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• Z400: Z400 (1st generation) ram downclocking

  Been using my Z400 with Xeon w3750 & 2 x DDR3 10600 4 GB. Decided to buy 2 x DDR3 10600 4 GB maximum memory support capacity which is 16 GB.

  But I noticed when I maximize the capacity of the memory of all 4 slots populated, the speed of the rams are downclock 666 MHz to 533 Mhz.  If I had to run 3 slots 3xDDR3 10600 4 GB, it seems, execution of a fine to 666 MHz.

  What gives? is the design of the motherboard to do?

  I'm sorry, I gave answers that were too technical.  I'll try to explain the Z400 memory works.

  For more performance memory, the Z400 (Z600 and Z800) have 3 channels 'memory '.  Because the processors are getting faster, a way to get data from memory to the processor is to create separate, channels which can be consulted to ensure bandwidth total memory has grown from a single DIMM memory to several at the same time (a simple explanation) DIMMs.  Thus, approximately, with 3 channels memory bandwidth is (slightly less than) 3 times that of only one MEMORY card.

  There are a few rules configuration.  For maximum performance, each channel must have the same type and size of memory DIMMS.  This means that for a maximum bandwidth on the Z400, 3 identical DIMMS must be installed, one on each channel.

  However, 3 is an odd number.  Most of the people think about installing memory in numbers, such as 4, 8 or 16 GB.  Intel has designed this system with 3 channels, so 12 GB is optimal, but this isn't what most expect a computer to support.  Given that many expect to have 16GB instead of 12 GB, another DIMM connector was added to a channel on the Z400.  This is why there are 4 connectors and 3 channels on the Z400.

  There is a trade-off.  DIMMs greater located in a channel, the more the load power.  This affects the integrity of the signal and can slow down the signals (caused by more capacity), so the BIOS will downclock memory when he sees more than 1 DIMM on a channel to improve reliability.  This code is provided by Intel and is what Intel is recommended.

  There are trade-offs between speed and memory capacity.  [Note: some servers have 3 DIMMs per channel, and the memory speeds with 1 DIMM, downclocked with 2 DIMM slots and downclocked a quantity of futher with 3 modules DIMM per channel.]

  So, what it means for you.  Band bandwidth maximum memory occurs when 3 identical DIMMS are installed in the XMM1, XMM2 and XMM3 connectors.  Go XMM4 (the one closest to the CPU) empty - this is the second connector on a single channel.  The 3 modules DIMM will be held at 666 MHz.  Adding a 4th DIMM in XMM4 increases memory, but the speed will downclock at 533 MHz.  HOWEVER, memory performance is more than a simple speed of memory.  If you run a benchmark of bandwidth memory, you will see that band memory bandwidth (approximately) double with 2 DIMMS installed and triples (approximately) with 3 DIMMs installed.  In fact, strip memory bandwidth can decrease with 4 DIMMS installed.

  Thus, identical DIMM 4 GB 3 gives a maximum bandwidth.  Adding a fourth DIMM will decrease performance, but some applications will benefit from more memory.  For maximum performance of memory, do not install a MEMORY card in the connector closest to the CPU.

  FYI, Z420 and Z440 have 4 memory channels, so now users can think in groups of 4 and no 3.   ;-)

  I don't have answer your questions?  Or more confusion?

• HP Z620: SM951 m2 SSD in a HP Z620

  Hi all, my first post on this forum. Not so much a question but rather a few possible useful information about up-to-date maps of style M.2 SSD autour regarding the HP Z620 workstation.

  I recently bought a module 256GB of HDD Samsung SM951 MZHPV256HDGL-00000 PCI Express m2 to install in my HP Z620 workstation, as most of the people, the speed of transfer seems certainly attractive. Before installing the module my Z620 was already configured with a 480 GB SanDisk Ultra II 2.5 "SSD as a boot drive with a second drive Hitachi 2 TB (with 1 partition MBR) of 7200 RPM and a Seagate 4TB third of 5900 RPM (GPT with 3 partitions).

  Initially, I bought what I thought, it was a generic SSD m2 to PCIe card on ebay for about £8. (NOTE: these cards generic mentioned seem to have the m2 socket and a LED power with resistance and are very cheap). After you mount the SSD m2 to the PCIe card, I plugged the card in the Gen3 PCIe x 8 socket on the motherboard of Z620 lane (i.e. the adjacent to the second GPU slot PCIe slot). Surprise, no visible SSD in BIOS or in Windows. As everyone does a little digging around, which resulted in install me a driver of Samsung NVMe and try various other methods found on other forums, but without a bit of luck. Still not visible in BIOS or in Windows.

  As a last resort, I thought I would try another PCIe adapter card and opted for the Mini ASUS Hyper M.2 X 4, which cost about £27 on ebay. Swapped my SM951 on the ASUS PCIe card and reconnect even taking on the mother board. Turned on the computer and waited for Windows to start normally and to my surprise the system seems to load new drivers for the newly tracked equipment. Of course, the device was displayed in Device Manager. After the initialization of the device in disk management, the aircraft was visible in windows Explorer. As a final check, I rebooted the PC in BIOS and confirmed that the device was displayed as an existing boot device.

