A Used Xeon, a New GPU and a Linux Install - HP Z440 Gaming/Workstation Build
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some professional software can run in lutris with a bit of tweaking.
i managed to get Autodesk Fusion 360 running in lutris
cinebench also works.
What do you end up doing with these PCs? Are they requested by customers? If no, what happens with them.
I have 3 z600s in my house, one running windows (my wife's gaming machine), one macOS (logic Pro/video workstation), and one running Pop!OS. That first generation of HP hardware, especially the 600s and 800s, were so well engineered.
I just purchase myself a z800 workstation. Not because i really need it, but because ive aways wanted a dual x58 platform for my collection. I also have a dell t7500 dual 771 socket system with dual x5460. Eventually id like to have a dual 2699v4 system.....maybe next year.
Geoff, I wonder. You have a wide range of experience with an eclectic mix of hardware. I wonder, what would you build if the parameters weren’t hardware cost, but operating cost? How much functionality/performance can you get out of low wattage hardware? Are the best options the little NUC-likes or is there something else which could also do the job of a home server doing storage, transcoding and other functions which we wouldn’t think of?
Does it have to run at factory speeds?
You can get quite alot more performance-per-watt out of a 3950x/5950x and i assume threadripper by undervolting and underclocking to about 3.2Ghz, only using about 70w you get similar performance to a 3900x/5900x while those two processors are using ~150w(at sock clocks), yes, more performance, for 1/2 the power.
Jeff with a J on this occasion my friend..
Not sure if promotion is allowed in comments, but there is a channel called Hardware Haven that does a lot of videos on low power servers
@@denvera1g1 isn't that only for tasks that will actually utilize all cores though?
I mean, it's the same chiplets in both, so multicore will probably keep up but per core performance will be absolutely tanked
Underlocking modern cpus reduces power dramatically, but it decreases performance a tiny bit. 15% less performance, but 50% less watts, it's insane.
In the old days CPUs had smaller TDPs out of the box, but they could be overclocked a lot. Nowadays it's the opposite, overclocking is very limited, and the chips come with high power needs out ofthe box, however with a simple setting you can change all this, just don't but a cheapo motherboard as the bios options will be limited.
It´is amazing how you guys can get such nice hardware for prices that low in your country.
Thank you very much for sharing so much knowledge.
The downside is that your kids sometimes get shot in school or shot by the police.
I absolutely love these HP Z workstations. The TV station I work for recently upgraded all their Z420 / Z820 / Z840 workstations to Z8 G4's, and as the IT Engineer, obviously I had them all donated to the church I work for to build out for streaming and a killer Proxmox cluster.
love the z440, i got one used for 200 bucks back in 2018. with a cpu upgrade it made a great starter home server
What's the highest CPU that can be dropped in it? All the way to the top, or are their PSU/TDP limits?
@@mozamboni i down know the highest CPU, but my z440 comes with xeon e5 2690 v4
@@mozamboni to my knowledge there are no psu/tdp limits, the only limit is the socket :)
@@mozamboniafter a BIOS upgrade, apparently the 22c/44t Xeon Broadwell v4 CPU's are supported!
I had a similar issue with a z800. I just bought some noctua fans and added some converters that were hand made to them with the low voltage resisters. Works like a charm.
I've been running a Z440 for my main 24/7 Proxmox "server" in my homelab for a while and it's been fantastic. My build is all-SSD to keep running costs down, and I've got 12 SSDs in it (4x1TB NVMe + 4x256GB NVMe in two ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 cards + 4x480GB) with 64GB of RAM, an E5-2660 v3, and a Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 gig SFP+ card. Idle power consumption (with a normal CPU load of about 10-15%) is about 60-65 watts, so it's decently power efficient. Might upgrade to a 2680 v4 CPU at some point though.
chill tf out. those are some fucking amazing specs
Looking to get one of these for a home server myself. Thanks for the info
Where the hell you put all those ssd xD.
