Turning an old Z240 Workstation into a £150 Gaming PC.
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Жыл бұрынPC Gaming is great, there are so many ways to get into it but for those on a really tight budget it isn’t always easy to get a system good enough. In todays video we will show you one of the common ways to get a decent gaming PC for little cost by turning an older generation HP Z240 Workstation into a Gaming PC.
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@Revivify Жыл бұрын
90% of the computers I've used as my main pc have been 2nd/3rd hand. Great way to learn about pc building
@joeprobablyknows 8 ай бұрын
I like to use the Lenovo ThinkStation P520 for these, about $150USD with RAM and CPU (usually a W2135) along with a 900W Platinum PSU and GPU cables preinstalled for up to 2 8pin. Threw a RX5700 in and can game pretty well for a
@fresco_dinero5155 5 ай бұрын
I’m doin the exact same thing for mines. How’s 1440p on this setup
@drfragtastic 5 ай бұрын
Not bad at all. That 5700 is still pretty solid.
@HermannTheGreat 3 ай бұрын
You got a P520 for $150, they are $250+ at base price everywhere.
@fresco_dinero5155 3 ай бұрын
@@HermannTheGreat I also got mines for around $176
@highvoltagegaming4752 Ай бұрын
@@HermannTheGreatyeah they rise i just bought a hp z440
@littlelego 3 ай бұрын
Hi there! I did the same with the Z230 AND, YES you CAN convert it to ATX. There's an adapter cable that you can find on ebay or amazon for pretty cheaply to easily "plug & play" an ATX Power Supply. The "Stock" power supply doesn't handle gaming well (It'll blow)... i've had 2 blow out already so i finally decided to get the best ATX power supply out of frustration....Just thought id let you know.....
@andystech101 Жыл бұрын
I'd like to think me and ProYam had some input on this 🤩 Great to see a budget build on the channel 😎
@thomaswood8167 Жыл бұрын
I am currently using a Dell Precision T3620, with a Xeon E3-1245 V5 (I7-6700 equivalent), 32 GB ram and a GTX 1660
@brokencreationlordmegatrol3037 9 ай бұрын
My first oc was a hp celeron system with a single slot ati 4850 :,) good times
@callofdutyfreak10123 Жыл бұрын
Low key forgot about being able to do this. If you’re willing to spend a little more, I know some universities in the US are dumping Coffee Lake based “office builds” with cheap AMD GPUs. Might be worth keeping an eye out for them!
@ProYamYamPC Жыл бұрын
This is what PC gaming is about! I love the concept of making budget banger PCs like this!💪
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
This is how it all started. Except they were an off-white and laying down so you could put your monitor on top of it 😆. Also, there were these things call Voodoo cards lol
@waldevv 7 ай бұрын
Good to know the PSU has a spare PCI-e power cable, this video was pretty much the only source where I could confirm that. I got one of these machines for my buddy like 6 months ago because he really needed a better PC for daily use and he didn't have any money for a PC so I gifted him one, the Xeon it has is pretty powerful but the Quadro GPU in it is no good for gaming so I want to upgrade it for him I'll definitely go to visit him and double check his PC actually has the cable before going further but at least I know it most likely has one, I just didn't want to bother him right now and he probably doesn't know enough about PC's to check it for me
@honahwikeepa2115 Ай бұрын
I have the HP Z 440 E5 1650 V3, 32gb ddr4, Quadro K 2200 4g. $230 Australian. I put an NVME to replace the sata ssd. I will upgrade to PSU and GPU in the near future. Thank you for the video.
@ThatoSNhlapo 2 ай бұрын
Using this same PC and I think I am going to upgrade the GPU and I have 24g RAM on it. Our PC parts are not cheap, I can run couple games and stream live on youtube too. love the video.
