What's going on guys, it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and don't freak out there is sound
on this video you just saw a super quick unboxing on the Lenovo's thinkstation p520, and this
machine is a monster and I love it automatically I fell in love with it.
And let's get right into the review.
Alright so what comes inside the box super self explanatory we have a statement on USB
tranferred rate.
Awesome.
We have a safety warranty setup guide.
We have a heavy gauge power cable.
We have a mouse, which I
did not use at all.
And we have one of those old school,
IBM keyboards.
I did not use this at all.
But when we set up the machine I'm going to use my own keyboard and mouse that I use on
this machine when I was testing it out, alright.
So this guy has a lot of ports on the front in the back
let's go over some of the ports on the front
side now.
It comes with a DVD RW RW stands
for rewritable
i did not use this guy at all uses a DVD or
CD right at the very top right here.
We have a power button right next to the power button you have your mic headphone combo jack.
You have four 3.1 USB ports.
And the last one
right here is always on charging which is
awesome.
And last but not least we have an SD card reader slot.
Now on the backside let's turn this guy around real quick.
At the top we have a PS/2 port.
This is old school ports for your keyboard and mouse right here we have two 3.1 USB ports
right next to that we have rj 45 which is a gigabit Ethernet port, we have two additional
3.1 USB ports and last but not least we have 2.0 USB ports.
And last but not least we have a microphone in port, we have audio out port and then our
audio in port and underneath all of these ports, we have our graphics card which actually
holds four display ports, and at the very bottom we have our power port.
This is where we are going to insert our power cable which is right here, insert this guy
right now to our power supply unit right so we are going to take the machine hooked up
a keyboard and mouse and monitor we're going to boot it up, we're going to take a look
at some of the specifications and go over some of the
pros and cons on this
machine.
So let's
get right into that right now.
All right, so before I even turn this guy on.
This is a heavy machine it weighs around
27 point 55 pounds.
So make sure wherever you set it, I recommend setting it on top of a desktop don't put it
on the floor.
You know, because you don't want to cover up the rear vents, want to keep it nice and
cool.
Alright so the power button is located right here at the top we are going to press this
guy on.
And we're going to turn it on you hear that power.
Awesome.
Now one of the cool things on the thinkstation p520 is that it has a front panel input and
output controller, which is located right in here next to the panel on the front.
It is extremely hard to even get into, but there is a speaker inside of that panel.
Now the speaker loudness on the P520, I got around
85.2 decibels
that is not that bad.
Most of the time I was able to use the speaker with no problems if you don't want to use
the internal speaker,
you can always plug in
external monitors at the back, using the audio input and output that the P520 gives you.
Alright so we just went over the speakers on the 520
the P520 again speakers are like really hidden, they're really small.
Right.
But what makes this machine a monster is
the specifications, you are able to customize it on your own.
Like a, solid state drives and M.2 solid state drive more memory, you can do that on your
own.
Again, we're going to open it up pretty
soon and I'm going to show you guys inside of it, because it's super simple you can upgrade
it yourself.
So on the desktop we are going to right click on the taskbar, we are going to go inside
Task Manager.
I'm going to open this guy up real quick, actually have Camtasia recorder running recording
the screen for you guys.
We're going to go into performance,
and let's go to CPU let's right click on the CPU go to change graph to logical processor.
And this guy is running an Intel CR W2145 CPU, with a clock speed of
3.70 gigahertz.
It has eight cores 16 logical processors.
It has virtualization enabled which I love a lot because I actually had VMware Workstation
15 installed.
and I was just playing around with my
virtual environment love it.
Now from memory.
It comes with 16 gigs, you're able to
upgrade up to 512
gigs of memory.
Now for hard drive space, I only got the 512 gigabyte solid state drive is actually a M.2
solid state drive which is awesome.
How'd you gigabit rj 45 ports.
These two guys are right here is because I installed VMware Workstation.
Those are my virtual NICs.
And last but not least, you have the Nvidia Quadro p 4000 8 gigs graphics card, which
is a monster.
