From $500 to $50 - Why An Ageing Optiplex 390 Might Still Be Worth Buying
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Online auction sites are like retirement homes for Dell Optiplex PCs, with many ending up there after years of service. Once costing a small fortune, especially to bulk buyers in office environments, the 390 is old enough that it can be found quite cheap, yet new enough that it still supports somewhat relevant and capable processors.
Today I'll be talking about my recent Dell purchase, what can be done in terms of upgrades, and discussing whether or not one of these old workhorses are worth it for budget PC gamers.
Thanks for watching :)
My brother rocks with this computer pairing with an i5-2400 and a GTX 1050 Ti since I gifted him this computer for Christmas because his old computer ran slow. He loves his big gift which was this since then. :)
He gets 60 FPS on high settings in Arma III.
Brian Dorsey glad to hear
TheCalmGamer Thank you. He's older than me and doesn't have a job and wanted to build a gaming computer one day so I started the budget Optiplex 390 project in November after he told me that his Optiplex 745 which was his computer at the time started to show its age and ran slow because of viruses and malware he had on his old computer. He mainly plays his games in 1080p resoultion.
I did indeed reused my old parts including the 1TB hard drive I had lying around and also stuck in my old Crucial Ballstix RAM that still works after the Corsair RAM I put in not long ago started to malfunction.
Depending on how far back that was every Core 2 Duo shows it's age.
HappyBeezerStudios - by Lord_Mogul He had a Q6600 upgraded from the stock Pentium D CPU when the computer started to show its age.
Hey mate, iv been watching you for a while now and i must say. I know you'll probably never see this but i really really enjoy your videos. There's a lot of rich youtubers out there showcasing the latest and greatest hardware basically flashing off their money but you, you my friend are a true budgeter you understand what it is like to not have alot of $ but still want to be a pc builder and bench marker. The few youtubers like yourself have inspired me to love building pc's since the age of 10, i often go dumpster diving at the local recycling for pc's like the ones you find and upgrade them/ fix them then sell them off , a hobby and I really enjoy it. I owe you my respect for still believing in older tech and understanding that yes not all of us are made of money :P
I'm 12 years old and he inspired me to build pcs
@@raidway9530 I'm 12 to and I'm buying this and upgrading it because of him too!
I just want to thank you for making these videos
Since I started watching them I have started a small pc building business and have made a little earning out of it. Your videos really helped me get started.
Thank you
*that moment when you bought laptop with much lower specs for 500€, and you can buy this PC under 100€*
Gabrielius Kačinskas Plus the upgrades about 150$ I'd say
Mind that a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers(headset) have to be added to this PCs budget to be comparable to a laptop. Also the portability of a laptop can be the deciding factor.
glue the keyboard and the screen to the desktop case and here you go your portable PC, a pound for the superglue
Ramūnas Gudauskas what about batteries?
BackInBlack_4896 tbh buy some cheap ass 120$ small pc with a celeron, a big or small 10' inch monitor and a big ass powerbank.
The best part of a relatively recent Optiplex tower is the use of the industry standard ATX form factor and motherboard connectors, beware other vendors such as HP that often don't.
With my optiplex build, I added an extra intake fan, a 450W power supply, 16 gigs of ram, an i7-3770, and lastly an R9 Nano. My optiplex is an absolute monster lol.
I just bought one in mint condition for 30 bux! I'm adding 8 gigs of RAM - THE 1050 and an SSD!! Great video man!!
I was just about to do the same, wanted to see if $30 was worth it, looking like it it's worth more. Now I jus got to make sure it's got enough pci lanes for my cards
I have a optiplex 990 and upgraded the cpu to a i7 2600k and slapped a 1660 Super in there. Obviously with a new psu. I can run high settings on most modern games with 60 and above fps. The only thing kinda limiting this machine is my i7, but I plan on getting a matx motherboard for the optiplex. I'm making a whole ass sleeper build with this thing.
Office computer master race
Hell yeah, still rocking a HP 8000 Elite SFF with a BSEL overclocked Q6600 at 3.0GHz, which i have put a GT 1030 (GD5) into.
Good old background friend seagull :D
My OptiPlex 980 is 10 years old. A solid state drive and update to Windows 10, and it still runs great. I fell in love with the silver patterned front. I started a new job recently, and a Dell 390 was sitting in the "bone yard" waiting to be scrapped with a bunch of HP's. After cleaning up the server room, I presented my task and asked if I could take this one and a slim case. I forget the model.