@TechLabUK 2 ай бұрын
Thanks. If you need to swap the PSU out on it to support a new GPU we did a guide on it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8yAidmcsdyZenU.html
@certs743 7 ай бұрын
Cool video. I am running an old Dell T3600 with 64GBs in quad channel. My GPU is an RX 5600XT. It is an older system but so far that has yet to be an issue. And as for an upgrade path Intel is usually only any good for 2 generations anyway so it is kind of nonsensical to me to worry about that. Furthermore this machine runs circles around a consumer level i5 8400 system I had for work. So I have learned the on paper specs and synthetic benchmarks don't always matter.
@pagey007 7 ай бұрын
HP Z420 Super impressed with cost and performance , Great video 🙂
@TechLabUK 7 ай бұрын
It's a great way of getting a budget system up and running. Thanks for watching :)
@pagey007 7 ай бұрын
@@TechLabUK Is the power supply proprietary?. I would like to upgrade mine
@TechLabUK 7 ай бұрын
@@pagey007 Yes, the power supply is proprietary but it can be changed with an adaptor, we did this in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8yAidmcsdyZenU.htmlsi=dILH7t3TNhANqeYH 🙂
@Elvarg 9 ай бұрын
Good video. Just remember that 6th gen is where ddr4 happened. Some 6th gen systems are ddr3
@AshtonGodbout Жыл бұрын
I got a $40 bundle of electronics and sold enough to make my money back from it. It had two gtx 980s 4GB and bought a $40 Dell T3610 workstation tower Which had 16gb ddr3 and a 4c 4t cpu I added a 500GB HDD with Win 10 and an 80GB HDD for storage and it has worked great without modding or errors it also came with a DVD Drive which is a nice. Touch, for $40 it's Probably the best PC I've ever built for the price and it has 8 ram slots so it's future upgradable, especially the CPU socket.
@Playtrack22 Жыл бұрын
Bring back memories I got free Lenovo workstation Xeon cpu from work I turn it to gaming pc. It’s was easy plus I was in super tight budget.
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
That's real awesome! A great way to get into PC gaming still.
@TotallySearch 9 ай бұрын
HP/Dell systems always have the worst bios though, so you're basically trading efficiency with cheapness
@TechLabUK 9 ай бұрын
There’s always some trade off.
@Michael-lg4wz 2 ай бұрын
Doesn't matter : cheap is better than nothing.
@bykez4rhil 5 ай бұрын
How do i get this to read my hard drive? Says inaccessible drive at boot.
@kaviamuthan5755 6 ай бұрын
INTEL XEON E5-1650 Processor upto 3.2 GHz CPU(6 CORE), 32 GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro K4000 3GB GDDR5 Graphic Card which gpu can i upgrade?
@TrevM0nkey 8 ай бұрын
may have missed it if you mentioned it... but how many hard drives can you fit in one - cablewise. PSU and motherboard ports. Are there plenty of cables from the PSU or would you need to upgrade? I've a stack of old IDE, 3.5inch SATA, 2.5inch SATA and SSD drives, and looking to put a server together on the cheap
@TechLabUK 8 ай бұрын
I believe the SATA extension out of the motherboard has 3 SATA connections on it and the board has 4 SATA data connections. You can extend all these though by installing a new PSU which we did in a follow up video, it requires a cheap adaptor to do.
@AshtonGodbout Жыл бұрын
I have an old desktop motherboard laying around the Intel dp43tf which I paired with a core 2 duo and 6gb ddr2 ram which gpu would you recommend for it? It would be for a retro rainy day build
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
Depends what you want to play on it.
@ginomercadojr 20 күн бұрын
Thank you for the video!! Question. I have a Z240 with a GeForce gtx 1060 armor 3g ocv1. I have two 8gb sticks of RAM running at 2400. I’m using a i7-6700k cpu @ 4ghz. But right now it’s not launching any of my steam games. Any ideas or suggestions?
@TechLabUK 19 күн бұрын
Make sure windows is up to date, run a ddu on your graphics drivers and re-install the latest then if still nothing try re-installing a game / steam.