  Using the same method I used to install the OS on the 480 GB SanDisk Ultra II, I simply used MiniTool Partition Wizard (which is free) to clone my OS to the SM951 drive. (Use the disk copy Wizard). After that copy over my PC restarted as planned, but to my surprise that he started from the SM951 drive. (Note: the PC starts normally on the disk with the new OS but I was surpised that he started so easily of the PCIe SSD without twisting them). To confirm the changes, I removed the 480 GB SSD and tried rebooting to who did it without any problem. After the execution of Crystal Disk Mark 5, I can confirm reading speeds just above 2000 MB/s and write speeds of about 1 300 MB/s. My SanDisk SSD (which is one of the best SSDS on the market) has reached 550 MB/sec in reading and 500 MB/s in writing.

  In summary, it seems that the PCIe card seems to be pretty important if you want to use a SSD of M.2 SM951 I would recommend that you avoid cheap cards on ebay.

  While I can't say with certainty, using the ASUS card can allow the SM951 to work as a disc bootable on the old Z400/Z600 machines, because it dispays inherited the SSD as a device in the BIOS.

  My complete system:

  2 x Xeon E5-2670, 64 (8 x 8 GB) 1866 MHz RAM, boot drive Samsung SM951 (via a Mini ASUS Hyper M.2 X 4 adapter), 480 GB of SanDisk SSD, 5900 RPM 4 TB of Seagate, Hitachi 7200 RPM 2 TB, Syba 2 port SATA III with 2 x USB3.0, Quadro K4200, Tesla M2090 ICY Dock hot swappable 2.5 "and 3.5" drive Bay.

  OOPS $@ ~ #? Sorry people! I accidentally pressed the button "problem solved." If your reading this thread it will make more sense if you skip the next post, (he appears later in chronological order).

  Brian1965,

  I competely agree with the notion of "disconcerting."  And in two aspects >

  Drive: The SM951 in the z420 has a Passmark of 11559 disk partition and the difference to your 7891 is too large to be a Variant.  I think warrnats of studies.  What are your storage space and option power settings?

  One thing however is that each time the pass mark is executed, the drive score drops. The first test of the Seagate ancient who arrived at the z620, the disk partition was 594, and the third time he has scored 495.  I decided to make a small improvement and an hour ago, bought a Turbo Z 256 GB AHCI, who will go into the z420.  With the Samsung SM951 / Lycom DT-120 moved to the z620, which should add about 11 000 points to the mark of 495.

  I was interested to see that the Turbo Z has an average performance greater than the SM951 and which must be due to the quality of the design of the Board and the refinement for use with an HP z.

  Tesla M2090: The situation with the M2090 is very strange.  My local fan use Tesla for flight dynamics simulations Matlab and they have staff that work on multi-threaded measure / parallelizing algorithms.  It occurred to me that the problem might be in the synchronization of parallization stream, but Solidworks is supposed to have the best, completely scalar of any program record.  Only to eliminate it as a possibility, are the z620 BIOS settings to allow all processors? Also, are there similar situations in the creation of the configuration of Maximus (Quadro and Tesla)?

  Your Solidworks model and rendering are a work of art-well done and a half.  I tried to learn Solidworks for a while for my projects of industrial design, but never have large blocks of time.  I find myself accomplish them in AuoCad. I have a book, 'The Bible of Solidworks' but it is more than 600 pages and I'm only on the Genesis.  How did you learn?  Do you give lessons?

  This is a work in progress, a test image of Sketchup in a 380 m long, five-story Office / Library / laboratory building. It is not much smaller than the island that it is.  It is of the most complex single drawing I have already done in AutoCad for Sketchup on the z420 and translates into Revit on the z620:

  

  Quadro M2000 of M4000 and proposed Sysem:

  I am hopeful for the Quadro M2000 because it's a little more than half the cost of a Quadro K4200 and again:

  Highest pass mark ratings 3D:

  Quadro K4200 (317 tested): 4895

  Quadro M2000 (12 tested): 4671

  Quadro "P4000":  Think of your consideration for zz620, the first two Pascal GPU Quadros, the P6000 24 GB - said at a cost of $12,000 and the P5000 were released and they will be specular perofrmers. However, what I expect is the 'P4000"(or whatever it's called) that, if true to form - i.e. to perform as well as the next model to the top of the model it replaces and costs a little more means, he must run to the near K6000 levels but cost only $100 more than a M4000.

  M4000:  However, the M4000 is a serious candidate to replace a K4200.

  Highest pass mark ratings 3D:

  Quadro M4000 (8GB) (264-tested): 7234 with i7 - 6700 K / ASUS Z170-A
  

  6934 _ with Xeon E5-1660 v3 / Dell Precision T5810

  _ 6112 with 2 X E5-2670 in HP z620

  As usual, the performance of the GPU will be linked to single-thread performance.

  Average for the M4000 (820 U.S. dollars) is 6402. For comparison a $3,000 over-pants W9100 6570's Quadro K5200 6155. a GTX 770 average 6149and GTX 960 5916. Thus, the M4000 is actually in the top end of the intermediate level games GPU. Of course, $1 800 Quadro K5200 in mind is good enough for terrible cartoonist as I.

  In time, sell the K2200 in the z620, buy a used M4000, for the z420 and place the K4200 in this place. When the 'P4000"arrives, the price of a used M4000 will drop - as K4200 will still more abruptly.  The United States already, they have sold for as little as $600.  I had a reliability perfect with the eight or so used of Quadros, I got - I always use a FX 2004 580 as the GPU in my server.  About three months after the introduction of the 'P4000", might be a good time to change.