The OptiPlex 390 is still a work in progress. It had 3GB (Yes, three.) and the license was for Windows 7. I presume 32x due to the memory. Not allowed to keep these HDD's due to privacy concerns, but the home office had a couple of drives for the taking. A 300GB and 3TB (Woo Hoo!) I pop-in two 4GB sticks (from the bone yard) and install Windows 7 Pro 64x from my Dell recovery disk. Yes, you can upgrade from 32x to 64x of Windows for free. The version must match - Home 32x must be 64x Home, Pro 32x to 64x, etc. Then a firmware update for the BIOS. Poor thing was struggling with v05, but has the latest v14 now.
Download the MediaCreationTool for Windows 10 and do an in place update. Viola! Licensed Windows 10 Pro. The CPU is still a Pentium dual core. After discovering the other slim OptiPlex was DOA, I decided I didn't want to spend time or money replacing the power supply in this cramped unit. I salvage the i5-2500. Just waiting for thermal paste to come in the mail next week to do the final transition.
The DVD is ROM only. I was going to replace it with a RW from the boneyard, but thought why not have two? You never know when you need to copy a disk. Still have to install it. But, did you know you can make your CD/DVD readers into drive A or B with Drive Manager? I bet you never thought about it. If you are like me, A & B are for floppy drives. But who has floppy drives any more? CD/DVD RW's were meant to replace floppies but people like having the floppies for software and stuff. That's why our CD/DVD players were always D, E or even G!. With floppies now in the distant past, you can free up those drive letters for when you plug in USB sticks or external drives.
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much nicer than gamers cases
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Bezzegh Adam when I was at school I used an ancient Dell workstation which had a full tower case with a curved aluminium grill and I wish I wrote the PC model
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I’ve bought 2 smaller form factor DELL PCs from this era and with a solid state on win7 or win10 they make great home office machines or with the addition of a gt1030 they make great mobile esports rigs. We still use 390s and 3020s in our office day to day. Great machines
Just have to be careful because sometimes the pci-e power is less than 75 watts. Always confirm compatibility with video cards on the smaller systems, even if they are low power.
Just bought and upgraded the dell 9020 with i5 4590 / 12gb ram / 256gb ssd / and 1050 ti low profile for only 300€
Marco Wirth I had that build for about a year. It was amazing. Mine was also ~350 dollars since I got the pc from a surplus store for only $50 with 8 gb ram but no HDD. I added another 8gb of ram for $40. The ssd was $60. The 1tb HDD was $30. The MSI LP 1050 ti was $160.
yeah i bought the 9020 with i5 4590 / 4gb ram for 100€ and added 8gb for 20€ and SSD for 45€. The 1050 ti LP was 130.
Bought it for a friend tho ^^ You can build so good setups for the money
Yes, the I7-2600 works in the Optiplex 390. My 390 came with an i3-2120 and I upgraded to an i5-2500 (not 2400). There is actually a BIOS upgrade that came out 6/2018 that updated the CPU microdes, and from what i'm reading you can now upgrade up to an i7-3770. I updated from A11 to A14 with no issues. www.dell.com/community/Optiplex-Desktops/390-CPU-upgrades/td-p/5975479/page/2 (see 5th post down in the link). Can anyone confirm Ivy Bridge CPU's are now supported?
This was very helpful thank you!
Thanks so much, I have the same pc build as you, currently hold a i5-2500 and a gtx 1050 ssc, with a 120 hbd ssd and 8 gigs of ddr3. Should I upgrade to a i7-3770 or a i7-2600? Responses will be much appreciated
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I pulled one of those out of our pile for the dump at work. Core i3 2120, 4GB of RAM, and 250 GB HDD. I currently use it as my NAS with Windows 10 Professional serving as the OS. Since that requires basically no GPU, I took the pre-installed turd of a GPU out (can't even tell what it is), added 4GB of DDR3 RAM, swapped the 250GB HDD for a 60GB SSD and put in two 4TB WD Reds in RAID 1 mode. The PC is more than powerful enough, it's very quiet, draws very little power and has enough performance to serve as a fileserver (backups), FTP server, Plex server and even spare computer if an emergency arises.
