These 7040 desktops are insane. I got one for free from a place I worked at. They closed their offices and gave me a few machines for helping them with their IT stuff. I smashed 32gb DDR4 into it, gave it 2 SSDs, and a 4tb spinner. I also put a 1050ti in it and gave it to the stepson. The kid plays so much on Steam, and loves the experience he gets from it. So much that he bought me a Series S in trade for it. I know he plays the MGS games, Gta5, Spider Man, and it does all of his school work with ease. Hands down, the best PC I have worked with thus far.
I have this exact setup but with an EVGA 3060ti in it. There are a few options that make it much better. This motherboard supports one gen 3 m.2 ssd (up to 2 tb) on the motherboard. Intel invented M.2 Drives and Dell computers were the first to implement them standard on all models since 2014. Based on the similar cost it is much better to use a M.2 rather than a Sata ssd for the 4 lanes of connection they have rather than the 1 lane you get with a Sata connection. You can "Clone" the hard drive to the M.2 to keep the OEM copy of windows that comes with the PC (there are many free cloning programs available online). You need to first start the computer and setup windows on the Sata drive and then "connect" the windows copy to your microsoft account by logging into your account and "registering" your copy of Windows. Then clone the original drive to the M.2 drive. After that you then set the pc Bios to boot off of the M.2. (My boot took less than 3 seconds off of my M.2!) Once this is setup and working you can then wipe the original drive and use it as storage or as a game drive. This particular tower has the room to replace the original power supply as well. You will need to cut out the rear panel to give the opening for a standard size PSU. Stop! Dremel Time! You will need the appropriate 24 pin adapter to connect the 24 pin power cable to the 8 pin connector on this Dell motherboard but those run around $6.00 - $8.00 Depending on your preferences you can do a reverse setup: I did end up swapping things around a bit. I am currently using a 256 gb Sata SSD for my boot drive, but doing that did slow my pc boot from 3 seconds to about 10 seconds but i switched my Steam library to the 1tb M.2 for faster game loading and, most importantly, to get 3 second load screens on my games instead of the 20 seconds provided by the Sata ssd. I now am usually the first to load in on multiplayer games with 3 seconds ahead of the SSD based players and up to 8 seconds ahead of HDD players giving me a huge advantage! Later, I did move the whole thing into a standard ATX case. While this board does have integrated front I/O it does still come with connections for the external front I/O of any case you would put it into. The only issue may be the power switch since Dell uses an interrupt style power switch instead of a circuit connection type, but it is easy to find the pinout solution online to fix this. (You just have to splice 2 specific wires from the case into one single wire to connect to the motherboard power switch). The main benefit of the integrated I/O on the motherboard is you can use those AND the external ones on your case AT THE SAME TIME since they are wired as separate lanes. I use 2 of the integrated front usb to power 2 seperate system monitor screens (one 3"x5" and one 3"x10") that are mounted inside my case. as well as using one of the usb connections to power a generic RGB strip running a loop inside the case. Please note that if you swap the cooler or the case you WILL want to keep the original Dell fans since the motherboard "communicates" wit them and replacing them will result in a system error on boot up that you will need to press F2 to bypass. If you keep those original fans but add additional fans or keep and relocate those fans you will not see the error. I swapped the cpu cooler to one that came with 2 fans so I added a 3 way splitter and ran both of the new fans on the cooler along with the original fan that I relocated to a custom mount so it blows onto my RAM (total of 2.7 watts on the 3 watt header). I kept the original case fan and mounted it as the back exhaust fan in my case but added 6 fans ran off of a Sata powered controller. Additionally the case intrusion alarm switch and the internal speaker switch are not needed and you can toss those if transplanting to a new case without any boot errors. I kept both of mine (switch/internal speaker) to add a joke "car alarm" to my case to amuse those I show it to. Something you can only do with a Dell :)
Forgot to include. If a Dell PC has an M.2 slot it is always ddr4 RAM. Dell moved to ddr4 at the same time they began including the M.2 slot. Dells do not support ram overclocking (up to 2666 speed, but dell offers motherboard Bios updates that enable up to 2966 speed for the optiplex 70xx and newer series) but you CAN enable RAM Boost which will tighten up the RAM timings and cut out a significant amount of RAM lag. This will show up as about 5 -10 extra FPS.
@@baddayguygaming Literally did the same thing. I put a SFF PSU and a 1070ti in it and it just ran to hot. Moved it to an atx case and did almost the excact same mods. I was blown away with the performance. BTW the outsides of the 5 pin case fan are both ground so you can mod the exhaust fan and dont have to press f1 or have an 80mm or 90 whatever it is dangling. Very well written btw. Way more eloquent than what i was gonna say.
