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You can flash a light weight Linux distro on this using MRChromebox's firmware. The ram is ungradable and so it the SSD. These things make pretty decent web servers
Da fuck it runs 150$ cheapest and runs 336$ if with ssds On my place for a z400 stock hardwares. Too many scalpers on my place but I can get many modern pcs for cheap so its a so so. I am thinking of a project. Will be buying a acer predator Orion 9000 case and some parts. Looks somewhat bare bones if you say. No motherboard. Now I want to transplant a z820 on it and I might not but will be looking for a somewhat same size xeon machine online
Gotta tune up Cloud with the pool noodle! lol. Seriously though, I saved a z240 from the e-waste pile and work and I really like it. Great little machine. Keep the great videos coming!
😄 Lil' Cloud is a menace, gotta keep him in line! And I'm with you, I really like the z240, been using it as my daily driver for basic stuff for a while now.
My rig is rocking the same CPU and GPU it’s great, intel XTU software helps in getting the most out of the I7 8700 and if you can get a ID cooling IS 67XT black cooler it holds its own in the upper mid range.
8700-2080 was my first build. Thing still performs quite well to this day. Once I put an AIO on it, and tweaked perf with ThrottleStop, the 8700 will just stay locked at 4.3. A good Air Cooler with some good paste would work well too. I still have my 8700 system and have a soft spot for that chip. It performs quite well for what it is. I mean I wish it were 8core-16thread. But still the 6/12 performs very well. Nearly exact same performance as the 10th gen i5-10400.
I have the Lenovo M700 tiny. Please remember not al M2 drives work. M2 drives come in SATA and NVME types. Mine supports both 2.5 sata and an M2 SATA drive. NVME will not work in this unit. please keep an eye on the processor type. Some have a Pentium lower end processor, others have the I3 an I5, or even an I7 low power processor..
I ordered one of these direct from Dell as a refurb for $300 - but it came with 32 GB of RAM, a m.2 SSD, and a sweet Quadro P2000. Also, although this wasn't clear from the listing, it came with a 460w platinum rated PSU with a 8+6 PCI-e power connector. I was able to flip the P2000 (which Plex fiends apparently love) and get a 1660ti and a small profit. Great little machine for mixed use at a secondary location I'm at a few months a year The problem I have with it you may have guessed - that wimpy aluminum cooler just isn't enough for the 8700. Even with a repaste I was hitting 100c in prolonged intensive tasks. A cheap tower cooler would be great, but of course this design doesn't have room for one with the PSU over the CPU. Dell really should have shipped this with the T57JF cooler with copper heatpipes they used for some Xeon versions of this machine.
After about 2 hours of trying to get it set up by myself, I searched and found your video. It was extremely helpful. We have the same exact usb n64 controllers. I wish in Batocera's controller input setup had a subscreen for controller layout type where you could change it to n64 before you start setting up individual buttons and the button list matched up with the n64 controller buttons.
if on trying everything the latch doesnt open just go in bios and in security open smart cover and unlock it. :) it is a pretty handy feature if u dont want to use screw to make sure the cover doesnt come out . u can see a hole in the centre of the lever system, a piston secure on the case pushes a thick needle into it preventing the system to move.
We have some xps's laying around at work that I'm trying to buy. One has a 8700 and the other a 7700. As of right now, I just have a slow, un upgradable laptop from 2016. Hopefully I can get the xps for cheap and put a better graphics card in (it had a 1050ti currently)
those packing peanuts are often corn starch nowdays and not styrofoam... you can melt them with water, so that PVA glue probably melted away most of those particles :P
Great video! I’ll need to check one of these out as I’m due an upgrade from my daily driver 4th gen i5 rig. That 24 pin power connector is a nice touch too.