Nice to know I am not the only one with a Dell Optiplex 390 that has a broken/missing white clip in the PCI slot.
I bought a Dell Optiplex 390 for a 'retro' build (to run older games like Fallout 3/New Vegas) with Windows 7 and it came with the i3 but I changed it for a 2500 from CeX for £42 and it still runs to this day and can run almost anything, new or old, at max settings! As I have a main PC, I gave this to my brother for his retro collection (retro in the respect that he has thousands of games and tens of PC's and consoles) and he uses it as a secondary PC for modern titles and games that don't like Windows 10. :D
I have this exact tower! I chucked a new 450w PSU in it, upgraded to an i5 2400 and found an 8GB kit off DDR3 in my only family desktop that was in storage. Add to that a fullsized GTX 960 2GB from MSI after I cut away part of the lower right drive cages. OPtiplex I like to call her :)
I have 1 of em. It is a mini tower that I got for free. Came with an i3 2100..upgraded to an i7 2600, 16GB ram ( yes 2 8GB sticks will work on it), Cryorig C7 cooler, GTX 660FTW, 3TB drive, 120gb ssd and a EVGA 500W psu. Really capable.
I remember my old dell optiplex gx 280. It was the first computer i actually upgraded for gaming. Pentium 4 single core hyperthreaded @ 3GHz. I added an hd 4000 GPU. I think it might have been an hd 4350 or 4330 or 4530. But i remember it had 256MB of ddr3 for vram. I went from 1GB of ddr2 to 3.5GB. These were parts i had taken out of the school PCs when i was like 14. Good times
I have a sleeper Mid-Tower Optiplex 790 with an i7-2600 and a GTX 980. It absolutely crushes in the latest titles. I also have an SFF variant with an i5-2400 and a GT 1030 for a "mobile" editing workstation.
Although i am not a gamer, I recently upgraded my Dell Optiplex 790 SFF to an I7 Processor before this i think it have an i3 or i5 but was struggling to play RUclips videos in anything about 144P without stopping and buffering constantly.
It is running 16GB RAM and runs extremely fast, the SFF power supply handles this CPU very well and even has a Low Profile NVidia NVS 310 GPU and for Storage a PNY CS900 120GB SSD.
These Dell Optiplexes are great little computers to work on and use as a basic daily machine. :D What started out as a cheap PC became a very reasonable spec pc running windows 10 Pro 64 Bit and 1080P Videos.
I am the network administrator for a very small nonprofit. We have 2 of these systems that have core i5s in them. We use them as our servers running windows server 2016. They are great systems.
I got an Optiplex 990 MT with i7-2600 and 12 gb of ram for $80. I then got a GTX 760 for $60, a 600W corsair psu for $30, upgraded the ram to 16 for $10, and added usb 3.0, an ssd, and a 2tb hard drive all for $85. Then I acquired dual 1080p Dell monitors for $25. All in all, a sweet gaming setup that does everything else too for $290.
I was expecting him to zoom in on the seagull when he said "this is the optiplex 390".
I was dissapointed
I bought a dell optiplex for my brother couple weeks ago, it has a I3 2100, 8gigs of ram (up to 16gb with 4 slots) gt1030 from old pc and 4 usbs at the front and 8 at the back :D, runs 90% of all the *good* new games with at least 30fps which is more than enough for him as he is used to playing minecraft at all lowest and like 20fps xd
I recently did a Micro-STX build with a Haswell i3 for my mother. It’s a pretty tricked out little rig for just Facebook and RUclips but she’s happy with it. Also, she’s subbed to your channel so she’s part of that 2% :p
I have the i5 2400 and it's a very nice system, I also stole ram from my school so I had 8gb and I upgraded it to 16gb and it's so much better, great value for money system
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Got a few optiplex 380s awhile ago for free cuz someone was throwing them all out. Fixed up 2 and sold them, and turned the other into a gaming pc for my sister with a new psu and my old graphics card. They all had i5-2400 cpus
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Gave my old optiplex with an i3-3220 a new PSU and a gtx 1050. Now its a decent gaming PC.
390's are definitly worth at 100$ for 8gb and 2400. I really love 390/790's those are what i use mostly for my budget builds. (100-300$)
Btw love the vid keep it up.
