Lenovo ThinkCentre M720S SFF Desktop PC

Lenovo ThinkCentre M720S SFF Desktop PC

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It’s a pretty solid computer, plays well with Windows 11, upgrade the RAM and get a second SSD. Glad they finally dumped the optical drive, those kept failing. Will not be suitable for gaming, but most every other use it’s great for.

Yep, not a bad deal here at all on an office PC. Lenovo is always pretty good with their builds. You could maybe upgrade this with an AMD RX 6400, but I have no idea if there would be an extra PCI-e x 16 lane available on the motherboard. Even then, the RX 6400 is considered a low-mid spec card, but can play a good amount of games. A good GPU choice for any SFF PC that isn’t Mini or Micro. It’s a single slot card that gets power right off the motherboard, so no need to run power to it from the PSU

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Can this run a monitor 5120x 1440 I have Ultra wide

Thanks

Its integrated graphics will not support the dual QHD resolution.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/129939/intel-core-i58500-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-10-ghz.html

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I got mine yesterday and it had the DVD burner, should I be concerned?

Consider it a bonus?

Well, the first post on here by @Kingu was glad that the drive was removed; it wasn’t mentioned in the specs. I’m just wondering if they are a defective batch with a S/N that can be checked or if it is from people trying to use it vertically?

Or maybe this:

It’s literally in the picture and description: SFF small for factor, no way that is even possible with this computer unless it is set down HORIZONTALLY. I have a valid question.

Okay, serious answer, then: the drive most likely wasn’t listed as the source may have included computers that were equipped with and without optical drives. Given the much lesser need for them these days, I feel the refurbisher just played it safe and sold all of them as “no optical drive”. The resulting inclusion or exclusion has no impact to the rest of the system’s performance.

In the vertical position, they can accommodate discs either directly with ball clips on the spindle motor or on tabs located on the side of the tray.

As I read it, the comment was more about optical drives in general. In my 3 decades of dealing with PCs, the general failures I’ve encountered are moreso due to dirt on the lens or user created failures such as using it as a drink holder.

Thank you for your response but I was willing to wait for the response from the first poster. No offense to your 30 years. I can still write a boot disc if I have to, not sure I will ever have the patience to deal with UMB, extended and expanded memory ever again though. :stuck_out_tongue:

What – you didn’t enjoy the occasional trial-and-errors of having to juggle the order of drivers loading in config.sys because otherwise one of the devices won’t work? Or having to manually set a jumper an interface card for its IRQ?

I still don’t know why I have g=c800:5 memorized. At least I’ve forgotten all about administering Novell NetWare servers. :slight_smile:

Honestly, I miss the smell of the old 386 and 486 computers. But it was a workout if you had a desktop rather than a tower to access that stuff if your monitor was on top. LMAO.

I think it was either wing commander or ultima underworld 2 or maybe ultima 7 part 2 that required so much base memory (640K) that everything had to be loaded into UMB and memory block specific allocation had to be used to be sure that there were no free spaces. Plus the trade offs if EMB or XMB was used, if there was even a choice. And then if a boot disk failed…after that you would make like three copies.