They can make really nice sleeper comps. I had to pass on the rx 580 due to miners flooding the used market with them for the last year, otherwise I built the same rig for our youngest son but stuffed an old maxwell Titan X ,we had from an old pc, for the gpu and it still runs under the psu rating. Really nice sleeper and he plays minecraft and similar games seemlessly.
Don't, I used to and I held hope but they started recommending Dell Optiplex and Alienware PCs. I know this video it's not recommended but it still doesn't make sense to make another Dell Optiplex video. they have done so many.
@@KS_Gaming05 they don’t recommend alienwares and they do recommend optiplexes because they are very good bang for buck. Only thing is they really shouldn’t endorse aliexpress
@@KS_Gaming05 I did not buy a gaming laptop from them I bought the same gaming laptop from best buy and yeah they do make a lot of Dell Optiplexs but I am not saying buy from them I am just saying they make good benchmarkings.
I'm guessing the problem is the memory. Judging by the FPS counter, the memory was showing that it was maxed out. Seems like that would be the bottleneck of the system. Everything else looks good though, and honestly that's still respectable numbers to see as far as temps go, and FPS. The only thing i would have been interested in seeing more of, would have been testing during the whole upgrade process. I.E. Remove one stick of memory, because it was only supposed to come with 8GB to begin with, then test. Then, re-paste the CPU, and check the temps. Then, swap the HDD for the SSD, and test. THEN swap the GPU, and test. Finally, add that last stick of memory. This way you could see how much extra performance the computer has from start to finish.......Or at least test it in its original configuration before doing the thermal paste. Then, do the thermal paste, swap the GPU, and change to the SSD, and run the "after" test.
Guilty with the config. Have an optiplex 7040 i7 6700 with a A2000 RTX gpu ❤❤❤ This optiplex was going to the recycle and I just requested this from the IT dept. They just removed the hdd. So i just bought an ssd and os :) the got the keys at gvg mall. But the funny thing is…i have the sff one. So i put the card at the pcie 8x (black) port 😂 but it still working
i upgraded from a 7020 sff with a 1650 which i used to have in the pcie x4 slot 😅. i recommend getting a new case mobo and cooler because it can offer better temps and performance from the x 16 slot
I think its better than my third pc, which is an apu system :P main pc is 5800x3D/rtx 2080super second pc is ryzen 3600 / gtx 1070 third pc is just a 2200g pc I put together to test my curiosity with an apu and I'm happy with it
Nice, tough to beat the 5800x3D. I always go with workstation PCs though. They almost never break, almost never crash and parts are dirt cheap. Best of all, they generally hold up to the test of time much better due to far more PCI bandwidth, quad channel ram, HUGE RAM capacity (mine does up to 512GB) and amazing ports and power supply. I built an HP Z4 G4 with the 8 core Xeon mentioned earlier, 32GB RAM and a 3070ti for about 450 bucks (already had SSDs). It's quite well balance CPU to GPU as well.
Note, if you run into a situation of needing an adapter to use sata power to 6 pin gpu power that the sata's voltage will be limited and in some cases not sufficient as a power supply solution for GPU and depending on the driver in the GPU could actually throttle or bottlenecks performance.
I just got a Dell Optiplex 9020,Dell OptiPlex 9020 Small Form Computer Desktop PC, Intel Core i7 3.4GHz Processor, 32GB Ram, 1 TB Solid State, Wireless Keyboard & Mouse, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, HDMI, Windows 10 Pro...now i need a GPU.
12:18 the normal Game Ready Drivers work on the A2000 as well. Simply download them instead of the studio drivers. Low GPU usage is mainly because the i7 6700 is a big bottleneck for the A2000.
Guys, I have a suggestion. Can you make a review on the MSI Delta 15 AMD Advantage with R7 5800H, RX 6700M with 1TB SSD? It was going for $899 at best buy a few days back so I bought it and I'm having a blast with it. I think it's a good deal and more people should look into it considering even RTX 3050ti laptops are going for same price or more.
Wonder if you can use an RTX 3050 driver for this graphics card. From what I read, you can get game ready drivers for the A2000, don't know how true it is though.
I have the 7040 MT myself and YES, it HOLDS 64GB of ram. It’s the only reason I bought it as I run bots on my pc that uses RAM. But, I haven’t been able to play actual games with my I5-6500k with no video graphics card inside. I’m highly considering maxing it out with the i7 and add a graphics card in order to play games. 😊
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Summit Ridge 14nm RAM 16 GB Dual-Channel Corsair @ 1197MHz (15-15-15-39) Motherboard Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3-CF (AM4) Graphics Gigabyte 8GB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series I need to upgrade CPU MOBO RAM without bottlenecking the RX580 my budget is € 400,- more or less
Thing to check is if the system didn't originally ship with a graphics card, look up the motherboard and make sure it had x16 on the pcie slot. we inherited a bunch of dell i7 machines at work and were going to put gfx cards in, I looked up the mobo and they were only x8 so we ditched the idea.
