First Intel anything I’ve had since the Pentium/Xeon days …
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Nice part is I upgraded this thing to a WD Blue 1TB SSD drive … matches the one currently holding my TW (bought at the same time) … so all I need is some new hardware to drop them both into …
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Excellent! I picked up a laptop for $10 at a yard sale. It had a 6th generation i5 and a 1080 screen with 16 GB RAM.
I plugged a USB m.2 NVMe drive into it and it booted TW. I then put it aside until I could order a NVMe for it. The $32 Solidigm P41 Plus 1TB nvme arrived and didn’t fit.
Online info said it used a NVMe. Turned out to be m.2 SATA. So I put a 1TB m.2 SATA in it that’s a complete clone of my desktop with Tumbleweed and Mageia.
It’s not the fastest but it does have Intel and Nvidia GPUs so I believe it was probably a pretty good little gamer 8 generations ago.
I even looked inside at the m.2 slot and thought yes, it has a NVMe slot. There’s a flat cable that runs right across the top of the slot and I couldn’t see it good. I didn’t remove it and inspect it really good.
Being lazy…That cost me another $50 for a m.2 SATA. I did check it and it’s not a combo NVMe/SATA slot like some USB SSD enclosures use.
Oh well…I have a spare NVMe I guess but always check, especially with laptops. They build several models and it’s hard to tell which exact features yours ended up with. Mine had a touchscreen option but it doesn’t have it.
There’s also a 1TB HDD but it shows some errors. Still, they were corrected so the drive might be ok for a while.
I’ll use it a little, maybe more, and the biggest investment is in the SSD which is removable.
Do you have any planned use for it?
Yup … I wanna drop the SSD drives in a desktop with an Aorus (Gigabyte) MB / Ryzen 7 something and probably a 2xxx or 3xxx Nvidia card … I’m typing on the last one I bought back about 2012 - 14 … Athlon 6100/750TI right now and It is plenty quick enough on my desktop and general surfing duty … dang quick as a matter of fact …
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I’m currently working on a Dell Precision 5820 workstation I was given, I’ve updated the BIOS, TPM etc. It came with a SAS Controller since it was running some 4TB 12Gbps SAS drives… (I had to destroy those drives as part of getting the system).
I have an Intel ARC A310 and a Quadro RTX4000 in it running Tumbleweed. it has 32GB of dual channel ECC RAM, but have some quad channel RAM turning up for it. Then will look at upgrading the CPU as it only has a 4 core W-2102 series Xeon in it will likely move to a W-2175 14 core (28 Threads), I’d really like the 18 core one, but the price is still up there for second hand ones of those…
I’ll also add in a 1TB NVMe on a PCIe card, it does have an option for NVME devices, but need some adapters for those…
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I looked up the 14 core on eBay and you can get a whole Dell Precision 5820 with that CPU for only $30-$50 more than they want for just the CPU ($300-$330 for the CPU and about $350 or so for the tower)!
I’m sure the 18 core isn’t cheap.
@jsmith64 Yup, but since I got the system for nothing… I’ll just get the CPU and some RAM, have everything else. Yes, the 18 cores are around $700!
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