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Budget (including currency): Country: Kenya Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Editing, Multimedia Playout Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): i want to buy a HP Z420 or HP Z400 with a Xeon 2.8ghz processor then upgrade to a ryzen processor., PNY P1000 graphics card, 8GB RAM

Hiya all! I'm in the process of upgrading a used HP Z400 Workstation (Xeon X5690 - see full specs below) that I'll be using as a cheap rendering/ gaming rig. Only one problem, the 475W Delta PSU is proprietary for this particular HP model. I'm planning on using one (initially) and then eventually two Radeon RX480's (XFX 8GB OC Blower version). The 475 W PSU is going to be a tight squeeze for even one of these cards, it definitely can't power two of them. My thought is this - I was thinking of using a picoPSU **only** to power the six pin connectors for the GPU's. With the updated drivers from last summer, reference cards are usually benchmarked drawing around 170W total. Subtract the 75W coming through the PCI-E slot and that leaves 95-100W via the six pin. A 250W picoPSU should (on paper anyway) be able to handle this - I'd be drilling standoffs on the bottom of the chasis to mount the unit, as well as an add2PSU so the pico will power on the same time as the rest of the system. Just to be clear the picoPSU uses its own external 12V DC laptop style power brick, with that cable routing through a PCI slot blanking plate made to hold the DC input connector. Thanks! -Kristen Proposed Final Specs: HP Z400 Gen 2 (6 DIMM slots) Xeon X5690 6C/12T 3.4 Ghz base, software overclock (unless a modded BIOS is available to unlock overclocking- I know there used to be one, but the download link was broken.) Corsair Hydro Series H75 with adapter to install the 120mm radator on 92mm fan mount 24GB (6 x 4GB) DDR3 1333mhz RAM One (initially) then two XFX Blower Style 8GB RX 480 cards 500GB Samsung EVO 850 SSD 2TB Segate 7200rpm HDD USB 3.0 PCI-E card Windows 10 Pro / Fedora 25

I just got a 1080 for 290. I am putting together a old Xeon x5670 build as a daily driver and was wondering if paring a older quadro or firepro card under 200 with my 1080 would help in video rendering. So here are my questions 1. Should I get a older card 2. Would it make any difference 3. What card would make a difference 4. What card would you recommend 5. Does anyone have a x5670 1080 build.

Just got it built, but when I applied some BIOS tweaks and saved and exited, the screen went black, and the PC didn't restart. Gave it over a minute to try to do something, nothing. Tried resetting CMOS with the button, took out the battery, and unplugged. The rig has 2 PSUs. All other components work fine. The keyboard and mouse haven't powered on since the first boot. Thank you. No parts got to any temps above 50C while inside the BIOS. Z400 Motherboard Proprietary Z400 PSU Antec 620w PSU Xeon x5670 GTX 770 Thanks!

From the office I could take four old workstations with me. These are the HP Z400 workstations. I have expanded the largest RAM sticks out of three workstations, then packed them all into one. Windows packed onto a SSD and boom, I had a great computer. Now I wanted to install a stronger GPU, a RX 580. but this requires more electricity. an 8-pin connector and no 6-pin, as with the HP power supply. That's why I bought a new ATX power supply. But after I realized that the pinout is different at HP (for reasons I do not want to understand), I had to tinker the whole thing. Now I get instead of 4 "Beeps" Diagnostic LED Codes, 5 "Beeps". According to the website, https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03599666, I have to check the RAM. After I have tried out all the combinations, everything except for one stick, two sticks, another line of the Rhine. I doesn't start. Can someone help me there?

Hello guys! I have a HP Z400 machine that has a xeon X5660, a gtx 1060 3gb a 120 gb ssd and a 500 gb hdd now I want to move the whole thing to a aftermarket case and I will be adding a gyx 1660 and another 240 gb ssd and here is the problem that psu in the machine is 375 watts and I need a at least 450 watt psu for the upgrade. The current psu wont fit in the aftermarket case and the aftermarket psu wont work on the hpz400 is the a clean solution for this??? Thank you.