Thanks to you guys I found out it's not that expensive to have a nice pc. Today I received used msi rx 570 4gb for 40 eur. Now next in the list is Optiplex 7050 with 7 gen i7. Fingers cross if Optiplex I get is the right one! 😅
I change my mind by weeks. So I forgot the idea of spending 400 eur for Optiplex when I can get same or better performance from 130 eur of second-hand parts and build pc on my own.
@@elderelf9943 The difference is Dell's build qual is top notch and PC are usually pretty stable, and 7050 should come with Thunderbolt? My Precision T3020 with replaced PSU and added overclocked GPU runs very, very smoothly. Let's just say this: it's running 24/7 (of course not used all the time, I'm just not powering it off), 5 years now and I had 3 BSODs over that time, all after either multiple drivers update or after major windows update. Games also run smooth. And it is running with 70% RAM constantly taken by SQL Server, VS and other stuff, in addition. Very stable, will be sad to see it go.
Thank you so much I was able to buy a dell optplex with a 13 gen I7,16 gigs of ram, 1tb of ram and I installed a rtx 3070 to but saving for the 4070 or 4090
Talking about gaming, it's all about VGA card which usually costs more than other PC components together. i7-2600 with RTX4070 plays 3D better than 13th gen i9 with RX6400 no matter what. The truth is, if buying second hand PC for gaming nothing below 8th gen Intel or AM4 is viable option, because difference between 3rd and 7th gen of Intel chips is symbolic and only since 8th gen there is a room for improvement. And if PC is used for web browsing and playing videos any 3rd gen i5 with GT1030 will suffice.
Back when gpus were in short supply the rtx a2000 made sense. Now you can find a rtx 4060 low profile for around the same price, or you can find a 6gb rtx 3050 low profile for cheaper. Most sff office PCs only have room for a single slot low profie card which you could get a rx 6400 or a nvidia T600.
Toasty Bros Vs. The Dellasaurus. 😊 Those newer ones are a bit more restricted than their early 2010s counterparts in terms of potential GPU upgrades, plus I think the PCI Express was a gotcha lol. 🙂
had to upgrade the PSU to support a 2060 super. to test if it works at all, used an unbranded 400w office pc PSU. it worked fine at first until the PSU exploded. pc survived, which is good, but i have yet to test the gpu.
for only 400 bucks? these guys must be rich, that's a lot of money, and many people are stuggling right now.the A2000 alone will cost you more than 400 by itself.you wont find one for under 400
Dell RGB Gaming Desktop PC, Intel Quad I5 up to 3.6GHz, Radeon R5 340X 2GB, 16GB RAM, 128G SSD + 2TB This is the one I’m thinking about getting for SIMS 4. Do you recommend this??
Finally found a Xeon 1270 v3 for my optiplex 9010. i have a gtx1660 super but the i5 3570 bottlenecks it so hard. i seen and played on some good optiplex builds. how i started getting into building pc's.
My friend upgraded to a much more expensive setup and his Dell 7040 has a RX 5500, he took very good care of it and wants to sell it to me for $100. I don't mind an older gaming rig but will it be able to run some of today's games on it? I know I could ask him and I trust him but I wouldn't mind an outside opinion lol
I'm running the same 7040 mt i7 6700, rx 580, 16gb sk hynix, 500 crucial m.2 and its a budget beast. Plays everything so far and I can stream in 720p. I have a asus z170m-plus mobo and thinking about picking up a i7 7700k and upgrade my gpu to rx 6600xt
No sense jump from i7 6700 to i7 7700, better sell RAM/CPU/MoBo/GPU and buy a strongest Pltafform (ram DDR4-3600Mhz or ram DDR5-6000Mhz), CPU- 6C/12T or 8C/16T on socket AM4/AM5 (AMD) or 1700 (Intel).
Just built mine in a optiplex 790 with rx 580, 16gigs of ram and 256gb ssd with 2tb gamedrive hdd any upgrades i should also do? Also have one added led fan
@@PigyOstudiosofficailchannel fairly good actually i can get about an average 80 fps on fortnite and it can run most other games at medium settings. its not really gonna compare with a psu powered card but its pretty nice.
15:31 definitely the cpu is heavily bottlenecking the gpu usage , i dont give a damn about it not having proper geforce drivers , the cpu is the culprit here .
