Lenovo M91p - Full Disassembly and upgrade with Radeon HD 7700

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2 жыл бұрын

In this video, I will take a look at a Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p. During the video, I will completely disassemble and re-assemble the device. And upgrade the RAM, SSD and add an AMD Radeon HD7770 as video card. Once everything is back together, I'll do some benchmarking and see how gaming goes on this machine, by playing Need for Speed Most Wanted, Far Cry 4 and GTA V.

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@NatesZone 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the video! I subscribed! Thanks for keeping everything simple!

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice feedback, always nice to hear :)

@NatesZone 2 жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe Thanks Man! I love your content style!

@bjarne431 Жыл бұрын

I picked up this pc i5 2400, 8gb ram for ~35$, I plugged in a SSD and a GTX 1650 (that I got for ~85$) and still use the original 280watt psu. What an amazing budget gamer :-) (it does need two key configurations to work correctly: bios setting video>igp>multi monitor enabled, windows fast boot disabled)

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

I have a GTX 1650 for which I plan to do a small project, very similar to your setup.

@stickyburger7192 Жыл бұрын

Whats your motherboard type

@zeilstar Жыл бұрын

Mine runs decent benchmarks with RX 570 and i7-2600, but I can't for the life of me figure out the sleep settings. It won't wake back up, the fans never shut down, etc.

@gamingboi_7730 Жыл бұрын

I had this exact pc with 8gb-ddr3 and an i5-2400 and a gtx 750 ti. Recently upgraded to a new pc with 32gb ddr4 rgb ram, rtx 3060 and an intel core i7-7800X

@markkristoffertovera4017 9 ай бұрын

I do have some questions sir, if u do have a social media accounts (facebook, ig) i want to talk about that pc sir, i also have the exact same pc. Thanks

@february4206 Жыл бұрын

I can't even get the case door open 😭 Did you have any issues similar to this? I've unscrewed the large screws in the back, but it doesn't seem to budge when I press the button.

@PuffishSwish 2 жыл бұрын

mine doesnt have a disc drive

@oudi-on-Fire 2 ай бұрын

What is its main psu that comes with case ?

@ikramshahar44 2 жыл бұрын

I love theese Thinkcentre. I have a Thincentre E73 with a I5 4440S, 16GB ram, 260 SSD and a Thinkcentre M91P with I5 2400, 16gb ram and 120 HDD. Theese M91P models has a TPM 1.2 chip while the E73 gets secure boot instead.

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

Combined you can almost run Windows 11 :)

@ikramshahar44 2 жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe I saw your method how to install Win 11 on unsupported hardware. I will try to install Windows 11 on the E73. But do you think I should leave the UEFI bios and secure boot on when installing Win 11 just to be more on the supported site?

@jamar_exe1413 2 жыл бұрын

for some reason my drive doesn’t turn up like yours did and i have the exact same model,

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

Which drive do you mean? SATA?

@liamtilliam5866 2 жыл бұрын

Could you tell me what memory modules those are, Very helpful video to since im using this motherboard

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

The ones I put were SK Hynix PC3-12800 DDR3 (1600mhz) modules but 1333Mhz should do fine as well.

@liamtilliam5866 2 жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe Aight thank you

@stormdude4654 Жыл бұрын

Hello I have same motherboard with 3x4 GB ram. my question is will be better with 2x4 GB or 4x4gb. I see in CPU-Z when I put 3x4gb ram still working in dual channel when I remove one 4gb and working with 2x4gb productivity is same

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

Normally with 3x4GB it should not be working in dual channel. The best way to test this is to run Geekbench with each memory configuration which you are considering and compare them.

@stormdude4654 Жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe thank you for help. in Geekbench write same dual channel with 3x4 GB :D how wtf

@FDatOnTheTrack Жыл бұрын

i have this lenovo, added 2x8gb ram + 1x 4gb ram, 4gb gpu + ssd's and it works beautifully. now just gotta swap the case

@panditreuvers 2 жыл бұрын

Why you didn't swap the CPU for a I7, about 37 euro at AE

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

Max. supported CPU is an i7 2600. The performance difference between it and the i5 2500 in it now is rather small. €37 is not a lot but it is in a PC worth ~€150 for a small improvement. Would be interesting to see how big the difference is though :)

@uselessgamer5947 Жыл бұрын

How much power consumption during idle. Is it suitable for nas

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

Didn't measure the consumption but similar PCs do pretty well in terms of energy consumption. With some tuning you will get close to NAS numbers.

