Refurbished PC thread

[spdfreak]

On the M83 that NE has, Lenovo shows it available with dual video cards, so 2x PCIe x16 slots. The PS is listed as 240W but I can't tell from the picture if it is a 14 or 24 pin connector.

 

[jiffer]

On the M83 that NE has, Lenovo shows it available with dual video cards, so 2x PCIe x16 slots. The PS is listed as 240W but I can't tell from the picture if it is a 14 or 24 pin connector.

I found a serial number for an M83 (10AH) and looked up the parts list on the Lenovo website. You can Google the part numbers for more information, photos, etc.

The power supply ("new FRU single TFX 240W ES") is part number 54Y8921. It has a 14-pin connector and a 4-pin connectors. The drives are powered by cables connected to the motherboard (see part number 54Y8286 for an example). The 10AH model has an 80PLUS Bronze power supply but other SFF models such as the 10AN do not.

The motherboard ("M83 Intel Q85 planar WIN DPK") is part number 00KT260. I think "WIN DPK" means theres's a Windows 8 license code ("Digital Product Key") embedded in the BIOS, even though the machine ships with Windows 7 Professional with a separate license (part number 01GE677).

Even though it has two PCIe x16 slots, they are both controlled by a single PCIe 3.0 controller and they share 16 lanes. So if you have two video cards, they each get 8 lanes, or if you have one video card, it gets 16 lanes. I don't think I'd use dual video cards in a machine with a 240W power supply, but I've seen machines equipped with two low power video cards (less than 25W each) for the purpose of increasing the number of outputs. I'd use a GeForce GT 730 (DDR5) because it's a 38W single-slot card with decent performance and it doesn't require a PCI-E connector.

Here's more product information: https://download.lenovo.com/parts/ThinkCentre/m83_minitower_sff_overview.pdf

 

[spdfreak]

I did go ahead and get this system. Pretty nice and Grade A as described but the HDD was simply sitting in the frame with no rails to hold it in place so it just rattled around when you moved the system... Had to rig up some rails from another case to secure it. It had 12GB memory instead of the 8 listed. The HDD had about 20K hours on it and some rewritten sectors. I cloned it to a cheap SSD and installed a good 500GB storage drive. All in all, typical of refurbs. You always seem to need to fix something on them. But, it runs great with win 10 pro and I'll find a decent LP vid card to put in it for connectivity since it only has DP and VGA connectors.

 

[cbn]

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