Actually eventhough it days 7040…it doesnt mean that the cpu will be 7th gen. Coz when u try to look at the documentation based on the service tag…most of the 7040 are 6th gen cpu :)
I just started upgrading a Precision 3620, as I'm putting the new power supply and gpu in, I noticed it has an m.2 slot. Just wondering if this one has it as well.
Well im back at it again with my question u guys never answer to, Can i use this graphics card or a rx 6400 on my hp slimline desktop with 180w single slot?
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What about linus ?
Bro, what's wrong ? Your GPU usage drops to 30 something percents...
@@Y0Uanonymous bottlenecking cuz of the weak CPU
@@ikram2512 z
Yesterday I found optiplex 3040 with i5 6500 on the side of road I am putting rx 460 2gb and I am going to list it for $200 to $300 on Facebook.
These 7040 desktops are insane. I got one for free from a place I worked at. They closed their offices and gave me a few machines for helping them with their IT stuff. I smashed 32gb DDR4 into it, gave it 2 SSDs, and a 4tb spinner. I also put a 1050ti in it and gave it to the stepson. The kid plays so much on Steam, and loves the experience he gets from it. So much that he bought me a Series S in trade for it.
I know he plays the MGS games, Gta5, Spider Man, and it does all of his school work with ease.
Hands down, the best PC I have worked with thus far.
You can help me out? I’m looking to build one
You should have him play my summer car it's a fun game
yoo your son bought you back an xbox series s is so damn wholesome
W step father and W stepson.
I have this exact setup but with an EVGA 3060ti in it. There are a few options that make it much better. This motherboard supports one gen 3 m.2 ssd (up to 2 tb) on the motherboard. Intel invented M.2 Drives and Dell computers were the first to implement them standard on all models since 2014. Based on the similar cost it is much better to use a M.2 rather than a Sata ssd for the 4 lanes of connection they have rather than the 1 lane you get with a Sata connection. You can "Clone" the hard drive to the M.2 to keep the OEM copy of windows that comes with the PC (there are many free cloning programs available online). You need to first start the computer and setup windows on the Sata drive and then "connect" the windows copy to your microsoft account by logging into your account and "registering" your copy of Windows. Then clone the original drive to the M.2 drive. After that you then set the pc Bios to boot off of the M.2. (My boot took less than 3 seconds off of my M.2!) Once this is setup and working you can then wipe the original drive and use it as storage or as a game drive.
This particular tower has the room to replace the original power supply as well. You will need to cut out the rear panel to give the opening for a standard size PSU. Stop! Dremel Time! You will need the appropriate 24 pin adapter to connect the 24 pin power cable to the 8 pin connector on this Dell motherboard but those run around $6.00 - $8.00
Depending on your preferences you can do a reverse setup: I did end up swapping things around a bit. I am currently using a 256 gb Sata SSD for my boot drive, but doing that did slow my pc boot from 3 seconds to about 10 seconds but i switched my Steam library to the 1tb M.2 for faster game loading and, most importantly, to get 3 second load screens on my games instead of the 20 seconds provided by the Sata ssd. I now am usually the first to load in on multiplayer games with 3 seconds ahead of the SSD based players and up to 8 seconds ahead of HDD players giving me a huge advantage!
Later, I did move the whole thing into a standard ATX case. While this board does have integrated front I/O it does still come with connections for the external front I/O of any case you would put it into. The only issue may be the power switch since Dell uses an interrupt style power switch instead of a circuit connection type, but it is easy to find the pinout solution online to fix this. (You just have to splice 2 specific wires from the case into one single wire to connect to the motherboard power switch).
The main benefit of the integrated I/O on the motherboard is you can use those AND the external ones on your case AT THE SAME TIME since they are wired as separate lanes. I use 2 of the integrated front usb to power 2 seperate system monitor screens (one 3"x5" and one 3"x10") that are mounted inside my case. as well as using one of the usb connections to power a generic RGB strip running a loop inside the case.
Please note that if you swap the cooler or the case you WILL want to keep the original Dell fans since the motherboard "communicates" wit them and replacing them will result in a system error on boot up that you will need to press F2 to bypass. If you keep those original fans but add additional fans or keep and relocate those fans you will not see the error. I swapped the cpu cooler to one that came with 2 fans so I added a 3 way splitter and ran both of the new fans on the cooler along with the original fan that I relocated to a custom mount so it blows onto my RAM (total of 2.7 watts on the 3 watt header). I kept the original case fan and mounted it as the back exhaust fan in my case but added 6 fans ran off of a Sata powered controller.
