lab.
From years of refurbishing of PC on a high volume Sata Drives are all Hot swappable you just need to reinitiate the drive before writing to it I used to clone OSs on 50+ drives a day 😂
Of course it works...you could drop these Z systems from a moving car....dust it off and it would still boot. I love these things. Nice video and pickup, that thing is super clean. The few that I have owned were clean also compared to the average built gaming PCs I buy but never as clean as this one. Looks factory fresh.
reminds me of last year when i paid 20 or 25 for a pc at an estate sale that had a i7 4770k, z87 board, 16gb of 2400mhz ddr3 and an hd 7870. it was in an ancient antec case from the early 2000s with an old psu inside. surprised it even worked and surprised they wanted so little for that pc
Recently picked up two almost identical HP Z420 workstations. Both very clean, not a spec of dust, hair, grime, etc They came from a local TV station and drives had been totally wiped, no OS Specs for both, 32 gig memory. E5-1607 v2 cpu, 708615-001 MB, 3 1TB drives. DVD drive , Removable hard swap drive bay with 1TB drive. Nvidia quadro k4000 video. One computer had a serial card and an additional network card. $17 each. Have several newer video cards I can swap out and maybe upgrade CPU's for pretty cheap.
This rig will be top class for about 80% of gamers. I game a lot and I do not go over 1080. I see no need for it for me. My rig is from 2016 with a 1070 and I am only now looking into replacing the graphics card. No need to change the rest.
bought mine for like 150 usd, tho it was so fresh and fully loaded, im thinking of ditching my i7 10700 rig and put the titan x on the z640 and call it a day, i have another rig which i do work on tho.
That rig has been upgraded in the past since it has an IDE/MOLEX DVD burner in it. 🙂 I would change that into an SATA drive. I kinda hate that optical drives went out of ''fashion''. I still have a big DVD/Blu-ray collection. I have an external optical drive connected to my HTPC so i can still watch those.
my Z820 works perfectly with windows 11 and gaming on it is seamless, tbh in my opinion the Z series workstations are by far the best computer HP ever made
I this very same model. with an E5-2637v4 cpu 3.50GHz 24GB of ram with a GeForce RTX 2060 6gb card. I ran HELLDIVERS 2 game on it and it ran very smooth. your rig is slightly configured different from mines be is essentially the same. However, after installing both an SSD and a SATA drive I noticed the boot speed was not as good, so I removed the SATA drive for max boot sequence, I recommend to be consistent with the drives, go with SSD only, also 160 hertz monitor makes an obvious difference when gaming no screen tearing. best to always use a good gaming monitor. And just to add, this pc can run two processors you can find the caddy on Ebay but it's a bit pricey
which one do you think better, 80mm or 90mm fan for exhaust? the 80mm is from Arctic P8 and the 90mm fan is ID-Cooling NO 9225 SD? edit: the price difference is $7.5 and $2.8
jesus you can find moldy old socks for 10 dollarinos in yard sales im my area....no servers...you must live in a nice area...this feels to good to be true
something strangely appealing bout the case, i run a backup hdd server thats dual xeon E5 2690 v4 with an 4gb RX580 and 64gb ddr4 2400mhz although its not for gaming it does surpriseingly well.
Lightscribe Drive with IDE? Thats gotta be worth something! Well not really but you know. I have a ton of labelflash and lightscribe drives were mostly sata . I know one or two have IDE connectors.
The 2nd CPU card would have 4 more RAM slots. I think HP gave it only a total of 8 slots to force people to buy the more expensive flagship HP Z840 which has 16 slots and can take up to 512GB with RDIMMs or 2TB with LRDIMMs. The empty pads for RAM slots on the Z640 are there because the same motherboard is used in the HP Z440 which has 8 slots but no connector for the 2nd CPU
That's actually a really nice looking MB...we need more colored* PCB action in the market for real....who wants to be only be able to pick only white, black, grey or only some combination of only those 3 colors....it's just so dumb, give me some pink motherboard, blue...purple, green ones....really manufacturers, you want to sell more, give more options the b,w,g is just epically stale already for custom PC builders forcing them to rely on RGB for color in their builds. I'd really like to this board in some sort of all BLUE build...its' really nice and would really 'pop'.
