I bought an HP Z440 on eBay in 2021 for $230 Au. E51620V3 32g ddr4 k2200 Quadro. I put an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme in. It's blazing. The Turbo pci-e adaptor cost $29 Au as did a brand new HP 256g nvme. Great video bro.
I just got a Z440. With an E5-1650 v4. It's an excellent PC. I added the front fan and an NVME adapter - which it boots from as a normal drive. Together with Win 10 IOT, this is my general purpose computing need sorted to 2032, hopefully!
@@latedreams5188 try 4.00ghz, if it's not stable go for 3.9ghz, keep going down until it gets stable. Then maybe start increasing them again 1 core at a time till you find a sweet spot
Many thanks for this quality video !!! I recovered a z400 found in a bin. Everything works 😀 PSU: 475w CPU : w3550 GPU : Firepro v3800 RAM 3 Go (motherboard 6 slots) This is a super piece of robust technology! I'm considering the following upgrades: w3550 CPU => x5690 RAM: 8GB x6 1333mhz GPU: GTX 1060 6GB. I'm not a gamer, but I do image and video processing, and I plan to use Linux Mint. Your feedback will be invaluable. Do you think a front-end fan is necessary? Your ideao to add a quiet fn on the back and replace tohe original one t the front is great ! Thanks again
I think throttle-stop allows the w3690 to be overclocked a bit. Also adding PCI-E to Type C USB 3.0 PCI Express Expansion Card and SATA PCIe Card 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 cards
I got a dual m.2 card with sata and nvme on the same pcie card. Using a small sata drive for clover I got it to work. I did the windows install on a different pc then had to alter the bootloader config by booting into a recovery win10 usb and opening command prompt. It was a pain. Windows likes to take over the bootloader so it had to be done in a fixed order for it to work. You have to make a efi partition on the clover sata ssd. diskpart. create part EFI size=512. Format quick fs=fat32. Make it writable by assign letter=x in diskpart. quit diskpart and in commmand prompt type C:\windows /s X: /f UEFI. After reboot clover should see the mbr on the extra partition on the sata drive which points it to the install on the nvme.
Thank you for sharing this. Wow some great lengths to get that to work, I couldn't imagine trying to do this haha but really cool to hear it does work.
An enterprise intel p3600\p3700 NVME drive will work as a boot device in these old systems. I use a 1.6tb p3600 in mine that boots the OS. If you look around you can even still buy them new despite being around a decade or so old at a not silly price.
Bit of a waste to be playing fortnuts as this pc is much better than econobox sff hp thinkstations that can run this silly game. Stick ms❤ flight simulator on that beast!
nicely done! mmmm x5690 westmere is nice. i sold my x5690 and kept a w3690 for my last x58 system.
Thank you 😊 I originally wanted the w3690 but they were notably more expensive, great CPU
Since i have this pc with 0 upgrades yet and thinking to, i actually loved each second watching this video 👏🏼 great content
Thank you it means a lot :)
I bought an HP Z440 on eBay in 2021 for $230 Au. E51620V3 32g ddr4 k2200 Quadro. I put an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme in. It's blazing. The Turbo pci-e adaptor cost $29 Au as did a brand new HP 256g nvme. Great video bro.
Nice! Sounds like a great system
I just got a Z440. With an E5-1650 v4. It's an excellent PC. I added the front fan and an NVME adapter - which it boots from as a normal drive. Together with Win 10 IOT, this is my general purpose computing need sorted to 2032, hopefully!
love your videos man !!
Thank you so much :)
I'm using one right now. I am using Z400 since 2019
same but i wanna upgrade the chip i mean the cpu but dont know what the motherboard can support
Mine has a W3680 running on 4.1ghz
How bclk overclock?
@@Carrington1961 throttlestop, there's tutorials on UA-cam
mine crashes at 4.1 ghz what i do ? i lowererd it to 3.8 ghz
@@latedreams5188 try 4.00ghz, if it's not stable go for 3.9ghz, keep going down until it gets stable. Then maybe start increasing them again 1 core at a time till you find a sweet spot
I upgrade the Z400 with an SSD, GTX 1060 6GB GPU, a Xeon x5670 and 24GB Ram. It still runs really good for games!
what gpu did you use
GTX 1060 3gb
im running z400 bare stock and if you just maintain it it works great for reliability, when i put aftermarket parts on it reliability drops tho
Interesting, what kind of aftermarket parts can make the reliability drop?
lol
Awesomeness
Many thanks for this quality video !!!
I recovered a z400 found in a bin. Everything works 😀
PSU: 475w
CPU : w3550
GPU : Firepro v3800
RAM 3 Go (motherboard 6 slots)
This is a super piece of robust technology!
I'm considering the following upgrades:
w3550 CPU => x5690
RAM: 8GB x6 1333mhz
GPU: GTX 1060 6GB.
I'm not a gamer, but I do image and video processing, and I plan to use Linux Mint.
Your feedback will be invaluable. Do you think a front-end fan is necessary? Your ideao to add a quiet fn on the back and replace tohe original one t the front is great !
Thanks again
Glad I could help! I would say it's probably fine to go without the front fan, you can always add it later if your GPU is running too hot
I think throttle-stop allows the w3690 to be overclocked a bit. Also adding PCI-E to Type C USB 3.0 PCI Express Expansion Card and SATA PCIe Card 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 cards
w3680
I got a dual m.2 card with sata and nvme on the same pcie card. Using a small sata drive for clover I got it to work. I did the windows install on a different pc then had to alter the bootloader config by booting into a recovery win10 usb and opening command prompt. It was a pain. Windows likes to take over the bootloader so it had to be done in a fixed order for it to work. You have to make a efi partition on the clover sata ssd. diskpart. create part EFI size=512. Format quick fs=fat32. Make it writable by assign letter=x in diskpart. quit diskpart and in commmand prompt type C:\windows /s X: /f UEFI. After reboot clover should see the mbr on the extra partition on the sata drive which points it to the install on the nvme.
Thank you for sharing this. Wow some great lengths to get that to work, I couldn't imagine trying to do this haha but really cool to hear it does work.
Nice video
Thank you 😊
Love my Z400. I bought it new in 2010 and use it daily. Of course did a lot of update (CPU, SSD, USB-3, Graphic card)
It's a great computer!
if anyone wants to take one off my hands for a price i am absolutely down, recently came into one but have no space for a chonker like it
An enterprise intel p3600\p3700 NVME drive will work as a boot device in these old systems. I use a 1.6tb p3600 in mine that boots the OS. If you look around you can even still buy them new despite being around a decade or so old at a not silly price.
Thank you so much for this information
Bit of a waste to be playing fortnuts as this pc is much better than econobox sff hp thinkstations that can run this silly game.
Stick ms❤ flight simulator on that beast!