Additionally the case intrusion alarm switch and the internal speaker switch are not needed and you can toss those if transplanting to a new case without any boot errors. I kept both of mine (switch/internal speaker) to add a joke "car alarm" to my case to amuse those I show it to. Something you can only do with a Dell :)
Forgot to include. If a Dell PC has an M.2 slot it is always ddr4 RAM. Dell moved to ddr4 at the same time they began including the M.2 slot. Dells do not support ram overclocking (up to 2666 speed, but dell offers motherboard Bios updates that enable up to 2966 speed for the optiplex 70xx and newer series) but you CAN enable RAM Boost which will tighten up the RAM timings and cut out a significant amount of RAM lag. This will show up as about 5 -10 extra FPS.
@@baddayguygaming Literally did the same thing. I put a SFF PSU and a 1070ti in it and it just ran to hot. Moved it to an atx case and did almost the excact same mods. I was blown away with the performance. BTW the outsides of the 5 pin case fan are both ground so you can mod the exhaust fan and dont have to press f1 or have an 80mm or 90 whatever it is dangling.
Very well written btw. Way more eloquent than what i was gonna say.
There’s a Silverstone power supply that is the same exact form factor as the original. It’s the tx700. But you’ll still need the psu adapters.
6700's have started to bottlenecked these 30 series gpu's i recommend a 9700k for the rtx 3060 ti
Dude, we’re not worthy! What a comment! Wow! Very impressive.
built a gaming pc for 250 bucks with a 1tb sata ssd, 16gb ram, rx 580, and i7-6700k with an optiplex
nice
They can make really nice sleeper comps. I had to pass on the rx 580 due to miners flooding the used market with them for the last year, otherwise I built the same rig for our youngest son but stuffed an old maxwell Titan X ,we had from an old pc, for the gpu and it still runs under the psu rating. Really nice sleeper and he plays minecraft and similar games seemlessly.
About a 7% difference from the i7-7700, but still a solid base for a budget oriented gaming PC.
I bought my own gaming laptop from your guys videos and you guys are the only few people I trust in pc tech :)
Don't, I used to and I held hope but they started recommending Dell Optiplex and Alienware PCs. I know this video it's not recommended but it still doesn't make sense to make another Dell Optiplex video. they have done so many.
@@KS_Gaming05 they don’t recommend alienwares and they do recommend optiplexes because they are very good bang for buck. Only thing is they really shouldn’t endorse aliexpress
@@KS_Gaming05 I did not buy a gaming laptop from them I bought the same gaming laptop from best buy and yeah they do make a lot of Dell Optiplexs but I am not saying buy from them I am just saying they make good benchmarkings.
@@KS_Gaming05 bro all of their videos are just like "OH MY GOD BUDGET OPTIPLEX!!!" or "GET THE RX 580 THATS ACTUALLY A 570 ITS SO GOOD"
@@detecta Optiplex I don't trust never will but more expensive pc they give a bit better advice,
But this is true.
honestly these dell optiplex are live saver for you sleeper gamer build
I'm guessing the problem is the memory. Judging by the FPS counter, the memory was showing that it was maxed out. Seems like that would be the bottleneck of the system. Everything else looks good though, and honestly that's still respectable numbers to see as far as temps go, and FPS. The only thing i would have been interested in seeing more of, would have been testing during the whole upgrade process. I.E. Remove one stick of memory, because it was only supposed to come with 8GB to begin with, then test. Then, re-paste the CPU, and check the temps. Then, swap the HDD for the SSD, and test. THEN swap the GPU, and test. Finally, add that last stick of memory. This way you could see how much extra performance the computer has from start to finish.......Or at least test it in its original configuration before doing the thermal paste. Then, do the thermal paste, swap the GPU, and change to the SSD, and run the "after" test.
I've built one with a GTX970 still good now can play modern warfare online effortless limit would be CPU and GPU options other from that its a beast
Dell makes a taller (more mass) heatsink/cooler that fits via the same mounting screws. It roughly has a 50% taller heatsink.
one thing to point out, when blowing air into the fans always hold them in place
yup it generate a power spike
Only tech channel that talks about unnecessary proprietary stuff as cool
at this point change the name of the channel in Opti Bros 😂 love these budget pcs videos tho fr keep it up
Nice! My boy got an Optiplex he been looking for a GPU for his 7020. Toasty bros help in so many ways. I appreciate you guys!