  System proposed: If you are interested, I did a few suggested workstation build lists on a material of Tom.  They have a semi-competition annually to build the better the price list.  As 99% are game systems, I add some ideas of workstation. See and scroll down to: Workstation: 2D - 3D CAD visualization / Graphic Design / Simulation / Animation > $ 2,000
  , which uses a Xeon E5 / Quadro M2000 or GTX 1070.  I also added lists $1,500 and $1,000 categories. The $1,500 version uses a Xeon E3 / M2000: not the handful of forum on behalf of your construction and avoiding the odd capitalization & symbols $1,500 workstations. The title is due to the State of competition rules that have been added because the names that I usually use. for example: "BambiBoom PixelCannon Cadamodarendergrapharific iWork? TurboBlast ExtremeSignature SuperModel 8000® © $$™® £ ©™ _ 6.14.16™ ' = forum handle + "strange capitalizations and symbols".»  It's nice to know that its efforts are particularly noticed.

  If you want more suggestions for the proposed system, I'd be happy to discuss it.  If you think this isn't the Silesian general, send a PM.

  Where is your son?

  See you soon,.

  BambiBoomZ

  My motto: "Why use only one job when twenty will do everything as well."

• Z420: Z420 different revisions?

  Hi all

  Question

  Are there two different revisions of the platform Z420 as with the Z400?

  I have two different pdf for this product and a list of the Sandy Bridge E5 Xeons with 1600 Mhz memory and another inscription Ivy Bridge E5 V2 Xeons with 1866 Mhz memory?

  How can we identify one from the other?

  Is this the same motherboard and just a BIOS revision that opened the compatibility with these processors and memory?

  Yes, there are two versions, the original "Version 1" and the "Version 2".  The original can run the Sandy Bridge Xeon processors that HP certified for it.  Version 2 can run the Sandy Bridge and more recent processors Ivy Bridge "v2".  A nice little article on the differences between these two generations of processors is linked below.  Again, assuming that you have a newer version Z420 you can generally only Sandy and Ivy processors listed by HP Brige can due to the firmware BIOS limitations built-in (there are rare exceptions):

  http://www.PCMag.com/Article2/0, 2817,2405317,00.asp

  A trick that works for most HP workstations is to search, for example, 'Z420 spare parts' in Google.

  Top results you see HP for that and noted in chapter of the processors of the Z420 there 700000 part number processors series with IB (Ivy Bridge) in the front as the available processors.  Note also to the bottom in the section below is a couple of 700000 motherboards part numbers.  This is the later Version 2 ones.  Le-001 is delivered by W7 installed. the largest number to W8.

  I do not have the date of the BIOS boot block simple differentiation between Version 1 to Version 2 for the Z420, but it's the best way to know if you have a.  The dates of start for Z620 and Z820 block are 28/12/11 for the original and on 06/03/13 for Version 2 motherboards.  Look in your BIOS under the first tab for this... Your Z420 may not have the exact dates, but should be close, and you'll know that.

  So, if you focus on the QuickSpecs and HP literature since the beginning of the era of 2013 you will start seeing Ivy Bridge being designated processors.

  You can watch the Intel 'Ark' site under the approved HP v2 processors to see if there is only 1 sSpec code, and if so, you can be sure you are buying a used the same processor upgrade eBay to if you go this route.  Search on eBay under the sSpec code when you found on the site of the Ark... it will be linked at bottom left of the cover page for each processor that you are looking for.

  I upgraded processors in Z400/Z600 workstations, but not yet a workstation ZX20.  Even proceeded, I'm sure, just more expensive.

• Z210 Convertible Minitowers: Z210: a USB 3.0 card 4 ports compatible?

  I have an Z210 convertible minitour, who currently holds the HP 2 port USB3 SuperSpeed card that is based on the older NEC chipset. It sits in the Slot 3, a PCIe2x1 slot.

  I know that the NEC chipset is pretty old now. But the real problem is that I need a few USB3 ports. I saw a thread here that has considered this question, but does not really all specific maps, and it was related to the Z400, another machine.

  I have had a look and it seems that many tech enterprise vendors offer a card, the CP-4PTU USB 3.0 4-Port PCI Express Card (PG0480) anyone know if it will work in the Z210? Other possible cards?

  TIA!

  Map of NEC had two exits USB3.  HP went with a 4 ports TI chipset based '2 + 2' PCIe card for Z400/Z600/Z800 workstations.  The 2 + 2 means two aft and two if you want to forward.  Z620/Z820 integrated this same TI chip on the motherboard.  Thus, drivers for chips Z620 TI of these workstations work very well for the card on motherboard both chipsets on PCIe.

  I use these TI cards based on my workstation xw6400 and xw6600... they work very well, and I plug them into the second port of PCIe x 16 spare for the max bandwidth of PCIe type II location in the xw6600.  The xw6400 has no connectors all PCIe gen II, however.

  The rear bottom of basket of the map has two ports for two accessories USB 3.0, and there is an addition of port Unified on the map (front) which you can plug a double cable end adding two more USB 3.0 ports (front).  I love the face cards Akasa... high quality and more than enough before long.  They have one that fits great in the floppy bay area and also one for the wider Bay optical since many work stations now do not have a floppy bay site.

