HP t620 Plus Thin Client Review for Games and HTPC 

No reason not to, they seem to have sufficient go for 95% of what people need them for. Gaming being the exception.

Indeed made me grab my 2 Acer veritons out of my closet

I have a Wyse thin client and a Wyse laptop with the AMD G-t56n chip and find they are great for running some virtual machines with Xen server. The USB3 + gigabit ethernet means these make great file servers.

@@stonent I had a Wyse mobile thin client with a C7m CPU. I found that it had pins for an extra USB port, so I soldier a USB port to the pins and got an extra drive on that laptop.

To me thin clients are only fun if they are fanless. No reason to have a noisy fan which will get clogged with dust in a thin client.

The GeForce is a waste of electricity lol

oiSnowy Even better if you jack in a SSD and dual boot XP/7 on one drive.

I use that gpu too

@@si4632 what are you talking about? the card consumes like 45 watts maximum and not only that. it is very good for a retro gaming pc

@@therealstupidwaffle you can buy a hd 8570 off ebay for £10 and it will be five times faster🤣

George Jibuti Quick update, that trick worked great :D Boiled a bit of water on the oven and placed the plastic cover ontop. The sticker scraper then got rid of it in no time! I'm so happy, thanks for the tip :D

You could just put it in a dishwasher.

Glad to hear that! this trick can be used to remove some stickers without damagin them sometime, I have used it even on PCB's directly, usually 100 celsius for few seconds is not damagin most of electronic details, but good drying after steam bath is mandatory of course. Looking forward new great videos from your channel!

I've also had a lot of luck with WD-40. It really helps with breaking down the adhesive and getting it to release.

@@byronfollowell4243 Yes, I used WD-40 as too, but for painted surfaces its not always suitable, but for PCB's its better, because it also cleans PCB as well

Wow powerful machine. What's the case you're using there? Thanks.

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4CP2AN8895&cm_re=mini_itx_case-_-9SIA4CP2AN8895-_-Product it has a fan, but it's not very loud. It's also not necessarily a thin client, but it's still pretty small. The mobo is an Asrock.

I'm still rocking my A8-7600 APU.

István Nagy www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Presario-4505-Intel-Pentium-MMX-166-32MB-RAM-8GB-HDD-Windows-95-Plus/273567134686?hash=item3fb1df33de%3Ag%3AOLwAAOSwCVtb8fRM&LH_BIN=1

dual lan ? or with usb to lan ?

Thanks!

Yes congrats Phil well deserved

Yup I've seen quite a few videos on that.

Yea I think it was some sort of security sticker!

amazing board indeed. I can't believe I got an entire refurbished PC for $40

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Yea it's perfect for that!

Not quite sure what you're asking? But yes it is compatible with XP, just a bit fiddly with finding all the drivers :)

@@philscomputerlab thanks for the reply Phil. Much appreciated.

Yea that's likely the case! Since the video, I managed to get two other models, but complete New In Box! It's nice to have the stands and other accessories :)

Yes for me its the best thin client Phil has reviewed.

And windows10

Great to hear!

Nice!

i play ATS and elite dangerous with this and a GT 1030

It needs to be low profile!

@@philscomputerlab The one im using is a low profile card the same Palet model you used at 05:38 in your T610 plus video.

Not sure, I don't remember having any issues.

@@philscomputerlab No worries changed the bracket works great.

I'm afraid I don't remember the details, the video is now a few years old 😅 All the steps should be shown in the video, that's usually how I produce them.

@@philscomputerlab Much appreciated! I took the easy way out and used a usb portable soundbar!

@@philscomputerlab Hi Phil. In case anyone else might be interested, I found that the sound was detected and installed after I installed service pack 3. Keep up the great work!

@@robotanv Interesting! Good to know :)

I'd love to take a look at some Fujitsu Siemens machine, but they are mostly to be found in Europe and shipping is often the killer.

Most cards come with the bracket, but they advertise this poorly. Check with the shop before you buy! My model is from Gigabyte.

@@philscomputerlab thanks for the info!

No I went with 478 instead!

Nope.

To mish power usage, would go bon

It depends on the content and codec. If the GPU can decode it, then it should be fine. But if it needs the CPU, then it won't be smooth.

No I haven't! Seeing it's Ryzen, it's likely not going to be that cheap I guess?

@@philscomputerlab not as cheap , I've seen 1400 yuan /200usd offer in taobao several weeks ago, sadly not in stock anymore. Most common price is around 3300 yuan / 485usd these days. 🤔

Yes absolutely. Haven't heard of Lakka in ages, I last used it with an Orange Pi.

a core 2 quad has more performance everywhere (in both single core and multi core) but not by much, and the core 2 duo has better single core performance (by a far margin) but only slightly worse multi core than the GX-420 has. just go by this www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q6600-vs-AMD-GX-420CA-SOC-vs-Intel-Core2-Duo-E8600/1038vs2121vs957

If you are ever worried about low power through a PCIe slot, the GT 1030 is the fix... only a 30watt TDP.

It does :)

Great!

Did you not watch the video?

Unfortunately some got permanent brain damage after Crysis relise

A classic

yes they would, but cooling would be a huge issue, as most cooling solutions are too big, or are not good enough to to cool a CPU in such a small space. the other issue is no room to put a video card in it (unless you only want to use a GT 1030). its cheaper and more logical just to buy a mini ITX case

bruh thats exactly waht i was coming here to say

Yes, it'll fit, but you will run into power limits. The RX 550 uses a lot more power than the GT 730 and GT 1030 does (at max the GT 1030 uses only 30w, while the RX 550 uses around 40w-50w which doesn't leave a lot left with only a 90w PSU that this system has). With my HP T620 plus and a GT 1030 8GB Ram, an external 1TB HDD, an internal 1TB m.2 SATA SSD my max power usage is around 50w when everything is being stressed. The RX 550 would push you very close to the PSUs 90w which isn't good for the PSU. The PCIe slot has a pretty low power limit as well ( it's far under the 75w that the PCIe spec usually uses) this also only has a 90w PSU. With a dedicated GPU you won't have much power left over for peripherals (with the higher power usage than the GT 1030 you'll have even less power available, if the PCIe power can provide enough power to the RX 550 to run properly). The RX 550 also runs a lot hotter than the GT 1030 does, and this will cause issues with how the cooling setup in this. Being that the PCIe cards partially block the cooling fan, The cover that's used to direct air onto the CPU heatsink will have to be removed for that RX 550 to even fit then you won't have any air flow for the CPU heatsink. But in reality the CPU in this isn't enough to even push a GT 1030, you'll run out of CPU grunt well before you run out of GPU power. The CPU is constantly pegged at 100% in games while the GPU is hovering around the 40-60% usage range, so the CPU in this bottlenecks the GT 1030. I bought this and a GT 1030 to use it as an HTPC and for this use its perfect, the onboard R3 8400 just couldn't cope with RU-vid videos and high bitrate 4k video playback, the GT 1030 solved those issues as the video uses the GT 1030 to decode the video instead of the CPU or built in R3 8400. While it can game, just do not expect much from it, it can emulate pretty decently up to the Dreamcast and it'll do some PSP (but PS2 is out of the question). It'll do American truck sim, it'll play elite dangerous (but you'll get frame drops when around stations, and see single digits when in conflict zones). It'll do older games quite easily so it does make a pretty decent retro game PC.