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I have one of these and an HP 8200 elite. I took the i5 2400 out of the HP, put it in the 390 (worked fine) put 8gb of ram in it and swapped the psu out to put a gtx 660ti in it. I gave it to a friend. Its an awesome little budget machine. Hes since put an 480gb patriot SSD in it. I also gave him the windows pro key from the HP and it activated fine. I put the i3 into the sff 8200 elite and put Linux Mint on it (could have just used a kms or left it unactivated but a linux distro seemed like a good fit and installing it was a nightmare, thanks HP). The 390 didnt actually have a windows key that was retrievable (it rubbed off and for whatever reason I couldn't fetch the key from the motherboard) so Linux was a good option. The HP i also took the side panel off to lay it on its side and put a full size AMD 6670 in it, to do that I had to bend the crap out of the case to fit it, but it works. Its basically a doorstop anyway and it can be bent back if i get a low profile GPU.
I love these Dell/HP machines. The optiplex is by far my favorite in the MT variant because of the case size. The HP 8200 elite, since it uses a BTX motherboard, you cant swap it to a larger case so to utilize full size budget cards, you will have to do something ghetto like what I did, or be super crafty and make something that will hold it in place like cut out the side panel and add supports. The dell uses an atx board and cannot really be relocated to another case (mainly because of proprietary front io) but the size of the case is large enough for most people and as you said the PSU can be swapped whereas the HP you cant unless you set it outside the case.
Long live the Optiplex MT!
My Optiplex 390 has a Radeon R7 360 (molex adapter)
450W EVICC PSU (carried over from prior PC)
And an i5 2400
With 6GB ddr3 1333mhz.
I love it
I just recently bought a 390, core i5 2400, 8gb ram, 500gb hard drive, win 10 pro. I replaced the PSU with a 500w, and put a GTX 560 in it, and a Samsung 860 Evo SSD. I plan on replacing the video card at some point since Nvidia just announced they're retiring support for it. Still, for a budget gaming PC, I'm satisfied.
I would personally vouch for the 390's effectiveness, as this became the basis for my first build. I got mine about a year ago for roughly $120 with 8gb ram, a 750gb hdd, and an i5-2400. A simple ram, psu and gpu upgrade makes playing a lot of modern games real nice.
Only big issue I've ever had was installing my gpu, as it was difficult to get the mobo to accept the card. However, it eventually caught on and it works great.
I have a SFF Optiplex 990 board that I built a machine around. The 390 has more standard parts as far as having normal USB headers and sound headers. I think that the front panel header might be compatible with a commodity case as well. The 990 shouldn't be ruled out though. Even though you have to do a bit of cable splicing to make it work, it has four RAM slots. It's still limited to 16 GB, but it's cheaper to get 4 4GB DIMMs than 2 8GB DIMMs right now.
There is another advantage of these old Dells to consider - You're pretty much guaranteed to get BIOS updates to protect against Spectre (at least as long as Intel releases microcode updates for the relevant CPUs and chipsets).
I bought one of these that had the 2400 in it. Tossed 8 gigs of RAM in it, a new PSU, and a 780. I lent it to a buddy so we can play PUBG together. Ran absolutely fantastic. As I had most of the parts laying around, I had a pretty damn good gaming rig for not even 50 bucks!
I bought a Dell Optiplex 790 off eBay in the U.S. for about $130. It came with 8 GB of RAM, an i5-2400 processor, and 250 GB of HDD space. To build it up, I added a GTX 550 Ti and a hybrid 1 TB HDD (~$50 ea.). For about $240, I now have a beast that was simple to put together. Next up will probably be a GTX 6XX card, or higher.
I have the 390 desktop variant. I have it working with the i7 2600S, which is a low power variant of the 2600. I’ve also heard people on forums saying they’ve gotten it working with 3rd generation low power i7s through a bios update and because of the die shrink, and greater efficiency. I mainly use my optiplex 390 as a home theater PC because of how quiet, small, and fast it is.
They will take the i7 2600s, 2600, 2600k, 3770s. 3770, 3770k just don't expect any overclocking .
Wow, this is an insane "deal", I was going to do an old Xeon build for my cousin who had a $350 budget, now I can just find one of these with an i5 and a decent amount of RAM and just throw a 1050 in it (the other $100 would go towards a monitor, since he doesn't have one)
I recently picked up an Optiplex 3010 MT with an i3 3220 and 4GB RAM and I plan on making it into something similar to this.