  These cards must be powered with a good 5V power from a SATA power supply or a power Molex adapter... do not load software until you give it only + 5V power because some parts will be not visible by the installation program until they are turned on with adequate power.  + 5VDC is not upward on the map of the PCIe slot... only of the power cable.  I'm actually using an adapter less amperage from the floppy power plugs in my xw workstations, but for higher use AGP, I would recommend the spare Molex or SATA Adapter approach.  You can find these like a map without adapter via eBay sometimes... the complete kit of HP is about 50,00.  Search with google for QT587AA for the complete kit of HP.

  What you don't want to... version 2 ports of NEC.  It is the + 5V power supply to the back of the map that you see here, and only two USB 3.0 ports are possible.  This is in contrast to the version of TI chipset below this image of the NEC version:

  

  The TI version is below... There the power plug at the top and the front port double its rear end, below these two capacitors:

  

  You will see that the front bay Akasa kits include a single outlet that feeds on the back of the card via two cables on two USB3 ports.  Eventually you throw this little adapter that see you at the bottom of the picture near the Middle, generally.

  Here is the HP part number, you can use to search on eBay... you'll usually only find the card on eBay, not kit.  HP power supply cable can be very useful to have, and I've seen those if you buy the kit from HP directly.  Otherwise, you will have to dink with other adapters.  The latest drivers are easier to find on the site of HP Z620 drivers.  Part of HP for the card number is only 661320-001.

• Z400: Z400 spare parts upgrades

  Hi all

  I have a Z400 (saved to unset however) which works very well... Installed Win10 and voila! New PC.

  Thanks to the Info confirmed here, I Rev. 1 with 6 RAM slots

  Current config

  Xeon W3505 (Dual Core, not even Hyper Threading)

  12 GB 1333 Mhz RAM (2 gb x 6) clocked at 1 066 Mhz. thanks for CPU

  2 x Quadro FX580 cards

  LSI SAS3041E PCI-e Raid card

  SAS drives of 3 x 300 GB connected to the card from LSI

  PCI-e NETWORK card

  475w PSU

  SAS hard drives are noisy and slow (at 15 k RPM?)... First thing I did was to buy a Samsung 500 GB SSD Evo 850 (first day on Amazon with a $30 discount!) I checked and with the new BiOS installed (3.60) I confirmed that I have AHCI support so I hope the new SSD will bring me a big change even if only executed at sata2 instead of speed sata3... When the player is here I intend to remove the card raid and sas drives and install an extra sata 2 TB for storing drive instead... Also to get a pci-e sata3 card. Don't you think that it is worth more just go straight to the motherboard? I also read that start from a pci-e card slows down startup vs runnig just drive directly on the port sata motherboard, although running speed is slower. What you think. ?

  Next thing I look at is the processor. Thought of the w3680 or w3690... According to the price to get the ram at 1333 Mhz.

  Any other suggestions of CPU? Maybe the other supported that are not specified in the quick form.

  the current cpu cooler is rated for cpu 130w, so I think I should be fine... .unless you have a suggestion for a better option.

  I'm worried about the cpu power draw. Although I will eliminate 3 forts and power.hungry sas drives, I wonder if the current power supply will be sufficient for this and, possibly, a new graphics card. Maybe the new RX480 from AMD?  What do you think of it.

  ?.

  Your W3505 is already a 130W processor, so you have the fan Performance.  Moving around with either the W3680 (Search eBay for SLBV2 and you'll find some now to 93,50 dollars).  Or, if you want to spend 3.33 to 3.46 GHz speed spend the extra and get the W3690 for about 145.00 off eBay.  It's a psychological thing... you will not be able to make a difference in the real world, and all of the other major features are identical.

  The ultimate would be X 5690, which has a code unique sSpec SLBVX and used eBay now goes for about USD 245.00.  I got mine recently carefully shopping for 220,00, but revision 1 Z400 cost me only 100,00 more shipping charges.  I needed to do this test...

  I posted here about adding a map USB3.0 HP Texas Instruments... Make sure that it fits in a slot PCIe Gen II so the speed of the bus he let USB3.0 speed max.  My post has information on 5.25 HP 3.5 adapter that will allow you to place my interface front of Akasa preferred in this and below mount your optical drive in the Bay of spare up there.  I have included in on the device of 4-wire Molex brand OK to SATA power adapter I get Mouser.com to adapt perfectly to this card.  You end up with 4 slots USB3, 2 front back/2.

  Here are some links about this process:

  Here

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/business-PCs-workstations-and-point-of-sale-systems/Z600-z620-front-panel-USB-3-0-upgrade/m-p/5545549/highlight/true#M11730

  Here

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/business-PCs-workstations-and-point-of-sale-systems/USB-3-0-for-Z800/m-p/5066733/highlight/true#M4777

  and here

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/business-PCs-workstations-and-point-of-sale-systems/adding-a-USB-3-0-slots-ports-card-to-a-Z400/m-p/5086734

  You have the SSD... Gen II Gen III vs is not really a problem... take to plug that directly into the SATA port 0 of the motherboard.  Empty all SAS.

  I posted here on how to remove your spectacular startup time... reading about it.  The forum search box above to find these things.

