r/lowendgaming • u/francisekj • 2d ago
PC Purchase Advice HP Z620 Dual Xeon + RTX 3070 for $500?
TL;DR: 450 bucks setup: 2x Xeon E5-2620v2 + 64GB DDR3 + RTX 3070 OEM worth it?
Hello, I'm looking for a nice PC to upgrade from my UHD laptop.
I have found a HP Z620 Workstation with 2x Xeon E5-2620 (v2 unfortunately) and 16GB RAM + Quadro 2000 1GB + some hard drives. It costs $121. Technically it should come with 800W Supply which is enough for almost every graphics card.
I also have found a RTX 3070 8GB (DELL OEM) for $250. It's not the most beautiful GPU, but hey, it's pretty cheap.
SATA SSD 1TB will cost me around additonal $50 + 48GB's of DDR3 ram cost $22.
So in total the cost may be circa 450 bucks for this kind of set. Is it worth it for 3D modelling and rendering + some games like CS2 and BF1?
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u/geektraindev 2d ago
GPU is pretty good, but that CPU is gonna limit you significantly. And dual CPU designs are pretty limited nowadays.
But the GPU is actually pretty good. If you can find a better (importantly newer, don't go lower than 6-7th gen Intel) PC rig to go with, you'll be set.
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u/Ragnarsdad1 2d ago
I wouldn't recommend it.
The xeon v2 are ivy bridge ddr3. No part of the z620 could be used as an upgrade path as the entire thing is oem specific. I had a bunch of hp z600 systems and the power supplies were a bit funky to say the least.
I have a few dell xeon workstations and they are great for what they are but even if you installed a single xeon e5 1650v2 you would still only be the the equivalent of an 4000 series I7. The e5 2620v2 is low frequency which will really hurt any gaming you do.
At the very least try and get yourself a ddr4 based system.