Thank you so much. I have optiplex 390 for 3 years now. And we still have pentium. SO I were wondering if I could upgrade that! This video was so helpful thank you so much! SUBBED :DDD
So how's your i9 7980xe and two 1080 ti's holding up?
Did this with a GTX 650 TI and upped the PSU to 500 watt works great
You can replace the processor with i5-2400, i5-2500 and i7-2600 without any issues.
Yes. Those are all Sandy Bridge processors.
OldsXCool Yep, I was referring to a part of the video where he says he doesn’t know if other processors will work with that motherboard so I figured I comment since I’ve personally upgraded a 390 from an i3 to an i5 and finally an i7 before I sold it.
I wish I bought this kind of a machine long time ago.. Such a charming little machine!
Wow , i've recently managed to get the core i5 (2500S) 2.7ghz one from this series and build it up with 8 gb ram , geforce gt 730 2gb and 1tb hard, costed around 8,500\- Pakistani Rupees , works really good now , and very good budget upgrade
Anyone looking for a NEW budget PC case, I just bought a Riotoro CR480 Mid Tower and for 30 quid I'm amazed how good it is. Having also recently bought a cheapo £22 case, that was utter shite by comparison. The build quality is far superior and it has some of the features you'd find in much more expensive cases like dust filters and two 120mm fans, two front USB 3 ports, support for ATX mobos and a side window. Bit OTT on the ventilation for my liking but damn good quality, I highly recommend it to any of the audience of this channel. This is just my personal opinion, hope this helps someone.
Picked up a 390 with an i3 a month or two ago for $60, had an i5-2320 laying around so stuck it in there with a new ps and gtx 760, ran great. Then I remembered an old gaming desktop I got from a trade throw in with a bad ps was a 1366, so put a x5650 in it and using it as my main PC at 4ghz rn. Gotta love old computers.
the 390 is bios locked to the I5-2XXX series of cpus ... it is possible to flash the bios from a 3010 (which is the exact same motherboard but with an unlocked CPU compatibility BIOS) which will allow use of up to 3XXX cpus.
I've used a few of these over the years, currently have one with a Xeon E3-1230 (4C8T) and a 1050 as a HTPC
I did a similar thing for a friend, bought a Dell 3010 SSF (i5 3470 8GB RAM 1TB HDD) added a sff GTX1050 TI and a cheap 128GB SSD, total build cost $280 and plays every game out
great information! thank you.
One of my best deals was an i5 4690k, an asus mobo. 8gb hyperx fury ram and 212 evo cooler and a gtx 460 bundled for £100 (Postage included!) Facebook marketplace can have amazing deals.. I got an xfx r9 390x for £130 too! Fully boxed and everything with warranty. 250GB Samsung SSD on shpock for £30, nzxt tampered glass case for £30.. new 1tb HDD for £30 and windows 10 "free" 😉 my cousin loved the rig. I gave him another 8gb stick of the same ram, braided psu extensions and an 650 watt gold corsair psu for £30 (nice guy)
My boiii. Got one 5y ago with monitor and peripherals for 300€. Still rocking it after upgrading it to a i5 2500k and gtx 1060 during the years. I'll miss it a lot when i will have to change it :/
I'm still rolling with the 1155 Sabertooth mb, i5 3570 cpu, with a 980. And I've had no problem running what I want in 6 years.
Loved that end
yea but I'd rather pick up one for 80€ and a i5 2400/2500 and 8gb of RAM instead.
80 euros are hard to achieve, with those specs. you can get them but you have to bid on offers. i dont think, that you can find such a system, with a tower pc case, with that buyout price.
bert racoon I've just checked and there multiple OEM prebuilds from Dell, HP, etc. for around 80-90€ on eBay.de that have an i5-2400, 4gbs of RAM and a 250/500gb HDD. You can get another 4gb stick of ram for 10-15€.
yeah but 15 euros are alot compared to 80 euros. thats an increase of almost 20 percent. in the end thats not alot of money but 15 euros can mean alot, for some people. i think you cant find such a system for 65 euros with shipping.
bert racoon
They were up with 8gbs of RAM before for the same price. And still, 4gbs is still more than the 3gbs of RAM in this prebuild and is enough for all older games or esport titles.
