I’ve always been a Dell guy but I absolutely love these mini ProDesk/EliteDesk units. They are incredibly expandable for their size and the Skylake and newer “T” processors are crazy power efficient. The ability to run both an M.2 NVME and SATA HDD is very useful. My current 400 G2 mini has the m.2 as the boot/OS disk running Server 2019 and a 2TB Seagate HDD with all my music on it. It serves as my surveillance NVR, music server (airsonic), Jellyfin, HomeBridge and SHSH ticket grabber and it still has plently resources to spare. I also have most variants of these starting from the G1 through the G6 that I’ve repaired/rebuilt over the years. Love these machines!
Something satisfying about those small metal cases and having several stacked on top of one another. I've noticed them at several hospitals - they seem to like to deploy them.
Here’s a boomer take: These retro pc tech channels are my version of ASMR videos. It’s comforting and enjoyable to see folks doing these projects. And yes, even as a retired engineer, this is my version of ‘working on old cars’ just the same as our host here. Nice job.
We have lots of these HP mini pcs available in my neck of the woods, your videos sure inspired me to look into these with an upcoming project. I'm not a windows fan & I'm sure a Linux Distro would be excellent in these PCs.
Do you have to remove the drive caddy on a G3 to take out the cpu? It's close but I thought there was enough clearance for the cpu socket release lever ...
I checked the service manual and it doesn't show the caddy removal. I do it more out of habit and wanting the open space. Let me know if you're able to do it by keeping the caddy.
I know Windows 11 doesn't support 7th gen and lower processors. So how did you get yours running? Also Microsoft will stop supporting windows 10 October next year. So if you're a windows user, you might not want to buy this.
@@basicsteps I have windows 11 running on all of my units starting with the G1. I have some videos on using Windows 11 wit the old generation. My main day to day computer is a G3
I7 7700 in the 65w model. Don't those xeon have a tdp starting at 95w? You'd need lots more juice and cooling. The G4 supports a 95w tdp K processor but that's as high as it goes.
You would need a 90w power supply and also a second drive bay fan as well as the copper heat sink. So basically everything that comes with the 65w model.
Good catch. I just went back and gave it a blast of air. Some of the fans also have shedding foam which gets all over the place and is sticky. I had to clean that on a video I'm working on now.
I know you have loads of mini pcs i now have to my hp elitedesk 800 G2 mini 65w and my new lenovo m720q thats a 35w one that got delivered today and only cost me £150 cheap i think its in a1 condition thats my works pc work have said thay will put there image on if i want plus my sisters ex works for lenovo and has also said he can get it imaged with the image it came with so thats good My question is do you use any mini pc as a media pc for the tv i use the hp and find 1080p brilliant but i want to up to 4k so is there a mini pc you would recommend as a media pc as im going to move the hp in to another room
Looks like the 7th Gen has higher clock speeds, can use DDR4-2400, and had a newer generation IGPU. Because, I asked myself why the difference in the benchmarks and looked it up... :)
"it worth it?" Depends. For 20 bucks, sure, it could be a foundation for a useful little linux-based mini server. Anything above it: absolutely not. 1151v1 is predestined to be an 4C/8T platform not to mention that Windows 11 does not support it officially.
I’ve always been a Dell guy but I absolutely love these mini ProDesk/EliteDesk units. They are incredibly expandable for their size and the Skylake and newer “T” processors are crazy power efficient.
The ability to run both an M.2 NVME and SATA HDD is very useful. My current 400 G2 mini has the m.2 as the boot/OS disk running Server 2019 and a 2TB Seagate HDD with all my music on it. It serves as my surveillance NVR, music server (airsonic), Jellyfin, HomeBridge and SHSH ticket grabber and it still has plently resources to spare.
I also have most variants of these starting from the G1 through the G6 that I’ve repaired/rebuilt over the years.
Love these machines!
They are addicting. I do like the look of the G6 and when I find some gold nuggets I'll pick one up 😉
I have built two G4 now. These are addictive.
Something satisfying about those small metal cases and having several stacked on top of one another. I've noticed them at several hospitals - they seem to like to deploy them.
Great comparison!
Nice job, HMDT.
Here’s a boomer take:
These retro pc tech channels are my version of ASMR videos. It’s comforting and enjoyable to see folks doing these projects.
And yes, even as a retired engineer, this is my version of ‘working on old cars’ just the same as our host here. Nice job.
