Dell Optiplex 9020 - Teardown and benchmarks 

This is an excellent video. While I may not need to break down my 9020SFF, your video helps me understand where all the connections are and how to get at them. Great job!

This is one of the best review video of a SFF computer. Liked and subscribed.

Most awesome thing I've seen in forever.

Excellent presentation, patient, thorough, and informative. Much appreciative, as I just acquired a refurbished 9020, and there is not much room for those PCI cards as that will be a tight fit. Thank you for sharing.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing.

Very well explained and video quality is very good Thanks.

@jensd_be thank you so much for making this video! Your presentation was not hurried, and everything was well explained to your audience as you completed the various steps. This video is worlds better than the manual and content that Dell provides for its own product! I have "Liked" this video, and also Subscribed to your channel. My 9020 SFF arrived from eBay today, and I will be using it for a pfSense firewall for my home lab. With an i7, 8 GB of memory, and a 1 TB HDD, it should fit the bill nicely. Thanks again "from across the pond".

I really enjoyed this video Jens wow I especially like it since I own a dead and refurbished DELL 3020. After watching your video over a couple of times I think I might be able to resurrect my machine...

I turned a similar Dell into a small gaming rig. Turned out pretty nice and can play any title I throw at it with ease. The old Dells are a good platform for budget gaming rigs!

This helped me with cleaning my pc months ago and now I’m doing it again

Big thanks on how to tear it down I can finally get a full on micro gaming pc inside without it being suspected

Cool video!

thanx. helped me find the clock battery really fast.

Keep up the good work Salutations from Morocco 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

I have this 9020 SFF too.... I actually have a GTX 1050ti in the smaller (Black) PCI. It 100% works and videos on RU-vid showing it in the PCI no issues..& I have 4tb 3.5 with a sandwiched 500gb SSD for Win 11/Linux....

A useful video!👍👍 Recently, I found a similar PC., a Dell Optiplex 7010, it had been thrown out so I rescued it and after the usual cleaning and new thermal paste and fitting a new cmos battery, it's currently working well with Linux Mint Mate installed. The PC., had 16 gig of ddr3 ram., installed and a 256 gig ssd., and a third generation i7 CPU., which all work, but I fitted a 500 gig ssd., and because that plastic caddy can take two 2.5 inch drives I also fitted a 320 gig HD., for storage, which meant that I also had to fit another sata cable, but there was a spare sata port on the MB.. Also thrown out was an ASUS 18.5 inch wide screen VGA., monitor and after a good clean it's also currently working well.

I have 2 oldies. A Dell 9020 and a HP Z440. Both serve me well..

Great video right to the point, just picked up a DELL Optiplex 9020 with an intel i7 VPro Prosser 8g ram with 2 500 GB SSD drives in the unit it was a gift now to see if it works no idea if it works something to play with. once more a great video👍

I remember i used once machine in 2020 - for almost whole year.. It made my respect and enjoy these small SFF mod builds Had that 9020 SFF with Xeon E3-1250, 4x4GB 1600mhz ddr, 500GB SSD and GTX 1650 - i enjoyed it soo hard

Thank you please I would like to ask abut the motherboard it’s support adding Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card ?

no hay un video de como aplicar esta placa a otro cajon para tener mas espacio a la hora de instalar otros componentes? tengo una y quisiera instalarle una nueva fuente pero no tengo espacio, y he leido que hay comprar adaptadores para poder cambiarla de cajon

Great. I followed your every step and it worked perfectly. But there's just one problem, my system unit is working but I'm not getting any display. I've tried using a different cable, connected my monitor to another device and all, everything shows my monitor is still working but it's still not giving any display when connected to my system unit

Awesome breakdown! I bought this to make my own Minecraft server with, this video helped me understand the upgrade potential and how to clean it. Nice job!

That x1 slot looks more like a 4x slot and it has no rear plastic on it so you can put a full size card in that slot from what I can tell! Interesting that they have the x16 slot as the second slot instead of 1st. Kinda makes 2 slot GPUs harder to fit since they will be right up against the PSU housing. Could use the x4 slot though but will take a bandwidth penalty using that one assuming the board will even let you use a GPU in that slot. Surprising they decided to put 4 ram slots on the SFF version. From what I recall you can max them out to 32 GB of ram if you use 4x 8GB modules! Annoying that they started using a load baring heat sink mount for that one. Make case swaps a little tricky. Not to mention the rear IO faceplate appears to be part of the case and not removable. :( Not sure on the SFF versions but with the mini towers the 7010 and 9010 used standard PSU connector and had removable rear IO faceplates (the mobos also had proper brackets on the backside too though they are glued on so you have to use them when using after market cooloers). The downside is the SATA ports are near the GPU PCI-E slot so 2 slot cards will obstruct them. Right angle low profile sata cables would need to used in that case. Or a PCI-E SATA card if the mobo supports booting from one of those.

What screwdriver did you use to disassemble the fan? Please, I need it urgently

On the Precision T1700, which looks very similar to this mainboard, SATA 0 and SATA 1 are 6 Gbps and SATA 2 is 3 Gbps. Is this also the case with the Optiplex 9020?

Can I use it for gaming I bought some today

Just bought a 9020 SFF, love it. But I can't get the mainboard to recognize memory dimm greater than 4 gb. Bios at A25, i7 cpu. I have 2 sets of mixed memory dimms, 2 at 4gb, 2 at 8 gb. The 8 gb are only seen as 4 gb. Can't figure out why.