The real advantage tho is that you have 4 real cores with the i5-2400/i5-2500.
bert racoon
The i5 2400 is almost 50% faster than the i3-2100 so if that is not worth it to pay more for then idk what is.
cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2400-vs-Intel-Core-i3-2100/803vsm41
I payed in total 95€ for my pc and I can run Grand theft auto V with 50fps.
Dell optiplex 390 MT: 35€
GTX 750 Ti: 40€
8GB DDR3 1333Mhz: 15€
Great video man
That seagull is studying you movements
I have had one of the low profile desktop versions of the optiplex 390 for about two years now, I put a gt 1030 in it and maxed out the ram to 8gb and it serves my well in the games I want to play, stuff like cities skylines and eurotruck sim 2.
Fun Fact: Any Big Buck HD or Big Buck Hunter Reloaded arcade machines you play on runs on the Optiplex 390 or 790 with a Nvidia GeForce GT 610 1GB Video Card.
My mobo is AM4 and only supports 95W and below CPUs
Should I go for the 2600x?
Also should I use the stock cooler that comes with it or liquid? I know that you can get small overlooks with the stock cooler.
maybe you shouldve specified WHICH motherboard
because mobos that only support 95 watt on AM4 is rare and low-end and should not be paired with a more mainstream CPU
without saying
A) what you currently have
B) what you intend to do with it
C) if you currently have problems with what you have
Okay thanks for your responses.
I currently have a "higos" motherboard that comes with hp omen gaming desktops. I have a ryzen 5 1400. On the "processor upgrade guide" for the motherboard, it says "TDP: up to 95W"
It then says "Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:
Ryzen 7 1800x
Ryzen 7 1700
And some others that go down the list
All processors are 95W or below
Edit: I have no problems with my 1400
the gains would be minimal to be worth the bother tbh. unless you need more than 4 cores 8 threads for what you do I'd just keep what you have. its never really worth upgrading the cpu every gen
JoleeHonso yeah but the 1400 fucking sucks tbh
ooh I have one of these as my main desktop, With a lot of upgrades its really not a bad pc. Mine originally had an i3 2130, 4gb of ram and no gpu, but I upgraded it to an i7 2600, 10gb of ram and a gtx 1050 2gb. I also added some other goodies like a 600w psu because the old one was legit about to explode, and a pcie wifi card. also an ssd and a 2tb game storage spinning drive. honestly for the amount I spent upgrading it I probably would have been able to just build a custom pc, but its cool that the old system has new life I think.
These computers are great. I bought a Dell Inspiron 620 6 years ago and have upgraded the power supply, GPU, CPU, and RAM. I then went out to ebay and bought a Dell 390 motherboard for 25 bucks and slapped it into a free case I got from work. I then put in all of the components that I took out of my main computer and made another complete system. 2nd gen Intel Core CPUs are a massive value for the money as they are plentiful and cheap. I just removed my old GTX 650 from that computer today and put in a $50 GTX 750. It screams now. I put the GTX 650 into another computer that I built out of spare parts that has a Pentium 630 which is still Sandy Bridge lol. I can't get away from Sandy Bridge. Maybe someday I'll get to upgrade to a Haswell or even Skylake! I just can't get rid of the old because it's still gold.
I love upgrading these to sell on ebay, they are just fun even if i dont make too much money
5:15 - Pretty much went head first into building my own system, from there build a few computers for other people such as fellow students from my college classes at the time.
Lazy man here, bought a SFF HP with a 3470, added 4gb of ram to make it 12, swapped in a SSD, and put in a 1050. Quite enjoyable.
I've always like the older Dell's, my original gaming PC was a Optiplex 7010 upgraded to the max (16GB 120GB SSD R9 Fury X i5 3550)
I bought a Optiplex 790 with a i5 2500 8gbs of ram and a 250gb Hard Drive for 130dlls, i did Right?
I run a very similar rig, only difference that its a 7010 with a i7-3770, 12gb 1333mhz DDR3 and a GTX 1050ti, set it up before the gpu crisis and was worth every penny i put into it!
I've got one of these with i5 2500 and threw in a used Corsair PSU and fitted an AMD RX 570 4GB. Costed me $200 and can run most recent games at high settings 1080p @ 60FPS.
