I held on to windows 7 as long as I could, seeing how its dead now, felt it was time to get a windows 10 computer. the consumer computers at my local best buy looked terribly cheap and they has laptop disc drives instead of the type that my old HP pavillion desktop had.
So I bought from Ebay, a refurbished lenovo thinkstation P500 .
here's whats in it:
Machine Type Model: 30A7
Intel Xeon E5-1620 V3 Processor (3.50GHz) - 4 Cores – 8 Threads
16.0GB RAM (4x4GB Modules)
250GB SSD – Solid State Drive (Boot Drive)
1TB SATA 7.2K (Storage Drive)
Optical Drive – DVD/RW
Fresh Install of Win 10 Pro 64 – Windows 8.1 Pro Label
4GB NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Graphic
Tower (6x6)
Machine Type Model: 30A7
Intel Xeon E5-1620 V3 Processor (3.50GHz) - 4 Cores – 8 Threads
16.0GB RAM (4x4GB Modules)
250GB SSD – Solid State Drive (Boot Drive)
1TB SATA 7.2K (Storage Drive)
Optical Drive – DVD/RW
Fresh Install of Win 10 Pro 64 – Windows 8.1 Pro Label
4GB NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Graphic
Tower (6x6)
now here are my questions:
!. is this to old to surf the internet , Ebay, stream, watch movies on discs, listen to music on Cd's?
I ask because I have never purchased an "old computer before and am nervous of it becoming "dead" too soon.
2. I have discovered that my current monitor cannot be used with this videocard and I will need either an adapter or another monitor.
3. if I install a BDR drive (blu ray burner) will I be able to watch 4K movies with the current videocard? if not , what video card should I get?
4. how upgrade able is this computer?
thanks for all the help. you're gonna laugh, the computer it's replacing is a HP pavillion p7-1203
So I bought from Ebay, a refurbished lenovo thinkstation P500 .
here's whats in it:
Machine Type Model: 30A7
Intel Xeon E5-1620 V3 Processor (3.50GHz) - 4 Cores – 8 Threads
16.0GB RAM (4x4GB Modules)
250GB SSD – Solid State Drive (Boot Drive)
1TB SATA 7.2K (Storage Drive)
Optical Drive – DVD/RW
Fresh Install of Win 10 Pro 64 – Windows 8.1 Pro Label
4GB NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Graphic
Tower (6x6)
Machine Type Model: 30A7
Intel Xeon E5-1620 V3 Processor (3.50GHz) - 4 Cores – 8 Threads
16.0GB RAM (4x4GB Modules)
250GB SSD – Solid State Drive (Boot Drive)
1TB SATA 7.2K (Storage Drive)
Optical Drive – DVD/RW
Fresh Install of Win 10 Pro 64 – Windows 8.1 Pro Label
4GB NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Graphic
Tower (6x6)
now here are my questions:
!. is this to old to surf the internet , Ebay, stream, watch movies on discs, listen to music on Cd's?
I ask because I have never purchased an "old computer before and am nervous of it becoming "dead" too soon.
2. I have discovered that my current monitor cannot be used with this videocard and I will need either an adapter or another monitor.
3. if I install a BDR drive (blu ray burner) will I be able to watch 4K movies with the current videocard? if not , what video card should I get?
4. how upgrade able is this computer?
thanks for all the help. you're gonna laugh, the computer it's replacing is a HP pavillion p7-1203
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