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1. 

   @gabood

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   Ngl if someone made a JankStation logo I would buy it and put it on the front of my pc. And I don’t even have a JankStation.

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   @SgtStarSlayer

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   As a electrician, that 6 pin sata conversion is fine as long you do NOT Daisy chain with another gpu. it can NOT hold the current off of that single sata cable due to sata rail cannot support that much current. Always use seperate sata power cable. Same with 6 pin and 8 pin, you can use the single 6/8 pin cable connection with one splitter (for one gpu). Always be mindful of total psu wattage: 200-300 for motherboard and cpu, and 150-400 per gpu.

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   @The123tactics

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   the lower core count but higher clocked cpus on this socket work a lot better (i picked up a 2690 v4 for ~35) and it runs pretty close to my 3700x with my 2070

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   @forfreedomtwo6921

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   So many mis-information. It is not too hard to confirm some facts first before making a video 🙂 Xeon e5-2697 V3 is a haswell not boardwell. System that came with a 490W PS comes with a single drop 6pin PCIE only by default. System that came with a 650W PS comes with a dual drop 6+8 PCIe power supply cable. You can buy that cable to replace the single drop cable you have. That cable is hard to find now but not impossible. These are just basic facts you can find/read up on. Just FYI.

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5. 

   @forfreedomtwo6921

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   Lenovo Does NOT Want You Doing This… Because they want you to buy Part# 03T8801. Hope you see this before the fire started. Good luck.

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6. 

   @mph8759

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   Are dual socket systems really still worth it when you can pick a more powerful single CPU platform instead?

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7. 

   @hipster2283

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   Hey! I have a load of these. My daily desktop is a P520 (Skylake, $350 total for 8c16t 5700xt), I have a C30 (v2 2S, 2620v2 x2, 128gb for $150 total) as a virtualization server, a P710 (2x2620v4, 256gb) as a a second virt server and six E32s (4670t desktops, $30 each)

   You've just got to watch out for power supplies and buy barebones! Cheaper and quieter than my real servers

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8. 

   @retrolivegaming9600

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   I just got one of these it was a pain but I put a RTX 3070ti in mine

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9. 

   @shockcrew5275

   October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

   My upgraded Lenovo M83 (1150) story: Xeon E3-1265L v3, 1660Super 6gb, 16gb DDR3 on a proprietary 450W PSU. Perfect as a home cinema and casual gaming. Never had an issue with it.

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10. 

    @jakedirtysox6146

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I have… experience with these adapters, with my pc almost being caught on fire due to a 6 pin to 8 pin connector due to the wires being too low of a gauge. If they were made with double the gauge, it would have been perfect. YMMV

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11. 

    @sharkylal

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Lga3647 is also a good cheap workstation socket

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12. 

    @HexOmega3113

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    How well would this run elden ring?

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13. 

    @Killerspieler0815

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    SATA to PCIe-power (only 54 watts) is even worse than Molex to PCIe-power (Molex can handle more amps) = I mean already with a "good" adapter, while the cheap Chinesium adapters are very dangerous

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14. 

    @10siWhiz

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    6600xt uses a single 8 pin pcie power cable and is equal or better than a 2070.

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15. 

    @zombx7174

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I have a Thinkstation P520 That comes with a 900W psu and the Intel Xeon W-2135 with a base clock of 3.7 Ghz and 6 cores. So far its pretty nice

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16. 

    @5056-b7b

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Got one of these this year as my first PC (wanted a p520, but those seem to be much harder to get here in the UK). First off, thank you for being one of the few people on youtube who've covered this thing. If you happen to see this, I'd like to Know if:
    1. Has it been safe or did it actually catch on fire😅?
    2. Anything els useful you've learned?
    Thank you, and have a nice day

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17. 

    @registromalplena2514

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I was thinking about getting one like this for Deep Learning… Now I am considering something else.

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18. 

