$30 Optiplex 390 Build! Curious What It's Still Useful For? 

They’re very capable machines for such low cost especially compared to what you can buy today. Thank you for leaving a comment. It truly means the world to me :)

hows that works hows it compare an i5 or i7? EDIT: it seems to crank out just over 6000 passmarks at just under 70 watts which is better than an i7 3xxxT which is a little lower wattage but, notably less performance. so the xeon wins with a slightly higher wattage but notably more performance

@@cdoublejj Xeon much cheaper and offers around same performance as i7.

​@@forzaflyracer3473Yeah it's basically a better i7 2600 and doesn't use as much power, making it perfect for sff builds like this.

Only other thing I'd probably do is upgrade the RAM to 16gb, you'd be surprised how much difference that can make.

I think basic office tasks with LibreOffice or the like are imminently practical, too. Use inexpensive SATA SSDs to speed up processing vs. the slower spinning HDs.

Thank you sir🙏 this is the type of advice I’m looking for 💯🙏 I appreciate your honesty. Im a beginner with editing.

Yea it’s fun just to have to tinker with or maybe modify the case for fun like I do sometimes on older computers. As long as you enjoy what you’re doing that’s all that matters!

Yessir that’s what I’m talking about! Awesome brother keep on doing what you’re doing.

I have same specs except I’m on the sff build with a Rx 560 low prof. DDR3 mixed with gddr6 is the better and max combo for these og Optiplexes. Throw in an rtx Gpu and you’ll be up to date in games.

Yes they are, I’m going to be making another video on this that’s going to be way better since this one got so much attention. New cpu and gpu on the way!

Thank you I’m trying my best!!! I want to build my channel into something great I really do 🙏❤️

They are cool little computers to have kicking around if you wanna tinker or try something out without harming your main rig

@@brycestechlife its running 50+ xp era games up to 2008 era

Thank you I really appreciate that!

What a deal.

Right? Especially the i7 models. You can drop an i7 in these i3 ones and make them so much better. Thank you for leaving a comment, it really does make my day. Truthfully. Thank you.

I bought a couple of optiplex 5050 sff to make gaming setups for me and my son, I was actually playing Apex Legends last night. With little adjustments it was pretty good and both my 5050's are running 6th gen i5 6600's. Planning to max them out to i7 7700 when I get a chance. I'm also running Dell oem Radeon RX550 4gb. These things make good setups and I only paid like $50 for them, with a good card more ram and ssd you can make a decent gaming setup for under $200.

I’m about to upgrade mine with an AMD Radeon R7 450 4gb. It’s nothing special and definitely nothing crazy but it would be a significant improvement over your 1GB r5240, considering it’s only about $35-40 on eBay too.

I definitely think that you’re going to have a very affordable & usable build that should be able to play a good amount of games at decent settings at 1080p of course. The only thing I’d suggest is maybe getting more storage as SSDs are so cheap these days for 1TB, as well as adding another 8gb of ram would make that build a beast. But yes it will run very well for all basic tasks and needs. As well as some gaming I think it will impress you.

Thank you

You’re right, I’m changing up my style & I’m going to do my best to make my content entertaining but informative at the same time. I appreciate your feedback!

I’ll have to look into that, I have no idea what that is.

It’s one of those things where you gotta hop on the deal as soon as you find it! I think I got this one from an older woman who was just trying to get rid of it because it was basically junk to her. The other one that I got for $40 that is 4th gen was because the kid couldn’t game on it and didn’t know he could pop a graphics card in it. So I was able to buy that one cheap.

Some people don’t need anything more than a computer that can literally go on the web, check emails, shop on Amazon etc. for some it might be a really good deal

You can upgrade the cpu but not the cup the cup is permanent.

For a one line post, I'm about to write a huge reply with way too much information... oh well... Oh no, the ddr4 version of the 1030... yuk... please tell me you didn't buy that "GPU" on purpose... the gddr5 version is roughly 80-100% faster. Also it's possible to find GTX 1050s that fit (I have such a card) which are ~88% faster than the 1030. Also, 1650s are out there in that form factor as well (and another 67% faster. There's also the Quadro P620, as well as the T400/600/1000 cards that are nice options in this form factor. But they're all probably too expensive of an option because NVIDIA. But if you're having a bad time gaming, I highly recommend upgrading that GPU before looking at the CPU. The DDR4 version doesn't even keep up with Ryzen 5 2400G. The card I'd actually recommend for small form factor PCs that strikes the perfect balance of low cost and decent performance is the RX 550 4GB. It's at LEAST as fast as GT 1030 GDDR5, has twice the VRAM and also has encoding support. The only reason I have a GTX 1050 is because I found a good deal on it; usually they're unreasonably expensive for SFF. I found one for $100 (on sale, normally $165). The RX 6400 is way faster but also way more expensive (~$130), and also lacks encoding (if you're just gaming, that's not important but if you're trying to do any streaming, video editing/transcoding, then yeah, it's an issue). With the RX 550 you get VCE so at least Handbrake has you covered. Plus you can find these cards on eBay for $40-50. There's also the workstation version of it, the Radeon Pro WX3100, which is just as cheap, but has a blower fan and a cool blue aluminum fan shroud. And yes, you can (and should) upgrade the CPU on it. I would recommend going with at least an i5 if not an i7 if you're gaming. The i5-2400 is about $10-15 and the i7-2600 is about $25-30 on eBay (USA). I don't know where you are from but hopefully the prices aren't too different because these processors are OLD. Real old. Like, 2011 old. edit: I wrote this before watching the entire video. Going further in, I noticed that the 390 has the PCIe x16 slot in the correct place (this is the last generation of Dell SFF that does; later ones put it right next to the power supply) so it WILL support a two slot wide GPU such as the SFF RTX 3050 6GB or SFF RTX 4060. However, those cards are both several times the cost of the PC itself, and both would be bottlenecked by the CPU (even an i7). Actually come to think of it, the 3050 might not be too bad when paired up with the i7-2600 so that's the only one I'd consider. It'd be like a 1070 or something. But with RTX. Not that you'd want to use RTX with a card that only has 6GB VRAM. But yeah, I'd be interested to see that combination (2600/3050).

what is your power supply watt?

@@NASSAARR i think its around 200W stock psu From HP prodesk

@@jeredE99 it is 200w exactly or around because i have 200w psu and a i5 6500 with 8gb ram ddr4 and ssd 256 and i want to upgrade it with gtx 1650lp but i don't know if the 200psu is enough or not please answer me

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@@NASSAARR its enough :)

I have a couple graphics cards that were gonna try as well as some cpus to swap out as well :)

No I don’t. It’s hilarious to me how many people sit there and pick out wrong things and give misleading information. Thermal paste will spread when pressure is applied it’s common sense just like silicone when you’re working on a vehicle, do you make it look all beautiful? No. It doesn’t matter. It’s very sad to see someone sit here and down talk on another that’s just trying to give back. And let me tell you I’m not just some big box computer guy. I know much more than you think I do. Just because I don’t post everything I do and know doesn’t mean I don’t know it. Haters just giving me more motivation to post what I know and what I can do and prove people wrong. You’ll see. To anyone else I apologize and I’m honestly just trying to share my knowledge with the community, without hate.

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Unfortunately with newer titles, I find it that the instruction sets are no longer supported by the cpu. Like newer games require newer instruction sets that these older CPUs just don’t support. Not to say they are bad or anything there are still many uses and I think everyone should be doing more about our E-waste problem but big box stores always want new and improved. Good pick up