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I did that (adapter) with a Lenovo TS-140. I got server new off Slick and/Ebay for $270. I got the adapter and I installed a modular Superflower/ EVGA 650w psu. Then I added a AMD 7850. Got a nice...
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That superfish was a fiasco, but I think it was installed on noteooks only. I have not had bios problems on these Lenovos: M81,M82 m83 M91,M92,M93,E32,P300. Now, these models are not servers....
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This is a horrible deal.
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Thats assuming if the computer has been in use the whole time. You never know with these used business/school machines. I picked up a used 3 year old Lenovo laptop with touchscreen and the SSD drive...
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According to Anandtech the 1650 "Super" is 100 watts and therefore can't be bus powered (75 watt limit). The regular 1650 is 75 watts.
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I've bought plenty of off-lease Dell refurbs. Depending on your uses, they are fine, and have held up as well or better than their new gear. Just know what processor, RAM capacity, bays, video, and...
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The majority of gamers may not agree with the following statement but I want to share my experience. Purchase a used video card. Heavy PC users and gamers are constantly upgrading their video cards...
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Throw a second nic in and you have a really powerful pfSense router or add a quad nic, a couple hard drives and virtualize pfSense alongside FreeNAS.
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You can get a 2 year warranty on this for another $25, but you can easily find a better for cheaper on eBay easily. Example: in April when these were at a premium due to the flood of new people...
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Good luck with your new-to-you i5
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I have this card. You just need a SATA to Molex adapter to feed it additional power. I'm using this card in an old Dell Optiplex 7010. My son is enjoying gaming on this.
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You're speaking from the perspective who buys everything new/fast/etc. Many people in the US don't have a large budget for their computers.
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So people have to buy more ram and an SSD so it becomes pretty close in price to reach parity of they don't have old parts to use.
There is always a premium for refurbished that take full height...
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I guess if you needed more ram, sure. But a ssd is cheap. Like $25 or less. Even has a newer processor too. Plus older ram is pretty cheap too.
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That's my point exactly. I purchased it on the whims for a great x-mas gift. The person isn't an heavy PC user, and she doesn't do much beside facebook and music listening on YouTube.
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Can you get me the build with pcpartpicker?
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The HP 3500 Pro they have takes standard ATX PSUs.
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Is the power supply ATX? If not, how strong is it?
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What Ive noticed with these companies, especially Dell, is that they will put the newer processors in the older systems to make it seem like a better deal but when you look at the overall age and...
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I disagree. It's perfect for someone on a budget and one who only need to do office type work.
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Everything minus case/psu adds up to $319 in my micro center cart. Cheapest new case/psu on ebay is $40. All regular every day prices.
My $100 estimate was off because micro center apparently...
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If the factory installed Windows 10, then the motherboard is recognized by the MS servers and will auto activate. This is not well known. I have purchased plenty of corporate computers for resale,...
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Will this be a good machine to build a bunch of VMs using virtualbox.
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The OP computer is perfectly adequate, and the people saying it's about to break don't know what they're talking about, but this isn't a good deal at all. I buy business computers on eBay for local...
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These machines are most likely off lease machines from a corporate environment... meaning they have been heavily used. Not worth the price IMO.
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But you know this is a six year old processor. Right? A 6 year old "refurbished" machine might not be different than buying a used craiglist pc for 50 bucks and throwing in a 20 dollar ssd.
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Commercial routers can't encrypt 100% of your available broadband bandwidth over a VPN, only a small fraction. This is important for someone that wants the whole house or business protected behind...
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Good catch , thank you.
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That's PCIe 3.0. My guess is that this PC is 2.0
EDIT: looks like the graphics slot is 3.0 and 75w max.
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What about Legal OS license :)
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I've been trying to convince myself it'd be worth putting one together for funsies, but the effort for the payout hasn't gotten me yet. Whole house encryption doesn't excite me, I really am waiting...
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CPU: $180
Motherboard: $70
RAM: $50
Case: $30
PSU: $40
TOTAL: $370 with no deal hunting.
Find a sale or a bundle and you'll hit $329. The CPU is a bit tricky. They seem to be going out of...
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 Tower Desktop PC - Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz, 16GB DDR3, 256GB SSD, Win 10 Pro, Grade A Refurbished on sale for $229.99
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Does this have integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, or will it require dongles?
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how so? if you bought all these parts used on ebay, you'd be paying a bit more than this even if you got lucky. refurbs are generally bad deals, but this is the first one I've seen that is actually...
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With an extra $100 you could build a pc that is just miles ahead of that one. Those older processors did not age will, considering the new tech out now and the price to performance they offer. Even...
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This seems expensive for what you'd get. Micro Center routinely has open box for sale around ~$330 with either Ryzen 5 3XXX or I5-9XXX and 8/16GB RAM.
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They are definitely off lease machines, my company processes these things by the pallet load and they get auctioned off to places like this one..
Sometimes they even make two or three rounds before...
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Core i5-4570 is about 5100 passmarks.
Rocking the DDR3.
Be certain to compared performance estimates between systems.
If you can swap out a motherboard, cpu and ram, you can get a system with...
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Although I have no interest in a touch screen computer, I agree that a knowledgeable shopper can get more for their money on eBay.
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