You actually don't need one of those adapters to run a bigger GPU, the extra 2 pins are ground pins, and the 6 pin connector already has ground pins in it. Adding more ground pins won't change the fact that the GPU is already grounded. On top of that, the 6 pin connector will fit perfectly on an 8 pin port and it will only fit the way that it's supposed to sit in the connector, so there's no risk of plugging into those extra ground lines by mistake, the connector won't even fit in the wrong position. The worst it will do is shutdown the PC if it doesn't go well, though I've never had that happen and I've done heavy gaming on a 6 pin plug in an 8 pin port.
this is just a crasy good deal, and if all the pieces works, you can sell them an gain almost 10x de price you paid ! and with 925W, MY GOD you could add a stronger cpu, like e5 2680v3(12c/24t) with a rx 6700xt or a rtx 4060 to create great server/gaming machine !!!
prosumably your goner find a more secure way to house the sdd rather than dangling in the middle of the case tucked loosely in a 5.25" bay, before selling it. given the parts £60-£100 would be my geuss.
Just picked up an “LENOVO LEGION T5 26AMR5 | RYZEN 5 5600G | 512GB | 16GB | WIN11 | NEW OPEN BOX” on eBay for about $400 with a RTX 3060 graphics card… is this any good? 😅
That is a score for 10 bucks one of the ram chips is worth that much you got a x99 server setup for 10 bucks lol the motherboard alone is at least worth 50 bucks i wish i ran across deals like you do but I live in podunk wyoming so i have to order everything I get for full price off the internet so never think you got ripped off lol
Because you only have 4 RAM slots, you can only do dual channel RAM. But if you have 8 slots, you can have quad channel RAM. I wonder if the chipset on this board actually supports 8 slots because you could just solder on the extra 4 slots. All these old Xeons are a bit weak on single thread score. The 1650 V4 is roughly equivalent to a Ryzen 1600. Cache is king when it comes to gaming and beyond that, single thread performance. But the people who are going to be buying your PCs are going to believe it is all about clockspeed. This is the reason AMD branded the Athlon XP the way they did because they were getting the same performance at much lower clock speeds. So they branded them in P4 clockspeed equivalent terms. Unfortunately, the megahertz wars are back. However, things aren't working out so well for intel. I got a good chuckle over the i9 debacle. I've been saying for a couple years, it doesn't matter how many times intel says it is OK to run at 95C continuously, that doesn't make it true. I wouldn't use an IDE DVD drive as a hole filler. A waste of vintage hardware that someone out there would probably use.
Does it meet Windows 11 hardware requirements? Since Windows 10 security support ends in October 2025, it will be dangerous to run Windows 10 after then unless one pays for extended support. MS says that it doesn't promise any updates for Windows 11 running on unsupported hardware. If this machine doesn't meet Windows 11 hardware requirements, its lifetime might be quite limited.
Hey, great job on the video. You got better ok, that's good. I haven't commented in a while. I'm being murdered and about to die. I destroyed my PC. I had the old Pro Desk and never got the graphics card unfortunately. Some dreams get squashed by bad people and I realized that their is no hope in life. A decent person just can't succeed with so many demented people in the world . I should have been a bad guy. Maybe I could have seen my children grow and had a life with my relatives if I were capable of violence. Take care. Keep the videos coming. If I ain't dead yet I'll watch them. Take care.
As someone that doesnt like to be recorded anyore than i absolutely have to, i do find it sad that you've (presumably) been made to feel unsafe in your video adventures. I appreciate their right to privacy but not to the point that they feel they can intimidate others. All and all nice video
I have a Z8O0 with dual Xeon E5-2699 V4, it’s a 44 core beast. Don’t let anyone bash the HP Z series, because they are built tough. I love both my Z420 six core and my 44 core.
Finds like these are absolute GOLD!
Essentially a Z440 motherboard with connector for 2nd CPU card. Same layout. CPU heat sink offset to allow space for 2nd CPU card. Great find!
Yeah looks really close to my Z440.
I find stuff like this all the time at Goodwill stores . My main computer ,a high end HP desktop computer year 2020 I bought for $5 at a large community yard sale It had 16 gigs ram a core i7 8 core . I added hard drives and serves as my main computer . Some people have no idea how useful older computers are . Good find .
Old machines are still useful. I just recently retired my old dual core laptop as a daily driver. Light weight Linux distros extended it's live by years. Only reason I stopped using it was because the frame cracked almost in half.
Ive not seen a computer at my Goodwill in years!!!
Great find at a great price. I also like the look of the PC too. Old is Gold.
Those old HP Z series are awesome finds. Got a Z620 dumpster diving when covid first hit, 2x 8-Core Sandy Bridge xeons, 64GB RAM, I recently uograded it with RX7600 GPU, 2TB SSD, and Win 11 (TPM Check Bypass). runs like a dream machine despite being 12 years old! Thanks HP 💪
I have the same machine.. with the second cpu sled. That is an amazing find for 10 dollars. As it is, 10/10 deal my friend. 👍👍
I love these HP systems; they are very good builds. I recently picked up a Z440 with an E5-1650 V3 and a GTX 1070 installed for $90. It runs perfectly, is quiet, and has the memory coolers installed. Overall, these are solid old systems for general use or light gaming.
