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First post, by oeuvre

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Got a nice hex core workstation for a good price recently. After upgrading it a bit, it's ready to rock! Good for XP games and still quite a capable machine for video editing.

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Intel Xeon W3680 3.33GHz Hex Core processor
12GB DDR3 ECC RAM (6x2GB)
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB PCIe video card
625W 80+ power supply
5.25" DVD/RW SATA optical drive
3.5" multi card reader
128GB Toshiba 2.5" SSD
500GB Seagate ST3500418AS 7200RPM 3.5" hard drive
Windows XP Professional on HDD
Windows 7 64 bit Professional on SSD
eSATA
8xUSB 2.0 ports rear
2xUSB 2.0 ports front
USB 3.0 PCIe card
2xUSB 3.0 ports rear
2xUSB 3.0 ports front via 5.25" USB 3.0 caddy with 3.5" caddy (SSD resides there)
Analog and digital audio jacks
Front panel audio
Serial port
Ethernet
S-Video out
DVI
2xDisplayPort
2x keys for side panel lock

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Model + serial number

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Easy access side panel with lock

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The rear

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Inner glory

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Closeup of heatsink and RAM

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Cards

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Seagate HD

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BIOS screen

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Windows boot loader

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Windows XP desktop

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Programs + specs

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Windows 7 desktop

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Specs

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Trusty old Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard

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Corsair Harpoon RGB gaming mouse

Runs like a charm! Pretty nice machine overall. Not loud and can even do Dolphin emulation smoothly.

HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
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Reply 1 of 4, by Pasi123

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That is still a really nice system, probably better than many people here use as a main PC!

I have a similar 6 core 12 thread LGA1366 Xeon on my main PC, when overclocked it can still beat most newer 4c/8t CPU's (i7-4790K, i7-6700K etc.) in multi-core performance.

X5670 @ 4.4GHz|P6X58D-E|24GB DDR3|GTX 960|750 EVO 250GB|4TB, 2x2Tb HDDs|Define R5|Win7
P4 HT 3.0GHz|GA-8SGXLFS|2GB DDR1|9800 Pro|2x 40GB Seagate|WinXP
Celeron 333MHz|Diamond Micronics C400|384MB RAM|Diamond Viper V550|6GB HDD|WinME

Reply 2 of 4, by oeuvre

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It's a really nice machine indeed and it's quite fun to use. Enjoying it a lot so far...no issues. It isn't silent but it's not noisy either and the fan noise is unobtrusive. Performance wise, it's great for multi-threaded stuff but single core usage definitely lags behind my 6700K.

HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
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Reply 3 of 4, by stamasd

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I just built last week a hybrid based on a Thinkstation E30 motherboard. Paired it with a Sandy Bridge i7-2600, 16GB RAM (4x4GB), a mini-tower case that I had to mod to make the massive HSF fit (see pic https://preview.ibb.co/eEyC6L/case1.jpg ). Installed Win7 on a 64GB SSD, I know it's small but good enough for now. Video is a GTX750Ti. Unfortunately that is a 2-slot card and covers the only other PCIe slot so I cannot use a modern PCIe WiFi card, so instead I went for a USB one. Eventually I'll install more drives (DVD and front multi-card reader planned). Also still have 2 PCI slots available, a sound card will probably go in one - one of the X-fi cards I have.

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

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