First xeon based system for me.
This has been a fun little project that is surprisingly capable (to me). We've got a Lenovo Thinkstation p320 that I snagged off fleabay for 95 bucks. It came with an e3-1240 v6 that will be swapped out to an e3-1280 v6 (when it arrives). It only had a single 8gb Samsung ddr4 ecc 2133mhz stick so I got 3 more to bring system total to 32gb. It had a whopping 250w psu, it honestly feels like there is nothing inside of it hahaha its so lightweight. Upgraded that to the Thermaltake 500w, I'm not happy with the cable management but there are a LOT of extra cables with it being non-modular. It was 30 bucks though im not mad. It's booting windows 10 off of a 512gb SP 2.5 ssd, and has a 1tb wd blue 3.5 for bulk storage.
For graphics, this came with the esteemed nvidia GeForce 8400gs. It was a bit too much of a card for me, I'd never utilize it to the fullest potential. I decided to downgrade to the dell rtx 2060 super 8gb /s. Very happy with the dell card so far. I opted for a single fan card as anything longer would force me to remove the front panel connection on the motherboard. I wanted this project to look/function as close to OEM but crank the specs up.
For cpu cooling I ordered the vetroo v3 tower cooler. The exhaust fan will be upgraded to an arctic p9 max and i will be adding an arctic p8 max to the front for intake. I'm hopeful that all of this combined with a custom fan curve will keep temps down with the side panel on. I've been running furmark on it for quite some time with the panel off just to make sure everything holds up under load.
Let me know what you guys think or what I should change! Last 2 pics just for giggles. The fan on that 8400gs was SHOT and screaming whenever the pc was on hahaha