HP's last GOOD workstation - HP Z400

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I go over the HP Z400, a 2009 workstation to see what made it so good. We cover things such as; upgrades, the problems we ran into, followed by a great CPU swap.
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[@honahwikeepa2115]

I bought an HP Z440 on eBay in 2021 for $230 Au. E51620V3 32g ddr4 k2200 Quadro. I put an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme in. It's blazing. The Turbo pci-e adaptor cost $29 Au as did a brand new HP 256g nvme. Great video bro.

[@EverythingDesktops]

Nice! Sounds like a great system

[@frederichardy8844]

Love my Z400. I bought it new in 2010 and use it daily. Of course did a lot of update (CPU, SSD, USB-3, Graphic card)

[@EverythingDesktops]

It's a great computer!

[@r4z4m4t4z]

nicely done! mmmm x5690 westmere is nice. i sold my x5690 and kept a w3690 for my last x58 system.

[@EverythingDesktops]

Thank you 😊 I originally wanted the w3690 but they were notably more expensive, great CPU

[@petronx_mtx2106]

love your videos man !!

[@EverythingDesktops]

Thank you so much :)

[@joachimtheboss5326]

im running z400 bare stock and if you just maintain it it works great for reliability, when i put aftermarket parts on it reliability drops tho

[@EverythingDesktops]

Interesting, what kind of aftermarket parts can make the reliability drop?

[@aros007z]

Awesomeness

[@gooidoekoe3631]

Nice video

[@EverythingDesktops]

Thank you 😊

[@XenooS-qx6rb]

Mine has a W3680 running on 4.1ghz

[@Carrington1961]

How bclk overclock?

[@XenooS-qx6rb]

@@Carrington1961 throttlestop, there's tutorials on TH-cam

[@latedreams5188]

mine crashes at 4.1 ghz what i do ? i lowererd it to 3.8 ghz

[@XenooS-qx6rb]

@@latedreams5188 try 4.00ghz, if it's not stable go for 3.9ghz, keep going down until it gets stable. Then maybe start increasing them again 1 core at a time till you find a sweet spot

[@rehull1973]

I think throttle-stop allows the w3690 to be overclocked a bit. Also adding PCI-E to Type C USB 3.0 PCI Express Expansion Card and SATA PCIe Card 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 cards

[@latedreams5188]

w3680

[@leerobinson8709]

An enterprise intel p3600\p3700 NVME drive will work as a boot device in these old systems. I use a 1.6tb p3600 in mine that boots the OS. If you look around you can even still buy them new despite being around a decade or so old at a not silly price.

[@EverythingDesktops]

Thank you so much for this information

[@ZacharyMcMurray-sh6br]

what gpu did you use

[@EverythingDesktops]

GTX 1060 3gb