Dell 9020 - $100 Gaming Upgrade 

@TheBlessed Gamer Same!!

@TheBlessed Gamer jon@thenetguy.com or you can use @thenetguydotcom on Twitter! Just editing next week's video right now :)

What will I need

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Hey can I buy the optiplex?

Yeah that didn’t age well! Hopefully you can start to find them in the secondary market.

OfferUp and eBay: there is another

I just could not go without laughing about this too 0:30 "collapse of the mining industry" ROFL

This video did not age well 😂

Thank you for the kind words!

That was my thought about 2 minutes in. Just a little harder to cover any mistakes.

😂😂😂 Very calm and soothing

Yesss

What I thought. hes great.

He's upside down, though. Bob Ross wore his hair soufflé on top of his head. :-)

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching and there are a TON of other great videos on my channel @TheNetGuy

@@TheNetGuy I just got my power supply that I ordered on Amazon I have question though because this is my first time doing this I’m not really a tech person, is switching the psu dangerous? I’m afraid of being shocked

Not at all. When unplugged the power supply has only 12 volts and 5 volt DC. As long as your not dissecting it - modern power supplies are perfectly safe

shoot, me too! I was at the MicroCenter Builder Desk and they were like yeah Dell uses a proprietary motherboard and I had already bought a PSU semi modular and was bugging out over the small four pin plug under the PSU on the motherboard and didnt realize it was an 8 pin that split in two to fit.

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That’s awesome! Thank you for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it. Stick around, lots of great content this season. :)

Glad I could help!

Yeah buddy!!!

Made my night my friend! I’ve been trying... all self taught on the RU-vid side. :)

@@TheNetGuy yea i learned all the stuff i know on youtube as well. keep up the hard work it always pays off

Man, you and me both! I wish I could figure out the magic formula. I guess I don’t beg for subs at the beginning of each video. Should I? :)

Your English is job

I know I'm a year late, but you English is perfect.

Thank you!

@@pete3816 lol

Great choice and good setup for this machine. Send over some pictures when you finish your project and I’ll give you a shout out in a future video!

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Just posted a GPU upgrade video too!

I’m learning... slowly. :)

I died

He sounded like EVGA was a new brand or that it was somewhat obscure...or maybe he was doing that for those of us who didn't know EVGA made power supplies?

@@kayrokk Precisely. One of the hard things is making technology videos "for real people" that are simple for newbs and appealing for people who have experience in the field. Next up in the flame war is the proper pronunciation of "GIF" files :-)

I mean you're supposed to say it like that but a little faster

Me too i feel like i was in kindergarten lol

Dwayne Ingram you can always google. It’s amazing having the wealth and entirety of human knowledge and endeavour at our fingertips and not think to just use it! I’m sorry to be sharp about it, but it’s the fastest way.

Great idea. I didn’t see that they were easily removed - do you have to cut them out?

Yes the bracket/tabs would need to be removed. The bottom of the case stock will fit a GPU with two fans but not three, so anything bigger than a GTX 980 will be to long. So say you have a video card with two fans they are right up against the hard drive cages, which means it fits but there is no incoming air flow, which is no good for any after market GPU. Remove the drive bays and you now have room for a 240mm fan in the front. You could easily relocate your hdd/ssd somewhere else. You will have to remove the two dimples in the case and flatten a raised area to get the fan flat. A none static fan will work best, because a static fan will make whistling sound because for the lack of hole in the case. Me, I like to have faster air flow so I made more holes in the case and used a static fan. I have seen this similar thing in a video, I’ll try and get the link. Not sure how to add the link but there is three videos on a Optiplex build, and those can be found on “The Game Bench’s” channel also”nomadben” has a video on his channel.

Thank you for the comment. The video was made some time ago but seems to have been algorithmed pretty well! Got some great ideas for it next video!

@@TheNetGuy That's great news, I'm looking forward to it.👍

First run 24 pin & pcie under dvd & out of the hole below the cage then put any slack from the CPU cable plus the unused cables into that space will look much better

Oh man you’re going to love Wednesdays video! I’m transplanting the 9020 into a new RGB case - step by step.

Thanks for watching! 🙏

@@TheNetGuy excellent I am looking forward, because acutualy the free space you have for a graphic card is really limited inside those dell, I would prefer to invest in another nvidia than the 1050 or 1650... I have just another question, can i mount any power supply or does it have any condition ? like as long as it can run the graphic card ? 600W? 800W?