@xalexandra8049 Жыл бұрын

Hi, I have ddr3, i can upgrade at ddr4?

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

No, DDR4 is physically different from DDR3 and can't be placed in the same slot.

@sebastienraymond3648 Жыл бұрын

How is it that your m91p Type 4524-E4G accepts the Radeon HD7700, because it is not in the very restricted list of GPUs accepted by this Motherboard? Notice I own the m91p Type 4524. However and normally, the m91p only accepts the following cards (and their equivalent substitutes): *NVDIA GeForce 310 512mb DDR3 *Radeon HD5450 512mb DDR3 *Radeon HD6450 512mb DDR3 I had a Radeon HD5450 512mb DDR3, which unfortunately died last summer. I made the mistake of buying its upgraded version, the "Radeon HD5450 2gb DDR3", but the Motherboard categorically refuses to recognize it, even after upgrading the BIOS and even tinkering with it. The HD5450 2gb works on my other PCs and even on a PC older than my Lenovo. The PSU of the Lenovo is 280W, however I tested the GPU and the 280W-PSU on an another Motherboard and their is no problems at all. Do you know what to do to make it work?

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

Hmm, as far as I know there are no restrictions at all to which GPU to use (except for the limit of the power supply). Any PCIe videocard should just work fine. I played around with the M91p with different cards and never really got what you describe.

@timintle Жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe As I recall, UEFI(or UEFI/Legacy,etc?) needs to be turned-on in the updated BIOS.

@Rehan_Plays420 6 ай бұрын

@@timintlebro I know how to select legecy rom from pci submenu setting

@stickyburger7192 Жыл бұрын

Can i connect like a gtx 1050?

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

Should work perfectly fine, yes

@Lettuce3690 6 ай бұрын

How do i take out the graphics card

@jensdbe 6 ай бұрын

Unplug any additional power connectors to the card, unscrew the screw holding it in place and then push the lever on the PCIe slot to release the card. Not much can go wrong, just don't force things and be gentle :)

@Fabricio-mu7xe 6 ай бұрын

Hello, I’m from brazil, i have the same pc, and i’d like to improve, but I’m fear. Can i improve de psu? I have a 600w psu and a GTX 950 2gb, do you know if the gpu is compatible too? Thanks 😅

@jensdbe 6 ай бұрын

The machine has a standard ATX power supply so you should be able to simply replace that with the 600W one you have. A GTX 950 should work fine as well here.

@Fabricio-mu7xe 6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, i Will try , have a nice week 😊

@sangeentaimur6453 4 ай бұрын

Can u put the Mobo in another case

@jensdbe 4 ай бұрын

That should be possible, looks like standard ATX format

@mamdouhgendi4470 10 ай бұрын

Is there a way to connect this machine to a M2 SSD or M2 NVMe?

@jensdbe 10 ай бұрын

Not directly on the motherboard but a regular PCIe NVMe adapter should work. Not sure if the machine will be able to directly boot from it though.

@Griscasio 2 жыл бұрын

Can i play games like call of duty of battlefield 5

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

Call of Duty should be fine. Battlefield 5 is probably just working but won't be very good.

@Griscasio 2 жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe will it play call of duty warzone

@lb5337 Жыл бұрын

Is that main pcie a 3.0?

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

As far as I know it is a PCIe 2.0 slot.

@lb5337 Жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe would I be able to fit a gtx 1050 ti in the case? And if so would it work?

@jensdbe Жыл бұрын

@@lb5337 that should work, yes. PCIe is backwards compatible. In theory you can get slightly lower performance but that will hardly be noticeable in practice (if even).

@lb5337 Жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe okay thank you. : ) you’ve earned a new subscriber : )

@lb5337 Жыл бұрын

@@jensdbe sorry, I forgot to ask but does the psu support the 1050?

@wolfgangweiss9644 2 жыл бұрын

Why don't you clean the Mainboard, the Cooler and the Fan? It's full of Dust.

@jensdbe 2 жыл бұрын

It was a lot worse before I started, believe me :) Used a compressor to get most of it out. Didn't look so dirty anymore in reality but noticed the same in the video footage afterwards.