@feelsbad1193 Жыл бұрын
You never fully mounted that nvme or showed it booting from it? Shall we see a video showing that?
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
The NVMe was in there, just the clip n the case got broke so it's hanging off. All the benchmarks were taken running from that NVMe drive.
@kheurou 6 ай бұрын
Please tell me how to make the M.2 drive detected by the Bios. i've installedt one 512 mb M.2 drive but, it is not detected on the Bios. Is there a specific setup to make it visible to the bios and further to the OS ?
@TechLabUK 6 ай бұрын
I never had to change anything, it just worked but I do remember having to use a SATA NVMe and not a PCIe one so worth checking that.
@BD-8171 7 ай бұрын
I found a HP z620 with 128g ram (ddr4) and a 1tb ssd included for 300€, is that a good deal?
@TechLabUK 7 ай бұрын
Seems alright, make a good machine that will.
@gaboragotai 7 ай бұрын
Hi. Can you tell me its possible to put 7th gen processor in it? Becasue I read some forums and someone could put in i7-7700 or i5-7500 but on the HP website only shows t 6 th gen processors in the support list .....even on ebay I saw some Z240 with i5 -7500 CPU. So Im really confused now.
@TechLabUK 7 ай бұрын
I haven't tried it but the 6th and 6th generation shared the same sockets and most boards supported both. Just depends on if the bios on the board has been updated to take the 7th I suppose.
@MJaccobFTW 10 ай бұрын
Are you able to upgrade the CPU in this system to a 8th gen CPU?
@TechLabUK 10 ай бұрын
No, it will be 6th/7th
@simdad8429 5 ай бұрын
Hey ! I have watched your vid and just purchased a z240, i need a little help with a boot drive, is it 32 or 64 bit ? What is or isnt supported etc ? 😊
@TechLabUK 5 ай бұрын
It's a 6th/7th gen system (Well ours was) so it supports 64bit Windows 10.
@simdad8429 5 ай бұрын
@TechLabUK mine is also a i5 6500 like yours was ! I need to buy one looking at ebay just needed to know what to buy is all
@user-qt9uq7tm8h Жыл бұрын
Hey bro..... I'm facing a problem plzz tell me how to solve.... Problem is that " i just switched (upgraded) from Nvidia Quadro k600 to RX 550 4GB... When install it in system it gives display but after installing drivers of AMD it doesn't give display... Even after restarting a plenty of times .... When pc turns on it gives display ultill windows loading screen comes but don't gives display when is about to start.. mean when u are on welcome windows mean before welcome windows it loses display with drivers ... But works without driver but problem is as u know we can't use any card without driver Edit : what should i do to solve it kindly help me
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
If the new card isn't faulty, have you tried doing a full clean down of all graphics drivers using DDU? I did a guide on it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lb2labGSxrmmdp8.html
@bobsonuk 3 ай бұрын
Would a RTX 3050 8GB (6-pin) be a good fit for a system like this?
@TechLabUK 3 ай бұрын
Should work fine tbh
@bobsonuk 3 ай бұрын
@@TechLabUK Thanks, no issues putting a PCIe 4.0 x8 GPU into a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot?
@TechLabUK 3 ай бұрын
@@bobsonuk Slight performance hit but not that much. Nothing like the RX 6400 / RX 6500XT cards due to their 4x Slot and real low Memory Bus.
@user-vz5ex5sw3h 10 ай бұрын
Hi , i have the same hop workstation with xeon e3-1240 v5 + 16 gb ddr4 , i want to upgrade my GPU from the stock Quadro K2200 to a rx 5700 , using a 6+2 pin power adapter will i be able to use the new GPU ? will the 400 PSU be able to power the new GPU ? also the rx 5700 comes with 6+8 connectors , will it work plugging the 6 +2 adapter connected to the 6 pin from the PSU ?