@@stormk-1130 ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 cards (each one takes four M.2 NVMe drives).
Glad I got into these before the Craft Computing market effect takes place!
I saw you briefly show your Z on Talking Heads a few weeks back. I’ve been rocking 3 of these for the last year or so. One is my TrueNAS box with 8 x P4610’s NVMe’s and 4 x 10TB’s.
VM box w/2680 v4 (14 core), and a modest 6-core for everyday desktop needs.
Stable, quiet, and affordable 🍺
Love my z600 (running Proxmox) might have to check out the 400 series for the next addition to the homelab 👍
HECK YEAH! I'm rocking a z420 and z440 atm, and it's a dream. Solid Price/Performance, the ability to OC and QUAD CHANNEL!!!!!! I will say that the v3's are the best strictly because of the turbo boost, and OC capability.
I have a z440 motherboard using it in my sever
I would fill my home of old computers only to play with clusters. If It wasn't for the power bill... are never enough computers with proxmox. Nice build as always, really well delivered.
I've heard Proxmox tends to start having issues when you go over 32 nodes.
I've never went near that amount of nodes 😂. But I wouldn't mind testing it for myself. And of course I'll keep calling it "home lab".
4:16 Well darn, i was hoping for another schrodinger's paste.
"In this enclosed case i have placed a cpu, a heatsink, some thermal paste, and a small ampoule of caesium-137"
'The paste will be in a superposition of both applied and not, until you open the case and collapse its very function'
Loved that LTT Easter egg
I'm getting a bit bored of hardware videos, then something like this comes along and I'm excited about hardware again
I have a few of these. Maxed one out with an i7-6950X, 128GB 2400MHz RAM, 4x NVMe in RAID 0, 4x SATA SSD in RAID 0 and 2x SATA HDDs in RAID 1 plus an RTX 2080ti. That was before the current gen GPUs were released. 2 of them were budget builds for brothers with E5-1650v3 6 core, 32GB RAM and an RX 580 8GB. Latest one is another budget one for a friend with an i7-6800K, 32GB RAM and going to stick a 1080ti, 2080 Super or 3060 in there I guess. Still excellent value if you watch for auctions or local marketplace sales.
Kind of want one of these for a sleeper build now. 🤔
Actually rocking a HP Z840 as my work computer right now. Been trying to buy them off my work so i could use it as a new home server lol. Running Manjaro with KDE Plasma, which causes some weird issues.
Hey, that's my current PC! I got HP Z440 with Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v4 and 64GB DDR4 RAM paired with RTX 3060ti and some additional SSDs. I use it mostly for gaming and it does quite good job even at 1440p. Sure, in some demanding games it's not reaching 100 fps, but for example new Darktide runs nicely around 60 fps and that's on high settings (RT off ofc).
nice combo am planning for the same one but paired with a RX 6600
@@JaroartxI just ordered one for $220 and will be putting my current rx 6650 xt in it!
Is the limiting factor the cpu or the graphics card?
@@GunMedalGleam I think GPU was the limiting factor. It's similar to something like i7-6800K so obviously it is aging tech. But hey, for the super low price I could get that machine, it was simply great! Price/performance was unbeatable and worked great as decent gaming machine without breaking the bank. Now you would be crazy to put some super expensive GPU in that one, but my 3060ti was second hand as well and ran nice with this CPU.
@@Hombremaniac the 3060ti in my opinion is the best all around card on the market. Its very powerful perfomance wise while still being pretty efficient. The fact that the 1650v4 doesnt bottle neck it is good too hear.
The Dell Precision 5810 is the same chipset era. Just make sure you note the power supply on the unit. They come in 425/685/825 watt flavors depending on the initial config. Replacement is an easy field serviceable slide out/in.
Nice build, I built a 5900X to run Linux Mint on.
Darktable is a good lightroom replacement on Linux and Windoze but it does have a learning curve. Those who have spent years with Adobe may not want to spend the time to learn how to use it. Since adobe went to a subscription business model, I chose not to use them for my photography work.