That 8700 is a low key beast. It's probably even got headroom on the 1080ti. I was pushing a 2070 super to a mostly content 100% and my 8700 never got past 70%
Chayre desk kinda means table throne backwards. It looks ye olde. Here are some CPU areas to help you. At which point, favouring GPU could still end up being the case, but meh whatever. For those single-player, usually offline=line games, then the answer is usually yes towards the GPU, however, online games sensitive to the microstutter _(MSI afterburner plus MangoHUD could have shown, as per having a control-test Hard-drive with Linux in additional comparison)_ could erode the video's stance on so heavy a favour mustered for the GPU. Even playing a FirstPersonShooter offline with bots could incur performance penalties because the PC by the coudl easily be "the server" (and not just its own client). Of course, having pals play too by means of a fixed-IP-Address can tank the GPU priority over the CPU. It could also raise questions about the SSD or NVMe drive used in place of a RADID10 made of 4 identical HDD drives left-over from your PC triage ward. For some games the RAID10 is enough bandwidth improvement over a single HDD, and it can have (by means of both mirroring and striping) sufficient redundancy _(assuming backups,arching and systemimages of the data have been done for a safety net too in advance)._ While CPU instructions (SSE4.1 or 4.2 and so forth) can be point in favour of the CPU (like how OpenGL for a GPU can be), the CPU can be more scalable, turning on or off extra cores or sockets in a dual-socket _(or more)_ server otherwise assigned to some VM. Weak CPU can lead to drop-out of voice-chatting services. However, considering the video had to use those nifty riser cables from the PCIe and the power-supply gadget, costing for the motherboard _(affected strongly by the chipset for the IO and the CPU supporting it and the instructions, let alone having more than one RAM slot of dual-channel or quad-channel RAM)_ seems to have a lot of crutches. This leads to the online-gaming-angle debate of _"is the gaming-PC running a server?"_ or even _"is the gaming-PC using a VM?"_ questions. That starts to matter because of IOMMU related _(usually SLAT and up)_ instructions for passthrough, its latency incurred, and thereby at the least, usually SR-IOV nd VMDq. Even if a GPU is not being shared (VMDq or SR-IOV or proxmox) it may still be in a VM passthrough setup. Importantly though, it might be that a network interface card (probably a RJ45 ethernet NIC) is running in passthrough. None of this even goes near video encoding and twitch streaming since it is still in the domain of doing what can be done to configure games to have them runnning with pals. Using old games can make that even more the case as older servers become less popular and the payer needs to be-the-change-they-want-to-see by setting up a (fixed-IP) server for their mates. Things like WINE, bottles, proton could be added too, but only in terms of what is the easiest way of doing things _(compared to say capsicum containers in a BSD license or whatever QEMU and KVM might be used as per SR-IOV and VMDq, or sandbox or FreeBSD jail listening on multiple sockets)._ As an aside, having a few ethernet ports rotate over timezones (because humans sleep) can allow a time-share of server-maps gaming appointments for pals globally, and VMDq _(or the SR-IOV successor)_ can do that per ethernet port overlapping as the world turns from one beddy-byes time for a geographical time-zone and into the next. These things saving time can save money. A Dell i350-T4 would be an example. The motherboard and thereby CPU need to support that (SLAT) for the i350t4 to have its 4 RJ45 ports shared, overlapping for a moment between timezones by means of the SR-IOV and VMDq. Be they old or new games, it looks like you need more games by means of a whipround from viewers into a jar for tipping. As an aside multiple GPU (almost like crossfire, SLI) can also be shared, overlapping for a moment between timezones players in a passthrough VM. A person might not be using Gallium3D or what-have-you _(jut those identical 2 or three GPU)._ That said, if a streamer of gaming videos were to use blender3D as their video edit go-to, having a second GPU to _"run the GUI whilst the former GPU renders"_ is doable. In crossfire-AMD, there could still be a few games that use it _(for the purpose of getting some occasional extra use-case-scenarios from that double GPU set up, or possibly maybe just maybe 3 f the GPU)._ One reason this is worth noting for the CPU in the video is because some RX500 cards (Rx580 if it is not a RX570) have their 4GB RAM taken off _(maybe if had or had no been a mining card)_ to have 16GB placed on it, exceeding the usually expectation of 8GB max. That can mean some games have the graphical processing seem underwhelming with an excess of RAM, however, it is not necessarily that way if the game likes crossfire because then all of a sudden, in those few games, the extra VRAM can be suitable. It is just that a person probably desires an extra decent reason to have two such GPU cards installed, and the Blender3D scenario is probably the sort of rationale behind the decision to do it that way. as an additional point, CPU voltage tweaks can go with RAM voltage tweaks. A GPU can be tweaked, true _(like voltages, or MHz or cooling as per a CPU)._ However, since crossfire and SLI wained in popularity, there tends to need to be other reasons _(passthrough as an example of video encoding for a stream)_ to have more than one GPU in gaming (rather than science applications) to justify showing GPU can be scalable, whereas CPU is arguably of the moreso. One reason however is bifurcation but that can blur lines between storage such as for NVMe. If a PC is left on for a long time as a server, its electricity bill can sometimes be scalable more than that of the GPU, expecting to be underclocked on purpose to help the electricity bill, or disabling cores, whereas the GPU is not really associated with that other than the "multiple" GPU scenario by switching one GPU off, or doing some clever bifurcation configuration, or sharing a GPU across multiple gaming server VMs. Also, consider the Motherboard and CPU importance in thermal throttling. In terms of gaming AI or machine-learning, CPU cache is abundant nowadays, meaning handing such tasks over to CPU is realistic. GPU can however still be in neural-networks. Another thing to consider is some CPU can support iGPU (or APU) so that the 2nd display can be done that way whilst a GPU does other things for the gaming. The CPU can also influence or dictate if you have some PCIe 4x slots to play with. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
Whoa, a Dell that's newer than 3rd Gen, AND has a 24-pin motherboard connector? That's absolutely awesome, I would have never expected Dell to do this and will probably have to pick one of these systems up for myself at some point, great vid!
The whole 8th-11th generation offerings are getting more and more interesting. It's also helping the more recent market - I managed to get a 13700f for $170, for my 'not project' PC... The projects are far more interesting... they always are. And also, as always, love your videos - your twisted computer pool noodle chair desk vibe is just perfect. Don't ever change.
