by "SaigaShooter - He's got an Impreza" (saigashooter)
Published 05/10/2017 at 22:57
by "SaigaShooter - He's got an Impreza" (saigashooter)
Published 05/10/2017 at 22:57
Tags: PClopnik
; IBM
STARS: 3
Had this come in from a client, it is being disposed of, but I thought a few of you might find it interesting.
What we have here is the IBM Intellistation Z Pro 6223
The Intellistation Z Pro 6223 line ran from 2004 to 2007 and boasted a RAID card, 3 HDD bays, Intel Xeon processors, up to 16 GB of ram, and shipped with Windows XP
This example was built in 2006, it currently has 5 GB of RAM, however only 2 GB are recognized due to a damaged DIMM slot. It is also configured with 2, 250 GB IBM eServer hard disks in RAID 0, and 2 Intel Xeon Processors running at 3.2 GHz. Physical specs are as follows:
Height: 469.9 mm (18.5 in.) Depth: 495.3 mm (19.5 in.) Width: 215.9 mm (8.5 in.) Weight: 16.2 kg ( 36 lb ) to 22.6 kg ( 50 lb )
The IntelliStation Z Pro line also included video cards supplied by nvidia, they were from the Quadro line, this specimen has the Quadro FX3500 with 256 MB of DDR3 memory.
The inside of the case is tool less, access to the hard drives is gained by sliding the cage release lever from front to rear and then lifting a tab that allows the entire cage to pivot up/outwards, you then disconnect the fan assembly to access the drives.
At the back of the machine we find a plethora of ports ideal for 2006, PS2 keyboard and mouse, line in, out and mic, a 1394 port, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, 1 10/100/1000 Ethernet and 2 DVI ports on the graphics card.
Anyway, if I can repair the damaged pin in the 3rd DIMM slot, I may just load a copy of XP and play some vintage games on some matching hardware.
"GE90man" (ge90man)
05/10/2017 at 23:02, STARS: 0
oh the nostalgia
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
05/10/2017 at 23:06, STARS: 1
I like the case. Time to fire up TES: Oblivion!
"facw" (facw)
05/10/2017 at 23:09, STARS: 0
Not much reason to, doesn’t have any significant issues running on modern hardware.
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
05/10/2017 at 23:26, STARS: 0
Wouldn’t make for a bad little tv computer if it was working right.
"Tapas" (tapas)
05/10/2017 at 23:35, STARS: 0
These things used to be the bomb!
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
05/11/2017 at 00:16, STARS: 0
ah so he was referring to games that are way older than I thought
"facw" (facw)
05/11/2017 at 00:19, STARS: 0
Probably, there are a lot of things from the Windows 9x era that don’t like modern Windows, 64-bit, or both. Older stuff you play on DOSbox pretty well, and most things from past 15 years will work on modern systems, but there’s a bit of a hole there. You can run an XP VM, but that has it’s own problems.
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
05/11/2017 at 06:17, STARS: 0
Well, you want quiet for a TV computer, and dual NetBurst Xeons is not how you get quiet.
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
05/11/2017 at 08:30, STARS: 0
Fair enough. Take that for granted. Quiet effective fan tech is an underrated part of modern Pc builds. Back then I had pc’s that sounded like vacuum cleaners when on full tilt.
"NojustNo" (front24200)
05/11/2017 at 11:10, STARS: 0
IMHO don’t bother fixing the ram slot. 2 gigabytes is plenty for XP gaming.