Lenovo P510 ThinkStation Is It Worth It In 2023?

Hi Folks,
I've got my hands on a bit of a budget power house! Is Lenovo P510 ThinkStation Is It Worth It In 2023? We'll lets find out.

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TimeStamps
00:00 - Intro
00:56 - What Did We Get?
05:34 - Benchmarks
06:50 - Games
09:20 - Conclusion

Thank for all the support guys and girls.

[NotPhonyComputers]

Love ya content. Keep up the great work. Loving the budget computers.

[theredspoon]

Just bought one of those dirt cheap for 70 USD with a 850w PSU, Samsung SM591 with 512 GB, 64GB RAM, Xeon E5-1630 (will definitely be upgraded), 14TB worth of Enterprise HDDs and a Nvidia Quadro K620. Also came with a DAC card I managed to sell for 150 USD.

For 70 USD that's one hell of a steel for a 2016 Workstation. TBF, I did not know what I bought at the time of the purchase. 😅

[s]

love these workstations built like a tank

[grimmpickins]

I have a real soft spot for Xeon systems... This little beastie has some room to become a much nastier little bugger.

As always, much love for you and all that you do. Can't wait for the upgrade video.

[AverageGamerDad]

I'm here for the follow up video! Where is it Andy!?

I am looking at getting one of these and throwing a $25 E52690 v4 into it. My only hesitation is I hope I get one with that 650W PSU.

[tobyt]

I just got mine yesterday from eBay for $160. this thing is a beast for the price.

[bxe_prototyp]

looks like we both had a similar idea. i got myself a dell workstation with two xeon e5 2687w v3 and an used gtx 1080ti founders edition from ebay. works great but i am currently looking for a newer case with more airflow because mine has only 2 fans to get rid of the 320W combined tdp from the cpus. cant wait for the upcoming video

[bloggerboyo]

I got one earlier this year too, for £150 off ebay that was accepted by an offer from the seller, the orignal one i was bidding on I was just outbid at the last moments by a seller who bidded £155 . since then I have upgraded the graphics card to a rtx a2000 and the cpu to a e5-2660 v4 14 cores (£36 on ebay with a 2 year warenty), and most recently the ram from 32gb of 2133 ecc to 64gb of of non-ecc 2400 .Also I have used a pcie to m.2 adapter and purchased an additional front fan. the device is running great ! next looking to add wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.2 pcie card

[antoniobaric]

Absolutely worth it in 2022. :) Great find!

[UltraGameWorld]

Great video Andy, I really like that workstation as a good starting point for someone looking to get into budget gaming.

[whitecanegamer]

I'm picking one of these up tomorrow, bought it sight unseen (ironic as I'm blind) 🤣. I'm curious to find out what PSU comes with it now and if it has the riser card or not, for an M.2. Sorry to hear yours had a wobble. Thanks for the video.

[bot]

I picked myself a hp z440 with a E5 1650 v3 won a bid for it eventhough the listing said it had a E5 1620 v3 a happy suprise at the end.
Great video btw!

[WaltKurtz]

As you said: bang for buck, out of the box performance, combined with flexibility / upgradability. That's hard to beat. But also a cool design (imo). And powerful yet compact. And the beauty of these Thinkstations is: a powerful workstation computer in 2014/2015 still makes for a more than capable pc in 2023/2024/2025.

[OLDUSAFMedic]

Lenovo shows a front bay model with an M.2 drive that is removable. It sits right near the DVD drive bay. Thisis 6 months later and I just picked up the P620 for the same money and it's very nice and has 64 gigs of ram and the Xeon W2135.

[vaprtranz]

Love the metal beast. These will take the Broadwall E5 v4 Xeons and those are cheap too. More cores lowers GHz but 8 Core is good middle ground and 2x cores at 3.4GHz IIRC. I think the big plus is it has room for 2 full PCIe cards.

[gavincaventer]

Did you make a follow up video of the upgrades thanks

[IcebergTech]

I was thinking about doing a XBox Series S killer using a Dell T5810, E5-2667 V3 and RX 5600 XT, but I decided I don't have room for another bloody massive tower!

[kojakdurham]

Did you ever upgrade this? I searched your videos but can't find it.

[owlsmolowo]

I am using mine as a domain controller. It's great. I can use VMs on it too.

[misterhoudi]

I suggest taking a view at z440 or/and P520.