Hey all. So i've now built out a handful of HP Z400 based gaming rigs for a few people and with the market the way it is right now, especially for graphics cards, i decided to do something a little different with this build and make it somewhat of a guide showing that $300 or less can net you something surprisingly solid for the money. And while some people might recommend builds utilizing the consumer end era Xeons and i5s and i7s of 1st gen core-i series, the x58 platform is just on another level. CPU overclocking, for the most part, is locked out with this though I've seen reports that Throttlestop and Intel XTU have been made to work on unlocked CPUs on this system (for the Xeons, that is W3680 and W3690). The fastest quad core of the 1st gen Core-I series/uArch also resides with socket 1366, that being the Xeon X5687 with a 3.6ghz base and a 3.86ghz turbo, you can also get decently fast 6-core/12-thread CPUs as well like the X5680/X5690 for decent prices on ebay. Anyways, you start with an HP Z400 motherboard which can be found for $30-$50+ all over ebay. Some with CPUs, some with RAM, some with both. I've scored two with CPUs + ram (one with 12gb, one with 8gb) for around $100 ($80 for one, $110 for the other) each and both had Xeon W3550s (i7-950). If you find one without a CPU, the Xeon w3565 (i7-960) isn't much on ebay ($8). This board will line up with most holes in an ATX case, all but two. The top right, and the middle standoffs will need to be removed if you dont want the board to short and fail to post (and i think the middle top standoff, but you'd just have to use your eyes so its pretty easy). But every other hole lines up so it mounts up fine. The biggest issue people have is that the 24-pin connector for power is NOT standard ATX. Two pins where standard ATX feeds 3.3v actually need 12v with this board and while i soldered my own adapter out of $5 ATX 24 pin extensions, Moddiy has made this easy with this adapter of their own for $15: https://www.moddiy.com/products/ATX-to-HP-Z400-24%2dPin-Non%2dStandard-ATX-Pinout-Main-Power-Adapter-Cable.html Quick note: don't buy the 4-dimm Z400 motherboard version. its doesn't support nearly as many CPUs. The 6-dimm version is the good one. And while there are pinouts that you can follow to get things like activity LEDs working, i personally find that unnecessary with a build like this. The power switch front panel connector is most important, and it works fine. Then you just have to place a jumper over the sense pin on the yellow USB 2.0 header, and that takes care of that: And by "jumper these pins" it just means connect them, and the easiest way is with these uh...jumpers lol. https://www.amazon.com/Gikfun-Micro-Jumper-Arduino-EK1025/dp/B00R17Y8M6/ref=sr_1_31?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1527720510&sr=8-31&keywords=header+jumper&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011 The rear fan header is a PWM header and will need a PWM fan, so thats easy enough. Make sure there is PWM case fan plugged into that header or it'll throw a boot error. The front fan/front chassis header is also a PWM header but it doesn't need a PWM fan if you dont want to, it just wants ANY fan plugged into it. Then lastly, so you dont get a boot error about a low power CPU cooler, you just place a "jumper wire" or basically just snip off an unused front panel connector that goes to a single pin (get as much length as you can), strip the end you snipped at, slide it over the 5th pin on the CPU fan header, route the cable to the back of the case, and screw it into any bare metal hole (grounding the wire). You might still get a boot error about other front headers, but you can go into BIOS device security, find that device throwing the error, and mark it as a hidden and the BIOS will cruise on by. All this might sound complicated, but its all very quick and the results are great! i've attached some pictures of my builds i've done with this, with the black/red one being my latest and the black windowless build being my first one. These Z400 boards can take any regular DDR3, OR unbuffered ECC RAM which can be had for cheap (you'll see these listed on ebay ending with an E, for example PC3-8500E). You CANNOT use Registered DDR3 ("buffered" memory) with these gen Xeons. Just regular DDR3, or ECC unbuffered/unregistered DDR3. Here are specs/prices of the black/red build that has a GTX 960 i got on craigslist for $70. Specs and Price Breakdown: -GTX 960 2gb $70 (craigslist) -CPU: Xeon w3565 $7.50 (ebay) -Mobo: HP Z400 6-Dimm $36.99 (ebay) -Red LED Strip $5.24 (ebay) -2gb DDR3 1066 PC3-8500E x6 =12gb $35.70 (ebay) -Thermaltake Smart 500w 80+ PSU $34.99 (Amazon) -SIENOC USB 3.0 to 2.0 header adapter $4.88 (Amazon) -Corsair Carbide SPEC-02 case $49.99 (Amazon) -Deepcool TF120 red led PWM fan $9.99 (Amazon) -Toshiba 2tb 7200rpm HDD $62.99 (Amazon) -Z400 ATX PSU adapter $14.99 (Moddiy) https://goo.gl/zoJmmS -Deepcool GAMMAX 300 cooler $14.89 (OutletPC) -Inland Professional 120gb SSD $25.99 (Amazon) **Total with 2TB HDD + SSD is $304.14 **Total with 500GB HDD + SSD is $261.15 **Total with 500GB HDD alone is $235.16 and some people can get a cheaper case or hand me down case, or cheaper/used PSU from here and drive the price even lower! Anyways, there is more info over on the Overclockers forums at this link if any of y'all wanted to give this build a try. I'd be happy to help any way i could! http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/772976-HP-Z400-Workstation-to-Gaming-PC I've also got a video on doing this as a repeatable build here, WITH BENCHMARKS using a reference-style 2gb GTX 960:

