Mike
Reasonably priced, arrived quickly, and was well packaged. Unfortunately, there were numerous issues that if I had known prior to purchasing, I would have spent my money elsewhere.
The first thing I noticed when I opened the unit, was that the drive configuration was completely wrong. Instead of the "Dual 960Gb M.2 SSD New" posted on the listing, it came with two 2.5" SATA SSDs. Both were used and definitely not new at around 54,000 hours with one drive having such an absurd amount of TBW (total bytes written) I'm surprised it still works. After seeing this, I started inspecting the system more to see if anything else was amiss.
After removing the shroud covering the CPU and RAM, I noticed the RAM was in an incorrect configuration which would result in a performance loss. With 4x32GB modules, there should have been two slots populated on each side of the CPU. Instead, there we three on one side and one on the other. I pulled one module to move it to the other side in order to correct this and noticed the RAM was not original to this system. Not a big deal until I realized they were slow 2133Mhz whereas the OEM modules that would have originally shipped with this system would have been faster 2666Mhz.
After booting up the system and checking specs, even the CPU was not as advertised. Fortunately, it was slightly better since it was a Xeon 4110 rather than a 4108.
| Processor | 1.8 GHz intel_xeon |
|---|---|
| RAM | 128 GB DDR4 |
| Hard Drive | 960 GB SSD |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 2 GB |