Couldn't agree more 😉. Especially since I'm not the guy to go to for car repairs but if your computer is acting funky then I can help 😉
We have lots of these HP mini pcs available in my neck of the woods, your videos sure inspired me to look into these with an upcoming project. I'm not a windows fan & I'm sure a Linux Distro would be excellent in these PCs.
@@joelescober definitely. And with several you could play with proxmox and clustering.
Do you have to remove the drive caddy on a G3 to take out the cpu? It's close but I thought there was enough clearance for the cpu socket release lever ...
I checked the service manual and it doesn't show the caddy removal. I do it more out of habit and wanting the open space. Let me know if you're able to do it by keeping the caddy.
I know Windows 11 doesn't support 7th gen and lower processors. So how did you get yours running? Also Microsoft will stop supporting windows 10 October next year. So if you're a windows user, you might not want to buy this.
@@basicsteps I have windows 11 running on all of my units starting with the G1. I have some videos on using Windows 11 wit the old generation. My main day to day computer is a G3
I noticed you blew the dust out of the heatsink! There looks to be quite a bit of dust on the fan as well!
@@RedMAGACult I always see to forget the fan. I did it on big computers but forget for the mini computers.
@@handmedowntech I gotta hand it to you friend, you're the only channel poster that responds to me!
@@RedMAGACult why have comments if no one responds 😝
Exactly my friend!
I am using 800 G3 i5 6500 Want to upgrade which cpu should be used can use 8/9 generation?
@@vkachale721 you won't be able to upgrade since those use a newer chipset than the G3. You could do a i7-7700 or 7700t
Hi, what is the highest processor that the HP 800 g3 mini can support? Can you put a xeon processor in it?
I7 7700 in the 65w model. Don't those xeon have a tdp starting at 95w? You'd need lots more juice and cooling. The G4 supports a 95w tdp K processor but that's as high as it goes.
What happens if putting an i7 7700 non T variant in a 35w unit will it work?
You would need a 90w power supply and also a second drive bay fan as well as the copper heat sink. So basically everything that comes with the 65w model.
I just sold one of those with an i7-7500 (65W), 16Gb Ram and 512Gb storage for $100 + shiiping.
Nice! Maybe we'll get a new subscriber out of it 😀
Why go to the effort of cleaning the heatsink and not clean the CPU fan
Good catch. I just went back and gave it a blast of air. Some of the fans also have shedding foam which gets all over the place and is sticky. I had to clean that on a video I'm working on now.
im not sure why u need to run cinebench on this type of pc....
I know it's very GPU based but tried to use something folks might be familiar with. Any suggestions for a better benchmarking tool?
Whats the highest CPU on a HP 800 G3 35w?
I7 7700T
I know you have loads of mini pcs i now have to my hp elitedesk 800 G2 mini 65w and my new lenovo m720q thats a 35w one that got delivered today and only cost me £150 cheap i think its in a1 condition thats my works pc work have said thay will put there image on if i want plus my sisters ex works for lenovo and has also said he can get it imaged with the image it came with so thats good
My question is do you use any mini pc as a media pc for the tv i use the hp and find 1080p brilliant but i want to up to 4k so is there a mini pc you would recommend as a media pc as im going to move the hp in to another room
So would you be streaming stuff. Like running TH-cam on the PC but using the TV as the monitor?
@@handmedowntech yes
I thought about another Lenovo m720q for the price but I want another hp
So which hps do you currently have?
I have a hp elitedesk 800g2 mini under my TV and that Lenovo that's going to be my works pc
That gen will work fine but I like to buy gen 9 or higher, they are still excellent.
Gen 7 is the highest for the G3
Looks like the 7th Gen has higher clock speeds, can use DDR4-2400, and had a newer generation IGPU. Because, I asked myself why the difference in the benchmarks and looked it up... :)
It was refreshing to see an improvement. Especially when my other video with moving from 8th to 9th Gen didn't show a change.
"it worth it?" Depends. For 20 bucks, sure, it could be a foundation for a useful little linux-based mini server.
Anything above it: absolutely not. 1151v1 is predestined to be an 4C/8T platform not to mention that Windows 11 does not support it officially.
The G3 with a 7th Gen is a great little computer. In fact it's what I use every day. I use windows 11 and it runs fine.
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Thanks!
Ey! Pretty usefull video.
Would this unit accept a 2TB SSD NVMe ??
Thanks !
I can't see where there would be a limitation. I have one viewer using 4tb Nvme in a G5 and another using a 2tb HDD in a G3.