Guilty with the config. Have an optiplex 7040 i7 6700 with a A2000 RTX gpu ❤❤❤ This optiplex was going to the recycle and I just requested this from the IT dept. They just removed the hdd. So i just bought an ssd and os :) the got the keys at gvg mall. But the funny thing is…i have the sff one. So i put the card at the pcie 8x (black) port 😂 but it still working
i upgraded from a 7020 sff with a 1650 which i used to have in the pcie x4 slot 😅. i recommend getting a new case mobo and cooler because it can offer better temps and performance from the x 16 slot
I need to find an IT department and ask if they have stuff to throw out
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I came across something similar, had an i7 6700k , 32gb of ram and a 1070ftw… for office work.. it was given to my son for his first computer
I cant beleve you guys acculy did this, Made my day.
In the UK a second hand NVIDIA RTX A2000 is £280+ or £500+ on Amazon........ffs!
Why Sata drive if there is NVME?
I think its better than my third pc, which is an apu system :P
main pc is 5800x3D/rtx 2080super
second pc is ryzen 3600 / gtx 1070
third pc is just a 2200g pc I put together to test my curiosity with an apu and I'm happy with it
Nice, tough to beat the 5800x3D. I always go with workstation PCs though. They almost never break, almost never crash and parts are dirt cheap. Best of all, they generally hold up to the test of time much better due to far more PCI bandwidth, quad channel ram, HUGE RAM capacity (mine does up to 512GB) and amazing ports and power supply. I built an HP Z4 G4 with the 8 core Xeon mentioned earlier, 32GB RAM and a 3070ti for about 450 bucks (already had SSDs). It's quite well balance CPU to GPU as well.
I like these optiplex videos. I recently bought a 5040. Good pc
I love the look of this Optiplex model
I can't explain why I love toastybros videos so much. I guess I just find the recycling and upgrading stuff more interesting than all new builds.
Note, if you run into a situation of needing an adapter to use sata power to 6 pin gpu power that the sata's voltage will be limited and in some cases not sufficient as a power supply solution for GPU and depending on the driver in the GPU could actually throttle or bottlenecks performance.
I just got a Dell Optiplex 9020,Dell OptiPlex 9020 Small Form Computer Desktop PC, Intel Core i7 3.4GHz Processor, 32GB Ram, 1 TB Solid State, Wireless Keyboard & Mouse, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, HDMI, Windows 10 Pro...now i need a GPU.
12:18 the normal Game Ready Drivers work on the A2000 as well. Simply download them instead of the studio drivers. Low GPU usage is mainly because the i7 6700 is a big bottleneck for the A2000.
it really isnt though because it was the CPU was using only 40-60 percent in warzone
8:36 brownie points if you dremel off that line that is partially blocking your gpu exhaust - right there in the middle of it.
Love the video, cant believe they buffed the Optiplex strat.
Guys, I have a suggestion. Can you make a review on the MSI Delta 15 AMD Advantage with R7 5800H, RX 6700M with 1TB SSD? It was going for $899 at best buy a few days back so I bought it and I'm having a blast with it. I think it's a good deal and more people should look into it considering even RTX 3050ti laptops are going for same price or more.
Wonder if you can use an RTX 3050 driver for this graphics card. From what I read, you can get game ready drivers for the A2000, don't know how true it is though.
I have the 7040 MT myself and YES, it HOLDS 64GB of ram. It’s the only reason I bought it as I run bots on my pc that uses RAM. But, I haven’t been able to play actual games with my I5-6500k with no video graphics card inside. I’m highly considering maxing it out with the i7 and add a graphics card in order to play games. 😊
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Summit Ridge 14nm
RAM
16 GB Dual-Channel Corsair @ 1197MHz (15-15-15-39)
Motherboard
Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3-CF (AM4)
Graphics
Gigabyte 8GB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series
I need to upgrade CPU MOBO RAM without bottlenecking the RX580
my budget is € 400,- more or less
Thing to check is if the system didn't originally ship with a graphics card, look up the motherboard and make sure it had x16 on the pcie slot. we inherited a bunch of dell i7 machines at work and were going to put gfx cards in, I looked up the mobo and they were only x8 so we ditched the idea.
didn’t think about a a 2$ adapter?
@@jpc3874 what do you mean? the slot was x16 size, but only x8 was available through it. an adapater will solve nothing
Thanks to you guys I found out it's not that expensive to have a nice pc. Today I received used msi rx 570 4gb for 40 eur. Now next in the list is Optiplex 7050 with 7 gen i7. Fingers cross if Optiplex I get is the right one! 😅
I change my mind by weeks. So I forgot the idea of spending 400 eur for Optiplex when I can get same or better performance from 130 eur of second-hand parts and build pc on my own.