I really appreciate your videos. Most of us don't have thousands upon thousands of dollars to go out of spend on expensive hardware. You have inspired me to go yard saling and find goodbyes for computers. Just recently made my own home lab based off of one of your videos. Thank you very much
Now that's an interesting one... I love how you can give even these old PCs some newer usage xD
We don't have yard sales as such much in the UK, wish I could find some of the stuff you get. I got a similar machine as that where the power supply clips out plus on the one I have there is a hard drive compartment that swings out. I had to buy a seperate converter cable to connect to a GPU unless I put a self powered one in.
I only connected it up to see it it works, it does but for now its stuck in my workshop, I need to set it up properly.
Good that it had activation
Great video as always. When selling it, maybe also offer it as a workstation/server. If that's what they want change out the CPU and sell it as that. Even more people might want to buy it if there's an option for the work they want to do on it... or I think there'll at least be a bit more interest.
Great Homelab PC, Plex Server, Proxmox Box and ETC
Nice find
I'm so jealous that you got that system for 10$. Those go for like 160-200 on ebay. I live in a 3rd world country and I'm trying to build a similar system and it's gonna cost me over 200$ probably.
The intro was like a horror movie where the PC is the monster.
I just picked one up too. I just need to add memory and a drive. Mine came with the second CPU/memory riser card. That's why the cooler is offset, to make room for the second CPU riser and cooling ducts. Its Dual Xeon E5-2690 V4, 28 total cores, 2.6 base, 3.5 max turbo. It's over kill for what I'm going to do with it. Will put Linux on it running some docker containers and a webserver. That includes Home Assistant and other toys for my home lab. Do I need it? NO, because I already have a slower server in use. But its just fun to repurpose things and build up your home lab.
Those Z series machines are still beautiful to my eye! Great video. Liked and subscribed!
Z440 is about $300 here in SE Asia.Excellent find.
From years of refurbishing of PC on a high volume Sata Drives are all Hot swappable you just need to reinitiate the drive before writing to it I used to clone OSs on 50+ drives a day 😂
I would love THIS SYSTEM
Of course it works...you could drop these Z systems from a moving car....dust it off and it would still boot. I love these things. Nice video and pickup, that thing is super clean. The few that I have owned were clean also compared to the average built gaming PCs I buy but never as clean as this one. Looks factory fresh.
Now that was a lucky find! 😊
The best find I ever got for $0 was an Intel Server case with a dual Intel Xeon motherboard. Found it on the side of the road. Still have it.
The man is correct if you have old PC stuff. Keep them because you never know who will need them.
reminds me of last year when i paid 20 or 25 for a pc at an estate sale that had a i7 4770k, z87 board, 16gb of 2400mhz ddr3 and an hd 7870. it was in an ancient antec case from the early 2000s with an old psu inside. surprised it even worked and surprised they wanted so little for that pc
what a weird combination a full size dvd player and a slimline laptop style dvd player
So I guess the Z640 PSU would also work in a Z440, though it's physical mounting is different?
I got the Z840 workstation. 128 gig of DDR 4. Make a great gaming server. The only problem I have is Microsoft ending support for Windows 10.
You can swap the bottom fan out with a static RGB 120mm fan for pics
Well worth the outlay ,well done.
Isn't the CPU fan on the cooler blowing toward the drive bays and not through the heatsink and out toward the back?
$10 yard sale nice i havent seen any yet but i find good stuff on the apps
Recently picked up two almost identical HP Z420 workstations. Both very clean, not a spec of dust, hair, grime, etc They came from a local TV station and drives had been totally wiped, no OS
Specs for both, 32 gig memory. E5-1607 v2 cpu, 708615-001 MB, 3 1TB drives. DVD drive , Removable hard swap drive bay with 1TB drive. Nvidia quadro k4000 video.
One computer had a serial card and an additional network card.
$17 each.
Have several newer video cards I can swap out and maybe upgrade CPU's for pretty cheap.
Nice grab, I've worked on many in that lineup.
This rig will be top class for about 80% of gamers. I game a lot and I do not go over 1080. I see no need for it for me. My rig is from 2016 with a 1070 and I am only now looking into replacing the graphics card. No need to change the rest.
