Thin Client w/ NIC for VMs and Firewalls HP T740

not me thinking about installing a gpu in it.........

i kinda want to get make a custom rack for the 1l pc's

hi guysd i can get this machine for 280USD with 32gb ram and 1tb nmve SSD. I need it for 3 monitors 4k, do you have experience if the CPU is fast enough to manage them and if the price is ok?
in the other hand i have a Elitemini B550 with a ryzen 5700g, 16gb ram and 256gb nmve SSD for 400USD....

As the prices of SSDs recently went down I would like to know if the PCIe slot would be capable to take a PCIe NVMe adapter packed with let's say 2x 2TB NVMe's? My goal is to replace my 4TB HDD Synology Diskstation and build a Proxmox Server with FreeNAS or something. Is this possible mit the T740? Or maybe you can direct me to another thin client option?

I'm currently running OpenWRT on an HP T520 Thin Client (1GB RAM, 8GB SSD). Using a USB Gigabit NIC though!

Wow 11 months later, $1500AUD on ebay. This Australia tax is a killer.

Dell R220 with an E3-1230 v3, 16gb DDR3 ECC and a 240gb SSD is perfect for pfSense xD

How about adding on apple because everyone is more or less at the same stage n what not.

I miss thin clients n terminals! The real terminals from the 80s 90s and early 2000s! Patrick great video!

I like the T620. It's a little slow, but it does what I want from a tiny system. Playing Internet Radio.

Maybe time to add a dedicated forum for this kind of "franken-server". There's going to be more and more hardware going into the secondary market that has CPUs with VM extensions and other capabilities great for STH types of applications.

Which distro of Linux can i run on this thing? I want to run Docker and some containers on it.

How much Watt does it consume?

the STH effect hasn't worn off yet; $300 used on ebay

has anyone tried sticking AMD 6400xt in this?

this thing eats way too much power to be used as a firewall.

Thanks will try it out.

Ugh... first page of results in ebay show sellers asking for "new" prices for "pulled' hardware. I'll have to keep watching.

Bought one of these off EBay after watching this but it is locked down in the BIOS with an unknown password. How do I remove bios password??

I don't know. Sounds good but as enthusiast I think working with HP is a huge pain. Everything is behind some licenses and vendor locking and other stuff. After two HP Server and one Network Switch I will try other vendors.