On the 390
Check the size of that PSU, as far as i remember they need to be 150mm deep rather than the full 160mm allowed by the ATX standard, or else they foul the catch for the side panel of the case, but I could be wrong. I have the later optiplex 9010, with a 305 watt gold rated PSU, which blew when I added a 1050Ti, although this may have happened due to my moving house 3 times since i bought it, or the 6 way extension cable I had it plugged into. I've bought a corsair TX550m to replace the fried PSU but haven't had a chance to fit it yet, hoping nothing else has blown.
Jay Arre thanks, I wasn't 100 percent sure
For better memory support (capacity wise), a 790 would provide a better ceiling (16GB for the non-usff models). Also, used Optiplex 7010s use third generation processors and have onboard USB 3.0. Then you have HP EliteDesk 800 G1s with Haswell processors. All at somewhat decent prices. Loot at school auctions and the like to nab them at better prices.
On eBay I found a optiplex 7010 with a core i5 4gb of RAM fully refurbished for $40! I got it and it works great with a budget graphics card
I got an Optiplex 790 with i3 2120 and 4GB RAM on it for just $75 Australian Dollar. I upgraded the RAM to 8GB and added a GT 1030 on it. I’m planning to buy GTX 1050 someday though.
I'd love to you fully kit this out tbh. Throw in the i7 you mentioned, 16gb ddr3, an SSD, 1tb HDD, and your 1070 just to see max performance.
I'd watch the hell outa that
I'm using an OP 390 rn.
i3 2120
8GB DDR3
HD 7570 DDR5
128GB SSD
1TB HDD
I never had issues with anything. Pubg PC lite runs at 60fps low. Apex at 40.
I have the 790 with an i5 2400 and a GTX 660 in it, still gives a Great performance. paid total around ~ 230€ for it (with upgrades.)
Threw a GTX 970 4gb, a new PSU, a 1tb hard drive and 16gbs of ram into one of these puppies and I've been rocking it for over a year. It has it's moments but it plays everything pretty smoothly. Definitely worth the money tbh.
Near silent is the truth. I sometimes was not even able to tell it was on in my soundproofed recording studio.
I'd say older i3-s hold acceptably to this day. If someone could consider G4560 to be their gaming engine, i can't see how is i3 much worse than that. I myself am using a 2105, i hate the fact that i can't play any modern games, but then again, nor am i interested in them all that much, and the chip works fine otherwise.
Also i'm falling in love with Dell cases. They seem so ergonomic and convenient to maintain with their various clamps and springs and handles. This one looks somewhat decent in terms of airflow too, if front mesh has any space to stick an extra cooler inside that is.
do a review on using linux, since it is free and runs well on really low end hardware
I would think the low amount of RAM could cause stutter as well. I have the 2500 and 750ti combo. Still a beast for the super low budget.
I have a 390 sff with an i5. Nvidia 1650 lp 16 gig Corsair 2tb internal 500 gig ssd and windows10 I play civ 6. Crusader king 3. Anno 1800. Outer worlds. Halo MCE. It runs great. All on high graphics with steady avg of 60 FPS Overall with COVID prices it was just under 500 usd.
also if you want to swap the fans there are proprietary dell plugs you need to get adapters for they sell them on ebay
One of the 2% here. Hello! :D
I have got one with i3 2120 3.3Ghz and 4gb ram
I updated a dell optiplex 960 with a radeon 2400xt and 4gb of ram use it as a xp gaming machine for titles made from the early late 90s early 2000s works like a charm quake 2 and unreal and far cry 1.
I got a optiplex 790, which is a similar mid tower but a bit newer. Got it for 180$ with an i7-2600 8gb ram and a 350 w psu. I added a 1050ti, and got a pretty good ~400$ gaming pc (including SSD) Recommend for people who are fine with 1080p gaming. Most games run on high, 60 fps 1080p, except newer titles, where you can just turn down the settings.
It seems rather important to note that these systems will not work with AMD RX 460/470/480/570/580 cards, as they draw too much power from the PCI-E slot. The exceptions would be many RX 560 cards that apparently do work, as well as a rare mini-ITX 'Sapphire Pulse' variant of the RX 570, but these are almost impossible to find.
With prebuilts, you're best off going with nvidia.
I’m giving my friend dell optiplex 390 and I have a dell optiplex 980 as my budget gaming rig
thank you wix, very cool!
Go for the optiplex 3010. They can be found easily for $100ish worth the extra bit you spend wont bottleneck nearly as much and still very affordable.