@TechLabUK 10 ай бұрын
No, Unfortunately not as the RX 5700 requires more power but you can upgrade the PSU in the system, I did a video on it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8yAidmcsdyZenU.html
@user-vz5ex5sw3h 10 ай бұрын
@@TechLabUK Thanks for the update , i found a Asus TUF rtx 2060 , that has a maximal power usage of 160W , i've read that 75 W will be supplied by the mother board pci x16 slot , an additional 75 would be supplied from the 400 W psu , would the rtx 2060 work ? seemingly some people have made it work with no problem or PSU change , just a 6 to 8 pin adapter would work
@TechLabUK 10 ай бұрын
@@user-vz5ex5sw3h If the card has a 6pin PCIe connection and not an 8pin then it should work. I ran a 1060 6GB off this fine.
@user-vz5ex5sw3h 10 ай бұрын
@@TechLabUK the 2060 or rx 5600xt both have 8 pin connectors and TDP around 150-160W , wouldn't a 6 to 8 pin adapter work for those cards ?
@TechLabUK 10 ай бұрын
@@user-vz5ex5sw3h Quite possibly but I have never tried it.
@rahuldinesh2840 Ай бұрын
Can I add RTX 4060 8GB VRAM graphics card to this HPZ220?
@TechLabUK Ай бұрын
No idea, if the PSU is 550w or above and it has an 8Pin PCIe connection then sure.
@rahuldinesh2840 Ай бұрын
@@TechLabUK Thanks for reply
@allisaybarra696 27 күн бұрын
Quick question i just bought this pc waiting for the arrival will i be able to put an rx 580?
@TechLabUK 27 күн бұрын
Depending on the model of RX 580 they require a 450w PSU minimum and a single 8Pin connector so no but we did do a video after this one to show you how to change the PSU to use any GPU you want.
@allisaybarra696 26 күн бұрын
@@TechLabUK thanks will watch it this video got me to buy this PC for my kid keep up the good work definitely earned a sub!!
@TechLabUK 26 күн бұрын
@@allisaybarra696 Thanks. The system works great as it is with a GTX 1650 or even a GTX 1060 / RX 570 due to them all working fine with what it has (If that helps). Hope the build goes well.
@winstoneouma5146 Жыл бұрын
Everything is like double or triple the price in my country😂😂Nice build though
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
🙁 sorry to hear the pricing is bad there.
@winstoneouma5146 Жыл бұрын
@@TechLabUK for that price, you get a 2nd or 3rd gen laptop thats been refurbished. Love your videos though. You explain builds in a simple way. Fun to watch
@mkrleza Жыл бұрын
The NVMe just hangs there?
@TechLabUK Жыл бұрын
In this case as the peg broke, just didn't want to stick it down yet.
@martinfrystad5834 7 ай бұрын
Noob question : are the ram 288-pin?
@TechLabUK 7 ай бұрын
Standard desktop ram.
@cheeser3wr3 14 сағат бұрын
Interesting
@nfcbtw5304 10 ай бұрын
what cpu is there ?
@TechLabUK 10 ай бұрын
i5 6500
@theorphanobliterator 6 ай бұрын
for anyone trying to replicate this in 2024, skip the 1060. can't handle much nowadays. go for a 1070, it uses 150 Watts which is enough to run a 6 pin, and has 8 gigs of vram, the minimum for 2024 gaming
@user-yx6mk8wo7f 3 ай бұрын
doesn't 1070 require 8 pin
@raymondford1857 9 ай бұрын
Can I play GTA if I make me a PC like this
@TechLabUK 9 ай бұрын
Sure, should have no issues playing GTA.
@youwhat1450 9 ай бұрын
hate pi zi
@MR-vj8dn 2 ай бұрын
Sad to say: Thumbs down. Editing away pauses and breathing is really annoying to me. Can’t watch this kind of content. Stressful. I’ve got a few of these machines and was wondering what to do about them. Have to find another video talking about them.
@TechLabUK 2 ай бұрын
Cool
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