I'm getting it set back up now, it's a great piece of software, but yes, very not like Lightroom.
The sentiments expressed on workstation Linux are exactly correct and are why I installed Windows on my last build.
WARNING: If you are gonna purchase a Z440, be very cautious at what power supply it comes with, some Z440 models have two power supplies, 700 watt and the 525 watt, the 700 watt has extra 6+2 Pcie pin connectors, whilst the 525 watt only has 6, so be very mindful of that when buying a graphics card with more than 6 pin connectors.
I have e a 700 watt power supply but it has only 2 six pin connectors and not 6+2 pin connector?
@@sameerhassan7960right. 2 separate 6 pin connector
I love these HP and Dell workstation towers, so versatile and well-built. I put together a similar build in a Dell Precision 7810 a while back.
I'm still using a T5810 while I build a new computer, thing has been rock solid.
@@nadtz T5810 is a great choice too, I love the metal handles on the Dell workstation chassis.
Thanks for telling me about the E5-1660 v4. I did not know those existed. They are rather rare on the used market.
This is a lot more like I expected from you, and well done. Very much like I'd do myself, if I had not already built a new desktop - in a real case with HD and 5 1/4" bays. Oh well, life goes on, with Thanks to you!
I got the nvme adapter for mine for $30 on ebay. Once I got it I found that someone had left a 500gb SSD in the adapter that had a fresh windows 10 pro installed on it. Best deal ever lol.
Helpful Video, thanks! I have a couple of questions regarding the Z440. I'm about to decide whether to buy a used Z440 Workstation with the following specs: AMD FirePro W5100 4GB (2014), Intel Xeon E5-1630 v4 (2016), 32 GB DDR4 PC4 2400T RAM, and 256 GB SSD. Do you think Linux (Pop!_OS for example) can be installed without any problems right out of the box (USB live installer when booting) and run well with that AMD GPU? Also, is it a big hassle to just plug in an additional SATA SSD to keep Windows on the first one and install Linux only onto the second SSD (dual boot basically), or is there a catch to that? Thanks!
This gave me the final nudge to buy a z440 and slap a GPU in it. Thanks for the video!!
This is so cool. I have an HP z420 using the aio liquid cooler running Linux Mint.
Workstation systems are obviously good for pure workstation builds, but how do you feel about using them as home servers? On the plus side they're quieter than rack servers, but on the other hand they don't have IPMI.
Dead silent, very upgradable. These make fantastic homelab boxes.
Lack of IPMI only matters if you're trying to learn about IMPI controls. It has no real bearing on function.
@@CraftComputing Getting up to press the power button is so 20th century. Though I suppose if it's a "real" server you'll just leave it on.
@@eDoc2020 leave your sever on where i live and you spend your life savings on the power bill XD
@@AIC_onyt _One_ server staying on shouldn't bankrupt you. But then again where's the fun in only having one?
Point of correction RT and DLSS do generally work on NVidia cards running under Linux. However you need to proactively set the switches in the Steam arguments when the game launches. I've used both on Wolfenstein Youngblood, Control, Cyberpunk and RT on The Ascent (that one I did have to use FSR, via Proton GE). Natively used RT on Metro Exodus and Quake 2 RTX.
Bought an Intel Xeon E3-1280V2 3.6 GHz Quad-Core (CM8063701098404) Processor in 2020. Works great for an old PC
Z440 is a nice PC. I was bidding for a Z420 but they sent a Z440 that they wanted back. Well I had an older Z600, that is almost good enough. But Z440 with DDR4 is great. I hate HP special fan connectors, they even do it different from model to model. With my Z600 the fan controller is jammed to max, common problem and I use a fan resistor as a walk-around without changing the cable harness.