  I added fan Northbridge 40x40x20mm, HP 4-wire version, a card mother xw6600.  Mine is screwed to the top the normal silver Northbridge heatsink fins, and there are several ways to reach that.  The fan blows away from the motherboard drawing cooler air through the radiator at the bottom.  The same fan is used on the Z600 Northbridge.  There is a standard white PWM header of motherboard close to spare, and I added a 4-wire Noctua online LNA that he abandoned his speed (which I do for fans of HP Northbridge).  Which adds to the overall length and connect the fan reach the motherboard header.  The RPM speeds now appear in the temp/RPM section of the Z400 BIOS as a memory cooling fan.  So, the original header seems to have been designed for a cooler of memory, but it is perfect for the Northbridge cooling.  One of these 2 processors speeds would stimulate the heat on the Northbridge and it was my solution (but probably is not really necessary).  I don't know if HP has never made a similar for some high-end Z400s, but seeing things fan used on the xw6600 and Z600 inspired me to add that, for this Z400.  You can get the fans with the correct HP wiring looking on eBay and China where they were all made.  It is precisely the Delta EFB0412HD-7R49 and this amendment at the end refers to the controlled PWM HP 4-wire version.

  You want all locations of memory 6 filled by identical 2 or 4 sticks GB, with speeds of memory at 1333 to get the best out of engineering memory HP and the fact that they will be able to run at this speed with these processors.

  The 6 HP PCIe supplementary power wire cable provides much more energy than the standard ATX 75W max... I do not a problem here for your video card needs, within reasonable limits.  Your use of the net power will be down and not upward, probably.

• install an SSD in Workstation Z600.

  Hello

  Description explains it, I thought to replace my current HARD drive to an SSD.

  I did a lot research on this myself, but thought I would check here just wrap there are any falls known issues/pit with a ssd in z600 workstation installation, I will look at adding a 1 TB ssd.

  1. installation of the material? the 3.5 inch z600 caddy would not accommodate a SSD, HP sells racks that will fit the z600?

  2. compatibility with the workstation? are there types of SSD that are best suited for z600 workstations?

  3. how to install and set up? is it as simple as connect via a cable SATA SSD and installing the OS? The Bios settings?

  Any information would be appreciated,

  Griff

  Installed a Samsung 500 GB SATA III Evo in my z600... and it works perfectly.

  Installed last week and have been installing programs and saw the general use of it without any problem. I wanted to test properly before posting a reply. It would be possible that I have problems with it later, but I would of thought that if she had problems I would be this topic now.

  My SSD reads to 282 MB/s and writes to 270 MB/s - write random shuffle (IOPS) (IOPS) 51612 47395.

  Being a SATA II gen workstation his don't reach only the full potential of the SSD to 540 / 520 MB/s writing but reading what I read, you won't notice the difference even its so fast... and I accept CC suite, mozilla, (did not install 3dsmax yet) all boot in seconds compared to the minutes on the old HARD drive.

  Just to note that does not use a HP recovery disk to reinstall the OS. I have used a .iso official windows 7 and booted from USB (although it has some things useful, I didn't HP bloatware) drivers installed perfectly smoothly. Windows serial on bottom of Tower

  1. installation of the material? the 3.5 inch z600 caddy would not accommodate a SSD, HP sells racks that will fit the z600?

  "Via Scott comments, look for the version of"needs-tool"in the post above, mine cost £8.50 and takes every 5 seconds to fit the ssd for the z600. I would not buy the version of the tool-less sugguest... unless you have no hands and a lot of money. »

  2. compatibility with the workstation? are there types of SSD that are best suited for z600 workstations?

  "Yes, they are HP approved detailed SSDs in, but the post above, I had no problem with the class of consumer SSDS, but you dice with what brand." The Samsung EVO 500 GB, no problem. You can use a SATA III ssd, but you can get questions as warned by HP as their firmware does not support certain types (so basically if it doesn't they don't help you) ".»

  3. how to install and set up? is it as simple as connect via a cable SATA SSD and installing the OS? The Bios settings?

  "Make sure that your BIOS is set to RAID + AHCI (mine was already setup like that)." I used the samsung Wizard tool after installation and it will say that your PC is not set to AHCI, but I just ignore it. As long as ORGANIC and firmware are up-to-date, you'll be fine. Use a blindmate card to install the ssd (see above messages). Make sure you get the latest firmware on a USB before installing SSD, it should be the first thing to check after the installation of the SSD. You don't need to change cables SATA from II to III that the cables are retro-compatible... anyway have a SATA III in a z600 will limited you to speeds of SATA II (which compared to a normal HARD disk are ridiculously fast). Just plug in and install OS. It can be interesting to read about boring SSD, the magician of samsung suggest some things to do, but not all are necessary, either its life expectancy more performance... defintely deserves to be read to the top, if it's your first SSD as it was for me. »

  Upgraded high hand the best I've done to my workstation and very simple to do. I'm glad that I waited for better support and cost down on the SSD before using.

  You want to say a big thank you to Scott Harrison for his help on this. I nagged him much but really appreciated his advice! Congratulations to Scott and anyone else who posted help.

  Enjoy your SSD, I'll do it.

  Griff

• Z600: New to me Z600

  I just finished setting up my new to me Z600 with 2 processors E5640 and 18 GB of ram (said the pub 16 GB but she actually had 3x2gb and 3x4gb).

  I already did some reaseach on this forum and I got lucky with the latest version of the motherboard. I have 48 gb of ram on the way and plan to discover updates as funds allow.

  Couple of things, I am curious about at this stage.

  (1) the LED on the power button does not light upward. I saw refernce to this topic somewhere and they have may be burned. Unless there is a BIOS setting I'm missing that seems to be the only plausible cause. The machine seems to work as it should.