    @jaketerveer445

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    To answer the question about the SATA to PCIe adapter: Ideally you want to be drawing from two separate rails or at least two separate cables. SATA is typically only rated for ~54w. That's for the entire cable, not each connector of a single cable! So your setup is not ideal.. Although, you're connected to two SATA connectors, they're on the same cable. What you want is to put the other connector of the PCIe splitter adapter to a separate SATA cable altogether. That'd be the safest bet in this scenario. It looks like there are multiple headers on the board for those proprietary Lenovo SATA cables. Hope this helps someone!

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19. 

    @echeese63

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Test armored core 6

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20. 

    @aku2dimensional

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I have the P520 Brickstation and it's a little different from the 500, mine has a 900W supply that came with two 6+2 power connectors for linking two cards like the RTX A2000 or something. I have the W-2135, 32GB of RAM, and a GTX 1070 OC which is fine for me because I only play Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 or older Bethesda games. If you only played games like Battlefield or Infinite I wouldn't recommend a server as your PC but it suits me fine for what I do.

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21. 

    @smokeajeff

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    PLEASSEEE ive been running dual MOLEX to 8pin for over five years now, i do anything with it, game, render leave it on for weeks

    System: HP Z600
    GPU: MSI GTX 1070

    The gpu is 150watt tdp, check their website
    Pcie slot already 75w and my z600 powersupply has a 6pin also 75w which is already enough to power the damn thing

    BUT ITS A NVIDIA THING because when it boots it pulls a big wattage, and when it notices its not 8pin connected your pc will not boot up due to “safety”

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22. 

    @alejandrobadia4835

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    make a short of cp2077 with massive crowds mods, any card

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23. 

    @colinreece3452

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    You did well getting the power supply for $34 I'm in the UK and they are expensive on eBay. Also sent for a sata to 6+2 cable.

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24. 

    @FloatingPoint00

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Is there any issues or errors like I/O or any other?
    Yesterday, I bought p520, w2135 32GB quadro p1000 for my nephew. Somebody told me that you have made a mistake and you'll face few irritating and un solved errors with this machine.
    Plzzz, guide me how to properly install it's drivers. Your kind info will be so helpful for me. Thanks.

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25. 

    @friedrichgrese2501

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I was very excited about copying this, however, I have a P520, and it uses the LGA 2066 socket type, not the LGA 2011 you mention when talking about Lenovo P series workstations. Do you know of an equivalent CPU for the P520 owners out there? Also please note, the P520 comes with 2x (6+2 pin) connectors from a 900W PSU. So you will never need to rig the wires, any gpu you want has connection provided.

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26. 

    @ncdave4life

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    aChair Leg, are you running Win11, and does the Lenovo ThinkStation P500 have a TPM 2.0 module (for Win11)?

    Also, does the P500 have eight DIMM slots?

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27. 

    @johnhudson7055

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Actually as long as you’re not drawing too much power you should be fine. However I would have opted for the 6 pin to 8 pin adapter and then a sata to 6 pin adapter. Ideally I’d have hunted down the evga 2070 that has a single 6 pin pcie plug.

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28. 

    @eins_namelezz

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Imagine selling and wanting an X99 again

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29. 

    @shanesimmons6079

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    The 2135 model comes factory with two 6+2 connectors factory try that next time there's various models

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30. 

    @brentongojkovich9896

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Does the turbo unlock on the v3 work on the workstations

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31. 

    @neojack333

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    check on the back of your PSU. the 490W only has 6 metal pins. BUT the 600W and the 850W PSUs have 2×6 pins ! Now to use them you just need a cable from lenovo : the SKU is 03T8801
    It will provide the dual 6->8 Pins needed to feed a modern GPU

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32. 

    @Blind-Ambition

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I got one of these the other day. It came with a 6+2 and a 6 Pin PCI-E GPU connector with the 650W PSU. Yeah I got lucky. What wasn't so lucky was that I bought a E5-1660v4 which did not work with the default shipped BIOS…soooo…

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33. 

