Lenovo Thinkcentre p360

ScBHavoK · Saturday at 21:37

Hi all

I have recentlty got my hands on the above which specs are:
Intel i9-12900
32gb ddr5
1tb Nvme (samsung)

Would it be worth using this to upgrade my rig which is

Ryzen 5600
16gb ddr4
Seagate firecuda 500gb nvme
Gtx 1080

I was going to sell it but no idea what i might get for it

Tetras · Saturday at 21:45

I'd keep it. The 12900 is a WAY faster productivity CPU and a somewhat faster gaming CPU.

That said, the maximum power consumption and cooling required is in a different league, so if you have some cheapo prebuild there, it might not perform how you'd expect and could be awkward to add a good GPU.

ScBHavoK · Saturday at 21:59

Tetras said:
I'd keep it. The 12900 is a WAY faster productivity CPU and a somewhat faster gaming CPU.

That said, the maximum power consumption and cooling required is in a different league, so if you have some cheapo prebuild there, it might not perform how you'd expect and could be awkward to add a good GPU.

It is a lenovo thinkstation pre build so all oem gear internals nothing flash.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkStation/ThinkStation_P360_Tower/ThinkStation_P360_Tower_Spec.pdf

Tetras · Saturday at 22:02

ScBHavoK said:
It is a lenovo thinkstation pre build so all oem gear internals nothing flash.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkStation/ThinkStation_P360_Tower/ThinkStation_P360_Tower_Spec.pdf

Has it got the 500 watt or 750 watt PSU? 500 would be a pain, would limit your upgrade potential quite a bit, but 750 would take most things, case cooling permitting.

Can you do some benching with something like hwinfo sensor tab open? Just to see how throttle happy/loud the CPU cooling is.

Are you just a gamer?

ScBHavoK · Saturday at 22:13

Tetras said:
Has it got the 500 watt or 750 watt PSU? 500 would be a pain, would limit your upgrade potential quite a bit, but 750 would take most things, case cooling permitting.

Can you do some benching with something like hwinfo sensor tab open? Just to see how throttle happy/loud the CPU cooling is.

Are you just a gamer?

its 500w just opened it up. Not really gamed in a while tbh just fifa red dead etc

Tetras · Saturday at 22:19

ScBHavoK said:
its 500w just opened it up. Not really gamed in a while tbh just fifa red dead etc

Darn. That's a shame it is 500.

Ideally, you'd want a card on the level of a 4060 (~130 watts), or maybe if the PSU is a good one you could get away with a 4070 (~200 watts). Both cards use a single 8 pin PCIE connector (except for the FE direct from nvidia).