Now the refresh rate, as well as the resolution on this particular graphics card it really
depends on what you are inserting into this machine like right now I have a 1080p machine.
So I don't really have a high refresh rate.
But if we open up this open up tech power up GPU.
Let's hit yes on the User Account Control.
Let's launch this guy up real quick.
And if we do a look up on the Nvidia Quadro p4000.
It's going to open up right here so.
Okay.
So, the max resolution would be around 3840 x 2160 and it really depends on the monitor.
Okay. recommend the gaming resolutions, it only goes up to 1920 x 1080, they start going
up to yellow and red when you are using a 2K or 4k monitor.
So be careful on that.
Now the only problem that I noticed on the fonts.
It just looks kind of weird.
Now, the particular cable that
I have is a display to HDMI.
So I think if you had a display to display fonts won't
look all kind of weird to me.
I mean, to me it looks more like really fine and weird
I don't know if it's because of my eyes, or it looks weird, but right now I'm currently
using a DisplayPort to the computer and displayed, HDMI, I felt like if I had a native display
to display the fonts won't look weird to me, but hey that's that's me.
Now for heating, again it's a desktop, it does have two fans one fan in the front and
one fan, at the back, which keeps it nice and cool but I did notice heating around the
normal areas on a desktop again, I do recommend having it on top of a desktop, don't put this
guy on the floor, or stuck in a corner and catching all that dust because you will lose
performance performance wise, I enjoyed it a lot I was able to DaVinci a lot of color
editing, Premiere, rendering 4k with Media Encoder, Photoshop, gaming, I was able to
do everything on this machine with no problem, it's, it's a desktop workstation.
This guy's built for engineers, designers, and animators alright so let's conclude our
review on the thinkstation p520 pricing, let's talk about the pricing now the retail price
for this guy is around $1350, and the
highest that you could go with all
the configurations with everything memory.
You know upgrade the solid state drive get a better graphics card is going to be around
10 grand it's not really an affordable machine.
I think this machine is built for the work environment, especially if you are a senior
engineer or an animator or designer that needs that
type of power that power of graphics
the memory the solid state drive the processor.
go for it you know if you're using, you know, Revit if you're using 3d max if you're using
Maya, those are the type of programs that you are able to use on this particular machine.
Don't get me wrong when I was rendering 4k video using the P4000.
It was quick dude I mean, really, really fast.
Now for external monitors again you got the graphics card that holds around four display
ports.
I was actually using it display port to an HDMI cable.
And I saw like the fonts weren't great so if you're a designer, you're definitely going
to complain about the font type on the monitor.
So I would definitely recommend doing a display to display get a monitor that's able to hook
up a display cable and go for that route.
Like I mentioned before, this guy is customizable.
Like if I turn it right here to the side.
This is the latch that allows you to open up the side panel, you're allowed to only
open this side right here and the other side.
You can't open it at all.
There is a key right here in the bottom, that allows you to lock it, it's like a server.
So, opening it up is super simple, so you can just press this guy right here.
Lift it up, and voila.
Open up.
Now the power supply is a really good power supply to support everything that this machine
has inside of it on the power supply is around 690 watts.
Again this machine is super easy to upgrade, you're able to go up to two terabytes of data
solid state drive and up to six terabytes 72 RPMs, which is awesome right This right
here is the housing that allows you to hook up your SATA, as well as your solid state
drives.
So this right here will be your SATA, and for your solid state drives, this will be
the mechanism.
This little guy right here.
There we go.
So this guy right here is actually the mechanism that allows you to hook up the 2.5 solid state
drives into it so let me put that back now from memory it actually has eight DIMMs in
total for each side of the CPU you go up to 512 gigabytes, with a clock speed of 2933.
Now overall this machine is a monster I said, I'm gonna say it again, it is a great machine
for those people that aren't designers that are animators and engineers.
If you're looking for a machine to use for maybe live stream for decoding encoding, I
would definitely use that, upgrade the rj 45 to maybe a dual port.
So you can have like incoming and outgoing kind of traffic is really up to you.
It's not affordable, it's really expensive.
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