A lot of HP's uses propietary PSU connectors on the mobo.
Cheap refurbished OEM prebuilts
Jason Wright
Adrian Fisher
That's when you go for a nice workstation that was built for high-end GPUs right out of the factory. Don't think I'll ever go back to technology legos.
Charles Bailey
HP Z600 and Lenovo C20 / D20 have 12 xeon cores and cheap as shit ecc ram for under $300.
Asher White
Not that many. I have a modified hpe-210y (which is only 8 years old) that I put my own PSU and GPU into. But the mobo does limit me on ram and cpu choices.
Nolan Brooks
Did this myself recently. Didn't even get an amazing deal, but with a PSU and GPU upgrade, it makes for a good gayman PC.
i7-2600 and 16gb ram for $220. Included a Win10 key.
Angel Davis
>only reason I'd ever buy a prebuilt is due to an exclusive form factor.
I fucking want pic related designed for mini-ITX.
I actually bought one on eBay, only to find out it uses a proprietary board.
I'm tempted to just take a dremel and arc welder and just make it fit mini-ITX
Isaiah Morgan
The board physically fits inside but the standoffs, I/O opening, and Expansion slots do not line up. Might just have to buy and shape a steel/aluminun sheet and just weld it onto the case, after cutting out the back panel completely.
Isaiah Powell
I got a HP Z420 with a 6-core Xeon for like $300. It's pretty neat. Not the best spec'd system, but it could reasonably be built into a gaming computer. It does have a pretty beastly 600w PSU.
Angel Martin
The CPU cooler is also super weird.
Dylan Morales
>only to find out it uses a proprietary board.
don't they all have proprietary boards?