@@elderelf9943 The difference is Dell's build qual is top notch and PC are usually pretty stable, and 7050 should come with Thunderbolt? My Precision T3020 with replaced PSU and added overclocked GPU runs very, very smoothly. Let's just say this: it's running 24/7 (of course not used all the time, I'm just not powering it off), 5 years now and I had 3 BSODs over that time, all after either multiple drivers update or after major windows update. Games also run smooth. And it is running with 70% RAM constantly taken by SQL Server, VS and other stuff, in addition.
Very stable, will be sad to see it go.
I think biggest bottleneck on the optiplex is the cpu not drivers
Same performance between the two i7 6700 and the 7700, same 270 chipset , 7700 is just a better built 6700.
An old Optiplex is far from perfect. Luckily no system is perfect, and the old Optiplex probably *is* good enough.
Good enough is badly underrated.
Could please include F1 or asseto courses in your testing?
Thank you so much I was able to buy a dell optplex with a 13 gen I7,16 gigs of ram, 1tb of ram and I installed a rtx 3070 to but saving for the 4070 or 4090
thank you for another great video, can you please review some more laptops? I am looking on buying one!
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office software will allow you to backup that small HDD and recover it back to an NVME M.2 PCIe SSD stick.
Solid starter build. In GPU intensive tasks, this configuration has 6.9% of graphic card bottleneck .
Talking about gaming, it's all about VGA card which usually costs more than other PC components together. i7-2600 with RTX4070 plays 3D better than 13th gen i9 with RX6400 no matter what.
The truth is, if buying second hand PC for gaming nothing below 8th gen Intel or AM4 is viable option, because difference between 3rd and 7th gen of Intel chips is symbolic and only since 8th gen there is a room for improvement. And if PC is used for web browsing and playing videos any 3rd gen i5 with GT1030 will suffice.
Cool build but i7-6700 is quite shit nowadays. I have one and its bottlenecking rx 6400 in a lot of games.
Maybe make a channel called OPTI BROS 😂! Love you guys ❤
Y'all build systems and all and don't know about cloning your HD to an ssd? I do it a lot for people and get an exact duplicate. I use Acronis.
I wedged a 1660super in it with a data adapter. I’m about to lord the case a bit though, tilts really tight. Runs great!
do you use a 240w psu? i want to upgrade my gpu but i cant replace my psu
@@zakaii6430 I believe it’s a 260. Sfx psus fit.
@@zakaii6430 There’s a dude on here called Wiltshire Tutorials he does just about everything that can be done to one of these.
@@RespekfulFungus thanks
I just built this pc last week. I got the pc for 150 bucks and GPU for 180 on amazon.
I've been looking at this exact setup for a couple of months now and you just confirmed what I thought would happen 👍👍
Parted magic has a disk cloning utility
Love you guys cause you take people with not much money in mind focusing on budget options
Back when gpus were in short supply the rtx a2000 made sense. Now you can find a rtx 4060 low profile for around the same price, or you can find a 6gb rtx 3050 low profile for cheaper. Most sff office PCs only have room for a single slot low profie card which you could get a rx 6400 or a nvidia T600.
Toasty Bros Vs. The Dellasaurus. 😊 Those newer ones are a bit more restricted than their early 2010s counterparts in terms of potential GPU upgrades, plus I think the PCI Express was a gotcha lol. 🙂
I stuck a gtx 1660 ti into my own dell optiplex 7040 MT no problem, it would be just as easy with even an rtx 30 series card.
@@Sprite897 Depends on the length. I almost ran out of room with my own Optiplexes even with 2 fan cards. 🙂
Me who already has a optiplex 7010 and want to do something similar...
I would have just retrieved the windows key, from the hard drive for a fresh install on the SSD.
you can install geforce gameready drivers on an a2000... you can install "studio" drivers on a rtx 3060...
had to upgrade the PSU to support a 2060 super. to test if it works at all, used an unbranded 400w office pc PSU. it worked fine at first until the PSU exploded. pc survived, which is good, but i have yet to test the gpu.
I tust my self with computers because I know a lot about them then when I need help I find videos about it.
A2000 is not readily available. Probably need another Low power without external power candidate.
gow dayum there are only 2 left in stock
I doubt it’s more powerful than my Ryzen 1700x build 😂
The pc is a optiplex 7050 I think on Amazon is has a i7-7700 32 gigs of ram and either 1-2 tb of storage very cool and it cost 294$ rn
for only 400 bucks? these guys must be rich, that's a lot of money, and many people are stuggling right now.the A2000 alone will cost you more than 400 by itself.you wont find one for under 400
Interesting performance for sure.
Shouldnt you professionals know that windows key follow the motherboard in such pc, not the harddrive.
