TurboCharging our $165 Gaming PC - HP z240 Additional Upgrades 

Oh man, pool noodle, chairdesk, hp z240 upgrades, overabundant use of the word "turbo" .....this vid is stacked!

stumbled upon your channel a few days ago because of yt recommendations, and i HECKING love your content. been bingewatching your videos. straight up bursted into laughter during that "turbo drive will turbo charge my computer". keep it up!

Glad RU-vid recommended your channel, been enjoying the content.

When he pulled out the chair desk, I started breathing air but then the grass was barking and that caused a bone to break in my eye brow because I wiggled my toes in my ears to hard and it caused my grandma to arm wrestle a frogs legs and made me blink until the grass was blue

Innovative and daring, as always. But in all seriousness, I love taking yester-year PCs, especially the cases, and turning them into surprisingly decent computers able to handle many different tasks that weren't possible previously.

The on board M.2 NVME drive is bootable. I owned two Z240 tower Xeon workstations and the both booted off the M.2 NVME PCI Express factory drives with W7 installed by HP.

I get real belly laughs watching and listening to you. I've encountered some of the same issues. Your reactions are funnier than my desperation when doing the exact same task. Thank you for your efforts and sharing some of your talent. I have 3 solid computers built and in service . Your video kept me from using acetylene as a convincing "agent for change" in the battle of man vs machine.

I couldn't find a Z240 with DDR4 ram so settled on an older DDR3 HPZ 230 and did similar upgrades like this. The Z230 is not NVME capable without some extra steps that I didn't want to mess with so I got the HP Turbo PCIE card and scored a hard to find Samsung SM951 256GB AHCI M.2 and installed Windows on it and it boots fine off of that drive now. It's slower then NVME but 2.5 times faster then a SATA SSD. I then installed an 17 4790 CPU that I sourced from an HP Elite 800 G1 SFF, and taking into account the machines 400W PSU and single 6 pin power plug, I went with a lower power requirement EVGA GTX 1060 6GB with 6 pin to 8 pin adapter. The GPU and PCIE card are also close together but weren't as difficult to install for me. I was shocked watching the use of tin shears lol. It is now a budget friendly daily driver and gaming rig at total cost of $171. Thanks for sharing your experience. Liked and subbed.

To boot the z240 from the m.2, you need to have the m.2 driver package downloaded and extracted onto your windows 10 usb install key. clock load driver when at the drive selection screen, load the drivers, and voila, your m.2 is visible, and windows can be installed onto it.

If you turn off V-Sync it will not be capped at 60 FPS. Love your sense of humor! Keep this up!

well your getting alot better now

Keep going man you slaying tha footage as

That is exactly the card I was mentioning and I have two of them! Wish we had talked, it can work in the other slots, it doesn't have to go in the x4 slot. You might have a x16 slot up top and the bottom slot also only be x8. BTW, I sent you an email.

Love your content!. Gave me a solid laugh, subbed!!

Great video. You never cease to make me laugh. Respect the Chair Desk ! Or Microsoft will make you add another sign in email just to power your Windows PC !!!

So my Z240 was able to recognize and install windows OS onto the m.2 drive (Team Group 1tb). All I did was unplug the mechanical HDD, install an empty m.2 and my bootable USB. Followed the PC prompts and was able to install and go.

The storage card can be plugged into the long PCIe slot on the bottom, which might allow space for the GPU on the top.

You scared me at first, but I enjoy your humor!

Damn! The "pool noodle threat" usually always works for me.....especially with friends! 🙄😂😂

GTX 1060 is a solid choice for this type of build.

$29 Australian eBay. I was shocked 😲. I have an old HP Z 440. Cool stuff 😎

Nice nightstand

Air flow for the GPU is over rated. I mean, even humans don't need air, so why should a graphics card? The magic of chair-desk makes it all work out in the end. Awesome video!

I don't know if this was suggested or not.... but I would be tempted to mod the top of the case, maybe install a screen there to allow some hot air exhaust. Also, when I have put the same GPU into a small Dell chassis (not meant to house a 1060) sata connectors blocked the GPU (it was obviously too long).... so I MacGyvered some right angle adapters (some were purchased, but others were proprietary, so I had to get resourceful). And I just love how to took he tin snips to it!! Wonderful stuff. But don't let them take your front panel IO.... do something to MacGyver it.

I just brought a used one it only had the M2 drive on mother board and boots from that drive

Bahaha I feel ya pain mate I did I vid a few years ago about repurposing a Dell case ( Step One ( Angle Grinder )) 😂 PS Good vid Brah 🙂

I feel a little less guilty about some of the crimes I have committed against office PC equipment

Here is some information to help you boot off that NVMe. Remember my last comment where I mentioned the HongKong blurb (at your other video) and consider how "plop" (as in plop_ linux) can be on that "U. B. C. D" (or Hirens_CD) to piggyback boot from a device _(e.g. a CD or instead HDD or USB_mass-storage_device pendrive whereby the "U. B. C. D" files are stored instead of being on CD. So likewise another option is to piggyback from your PCIe_NVMe you already have, thereby loading off the MBoard NVMe via piggybacking)._ It can boot off pretty much anything, even rj45 ethernet or parallel port or floppy or serial or firewire. 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.

I moved z240 to a new case with new gpu, psu, but I can't find a way to set the fan speed. Neither in BIOS nor in SpeedFan

have you tried a hammer ? i think that will correct the problem

Why not to use the native M.2 Slot on the motherboard?!!!

Can you overclock it?

I watched this video :)

just to explain better i have z240 Sff. works perfectly fine up to standards if i want to browse the web, watch youtube or type. but when i want to hit those crucial games, the fps is not reaching acceptable levels. i have a Geforce 1650 its thick as hell, and 4" tall. the case will not accept it. and it has a requirement of 300W minimum. i don't think the power supply is 300w.

I have a western digital nvme I'm trying to get working in my z240. My pc definitely sees it but I cant format it or install windows on it. I already have windows 11 on the nvme so maybe I should erase the whole drive first? I'm a noob lol

Put a 1070 in that beast! Haha

you are losing fps by using the x4 slot

Try crying😅

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