  (2) I'm missing the top trim of the grill and the rear handle. In my view, it was mounted in a rack. Its a minnor thing, but I would replace it if I can. I came with P/N 536605-001, is this correct? I found one on ebay with a suspicious image, anyone know any other source (I tried)?

  You clearly have this well-studied.  Here is some info for you (and others in the future):

  1 part HP numbering system includes two Assembly and buy spares parts for the same exact point numbers and you can sometimes find better for article on eBay or elsewhere in the knowledge of both.  For my Z600, the part number on the label on the cable was 468625-001 REV:B and it is the same as 536305-001.  This is the cable that manages the switch with blue LEDS attached, the son of the speaker system and the thermal sensor in this single cable.  You can't buy just the switch itself.  The Revision B may indicate that HP including how to keep the LED lights goes... it's nice to have this Visual indicator because I put my workstations to sleep, and it is useful to know their status like that.

  2 replacing that Assembly cable requires more digging deep you might be comfortable with, but it's doable.  I marked where the clips were before you cut them with a marker Sharpie on the metal under the lid of the... practice right panel to back things together.  The video CV on how to do this is HERE.

  http://h20464.www2.HP.com/Media/730DD9A1-B5D6-4CFA-A950-C630D70C3073/nav_FRU_video_powerswitchassembly.htm

  3 cursor sets the Z600 and the perhaps Z620 suffered some fine-tuning by HP from versions prior to the last, but I 506601-002, 536311-001, and those 663074-001 and they seem to be interchangeable in practice.  Good deal on this one you got.

  4. great buy on this SSD... these workstations are generation SATA II and is therefore only the version of the Intel SSD.  If it's HP or besides I never had a problem with these 320 series.  They have some internal capacitors integrated to enable automatic saving of data if power failure, unlike the X 25-M series.  Be sure to leave about 20% of the unused capacity for better performance (overprovisioning).  Set the TRIM to run once per week via the Toolbox Intel software, and I don't think that that wakes you up a workstation to run TRIM, but not sure on that.  Thus, it is better to put it for when you are going to use the workstation, usually.

  5 memory... you are already ahead of me!  6 sticks of the same memory is the key to better performance.

  6. the transformer: I mine officially maxed out with 2 x X 5675, running under the heat sinks "Mainstream" that accompanies this Z600 (they run at 95W each and Mainstream heatsinks are noted for this too).  Apparently, unofficially, the MHz 3.46 X 5690 can roll with the Z600, and I a Z400 running with one of those too.  However, warmer 130W TDP max missions and require the 'Performance' for the Z600 heat sinks that are quite expensive (as are the processors).  You can adapt a Performance of the Z400 radiator in the a two spots just Z600 bend down the bottom rear air deflector slightly, but the other processor socket positioning requires the official version more expensive Performance Z600 to adapt.  Fans are wired identically for Z400 and Z600 performance of heat sinks, so the motherboard does not know the difference if you use this method to save money.

  7 Behold my summary of W7Pro64 WEI.  With 2 X 5690 processors in the processor and the memory of the scores we 7.9.  The X 25-M works a little faster and in this box it will get 7.7 score and rarely reliable, 7.8, but he capped in size to 160 GB and does not have the special capacitors, I mentioned to protect data in power outtage.  I stick to what I showed here... very fast and capable workstation:

  

• Z400 workstation: Workstation Z400 has quick start?

  I read online about some BIOS offer everything including a quick start instead of test during the boot upward. The Z400 offers such a thing as which would speed up boot time a lot.

  Hello

  Some computers have a feature POST bypass, but I wouldn't recommend using it.  You can find it in the BIOS if it is available for your PC.

  After a death off voltage then launch Manager tasks and look under the start for the last time in BIOS tab. More sophisticated motherboard is more time in BIOS.  Technology memory channel triple and quadruple take longer to initialize.  Using RAID will also slow down the BIOS time.

• HP Z400: Z400 radiator Fan 4 pin 5 pin

  Dear viewers,
  
  I would like to know how I can fit a normal radiator Fan 4 pin pwm on pin 5 of the z400 mb. I have heard things about the use of the 5 original pin and rewire the 4 to 5-pin fan, but how?
  
  Thank you in advance,
  
  Melpie, foxsailor

  It is not as easy as you think.  HP carefully balances needs with the combination of the cooling fan and the heat capacity of the heat sink and apply a certain amount of gas PWM fan to make it work at a certain speed at the start.  The amount of gas PWM is specific and less PWM restriction will be provided as you increase the speed of the fan base in the BIOS, and as control of cooling of the motherboard, the infrastructure also meets specific environmental constraints (such as temperature rise).  So, even if I can dink with them to my heart's content, I let them HP standards.  If you want to dink, these key information:

  The Z400s use widely superior ability 'performance' radiator and the fan with the fan 92x92x25mm.  This is because most of the value for the Z400 processors are 130W TDP max.  On the other hand, processors dual processor Z600s to the value typically run at 95 watts max TDP.  As a result, they get usually the smallest fan 'general public'.  The more expensive processors run fast in less time... the Z400 usual processors are more brutal (solution of higher voltage, that is why they are more hot for the same fast speed).  The heat of two processors inside the Z600 is something that HP had to master.  To cool the hot single processor in a Z400 was probably easier, and the hot processor got bang HP more for your money.

