Can You Upgrade a Prebuilt PC
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- Can You Upgrade a Prebuilt PC
So you just got a old Dell OptiPlex, HP, Fujitsu or Lenovo pc from ebay and want to know whether you can upgrade parts like CPU? Well this video is for you.
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If a door refuses to stay open, an old PC makes a great door stopper.
Im in that same situation righ tnow, i purchased a Dell optiplex with an intel I-7 3700k processor in 2015 Im still using that computer but noticed its not worth it to try and upgrade the system. So currently on my channel im building a new computer from the ground up with water cooling this will be my first shot at this.
A lot of people buy these in the hope of upgrading and find out they can't
@@Britec09I beg to differ.
Brings back memories of my first PC post C64/Amiga,a Compaq Celeron 266!!
Was able to upgrade the sound card,CD Burner,& indeed Win 98 from its Win95c & memory...the Diamond Viper TNT card was a challenge!
Took about two BIOS floppy updates from Compaq to get it functional That was the last time i got a brand name PC!😅
Basically, its throwing good money after bad, save your money and buy new. or a better second hand PC, there are deals out there.
I agree
I bought one of these a few weeks ago with a Ryzen 3 pro 2200 (Not supported by Win 11) for a little over $225 Cdn. I bought it to play RUclips videos and for learning Linux. For my usage, it's perfect, but this will not play too many modern games. I upgraded the one stick of 8 GB ram running at 2400 to 2x8GB ram running at 2667 from a broken hp PC and also put in a 500 GB NVMe San Disk drive as main drive, and delegated the 256 GB Sata SSD to storage only. This small form factor computer is very limited as to what video card you can put in it as there is only one slot available and the PSU is only 200 Watts. It's way above the mini PC that I was using for my experimentation though, so a win for me.
Adding cpu support isn't that dificult, with a tool like MMtool for AMI bios you can add the microcodes for the cpu's, yes i've done it before for a Xeon cpu, if the chipset supports the cpu's, and on AMD side am4 socket should support. But dealing with those limited and proprietary PSU's might be the real problem.
Why go to all the trouble and cost?
@@Britec09 Its not dificult, you required some minimum knowledge. The cost is in getting the parts to upgrade. If you able to drop there a 5800x3d cpu i would say its cheaper getting the cpu then getting a brand new machine.
Like windows is the only game in tows, lol. Windows, windows, windows......its 2024 now LINUX is here!
Linux is never going to take over the desktop. The reasons are simple. Microsoft's primary customers for Windows are Enterprise users. Secondary customers are small business. Home users are the least important customers in terms of revenue. Microsoft makes most of its income from cloud services and integrated software, not from the OS. Enterprise and small business users are going to stick with Windows because they run applications that are not available on desktop Linux. MS Office is never going to be available for Linux. Libre Office and Open Office are never going to be compatible enough for business use. There are also vertically integrated applications for many businesses that are available only on Windows.
Many home users do not want to learn to install and maintain Linux or are not capable of doing so. Most people who watch videos like this are enthusiasts or otherwise technically oriented folks who are capable of handling Linux, but we are a small portion of the non-business market. I am a retired research engineer and nuclear safety analyst. I was dual booting DOS/Windows 3.11 and Linux in the late 1990s. I had to learn to be a sysadmin for VAX/VMS, Unix, and Linux to perform my job. But my story and the stories of other technically oriented folks are not typical of the majority of home users.
For the small (almost tiny) amount of consulting I do in retirement I use two software suites that are available for and run equally well on Linux, Windows, and Mac, so I could easily do most of the work on Linux. So far I have chosen to stay on Windows 10 Pro because the documents I prepare for customers have to be done in Microsoft Word and Excel. I don't particularly care for Windows 11 at this time but the desktop I built myself and my laptop are officially supported. Before Windows 10 reaches end of support in 2025 I will make a decision about building a new Linux desktop.
Not to mention adding ram to such a system. Almost none of those support XMP profiles, so you limited to JEDEC standard ram which can be hard to find, and usually more expensive.
If you buy a proprietary pre-built the answer is more than likely a big no. Dell and HP are 2 prime examples of PC's that you would have a hell of a time upgrading. The logic boards are proprietary, the cases are proprietary, weird shapes that wouldn't fit in another case or connections on the MLB which wouldn't work either.
Not entirely true, I can work wonders with cases from Sandy Bridge to the Haswell era.
These days most of them are dead ends. Even those sold as "gaming" units back in the day. I still remember my ancient Dell Xps that I upgraded to a gtx 770 and tto the first Intel quad, the 6800 on the first iteration of LGA 775. It still was cpu bottlenecked and all it had going for it was its sexy case. You are much better off stayng away from any and all prebuilds just to save yourself both frustration and lost time.
They may be useful if you don't have much cash however as a very low end gaming machine. Think I mentioned this prior Brian, but for the strapped for cash and say the main system fails hard. You could get a bigger power supply and if you (reader of this comment) have say an old GTX 1050 laying around. Should be fine, at least that's my experience with my optiplex 990. Does what I need it to, including gaming so I can't complain. I'm happy with it, it's aging gracefully lol
yes yes you can upgrade a pre-built pc
Dell's Optiplex line is designed for business not gaming.
I've seen these going for £20-30. & joblots for £100-150. Great for an office.
@XXTexas-Outlaw71XX I did not say that they were not upgradable
Great presentation! Planned obsolescence...Closed architecture vs. Open architecture...now you call it OEM when referring to big box PC's. "When in doubt, don't buy Dell!" was the advice I gave to people 20+ years ago. I guess that advice is still good today! ;)
Yes, exactly
I’ll just say that it depends on one’s expectations, taper them accordingly.
is it possible to upgrade the motherboard
Hmm Brian it just astounds me why some people go to extraordinary lengths to attempt or use one of those old machines because there are so many stumbling blocks including the original manufacturers rules or settings that prevent you upgrading the CPU for example. Personally why not just build a new machine because frankly it would avoid any hassles involved in making those old machines for what they want to do with it. Add to that that they are usually fitted with Windows 10 and sadly non upgradable to Windows 11 so what is the point of doing this??
Easy answer, yes, lol. I would recommend a cheap custom pc less proprietary.
Although I have an rm education minipc214, i3 3240, 4gb ram & no hdd got it for £40 years ago, as a spare, it was handy when I needed to test my gpu.
You cannot upgrade CPU in most OEM PC, BIOS is Locked. Watch the video.
@Britec09 there are plenty of videos on RUclips of people upgrading these.
I did watch the video.
@@Britec09 why are you so rude
OEMs don't allow BIOS updates for newer CPUs because it's against their interests. They want you to buy a new machine. Churn and burn, folks. Build your own from easily swap-able parts.
I agree
yes, you can
propietary software, firmware, hardware is built using open sourced information and then later branded it as propietary
I know I told him that & he got passive-aggressive with me, lol.
Doesn't like being wrong.
The prebuilt in the thumbnail was my old prebuilt before i built a new one lol
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