Sir for SMPS update to 450 watts it is available in market...

Thank you for sharing this very informative. I got the device sir and the problem is when turning on its just keep on beeping .

Thank you for the video. I've bought that machine today as an replacement to my over decade old pc. Good to know how to strip it down, it seems more easy than in the bigger types of towers. Is that kind of a case able to support an additional drive, as in a combo of an ssd and hdd? (Doesn't seem to from what I see...)

exactly XMS3 as ram memories I use for optiplex 7010 4x8=32GB

I'm trying to identify f_usb on this motherboard. Are they the 9 pins just above the 4 different connection ports on the bottom right corner of the board.? Trying to add a network card and it requires f_usb

I need optiplax 9020 sff motherboard and powersupply

So I have a gaming monitor, and when I connect it to my SFF 9020, no video outputs, does that signify that those 2 video ports aren’t meant for gaming monitors and just regular display monitors?

Good video actually i am on the look up for a used one in my country.

Hi,is this PC good for video editing?

Very nice video. I got the same 3.5" to 2.5" hdd/ssd caddy from aliexpress plus a sata power splitter cable so I put another drive. One question, did you manage to put caddy nicely into the blue bracket? I managed to only secure it with two screws/latches instead of four.

Any Idea if you can fit another SATA SSD 2tb in the other side of the drive bay and what bus connection it will need ??? as I'm just about to go for a 16gb version and upgrade to 32gb

Why not throw the plastic cover on the cpu and also remove the dvd and hdd cage? Duck tape the ssd to the case and throw the dvd since i dont need it, therefore you have better accesability to the ram and better airflow right? Is this a good idea, am i missing something?

I know the video is about the Optiplex 9020, but if you went to a Pre-owned Dell Precision Tower SFF 3420 I7-6700 you can install a NVME as a boot drive and get DDR 4 memory (will take 64GB). True, your not gonna stick some kind of expensive Monster Video Card in it. For a daily driver you can't hardly beat them for the cost.

After doing all that my pc does not turn on, in the power button blinks an orange light, any request?

Will a normal pci-e parallel (lpt) card work here or one is forced to buy from dell?Thanks.

Can you make a video to install apps or o.s after computer wipe out.

Are these machines quiet and power frugal?? The little amount of warm air coming out is not really suggesting more than 60 W but it's probably more.

Can you answer my question? Do your fresh installed windows 11 on unsupported pc still recieve updates and work well? I think i will update mine but I don't know if it will recieve updates forever or if it is going to work well. Can u give me some information about your?

What dell machine would you recommend if I want to addd multiple hard drives as I want to build a nas?

If you have to choose between Dell OptiPlex 9020 MT Tower (Premium Business Desktop Computer, Intel Quad-Core i7-4770 up to 3.9GHz, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD + 3TB HDD, DVD, WiFi, Windows 10 Professional) and HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Tower (Intel Core i7 3.4GHz Processor, 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD, WiFi & Bluetooth, Wireless Keyboard Mouse, Microsoft Office 365, Windows 10 Pro), both for simple daily tasks, which way you would go? Also, would I be able to hook up on any of these two PCs a 8TB HDD? Thanks for any info.

does it need any power replacement if you put in a better GPU?

What type of RAM? I see many options: ECC, Registered, Fully Buffered, etc..

these dell and hp pcs are bargains. i had an optiplex 3040 , then moved to an hp prodesk .. highly recommend if your looking for a budget pc

2:29 is there a way to put an hdd instead of ssd

I put an i7-4790 CPU in both my 9020SFFs, one is being used as a Home Theater PC - it has an SFF (low profile) 1050Ti video card for driving a 4K TV, the other 9020SFF is on a work bench for downloading and displaying schematics on a 23" monitor. The work bench PC also has a USB3 802.11ac/a/b/g/n WiFi dongle to access the internet - the 9020s did not come with WiFi or Bluetooth from the factory. And both SFFs have been upgraded to SSD drives - I'm not very patient :-)

Does this work like a normal pc it's only the size small right

does it work with low profile gpu?

I threw an RX 6400 graphics card in mine which gives me an HDMI out makes it surprisingly decent for gaming with a 16 GB ram upgrade.

ima game on it

Have you or anyone else had luck installing a xeon such as a e3 1240 v3 or 1245 v3[on board graphics]? Best i could do was an i5 4670k. I had no issues with the 3rd gen/xeon upgrades. I would buy pentium systems and add in the i7 non-k equivalent cpu.

Looks like no USB3 ports??

Dell Optiplex 9020

What is the point of taking the motherboard out of the case?

I wonder how to install a soundcard? 👀

I can't transfer net over usp and wife in optiplex 9020 plz tell me the solution sir 🥺 plz reply 🥺

Where does the wifi card go ?

I have now the same PC but i have the i5 4690.

Does 32gb of ram work on this?

Can a 1650 fit in here?

I'm playing PUBG with the OPTIPLEX 9020 Micro

can a i play lol in that? I will buy it

why is EVERY damn video on these particular computers done with SFF types and NOT minitowers???? two different types with different options and abilities.

dell optiplex is to old ... 4 gen is ancient ...

but sir why i can’t play dvd 📀 in 9020 is there any solution 😢