Now, after paying just over £50 or $65 or 60 euros for this ex work station set up in retrieving it from the quote safe and secure location, the courier had dropped it in.

I was excited to take a look inside and explore the specifications.

After all, the said 400 from HP here is a six core, 12 threaded Intel Xeon based machine, and for the price, it sounds like very good value for money.

Sure, it's missing a hard drive and half of the external enclosure, but I see a lot of restoration potential.

How did the cellar lose the front of the case, though seriously, before considering or contemplating any upgrade paths, I wanted to establish what exactly we were working with.

First things first into quote Owen Wilson.

Wow, this thing is clean.

First, making an appearance around late 2009 does it.

400 workstation could be configured with differing specs, but you were probably looking over $1000 any which way you look at it.

The component that grabbed my attention online was, of course, the 12 threaded Z on so seeing what that could do was my first priority.

The go to Cinnabon Chart 20 test was up first.

By now, I've had time to update this with other scores from various CB use, So we should be able to get a good idea of what this first quarter 2010 process Ercan do.

You can pick these up for about £5 which is extraordinary, really.

But the 13 66 socket requirement puts a slight damper on any hopes of picking up a treat motherboard to pair it with.

Unless, of course, you go for an HP or del R E M one.

After the test completed, I found multi threaded wise.

These eon seems to be close to a night 5 25 100 k at stock speeds, so buying one of those may seem like the better idea.

The single thread result doesn't bear talking about seriously.

My laptops, albeit very poor battery, run out before this test completed the very laptop that was recording this lengthy endeavor.

But here's the thing.

While somebody consider this a bottom of the barrel six courtship, it does still do an OK job in video editing.

Onda as a workstation.

That's a nice accolade to maintain.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm sure another 5 25 100 k would do just as good.

But for £5 or $10 CPU.

This will allow anybody in content creators out there on a tight budget to get started.

My said 400 also has eight gigs of RAM, which could be increased in.

Should be really, if you wanted one of these to make videos with, but it will do for now.

The real issue, though, is the graphics card.

Oh, how it upsets May.

The NVIDIA N.

V s 295 makes the G force to 10 look like a GTX 10 80.

And while it didn't hold us back too much when it came to CPU intensive tasks or challenges, if you should ever want to take a break from editing and play some games on a machine like this, then this is certainly not a card.

You want to be in your machine.

As I tried a few games, I didn't really bother too much about recording averages one cent lows and such because I could probably use a blanket unplayable rating accross the bold on dhe the games that look fine.

For example, oblivion that seems to get 60 f.

P.

S on occasion.

It was such a stuttering mess that I would deem it unplayable.

A cz Well, What is reassuring, though, is that the process er was barely being utilized it all throughout the tests, meaning it has plenty more to give.

Now these are older games.

Fair enough because that's all the N.

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With its 256 megabytes of Jew DDR three V Room could handle, but a super low CPU Usage like this means that we should be able to pair it with a much more powerful graphics card.

I honestly didn't know what to expect from the E 56 45.

It could have maxed out usage wise for a while.

I knew going into this, but we'll have to see how it benefits from being paired with a better GPU a little later down the line upgrading this machine.

It's certainly possible, and a lot of you have been wanting to see another Z on build, so we'll have to see what can be done.

But one thing's for certain.

That is some level of potential here.

As it is, this'll bargain workstation can still handle itself in tasks like video editing, despite the awful GPU.

But you'll have to wait for the upgrade video before I can tell you whether or not I would recommend this thing as a good starting point for those getting into either video editing.

Oh, other types of content creation on a tight budget.

I do apologize for the shorter videos and bigger gap between them.

Recently, I am moving house at the end of the week.

And as you can imagine, I've had very little time to do much.

I should be able to pick up again very soon.

Or the move assorted.

It's always a pain when you move anyway.

I hope you've enjoyed what is, I guess, part one of this video.

If you did leave a like on it, let me know if you have one of these in your system and whether you still use it on a daily basis.

Of course, Be sure to leave a dislike on this video.