  The Z400 radiator/fan performance belongs to HP 463981-001, and its fan is an AFB0912HH Delta, with the standard 4 son PWM input/output of the engine.  The 5th hole of the CAP could be empty if a heatsink / fan public and is busy with a rider from the land of hole 1 to 5, if it is a radiator/fan performance.  It is the motherboard know that performance fan is attached.  It cannot be said, running or RPM, what happens... So, there is room for impersonation here, but I'm not advisee who.  Those HP fans often have a HP reference number on their label (which is the direction of the air flow always).  Then, he often have a number of added modifier for HP, and in this case, it is - 7W32.  Which has to do with details of the number of threads, their length and the type of plug.  See the picture below:

  

  This is exactly the performance Z400 heatsink fan, and this is the one I would buy on eBay where I hung just the peak of.  You can not see well, but it's a record of 5 holes with the jumper on the barely visible ground here.

  Wiring: As conventional PWM wiring pins 1-4 are on the ground, + 12 v CC, rpm of meaning to the motherboard of the engine, and finally PWM throttle control of the mother board to the motor.  If you use a good silent PWM instead of a HP fan it will be too limited by the built in HP PWM of the butterfly and run too slow when plug you into the motherboard.  I discovered this with beautiful Noctua PWM fans...

  The motherboard knows if you have an installed 130W processor and will protest if you do not usurp the wiring or give her the correct wiring with a good fan (which I think is now that you know which fan to buy).  There are also other HP taken 5-pole fans 4 son used you can get off of eBay that works too, and then you can experiment around.

  You can retrieve a plug 5 pin a bad HP fan.  The ends of the Brown connector are usually intended for cooling case rear.  I also posted here on my Mouser.com source end of the plug.  You can extract the ends making metal if you pay attention while pressing the locking tab that you see, and you can gently bend back on this fragile locking tab thin then it will work again if you want to solder on a rider to the ground of the terminal 1 to 5.   If you run these HP fans in 12VDC, they run much too fast.   It's all an act of balance HP included.  Era Z620 and beyond the things have become more complicated.

• HP Z600 workstation: HDD WORK HP Z600 workstation

  Hello

  This will probably sound funny to you guys, but please help.

  1. can I add a HDD ATA to the HP Z600 workstation?

  2 If this is not the case, can the HARD SATA 3 drive, or should it be less?

  Thank you

  You cannot add an ATA hard drive (aka PATA EIDE) directly as the z600 has no port EIDE. PATA is dead and has been for many years, and you certainly don't want to use a hard drive EIDE both old and slow, which now is probably very close to the end of its useful life as a hard drive permanently in the z600.

  However, if it is just to copy through the data of the old EIDE disk on a storage medium more recent then there are ways to do. We need to connect the old hard drive via an EIDE to SATA adapter to one of the internal SATA ports. However, a less cumbersome alternative is an external PATA-USB adapter or a hard drive enclosure external PATA with USB port, which can be found pretty cheap these days.

  As for SATA3 (aka SATA 6 GB/s), the z600 SATA ports are limited to SATA2 (aka SATA 3Gbps), however SATA3 is backward compatible, so you can use a disk/SSD SATA3 in the z600, but obviously performance will be limited to SATA2 (i.e. of speeds<300MBps). if="" you="" want="" full="" sata3="" performance="" (i.e.="" for="" an="" ssd)="" then="" get="" a="" suitable="" disk="" controller="" (i="" use="" an="" adaptec="" 6805="" raid="" controller="" with="" samsung="" ssds="" in="" ours;="" another="" alternative="" is="" the="" lsi="" megaraid="">

  I hope this helps!

• HP z400 workstation: problems with a 3 to drive in HP z400

  According to this thread: internal installation 3 TB drive in hp z400 , z400 is able to manage disks on the 2.2 to barrier.

  So is my next problem caused by a faulty HARD drive, or the problem may be caused by z400?

  I have HP z400 with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit installed, with the last BIOS (v03.57). A 3 TB drive (Toshiba DT01ACA300) is not a bootable floppy and works in AHCI (non-RAID) mode. It behaves in this way:

  BIOS Setup (to be precise: Intel Matrix Storage manager option ROM v8.6.0.1007, dated 2008) shows the size of this drive is 746,5 GB.
  After Windows 7 starts, I can start the GUI of Intel RST v9.6.0.1014 (the official and most recent storage driver downloaded from the HP support pages) and it says size is GB 2862.
  Unfortunately, Managenment of disc in Windows 7 sees only 746 GB.

  I tried to format the drive in z400 with GParted of Linux (with a GPT table), then the disk "worked" in Windows 7 (I want to say that I was able to write and read the data). It worked well even though I created two partitions and the other began to exceed the limit of 2.2 TB.

  But there are two remaining issues:

  (1) always Managenment of disc in Windows 7 can not handle partitions over 746 GB and claims, that the size is 746 GB.

  (2) Windows 7 may damage some data by placing the 2nd table GPT on (?):
  After I partitioned/formatted the GParted disk, tried Windows and returned to Linux, GParted says:
  "The GPT backup table is not at the end of the disc, as it should.
  This may mean another operating system to think that the drive is smaller. »

  Solved. I needed to replace the Intel RST driver.

  Details:

  HP offers two drivers here:

  http://h20564.www2.HP.com/hpsc/SWD/public/readIndex?sp4ts.Oid=3912038&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4060

  Initially, I got one, more recent sp65107.exe (9.6.0.1014 Rev. 21 August 2013), but he recognizes 746 GB only.