How's it going G - did you get upgraded?

@@TheNetGuy uh yeah i did. I had to pull out the front USB cables and i cant quite close up the back as you could but i dont care cause its in and im loving it 🙂

Tell your friends!

He should have more than a million subcribers.

3months later...1.24k subs 👍🏾

That’s a great find/steal. Add a drive, install Windows 10 from a media creation CD and you should have a key in the bios already.

I did it! I upgraded my PSU to a 650w and my GPU to a 1650. Thanks a lot!

Right on, great choice of GPU! Congrats!

Very kind words - thank you. It’s getting easier to edit/produce, but for each minute of video you see it’s about an hour of behind the scenes work :/

You should see some of the later ones. Thanks for watching! (PS, my wife hates it - the beard 🧔🏻, not the videos)

@@TheNetGuy It comes with the entire package 😂🤣

Sweet! That’s a great upgrade path and gaming pc!

This is the second time I’ve been told that. Guess I need to watch the office! Thanks for watching and thanks even more for commenting... I think!

My best deals have been found on offer up. Though I did recently buy three of them with 8GB ram and 250GB SSD drives for $150 each on eBay shipped free! Amazing.

You just got to shop around I got one the other day with a 1.5 terabyte hard drive 16 gigs of RAM everything works fine with monitor and a keyboard and mouse for 200 bucks I've already ordered the power supply and I've got a 1330 on the way it's only a temporary graphics card but it'll do fine so all together I'll have about $360 in this thing and it runs really well

Great point. I’ve heard EVGA is starting to go South fast in quality. Thanks for sharing!

Good point. Don’t have a budget for a 2080 after all this camera gear. I have a R7 250 low profile and RX 470 to benchmark with an i5 and i7 based 9020. Any suggestions for other budget friendly/used cards to include?

@@TheNetGuy Can't go wrong with a 1050 TI. People sell them for cheap nowadays on the used market.

Man, I wish there was a love X 10 button :). So glad it helped you - if you shoot me a pic or two at jon@thenetguy.com I'd love to point you out in a future video!

Thank you so much for the kind words. It’s a ton of work to make a video - about an hour per minute of finished video. Thanks for watching and commenting.

You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching and good luck. Send some pictures to me and I’ll feature you in an upcoming build.

I want you to ask you some question please

@@TheNetGuy i want you to ask you some question please you too

Only equaled by your comment ;). Thanks for the kind words!

Hopefully it worked well. I just put out another mod video you might want to try: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b_M2GGunaYM.html

Not awful, but look for an hp z440 or HP 800 g2. Both easier flips and higher performance 👍

I just seconds ago posted a 48 minute video of me rambling :). Enjoy!!!!

Glad I could help - send me some pictures and I'd love to toss them in the next video under viewer appreciation :)

You’re welcome welcome! 🙏

If you can get away with mobo power then it’s that much easier. Enjoy! Thanks for the kind words and watching. Lots more videos to come (picked up my dream lens yesterday to help shoot more b-roll).

No problem!

Definitely upgrade it 👍

It’s a tight fit but I was able to get it in. A three fan GPU prob not, but I have seen people still out and remove the drive tray for more room. The rest of the cables routed pretty easily.

Great point. If you check out some of my newer videos I’ve transplanted this into an ATX case. Gamdias also sent a new modular power supply to review which should help a ton! Thanks for watching!

For some reason this one video got algorithmed hard... hope you stick around to watch the rest of my stuff!

i will thanks for the help

Thanks for the kind words! Yes it is.

Should work. A bigger PSU will help a lot.

Glad you enjoyed!

Neither should be bottlenecked. It’s a good box and I’ve even been playing cyberpunk on mine. Of course I just got my hands on a Radeon 6800 Nitro+ :)

True! Building an Unraid server right now and wishing I had room for more. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Older ones absolutely.

Sounds awesome man. I'm running the 1060 3gb model myself right now as I try to decide what to upgrade to next. Send over some pictures of your setup and I'll try to give you a shout out in a future video. jon@thenetguy.com

I have heard you can use adapters, but these Dell's had pretty weak power supplies (200w, 250w, 300w) from the factory. If you still have spinning disks and other devices it's safer to upgrade. Plus you open up more cards!

Yeah check out the “big gpu” video on my channel. You’ll need more power or a drive adapter.

@@TheNetGuy thanks!