The pictures show an optical drive, and no video out?
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I get excited when I see high quality HP Z-class hardware on offer, past purchaser through this app. However, the current offering is a low spec almost 5 years out of date, essentially barebones machine that will take many thousands of dollars of investment to bring up to its real potential. The price is too high by about 50% given that for around that price a superior specced machine can be assembled from spare parts.
I agree. Almost six years ago I got a HP Z640 system from Woot that was only $1800 and it had 64GB of RAM and a Quadro video card.
HP Z640 Mid-Tower Workstation, Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 6-Core 2.4GHz, 64GB DDR4, 512GB Solid State Drive, NVIDIA Quadro K420 2GB, Win7Pro
What’s the use case for this machine?
Virtualization? No, there’s not enough ram and it needs a 2P configuration.
Design? No, it lacks a graphic card
Workstation? No, better tech costs less.
Platform for expansion? Yes, I’m going to add 500 GiB of RAM, a second processor and a high end graphics card at a minimum. Why would I spend 3000 dollars for a base platform, when for under $1000, I can get essentially the same thing and maybe have money left over for the components that I really want?
Even more confusing is that this Xeon, like most Xeons, doesn’t have integrated graphics. Is there a graphics card in here that’s not listed…? I’ve had some on-board graphics on server boards but they can’t handle anything but the sorry displays for on-site terminal work.
I’ve owned a z420, two z620s and an HP gen 8 5U in the past. They are great machines. I’m running a z440 as a NAS/jellyfin server atm. This was when Intel was charging obscene amounts for terrible chips. I imagine someone is trying to recover some losses on buying a machine with a silver in it…
TL;DR the use case is taking this off someone’s hands who spent way, way too much lol