Hot swapping was big back in the day (1990’s)😂
I've got a few of those dropped off at my shop .. just need to get some ecc memory and I can get them out the door to someone for a cheap computer
whats that black think in the middle of the mb, above the pcie slots
An IDE to SATA Adapter would get that optical drive going. If you have some old DVD in box games.
bought mine for like 150 usd, tho it was so fresh and fully loaded, im thinking of ditching my i7 10700 rig and put the titan x on the z640 and call it a day, i have another rig which i do work on tho.
That rig has been upgraded in the past since it has an IDE/MOLEX DVD burner in it. 🙂 I would change that into an SATA drive.
I kinda hate that optical drives went out of ''fashion''. I still have a big DVD/Blu-ray collection.
I have an external optical drive connected to my HTPC so i can still watch those.
would be fun to see a case mod on a computer like this👀
$120!!!! I'd bite your hand off for it. If I tried to buy it in Spain (where I live), it would cost twice that.
bro keep it goin dawg just grind
What ports do these have to connect to montiors?
display ports
my Z820 works perfectly with windows 11 and gaming on it is seamless, tbh in my opinion the Z series workstations are by far the best computer HP ever made
10 USD ? Where i live you could buy just the cables in it for that amount of money :)
🙂 neat, one of those trusty X workstation type motherboards, theres a ton of videos on utube you can check out for ideas on upgrades
good find
The v4 Xeon also has a TDP of 140W instead of 85W, which means that cooler may not be ideal for it.
3:52 why does it have such an ancient optical drive?
It looks like somebody swapped out the original (SATA) and replaced it with an old IDE.
I this very same model. with an E5-2637v4 cpu 3.50GHz 24GB of ram with a GeForce RTX 2060 6gb card. I ran HELLDIVERS 2 game on it and it ran very smooth. your rig is slightly configured different from mines be is essentially the same. However, after installing both an SSD and a SATA drive I noticed the boot speed was not as good, so I removed the SATA drive for max boot sequence, I recommend to be consistent with the drives, go with SSD only, also 160 hertz monitor makes an obvious difference when gaming no screen tearing. best to always use a good gaming monitor. And just to add, this pc can run two processors you can find the caddy on Ebay but it's a bit pricey
Dream DIY server
which one do you think better, 80mm or 90mm fan for exhaust? the 80mm is from Arctic P8 and the 90mm fan is ID-Cooling NO 9225 SD?
edit: the price difference is $7.5 and $2.8
Work stations are quad channel memory
jesus you can find moldy old socks for 10 dollarinos in yard sales im my area....no servers...you must live in a nice area...this feels to good to be true
$10 you can get an add on x4 pcie m.2 adapter.
something strangely appealing bout the case, i run a backup hdd server thats dual xeon E5 2690 v4 with an 4gb RX580 and 64gb ddr4 2400mhz although its not for gaming it does surpriseingly well.
For drivers try "HP Image Assistant" sometime, will even push newest BIOS. One stop shop for HP, too bad Dell's solutions just aren't on par.
cool thing with these they can be upgraded to dual cpus for cheap with an add in card and e5 2600v3/4 series
looks like that motherboard could have 8 ram slots on it
Lightscribe Drive with IDE? Thats gotta be worth something! Well not really but you know. I have a ton of labelflash and lightscribe drives were mostly sata . I know one or two have IDE connectors.
For an E5 series processor. HP really limited the RAM on that system!
The 2nd CPU card would have 4 more RAM slots. I think HP gave it only a total of 8 slots to force people to buy the more expensive flagship HP Z840 which has 16 slots and can take up to 512GB with RDIMMs or 2TB with LRDIMMs.
The empty pads for RAM slots on the Z640 are there because the same motherboard is used in the HP Z440 which has 8 slots but no connector for the 2nd CPU
That's actually a really nice looking MB...we need more colored* PCB action in the market for real....who wants to be only be able to pick only white, black, grey or only some combination of only those 3 colors....it's just so dumb, give me some pink motherboard, blue...purple, green ones....really manufacturers, you want to sell more, give more options the b,w,g is just epically stale already for custom PC builders forcing them to rely on RGB for color in their builds. I'd really like to this board in some sort of all BLUE build...its' really nice and would really 'pop'.
I want to buy this, can it be shipped to Ghana?
You actually don't need one of those adapters to run a bigger GPU, the extra 2 pins are ground pins, and the 6 pin connector already has ground pins in it. Adding more ground pins won't change the fact that the GPU is already grounded. On top of that, the 6 pin connector will fit perfectly on an 8 pin port and it will only fit the way that it's supposed to sit in the connector, so there's no risk of plugging into those extra ground lines by mistake, the connector won't even fit in the wrong position. The worst it will do is shutdown the PC if it doesn't go well, though I've never had that happen and I've done heavy gaming on a 6 pin plug in an 8 pin port.
