THE RETURN OF THE XEON - HP Z640 BUILD LOG PART. 1

[@chriswithey3072]

Love seeing people still using these, I started with a z600 years ago which is maxed out now ram and cpu wise, with a 1060 GPU. Just about to build a new one with z640, e5-1650v4, 32GB RAM, and a large NVME for gaming. Will be probably use a dual female 6 pin to single 8pin for the card, though might get the HP 6 to 8 pin with the thick cables, though it is expensive compared to the other option and I do not intend to use the second 6 pin.

[@radiatorpapi]

Sounds awesome!! I have had no issues so far with the startech adapters I bought. What card will you use?

[@chriswithey3072]

I have my eye on a HP branded 1080.

[@radiatorpapi]

Nice! A solid 1080p gaming machine!

[@AshleighRSPS]

Just paired the Z640 with e5-1650v4 32GB RAM with R9 290x and it's mega. Paid a total of £77 ($96.80) including shipping so far

[@chriswithey3072]

@@AshleighRSPS nice. Life got in the way for me a bit. I have all the bits here for mine still in boxes. Will report back when it is done. such beast machines for the price. I think I got mine for about £90 same specs with no card, paid around £100 for the 1080 8GB, and I think around £60 for the 1TB NVME and adaptor.. as well as a few quid for a dual 6pin to single 8pin. I might get the HP branded 6 pin to 8 pin later with the thick cables, I have some old mining cards here with no display ports, thinking I might put one of these inside as well for thing like video encoding at the same time as playing games on the main GPU.

[@PhonkMachine220YT]

You just turned this workstation PC into an ARGB sleeper PC! Also I do have a similar 2-fan 3070 from Zotac, shorter than your 3-fan 3070Ti. They're the AMP Holo models afaik.

[@radiatorpapi]

Thanks for watching!! The model I have is indeed the amp holo version. Very loud to be honest! I hope your dual fan is quieter and not as hot as my card!!!

[@bigcazza5260]

first thing i hear "sup guys im home and my package came"

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

wait wait wait hold on a 2 gig gpu what the hell?

[@javajav3004]

@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue ya bro back in the day they had 2 and 1 gig vram gpus lol

[@Lewis-fr9mu]

What ports does it have to connect the monitor?

[@radiatorpapi]

@@Lewis-fr9mu Motherboard has VGA port. GPU has display port and HDMI

[@Lewis-fr9mu]

@@radiatorpapi ah okay thanks, how loud is it?

[@radiatorpapi]

@@Lewis-fr9mu At medium to low fan settings in bios, it’s not bad! Temps are ok too!

[@jnchacon]

Hi! Nice video. Hope to see part two. I recently got the same Z640 but with two processors, but got very unlucky because mine is throwing me a very weird POST error when booting up. More weird that is that I hit enter, the PC reboots, the takes a long time, and then enters windows. Did you have any similar issue?

[@radiatorpapi]

Thanks for watching! Fortunately I haven’t had long boot times or errors. You may be having longer boot times due to having two CPUs compared to my single one. How long are the boot times? I would also make sure both cpus (and secondary cpu board) are seated properly!

[@jnchacon]

@@radiatorpapi Yea they are. I see and can test both CPUs and work perfectly fine. The issue seems to be related to the PCIe port where the Graphics Card is. I tested the Graphics Card in another PC and work perfectly....

[@radiatorpapi]

Odd. Which GPU are you using?

[@jnchacon]

@@radiatorpapi Nvidia Quadro M6000 24GB

[@radiatorpapi]

Looks like you should be able to run it with just 250w so it doesn’t sound like power. Have you tried the lower full x16 slot?

[@javajav3004]

Too cool

[@MrSamadolfo]

😒👍 its all about the Xeons

[@radiatorpapi]

Forever and always!

[@mothmxnch]

swag

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

it's a beast 14 cores enough to take over the planet muhahahahahahahaha

[@gingboktf]

first

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

Quadro 4000 is Fermi. That's old. Not sure what use you could have for it other than an emergency backup in case that 3070 dies. Speaking of dying, I would NOT put 2 4TB hard drives in RAID-0 - which they should have called DAID-0 because it's a Dangerous Array of Inexpensive Disks... I've lost 8TB of data before, single external drive crashed to the floor... did not enjoy, would NOT recommend. The only situation I would use RAID-0 with is maybe SSDs, which are less likely to die, maybe for speed-sensitive workloads like video editing... and MUCH smaller drives, maybe some QLC drives modded down to SLC, sacrificing capacity for write endurance/performance... put stuff I'm working on currently and that won't have to stick around for but so long. I just wouldn't trust a 4TB RAID-0 for anything. That's begging to lose 8TB of data.

[@radiatorpapi]

Thanks for watching! I think I will just keep the Q 4000 as a extra display out for test benches. Can't bring my self to throw it out or sell it as its worth only 10 bucks anyway. I apperciate the concen for having my drives in raid 0. I am not planning on putting any thing sensitive on here and am just using them as scratch disk. I move everything important on to my NAS. I have a little faith in these drives as they are NAS drives (Seagate Iron Wolfs) but def have my eyes on it!

[@bigcazza5260]

@@radiatorpapi use the fermi to annoy amdumbs who dont have dgpus

[@radiatorpapi]

Make controller angry lolol

[@pu8reLib]

very shaky video

[@radiatorpapi]

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