I recently got a dell precision T5600 that I really like. It is compatible with the E-5 v1 series of CPU's which are VERY cheap on eBay right now. Plus I inherited 128GB of DDR3 ECC RAM that was compatible with this unit. Yes, the CPU's aren't as good as the one noted in your Z440 but the T5600 has two sockets. So after maxing it out on RAM and CPU's it is quite snappy. I really enjoy old XEONs for bang for the buck. Your series has really helped me to see them as a valid alternative. Thanks!
That machine is certified for Red Hat and it runs it like a dream.
10:10 - thank you for fencing that windmill. Luckily, I was a Resolve user from waaay back, so it's my normal go-to for video and audio (Fairlight). But, everything else just doesn't stand up against the pro-level, proprietary tools.
A non upgraded z420 or z440 may or may not be running every server workstation at my workplace. 😅
That "have you heard of heard of our lord an saviour Gimp" made me laugh my but off...
because its true
Edit: I use arch btw
Now this is a cool build / video. This probably cost comparable to a cheap xeon match Chinese board and way more reliable! Not too shabby!
Nooooice! What envy I have for you!
i have an hhp z600 with dual xeon x5660s that i still daily drive...for 1080p gaming with an r9 280x its fine, for my linux work is great with all those threads and 48gb triple channel mem, and its just solid and steady...ive had it for over 7 years...ill upgrade soon but honestly these still make great budget ws or even home server builds imo...downside of course is wattage but i let it sleep so its reasonable...love the case too
10:30 - It's not insulting, it's reality. You can get a bunch of this stuff to run under Wine, and they're why Wine exists, but unless the companies that publish them create ports, that's what you're stuck with: a bunch of apps people maintain and a best effort to maintain compatibility with an alien OS.
The fact that Unix-like OSs can run Windows apps as well as they can is a small miracle.
And it’s a viscous circle:
No software support because it isn’t popular
+
Not popular because no software support
I have it's older, slightly less capable cousin, the HP Z420.
It works.
(It's not going to break any records these days, but it can be quite a potent system if you build/configure it as such.)
😱 No drive holder for the SSD, oh no, it's the end of the world 😂 Just kidding, I don't even use a case lol
I 3d printed myself an SSD caddy for an HP low end workstation. I'll look around and see if I can ping the thing to Jeff on Discord.
I'm on an HP Z230 that I paid $75 for, delivered, E3-1225 V3 and 32gb of ram.
I love builds like this! Great video!!
Wonderful Ad bit....loved it.
How did you connect gpu power cable to graphic card? Z440 gives you two 6pins PCIe cables(700w psu), but your card is using 8pins. (some cards use two 8pins i am wondering how to connect them also)
I'm glad you noted the downsides of open source software on Linux. I'm pretty tired of insufferable Linux nerds claiming there are no downsides. 10 years ago as a college student just trying to learn different creative programs, I was more than happy to use open source software, but now that I'm a professional and am more enfranchised, you can bet that I'm using Adobe products. I'll always respect open source software and freeware and won't tear down anyone for preferring to use them for various reasons, but it's not worth forcing on other people who are content with mainstream software. I may hate Adobe's subscription model but it's still 100% required and essential software for the work I do.
Anyways, nice video overall, very interesting stuff :)
If you're using Adobe, you're not professional. You just hate yourself.
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Jeff you get eveon more Performance and Lower Latency with the mitigations = off and there are also nice patches into the linux kernel for even more performance and lower latency even with Ryzen and Newer Intels.
Great Video, the linux community recommended this🐧
I've recently got myself a HP Z440, but not for gaming, for animation. Getting a GTX 1660ti to see what frame rates I get, then possibly to a 1080ti.
The problem with going linux is software. You have to go out of your way to use alternative software and all the quirks. I ended up back on windows.
Great job Jeff!
Got a hp z800 with two 8 core xenon’s.. used. Works fantastic. 1200 watt power supply stock?!?
The dual socket workstations are expected to cope with several GPUs, right?