  Now, I installed sp65105.exe (11.5.4.1001 Rev. April 18, 2013), which recognizes 2794 GB (actual size).

  (BIOS still displays GB 746, but Managenment of disc in Windows 7 GB 2794)

  ___________________________________________________

  Perhaps HP should add more detailed information on the differences between these two drivers...

• my HP Z600 (dual CPU Q5550 / Windows 7 64 bit) freezes 'stotters' with multitreading on

  Hello

  I have a HP Z600 (dual CPU Q5550 / Windows 7 64 bit / 260gtx /NVIDIA 6x4gb).

  When I activate multithreading in my bios (version 4 786 v01.17) my windows

  (using the application / web browsing) to become very unstable.

  It will freeze (stop responding for a few seconds).

  This goes on and on.

  is it because of my 1 TB Hitachi 7200 on HDD

  (all of these processors and son read write data)?

  I read somewhere that a raid or a SSD drive would be better than the drive in operation)?

  What is my settings (such as the bios disabled value Max for CPU to 3)?

  What is the HP Z600 known for this problem?

  I think it's possible because of virus/malware issues.

  Thank you very much

  All the best,

  FC

  Hello:

  You can also ask your question on the HP Business Support Forum - z section of workstations.

  http://h30499.www3.HP.com/T5/workstations-z-series-XW-series/BD-p/BSC-272#.UokYmdfnbGg

• Z400 + SSD + AHCI

  I have a workstation Z400 (CPU L5639 w/8 GB RAM) with a clean installation of Windows 7 x 64 on a brand new Samsung 840 Pro SSD. While the BIOS shows that RAID + AHCI is enabled and I have even installed the latest Intel driver for the controller, the Samsung reference utility displays the performance to about half of what it must be based on what I've seen of others using this player. It seems to be running in IDE mode for me.

  I saw a thread relevant here of someone who works with even a Z420 car and they have solved using the Intel driver rather than the default which installs in W7, but that made no difference in my case.

  If anyone has any suggestions I would be very happy. I've attached screenshots relevent.

  Thanks in advance.

  Glenn

  Integrated SATA port? It is 3G. 270 MB/s is great for the 3G, you get not much higher - and 99.999% of the time that you won't - it is low latency that count, not gross transfer rates.

• HP Z400s under spec for HD in CS4 edition. What is the best way to go?

  Hi all

  I recently bought the three HP Z400 workstations for editing XDCAM EX 1080i (HQ) a timeline in Premiere CS4. It's a very hasty and ill-informed purchase. Unfortunately I only came across the Adobe forum after that I ran into trouble with 1 and 2 workstations. After reading a lot of useful messages, it is quite obvious that new two of my machines have the ability to edit full HD 1080i chronologies stably.

  Before I describe my problems, I'll describe my system specs:

  Z400 1 workstation

  Windows XP 32-bit
  Xeon W3505
  3 GB RAM
  GPU: Quadro FX 1800
  C: 500 GB OS/programs
  D: 2 x 500 GB Raid 0 zero

  Z400 Workstation 2

  Windows XP 32-bit
  Xeon W3520
  3 GB RAM
  GPU: Quadro FX 3800
  C: 500 GB OS/programs
  D: 2 x 500 GB Raid 0 zero

  Z400 Workstation 3 (this machine works well and has not had stability problems)

  Windows Vista 64-bit
  Xeon W3540
  8 GB RAM
  GPU: Quadro FX 3800
  C: 500 GB OS/programs
  D: 2 x 500 GB Raid 0 zero

  While I was able to edit clips XDCAM EX 1080i HQ on all these systems, work stations 1 and 2 are very unstable, crashing regularly, especially when rendered.

  I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to technology, so after reading through the many excellent posts here, I'm still not entirely sure which is the best way forward for me to put jobs 1 and 2 to the height. It is clear on reading these posts that I more capitalized on GPU cards, underestimated the importance of the RAM and committed a fundamental error of my choice of operating system:

  • In the spirit of the community - are the specs for Workstation 3 enough for stable HD editing?
  • What is the best solution with 1 and 2 workstations? Reader threads I guess I upgraded Vista 64 bit OS and spend at least 6 GB of RAM - it would be enough? If this is not the case, what do you suggest? In addition, the existing processors (w3505 and w3520) are quite fleshy for work?
  • And this could take liberties... all topics widely discussed on this forum; I'm having trouble getting my head around storage. What is the best configuration that I do with my current gear (z400 motherboard) for HD editing (including adding additional disks)?

  Thanks in advance... I'm not much of a techie, so all the words of wisdom are like gold dust.

  See you soon,.

  James

  Your CPU 3505 is only a dual core chip.  Certainly working on upgrading the CPU on a quad core.  I don't know if HP offers capabilities overclocking on this motherboard single processor.  If so, you could try prejudice overclocking guide lines since it is structurally almost identical to the i7-920.

  To the power of the processor which is the most important point for the creation, you can use one of these processors W3520 / W3540 / W3570 (2.66 to 3.20 GHz, 8 MB L2 cache) If you prefer do not overclock or if HP didn't you provided the functionality in the BIOS.

  Certainly wait (I think that it is the date) October 22 to Win 7 64 bit OS it is certainly faster than Vista 64.

  Incidentally, I don't know if you have ordered these units, but it may be useful to call HP and see if you are eligible for a free upgrade to Win 7.