EU Lenovo ThinkCentre M910x barebone with i5-7500 €85,44

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MBastian

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Disregard the "8 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD" in the offer headline. The seller also has another auction with these components but imho it's too expensive. I tried to low-ball him to €100 but he denied.

Unlike the rest of the M910 lineup the M910x has two m.2 slots and a PCI x8 slot. The PCI risers for the M920/P330 series are compatible.

Imho a good deal if you want to build a firewall or just tinker around.

EDIT: Now with 10€ rebate if you pay via Mastercard. Code: MC2024

EDIT2: Talked with the seller. He is not sure why EU customers can't buy through ebay and recomments to order through his website. See Bjorns post
 
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Luckily he doesn’t ship to my location, so can’t buy that :D
As far as I can see he ships to Europe, excluding some places. At least I can select Sweden as a destination. Since he is sitting on at least 50 of theses boxes for quite some time I am sure deals can be made for shipping worldwide, depending on volume.
 

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As far as I can see he ships to Europe, excluding some places. At least I can select Sweden as a destination. Since he is sitting on at least 50 of theses boxes for quite some time I am sure deals can be made for shipping worldwide, depending on volume.
Shipping to Denmark seems to be free - which is nice - I am considering buying 3-5 and set up a cluster - of some sort.

EDIT: never mind - does not ship to Denmark - and I only found out at check out - so weird ebay let me put stuff in my basket that I cannot buy.

Found their website:

10 EUR to save on the items :)

So even cheaper.

Just bought 5 bare bones without RAM/SSD/NVME - total price 424 EUR including 40 EUR shipping to Denmark
 
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I've updated the first post with instructions for international (EU only it seems) customers. Thanks Bjorn! Btw. the seller hinted to me that he might up prices soon.
 
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EDIT2: Talked with the seller. He is not sure why EU customers can't buy through ebay and recomments to order through his website. See Bjorns post
Im mostly facinated by this tbh

That they have 18k sales on ebay and would be not sure why people are having a problem buying when they have not added shipping options or global shipping.
 

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That they have 18k sales on ebay and would be not sure why people are having a problem buying when they have not added shipping options or global shipping.
Yeah - my guess is that in reality they really do not want to ship internationally - but if you order directly from their website, they do not lose income to the ebay fee, and its less of a bother :)
 
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Shipping seems a bit expensive (40€) for my liking inside Europe tbh, but tempted to buy a 2-3 units. That way shipping does not hurt so much.
 

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Shipping seems a bit expensive (40€) for my liking inside Europe tbh, but tempted to buy a 2-3 units. That way shipping does not hurt so much.
It's per unit, so 3 units should cost ~24€. Still less than the ebay price without shipping. My order will arrive today and I already rummaged trough my spares box for parts. Sadly any tinkering have to wait till the weekend. Uh, I should have checked first. It's really 40€ flat. :eek:

Im mostly facinated by this tbh

That they have 18k sales on ebay and would be not sure why people are having a problem buying when they have not added shipping options or global shipping.
He suspects some glitch because he prohibited shipping to some EQ countries and islands. Imho a bad move not to fix this as most people do not bother to search for an external shop or deem it too risky to buy without Ebays Money Back Guarantee.
 
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He suspects some glitch because he prohibited shipping to some EQ countries and islands. Imho a bad move not to fix this as most people do not bother to search for an external shop or deem it too risky to buy without Ebays Money Back Guarantee.
He might be talking about his listing tool then, it would not be a ebay issue/glitch.

Commercial sellers almost never use ebay directly and only use a third party dashboard.
But if he just logs on ebay directly and looks at the listing the problem will be obvious to him as there is simply no shipping method selected.
 

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Shipping seems a bit expensive (40€) for my liking inside Europe tbh, but tempted to buy a 2-3 units. That way shipping does not hurt so much.
Thats what I did, ordered 5, then per item its not too bad - but considering that its not a lot of weight I still think 40EUR shipping is quite a bit - but considering that the units are cheaper on their own website, then lower price+shipping is still less than ebay price - if you order 4 or more :)
 

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Could be interested in a few for FWs etc if he can sort international shipping. They're not worth enough to have problems with customs duties etc.
 

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Maybe silly question but do they come with a riser pre installed? I have some networking projects I could use these for.
 

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Maybe silly question but do they come with a riser pre installed? I have some networking projects I could use these for.
No, but they take the same riser SKUs that the M720/M920 series do. A 01AJ940 model with bracket will cost roughly €20 on Ebay.
Last weekend I checked out my order and was really pleased. With 2x 4GB RAM modules and 2x 256GB NVMEs I had lying around running Debian (Raid 1) my box is well below 5W at idle (C8). As soon as I get the riser I'll test how much that changes with a I340-T4 card.
 
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my box is well below 5W at idle (C8). As soon as I get the riser I'll test how much that changes with a I340-T4 card.
How did you get that so low?

Mine is at 10.x something at idle - but I do also a SATA SSD installed on top of a 128GB SATA m.2 drive - but if you have 2xnvme drives it should idle higher.

I am also running with C8 enabled.

Have you run powertop to tweak everything down?
 

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Have you run powertop to tweak everything down?
Yes, just "powertop --auto-tune" in headless mode and a plain Debian 12 install. Powertop shows that it stays at C8 98% of the time.

I just installed an I340-T4 and discovered that the rearmost heasink screw collides with the ethernet chip on the backside. With some electrical tape over the screw and a bit of force I was able to install the card but would not recommend it long term. Since I'll use it as an testbed and emergency replacement for my current M920x I'll just get a I340-T2 or something else that does not have chips on the backside.

With the card installed the box hovers between C7 and C3 instead of C8 on idle. Power consumtions goes up to ~7.2W

Edit: Unfortunately the I3x0-T2 cards have also one chip installed on the backside right where it would collide with the screw.
 
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After investigating the PCI riser issue a bit I suspect that the P320/M910x riser is slightly different from its successor. I found some reddit posts where people where not able to fit an I3x0-T4 card into an P320 instead of the normally installed GPU card.
The riser I've bought from ebay works but its PCI slot is most likely slightly lower than the original P320 one. But now cards with components on their back can collide with at least one of the heatsink screws.
With a bit of work I probably could shorten the screws so that they are no longer protuding with the hope it'll be enough to fit my I340-T4. Since I am totally fine with a two port card I searched a bit and ordered a used Fujitsu D3035-A11 card which should hopefully fit without modifications.
 
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