That's actually one of my favorite topics but I actually went with G8 and RX 6800 XT and MacOS as primary for my workflow needs but with Parallels for gaming, and works like a charm. Was previously on cMP 5.1 with R9 Fury and kinda liked the workflow but it became a bit slow for my needs even with 2x x5690 and had to run OpenCore anyway, and new mac pros are just not there, 6.1 is a dump and 7.1 is expensive for what it offers
Loving the storm trooper Lego alarm clock, I have the Mandalorian version though wish I could find Vader.
10:13 aw man, I was getting hyped expecting some tiered storage magic! IIRC there's a way to get pretty straightforward tiered storage using LVM, so that the SSD is boosting the spinning rust, but transparent to the user (in your case you'd see a 7TB volume)
Yeah, I was looking at playing with that at some point. Might make an interesting video on its own. I actually wrote an article about tiered storage years ago ;-)
The Z420 was my first proxmox server (last gen Z440)
i did work in repair center and had many z420/z620 that had burned cpu vrm... from what i see on this z440 they did not improve them... so good luck and dont stress cpu to much.
Good video. Thanks. As a Belgian: your "belgian style" ale has no foam on top. You'd need about two fingers thick, otherwise....you know. Hope it tastes ok.
You can find these machines with lots of ram and even an ssd and hdd bundled for just a little more.
Hello Geoff,
love your channel , keep the good work on !
Just bought a 60€ Z440 from HP e5-2620v3 and i'm trying to do the turbo boost unlock, but I can't manage dumping / modding the bios. I've seen it's possible on Ukrainian sites but I do not unterstand the steps they're going through ...
Any intel on this ? tried this yourself allready ?
Cheers from France !
I Build a gaming pc in 2005 and then 2021
from 2006 and 2020 I had been using Core i5 workstation PCs and Xeon Computers
I think it is wrong for somebody to come to Linux and try to mimic your workflow on another OS. It would be difficult since you have to use a lot of workarounds and never learn the real advantages of Linux. Of course, this costs time and is understandable if somebody can not afford to invest that time, but once you decide to learn to do the things the Linux way. Indeed with Linux, anybody could discover new and more efficient workflows.
I say this for experience, I tried to use Linux as if I was using Windows, which was a terrible experience. Still, my workflow started to improve once I learned a bunch of useful CLI tools and plugins made for the community for open source programs.
Well i can say that after 1 year of linux i never wanna go back
@@John_Kap I’m thinking of making a new build and running Linux on it, how do you suggest going about it ?
Love builds like this.
Belgian beer is nice, but for me there can be only one: Hertog Jan.
Holoiso actually now supports Nvidia cards, as long as they are 900 series or newer.
Nice!!! Hadn't seen that update yet 👍
about those professional tools and the "professional" that complains about workflow you shouldn't expect X software to behave like Y software unless it is purposely trying to mimic it, the same way you shouldn't expect a 6 cyl pick up truck to behave like a 6 cyl sports car (unless we're talking about those crazy Australian UTEs, those don't count)
Grab another GPU and virtualize Windows on it. X99 plataforms are pretty much incredible for that. I do it myself on my X99-F8. You can passthrough your GPU and use looking glass to use it seamlessly in a window inside Linux.
I juts ordered a z440 with E5-1650 v4, 32gb of ram, 512gb ssd and windows 10 pro for $220! It will be replacing my current i5 2500k (at 4.5ghz), 32gb ram, 1tb ssd and rx 6650 xt. I will be moving over the ssd and graphics card from my old system!
where did you get one for that price? i'm in canada and cannot find a good price. the ones one ebay canada are all expensive
Jeff - will you do the community a favor and put 64gb and/or 128gb dimms in it and see what happens? The predecessor z420 supports 32gb dimms (both rdimm and lrdimm) even though the manual says it doesn’t…would like to know if the z440 is as friendly as the z420. Your 1600 series Xeon probably doesn’t support lrdimms though so if you want to do this test you’re going to need to locate a 2600 series v3/v4 Xeon.
what are the temps like in this case. Thank you for helping me relive my childhood. I have some old dual xeon Dell pc i never messed with. Wish i knew where it was at. lol
Z440 w/ Xeon E5-2699 v3 and Gentoo Linux as daily basis distro should be a superb machine, or FreeBSD if I will a reliable ZFS home storage and server. I don't know yet which GPU should I put of them but maybe a cheap used GTX 1660 Ti is an interesting choice.