Hi everyone I recently got an old hp z400 workstation pc. I’ve upgraded the cpu with an Xeon x5675, expanded the ram to 12 gb triple channel, replaced the psu (I modded a thermaltake 530w so it would work on the non standard atx mobo), replaced the gpu with a gtx1070 and as boot drive two ssds in raid 0 (+ two 3tb hdd for storage) ofcourse the machine has it shortcomings such as no pci3.0, no Sata III, no usb 3.0, locked bios,.. Nevertheless,i’m ipressed with the performance of the machine, considering it’s age. I game on 1440 or 4K depending on the game so cpu bottlenecking is not really an issue. Since I only game 2 ~ 3 hours a week I also use it for eth mining at 30,5mh/s. ( power consumption of 220 watt) The workstation is not so hot, the gpu about 62celcius and de cpu 35 Celsius when mining. And both on 55 Celsius when gaming. I would like to replace the the “high perforce” cooler master cpu cooler with a noctua since it is quite noisy, however i’m not sure if an lga1366 noctua cooler will fit on the mobo and if it would fit that the mosfets will be cooled enough (the standard cooler master directs the blow to these mosfets). anyone an idea ? What would be the best approach ? (I know the fan connector on the mobo uses 5 pins, I’m not after to use a soldering tool) kind regards SuperAn

Hi guys, I'm buying an old HP Z400 PC for light gaming in the living room. Gonna smack a used 750ti in it. It is however the dual core variant, most likely with Xeno W3503 cpu. http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/workstations/product-detail.html?oid=3718668 I have a spare Core2Quad 9450 at home. They're both LGA 775, would it work to replace this old CPU with the Core2quad? the Z400 workstation can come with a quad core variant as well, such as Xeon W3570 http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/workstations/files/13276_na.pdf page 2 & 3 Buying the whole computer, including like 8gb DDR3 ram, 475W PSU, Quadro 400, and 120GB samsung SSD. - Price is 200 DKK ~32 USD.

Hello Guys, So I am using a hp Z400 Workstation , it has an internal speaker + front and rear 3.5mm jacks for mic and headphones It has been working all fine the internal speakers would work if I am not plugging any speakers and when I plug a speaker it automatically switch to it, was great days. But for 2 days now , only the internal speakers work whether I am plugging the headphones on from or back jacks and even microphone doesn't work ( it worked before fine ) on the same OS and everything I installed realtek drivers and Realtek HD audio to monitor the speaker it doesn't show any plugged devices and no yellow folder icon that was offered as a solution before So any Ideas what do I have to do to make it work again

Hi So I recently built myself a cheap gaming PC out of an old HP Z400 workstation, which required rewiring a PSU and a new GPU. But my real question is: Will the HP Z400 Motherboard fit into a normal ATX chassi? I´ve heard that 2 of the screws don´t match up with the standoffs. Would it be too sketchy to still put it in like that or would it work? Appreciate all the help I can get and if anything is unclear I´m more than happy to clear it up!

Hi guys! I just saw a laptop deal from a local site and I would like to know your opinion if this laptop's a good buy. I know there are other configurations of this laptop and other versions, too (touch and non-touch) but let's just focus on this one. There are reviews on the internet about this laptop but not specifically this model, most reviews are on the touch version. Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Specifications: Intel Core i7-3632QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.20GHz) 8GB Memory 1TB Storage nVidia GT645 2GB VRAM Super-Multi DVD-RW Windows 8 Single Language And for the price: $971 USD or $988 CAD. This is the non-touch version, and Lenovo claims the laptop to be 25% thinner than the usual laptop size. It's generally in the middle of being an ultrabook and a normal laptop. The processor is a quad-core i7 and not a dual-core i7 which could be seen in most laptops. The only downsides are its 1366x768 res (which I can tolerate and live with, by the way) and it's unremovable battery (the battery is sealed inside).