    @gastonhitw720

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    why buy this when you can actually buy a supermicro x10 + 2699v3 and a 1080ti in ebay for a bit more money, I did that and now I have a every day lightning fast computer and also a server all in one

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34. 

    @josea.9475

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I know this is super late, and Im so sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I have an MSI Ventus x2 4070 and its a single connector. maybe this can help bring the pc a new lease on life 🙏💚. Thank you for the awesome content!

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35. 

    @blindtechh

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Might be for my personal system since I’m a content creator

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36. 

    @kirpeknots

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I did the same. Got a P500 for 100 Euro. Put in 64Gb server memory. But recased it in a XPG Defender case with an ordinary 1000 watt psu. (There's an adaptor available for that). Also put in a Asus Hyper M2 Nvme board with a 4x2Tb stripje because this board supports PCIE Burification. And my RTX 3070 without being a fire hazard because I use an ordinary 1000watt PSU. Still working on the front USB IO. Even with adapters to the Propriety Lenovo USB headers I've got clearance issues with my Gpu atm.

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37. 

    @jackkellaway3

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Very late to the conversation, but the workstations like this (Lenovo Thinkstation, HP Z series and Dell Precision) all came with 6 pin PCI-E cables that were actually rated for 150W and there was an OEM 6-pin to 8-pin adapter required if required. For example, the HP model is N1G35AA

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38. 

    @alejandrolomeli6871

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Was that "so" at the beginning of the video necessary?

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39. 

    @12gark

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    I did my "jankstation" about 4 years ago on a z620. the Hp sistem has 3 HDD drive, but you get 2 6pin connectors and a 850W platinum PSU (that is actually rated for some 1300W peaks), I put a 6to8 pin adaptor that hasn't burnt my house down yet, slotted in a 2080 and called it a day. worked great since then. Is it the most powerful gaming rig in the world? no. But I have 8c/16t 4Ghz, 128GB of ram (bought for less than 100€ LOL), 3 drives, and even the only m.2 boot drive ever on Ivy Bridge for the longest time and it's still decently fast today.

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40. 

    @nicholasbateman2213

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    test RDRII

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41. 

    @SIX4GX460

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Great video, I’ve watched a couple times. The question is what CPU & GPU would you choose one year later.

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42. 

    @Folk661

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Get the p520. Solves all your issues.

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43. 

    @marcc5768

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    how is the power consumption on the beast while gaming? since the CPU is 145W TDP. I run a Xeon for my work/office rig. I built from an aliexpress combo kllisre x79 + e5 265- v2 + 16GB ddr3-1333 ECC RAM in quad channel. OS Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon. Runs great, but might have to up grade my Samsung EVO 860 SATA ssd to a entry level nvme..I am seeing a slow down during boot up since newly installing Mint 21.3 recently. I was running Mint 20.3, which felt to boot up faster.

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44. 

    @anthonyroman218

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    Noooo keep the Think/jank station and the retro vibes alive, bro Geez 🙄

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45. 

    @satokotsu

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    thinkstations are literally the thinkpads for budget gaming

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46. 

    @theredspoon1763

    October 17, 2024 at 7:49 am

    In case you didn´t know: the mainboard of the P500/P510 has extra GPU Power ports. They´re somewhat hidden on the right side underneath the mobo and may require taking the board out of the case to populate, but they´re there. The specific cables are available online but not cheap.

    If you´re looking for one of these workstations I´d recommend to either look for one that comes with the 650(?)W PSU or the 850W Psu. Both have extra GPU power connectors available from the factory. The 850W PSU is somewhat distinguishable from the rest of the lot due to its 80 Plus Platinum Seal instead of the 80 Plus Gold Seal on the other two. The 490W and 650W option can be distinguished by the amount of available GPU connectors. The 490W has one available while the 650W option has two available (one is usually not in use and stored in the front fan assembly of the GPU compartment).

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