I have been saving up for a z440 for a Vmware/NAS toy. Don't you dare drive up demand/prices.
Prices are holding firm around what was quoted. I just picked one up for $125 locally, and all of the Xeon goodies are really cheap. Most of them are used, but still functional if you feel like experimenting with core numbers vs CPU output. Same with Nvidia GPUs. I'm planning on experimenting with a pair of bridged Quadro M4000's to see how they handle gaming. Other videos I've seen showed sorta ok results with a single card and a basic CPU, but nothing from a bridged combo with an updated CPU.
I really don't plan on doing heavy gaming with mine, but it would be fun to jump on and drop a line about how I'm running this race in a semi truck
Ahaha! That Ares intro!
Lol the lttstore in the begining
How hard is the setting up the HP Z440 for dual boot? For those of us who don't want to risk aspects of our steam account playing on LINUX?
Also, did you try to spec the memory coolers as well? Or did you simply consider this a non issue if you have enough case air flow?
What risk are you talking about? It’s not illegal.
@@Hornet135 - Uhm, you can get banned for having a dual boot machine on Steam if you play non-LINUX games. The security features for some games do play well with it. DAYZ is one such example.
Jeff, do you have a link for that cooler? I run a z840 dual CPU box at home and that is my "server" environment. I am interested in that thing
How did you get the 3060 to work? Curious as my Z440 only come with a 6 pin connector?
I bought a 6 pin to 8 pin adapter for my GTX 1660 ti. Works great!
I have 2 of these at home with one setup in a similar config (The other is setup with an install TruNas). What I would recommend to get that extra boost in performance. Get a PCIe M.2 riser and boot drive. Really finished it off.
So I've been planning on something like this for maybe longer than I've been watching your videos but found this right around the same time I was trying to figure out what kind of mostly-gaming-focused decommissioned workstation to buy (had some plans for also using it as a hackintosh, so looking into KVM virtualization -- I found your channel from looking into virtualization stuff for things like that and remote gaming). Alas, my setup won't be quite as fancy as yours, though, as my budget right now isn't for anything fancier than a 1650 yet, but might upgrade that in a couple years right now (something that my decades of work with laptops never allowed, and a positive change I'm looking forward to).
Anyway this video's a bit old now but long term engagement metrics being what they are, maybe you can help me with a question. I noticed that with the 3660 you're using, you didn't plug in the supplemental power during the setup montage. I saw another video that had to use some adapters with the stock power supply to plug into the GPU, notably using an adapter from the SATA power ports (!!) claiming it was the only method that they could find that sufficiently powered the card. Did you use a custom power supply, adapters, or something else?
Well, it looks like the problem is that I have the 525w power supply. Well, it sounds like the 1650 may not require the extra power if it's not being overclocked, so it might run well enough for the stuff I want to use it with. If not then the power supply is the next upgrade on the docket.
Do you know if the HP z440 needs a SAS controller to use SAS hard drives? The documentation on the HP says that it is compatible with up to four SAS but I cannot find where to plug them in. Do I need a special plug in adapter? Thank you for your help
Wished you included a few seconds of gameplay stats of the cpu, ram and gpu for each game you mentioned.