Is this any good?
refurbished Optiplex 7060-T Icore I7
8th gen 8700 (3.2ghz)
16 gb ddr4
512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD
UHD graphics 630
Windows 11 pro 64 bit
Depends on the price
@@Sigmamale973 $299.00. I am pleased with it, it is really fast
Currently $113 on amazon after taxes.
Dell RGB Gaming Desktop PC, Intel Quad I5 up to 3.6GHz, Radeon R5 340X 2GB, 16GB RAM, 128G SSD + 2TB
This is the one I’m thinking about getting for SIMS 4. Do you recommend this??
The title is mostly cap sometimes not cap but optiplexes are very good
I’m getting a mini optioned 3070 for Christmas and hopefully it will live up to its expectations with gaming and general stuff 🙏
Did it work good?
i honestly can't believe AliExpress sponsored you guys.
So this is the mini tower right?
this looks like a 5060 and the same frame I have
Finally found a Xeon 1270 v3 for my optiplex 9010. i have a gtx1660 super but the i5 3570 bottlenecks it so hard. i seen and played on some good optiplex builds. how i started getting into building pc's.
when was the a2000 anywhere near $250?
I haven't seen one even close to $400
My friend upgraded to a much more expensive setup and his Dell 7040 has a RX 5500, he took very good care of it and wants to sell it to me for $100. I don't mind an older gaming rig but will it be able to run some of today's games on it? I know I could ask him and I trust him but I wouldn't mind an outside opinion lol
I'm running the same 7040 mt i7 6700, rx 580, 16gb sk hynix, 500 crucial m.2 and its a budget beast. Plays everything so far and I can stream in 720p. I have a asus z170m-plus mobo and thinking about picking up a i7 7700k and upgrade my gpu to rx 6600xt
No sense jump from i7 6700 to i7 7700, better sell RAM/CPU/MoBo/GPU and buy a strongest Pltafform (ram DDR4-3600Mhz or ram DDR5-6000Mhz), CPU- 6C/12T or 8C/16T on socket AM4/AM5 (AMD) or 1700 (Intel).
But a 6600xt off Newegg. $230 right now
I have the opportunity to buy a "DELL Optiplex 5040 MT i5 6500-3.20 GHz 6th Gen Computer w/8GB" for 70 bucks. Should I get it?
Did you get it
@@terrafair3248 No. I had no idea how to proceed so I let it go!
I got this PC does a rx580 work in this machine
That card is like 3 grand here in Australia lol
Purchased one of yall pc's 2 days ago can't wait How long does it take to ship i didn't get a date?
Did you get it
@@Jl-qg5xz yea
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Just built mine in a optiplex 790 with rx 580, 16gigs of ram and 256gb ssd with 2tb gamedrive hdd any upgrades i should also do? Also have one added led fan
Weird im watching this while wearing that same star wars shirt…..
I upgraded an 7060 but now the fans run at full speed not sure what to do it’s really loud
Would I get better performance with i7 8700 or would it bottleneck or something
Actually have the 7040 in sff its a good little machine, i have the rx6400 low profile in it and it can kick.
@@PigyOstudiosofficailchannel fairly good actually i can get about an average 80 fps on fortnite and it can run most other games at medium settings. its not really gonna compare with a psu powered card but its pretty nice.
@@PigyOstudiosofficailchannel 5040 sff
sorry for the confusion
The Optiolex in my school is core i7 12700K, 8GB RAM and UHD Graphics 700
I use bobkeys cost 18$ for windows 10 pro
Am not much into gaming but lately i got into msfs2020 i need me something like this .. to play that game n not break the bank .🤔
I have a 9020 with a 4790k and a 2080 super ! Upgrading to a 10700k this week for my birthday and finally putting away the ol haswell 😂
i didnt have thermal paste so i substituted it for toothpaste, is that good?
i guess it won't need fillings
hows the quality of that asus M4 mouse you guys use for testing? I have been wanting one for some time.
15:31 definitely the cpu is heavily bottlenecking the gpu usage , i dont give a damn about it not having proper geforce drivers , the cpu is the culprit here .
I was about to get another 500$ pc but I’m considering this because of the windows key and pretty good performance
Actually eventhough it days 7040…it doesnt mean that the cpu will be 7th gen. Coz when u try to look at the documentation based on the service tag…most of the 7040 are 6th gen cpu :)
I just started upgrading a Precision 3620, as I'm putting the new power supply and gpu in, I noticed it has an m.2 slot. Just wondering if this one has it as well.
Well im back at it again with my question u guys never answer to, Can i use this graphics card or a rx 6400 on my hp slimline desktop with 180w single slot?
I should have waited and bought that from you guys, damn.
are the full size optiplex's the same internals as a smaller for factor? What if I case swaped to a gaming case to fit larger gpu?