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Hi all, I wanted to share my latest journey into keeping my old war horse Z840 system going. I treated myself to a GPU upgrade from the OEM (PNY made) Quadro M4000 that was given to me with the system to an PNY RTX 4070 Super. I have the 1125 watt power supply so was able to use 6-pin to 8-pin...

Had a Z820, upgraded the CPUs - and then I got for free an Z840 with dual E5-2697 v4s, 128 GB of DDR4 1866 RAM in quad-channel mode, and 4x Samsung MZVKW512 NVMe drives. I gave the Z820 to a friend. Just bragging is all. :peace:

You guys are getting carried away with this. My thread has devolved.:kookoo: Pls stop the arguing. Hamster is deeply concerned by it. I made a typo in my first post, my CPUs are not E5 2620 V2s, they are just E5 2620s. Apparently it was ordered this way for some specification made by the...

Woo lots of good info, thanks everyone. I went for a pair of 2680 V2s and will stick with the air cooling setup I have now as the liquid coolers aren't available cheap (IT dept doesn't have spares they are willing to give away as they still have to support a bunch of these older machines). I'm...

Thanks for the feedback on the liquid cooling but - wow - the prices for these are insane! I'm still on the fence over the upgrade. I certainly don't think I could get a machine that performs as well as this old workhorse without getting spendy, though.

Make sure it's connected at gigabit full duplex and have a look for "MTU tuning" in your favorite search engine.

I didn't realize there was an owners club thread and posted this in the main board. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/hp-z820-upgrade-cpus-or-not.285557/

Hello all, I have an old HP Z820 that I use for general computing and some work stuff. Win10 Pro, lots of large Visio diagramming, some Chief Architect home designer stuff, and general use. No gaming or rendering. I got it for free. :cool: Bee using it for a couple of years now and it's very...