OMG, I just can't manage to turn away, even though I should.
this is just a crasy good deal, and if all the pieces works, you can sell them an gain almost 10x de price you paid ! and with 925W, MY GOD you could add a stronger cpu, like e5 2680v3(12c/24t) with a rx 6700xt or a rtx 4060 to create great server/gaming machine !!!
71 Celsius GPU temp for Shadow of the Tomb Raider... "toasty". (Wonder how long the GPU will survive at that temperature or higher.)
prosumably your goner find a more secure way to house the sdd rather than dangling in the middle of the case tucked loosely in a 5.25" bay, before selling it. given the parts £60-£100 would be my geuss.
good day sir
its a good pc just needs a better gpu how do i know i own it
Just picked up an “LENOVO LEGION T5 26AMR5 | RYZEN 5 5600G | 512GB | 16GB | WIN11 | NEW OPEN BOX” on eBay for about $400 with a RTX 3060 graphics card… is this any good? 😅
Plan to play cod, Fortnite, etc
I'm getting 10,900+ in time spy with a 2697v2 on a Chinese motherboard with an RX 7600 with 48gb of 1600 mhz ram with a Tforce ssd
That is a score for 10 bucks one of the ram chips is worth that much you got a x99 server setup for 10 bucks lol the motherboard alone is at least worth 50 bucks i wish i ran across deals like you do but I live in podunk wyoming so i have to order everything I get for full price off the internet so never think you got ripped off lol
HP Z640 Xeon Workstation.
People may bash on Fortnite but it's an incredibly popular game that still sells PCs.
epic
Hah...am using a Z640 as my proxmox server running Win 2022 server VMs.
1600 series is overclockable
Rubbing alcohol to remove thermal paste. Don't push down on the cpu. "Goo Gone should not be used directly on electronics."
put up a rx 580 and its all good
Pretty sure a R9 270 is just an rx580, he wasn't scammed.
found one locally but the guy wouldnt budge from $120 so i had to pass.
that was a 6 pin gpu connector not a 3 pin LOL
Because you only have 4 RAM slots, you can only do dual channel RAM. But if you have 8 slots, you can have quad channel RAM. I wonder if the chipset on this board actually supports 8 slots because you could just solder on the extra 4 slots.
All these old Xeons are a bit weak on single thread score. The 1650 V4 is roughly equivalent to a Ryzen 1600.
Cache is king when it comes to gaming and beyond that, single thread performance. But the people who are going to be buying your PCs are going to believe it is all about clockspeed. This is the reason AMD branded the Athlon XP the way they did because they were getting the same performance at much lower clock speeds. So they branded them in P4 clockspeed equivalent terms. Unfortunately, the megahertz wars are back. However, things aren't working out so well for intel. I got a good chuckle over the i9 debacle. I've been saying for a couple years, it doesn't matter how many times intel says it is OK to run at 95C continuously, that doesn't make it true.
I wouldn't use an IDE DVD drive as a hole filler. A waste of vintage hardware that someone out there would probably use.
Maybe not refer to the spare parts you use in your upgrades as 'junk'. 😄
a better graphics card would let it stretch its legs
Not a result by any means . & would make an ideal 1st gaming rig for a youngster
Does it meet Windows 11 hardware requirements? Since Windows 10 security support ends in October 2025, it will be dangerous to run Windows 10 after then unless one pays for extended support. MS says that it doesn't promise any updates for Windows 11 running on unsupported hardware. If this machine doesn't meet Windows 11 hardware requirements, its lifetime might be quite limited.
But no RGB won't be fast ROFL
Hey, great job on the video. You got better ok, that's good. I haven't commented in a while. I'm being murdered and about to die. I destroyed my PC. I had the old Pro Desk and never got the graphics card unfortunately. Some dreams get squashed by bad people and I realized that their is no hope in life. A decent person just can't succeed with so many demented people in the world . I should have been a bad guy. Maybe I could have seen my children grow and had a life with my relatives if I were capable of violence. Take care. Keep the videos coming. If I ain't dead yet I'll watch them. Take care.
As someone that doesnt like to be recorded anyore than i absolutely have to, i do find it sad that you've (presumably) been made to feel unsafe in your video adventures. I appreciate their right to privacy but not to the point that they feel they can intimidate others. All and all nice video
doo doo lol
dont look that bad seen worse looking tower
LOL junk is junk bro, no matter how you want to spin it; but hey, you got us to watch.
Insane find for $10. Jealous 🥹