Gotta say man I love that you do so much with Xeon cpus I feel like performance wise and I think they are thrown to the side for fancy i5 i7 chips and don’t get me wrong the new CPU’s are obviously more advanced diff instruction sets technology etc but I feel like these higher core Xeon’s still compete perfectly fine for day to day use with these newer chips and yet they are like 80% of the cost of these new chips like 400-500 for a decently nice intel cpu? That’s crazy lol
remember xeons have to be powerful for running simulations and other intensive tasks that businesses will use them for
@@TruthDoesNotExist well obviously If your job or company requires the usage of those things sure but for most daily joes just trying to browse the internet and do some gaming etc dual xeons are way more then enough power to do so and you can on a budget the price of current intel hardware is a joke which is why so many have shifted to ryzen due to the power and affordability
Ive never used nvidia cards with linux, (just intel or amd cpus with their iGPUs) but ive heard from everyone i know that distros like popos should boot up with nvidia cards, but for some reason no linux distro i tried would boot up with my gtx 1050ti, not even the nvidia iso of pop os. i get to grub/systemd boot on all the isos, but from then onwards, its just a black screen, a kernel panic or stuck at "Loading Linux" section on the boot log. Any idea what the issue is?
Great video. Old weird pc crap is the best. Especially when its the worst :)
i got started with one with a xeon e5-2670v3 inside and 64gb of ram. nice little server, lot of limitations tho.. switch too fast to an asus x99 in a rack mountable case. now i replace basicly everything and i got an extra z440 with 12 cores laying around. dont know what to do with it. shipping it will be a boooore
@Louis-philippe-Cantin:
You could use it as your "daily-driver" regular-use computer.
You don't HAVE to use it as a server.
Computer-hardware is-STILL computer-hardware.
@@reoencarcelado5904 yeahhhh... I got a 5950x with a 6800xt for that...
Need to work on that front mount RGB on that HP Z440 ;P corporate stiffness mixed with backyard game focused building....
Did you check to see if there was an adapter cable similar to the one used to adapt an aftermarket cooler to a Dell? You'd think there would be one. I bought 2 Dell adapters a while ago for around $5 with free shipping. Just a thought...
What keyboard do you have there with the blue keys?
What is a good package for a Budget Home NAS ( Motherbroard, PSU, and CPU, RAM ) FREENAS Build.
This guy obviously has never spilled his beer near a running PC case.
Luckily for him, this kind of stuff never happens.
Could you have installed an NVMe via an add-in card to store the games to make it a bit more snappier? Even if the HP won't boot to it, to use it as a storage drive is already an improvement.
Yes you can. I built a z640 with a second CPU riser add-in (set for ~$350) and also put in the official add-in pcie card that has a single nvme spot (I think its called the Z Turbo Drive; $40 on Amazon part # MS-4365 ; NVME storage separate - put in 1TB Hynix). One nice thing about HPE products is they have both a "Quickspecs" and "maintenance guide" PDFs you can download with a wealth of info. Guide says to be able to boot off the nvme, you need to have no other storage installed yet, install OS, then install other storage. Has worked great. Recently upgraded 2x 2.4GHz V3 CPUs to (2x 3.5GHz V4 for $90 total). With a V3 CPU the RAM is limited to 1866 whereas upon my upgrade the clock jumped to 2400 (since I initially put in 32GB 2400 RAM $130). Now just waiting to replace my old gtx 960... My dad got a Z440 and did similar to the OP video of just putting in a regular SSD and HDD for storage with a workstation GPU.
Edit: My dads PC was quite a bit less. The 16xx V4 CPU are better if only using one socket which the z440 has. With my z640 and having additional CPU socket, you need to use 26xx CPUs. Z840 has 2x CPU sockets on mobo, no riser card needed.
Would this work as a good proxmox server? Or would you need more cores and RAM?
For the same price as that 1660v4 you can get a 2690V3 that has 18 cores. That 1660v4 has a slightly higher single core thread speed that would be better for gaming but the 10 extra cores would be what you need for VM work.
Interesting how you say that Resolve isn’t the same as Premiere. I’ve switched to Resolve and bought this exact PC in order to use resolve in Linux.
Fun fact: that so-called belgian beer isn't sold in Belgium.
I can't even find any european importer that has it.