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My Dell T5500, with dual xeons, I bought in 2019 also came with cpu 1 without thermal paste. The seller even had done a stress test! Of course, I detected it as soon as started to test the machine and removed the coolers, since the hexacore xeons were low power (E5645), and should not reach the temps they were reaching. About a month later, it was running with 2x X5680 and I had upgraded the cpu heatsink of CPU1 with the U016F part.
I also got a z800 for around 100 pounds a while back. duel xeon5690's 40 gb of ram. 6 500gb hardrives 4 mechanicle, 2 solid state. And a low end GPU from around when the machine was new. and two network adaptors I didn't really need. physical state was great. not a scratch that I could see, even still had the plastic film on one panel. Basically looked new. pretty good deal I felt. I also had a simlilar ram issue, where one of the slots was given a failing rank. But this only happend after It had owned it for a while. I moved the ram to another slot, but it flashed an error about ram opopulatino rules, if i had had the ram lopsided. I assume that's just a thing with these z800's? I later got a ram upgrade was fits into the 8 top slots, thus bypassing the bad slot and remaining even. But I am concerned another slot might fail in the future. so do you know if the slots can be fixed at all?
Hi Steve thanks very much for your comments - I'm working on it at the moment - the first section will be about cloning the OS from the SAS hard drive to a much faster SSD. Hope to get it finished soon.
Oh dear, look, that amount of thermal paste probably won't hurt anything. But just so you are aware for the future that is far too much. A small dab the size of a large pea is all that is required to provide proper contact. Some high end thermal pastes are actually slightly conductive and using that amount will result in such a mess, leaking out the side, and potentially damaging the SMD's around the cpu socket when it leaks out.
@Alby do you know how to disassemble the front cover with the locking mechanism in it? If got myself a Z800 dirty as .... Will make the machine look and operate as new or even improved. Will find a solution finally and maybe you will help me along. Cheers from a fan.
Thanks for that question Robbie - I'm not sure because I've necer done it, but I'll look into it. If the locking mechanism is stiff you could try something like WD40 but if I found out a solution I may make a quick video about it so keep watching.
No, I'm afraid not. It looksas if there is a fault in the actual connectors, not in the RAM itself. I've been using the Z800 for a few months now with 80Gb RAM without any other problems.
I have several too and usually no problems at all because they are such a great machine. But this one had some, luckily if you know Z800s and others, you can usually put them right.
@@AlbyTastic Mine has a GTX 1070, dual 5687's 48 gigs of ram and severa lSSD drives including a PCI-E SSD from 2012. 1.6 terabytes I got for 75 dollars
@@miatageekscott You're just trying to make me jealous - LOL. Well I hope you subscribe because I've got some way out stuff coming up - including how to install Windows 11 on almost any PC, including the Z800! - and later how to take your speed figures into the stratosphere!!
As far as I know yes because there are Z800s supplied with only 1 processor but I've never tried it. Of course it wouldn't be as poweful as a fully configured machine with 2 processors.
