😒 omg wtf r u making this unecesarily overcomplicated! with 2 six pins on the oem psu just look for a 2sixpin video card or single8pin video card, one ssd and one big mech hard drive, SLI is Stupid and Garbage, go single video card only! 😒👍🚤
My T5500 rig has dual 5670 hex core, 24 thread 3.1 GHz processors. 48 gigs of ECC DDR3 memory 5 TB hard drive but only one Nvidia gtx 770 (for now). It plays doom and Tomb raider like a champ. Its really overkill for a home machine but thus far the total cost is only $600 AND I LOVE IT. SERIOUSLY. So much so I have already bought another to begin upgrading. First I have to get another GTX 770 to install in the first machine. Thanks for all the tech tips, love your channel.
According to this scorecard an upgrade to the graphics card would make this an acceptable gaming system. Not that I don't already believe that. Guess I'll start looking for deals on a GTX 1080. www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/4468214
I know this is an old video but I just purchased a Precision T7500 with dual X5650's, (that's 12 cores - 24 threads), a GTX-650 Ti w/ 1GB, 12GB of 1333 DDR3 RAM, a 1TB Seagate and three 120GB SSD Drives, a stock 1100 watt PSU all for $75.00. I found that the 1TB drive and 2 of the SSD drives were toast so... planned upgrades include 2 - Matched Xeon X5675's for $40, and additional 12GB of ECC registered RAM 6 X 2GB for $19.00, 2 - Nvidia Quadro 4000 2GB GPU's for $96. The system already has Win 10 Pro installed and activated. I added 2 640GB HDD and 1 250GB HDD for storage I had laying around collecting dust and plan on setting them up in RAID 0. No SLI for the GPU's but that's ok. Keep in mind these dual processor servers were never intended to or optimized for any kind of gaming weather on-line or not and they are limited to USB 2.0 and the PCIe slots are also 2.0 configured so putting 3.0 GPU's in these systems will not net you the performance you might expect from the latest GPU's as they are primarily bottlenecked at the slot. There is a work-around for that but it's cost prohibitive for a "budget system" and you'd be better off just getting a better motherboard. The addition of a USB 3.0 add-on card as well as an SCSI 3.0 add on card will help but again drives the initial cost of building the system higher as newer SSD hardware is more expensive then legacy stuff. My point is - even if the cheap cost of this older hardware is attractive it doesn't always make sense to even attempt it because games in the future will just get even more component dependent and make this budget PC not very practical. A better option would be doing something like my first build - It's an HP EliteDesk small form factor system with a Core i7-4790, 24 GB DDR3 Ram, 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD, 1200GBs WIFI add-on card, Blu-Ray/DVD-CD RW drive, GeForce GTX-1050Ti, USB 3.0 on board and SCSI 3.0 and PCIe 3.0 x16 on board all for a shade under $400 for the system ($100) and all the upgrades AND it's small enough to fit just about anywhere unlike the T7500 which is a massive system at 80 pounds! It gets 60 to 90FPS in every game I've played on it at 1080p with setting maxed or medium with the exception of Shadow of the Tomb Raider which still ran at about 40FPS in medium and low settings. So there are better options for budget systems out there. just do your homework before you plunk down your money for a legacy system. Oh yah, I also wanted to mention that when you load this system up with upgrades and turn on the turbo boost for max clock speeds on the CPU's the core temps on the mainboard CPU go way up so you MUST get creative with cooling for the CPU otherwise you will cook it in no time.
Son of a Tech Woah that Xtreme Performance system right there. my first performance laptop is also a Dell XPS 15z they look like a MacBook pro but they seem to overheat alot.
I have a Dell Precision T3500. I upgraded the CPU to an X5650 as it runs cooler than the stock, and provides additional cores. 24 GB ram, a 500gb SSD, and a 1tb backup drive. The graphics is pushed with a ATI RX580 8GB. I ran Catzilla benchmark and got a 21000 rating not bad for a gaming pc. it was running easily at 145FPS using the 1080p. Of course, the OS is Windows 10 pro 64bit. It is very quiet, even running high end games. There was a little altering to the inside of the case so the PCI-e video card could fit, but I saved quite a bit of money.
😒 avoid the crappy T3500 that crapy mb is missing the chipset mb coolers! U only wana go T5500 or T7500 if your going to install a hot power hungry westmere 6core cpu 😒👍🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
You should do a project dominator on the HP XW9400 which comes with two liquid cooled AMD Opteron CPUs and 16GB RAM. It's an overkill amazing machine...
I'm looking at buying a Dell Precision T5500 from my work soon ($100) and was planning on turning it into a gaming rig as well. I don't have any plans for a raid 0 config and honestly was just going to throw in my old Radeon HD4870 video card with it. Curious if you gave this beast away? :) Thanks for the video, it was a good watch.
Well it's March 2024 of the time I'm typing this. My t5500 is getting upgraded to duel x5650s hexacore with hyper threading. Paired with a cheap GeForce GTX 1050 I'm crossing my fingers
if your cpu temps are getting to high you might consider getting U016F heatsink. The one you're using at the moment ( T021f ) is not rated for processors with high clock speed. en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19370823?pi21953=2 I currently running t5500 with x5677 (3.46 to 3.7 ghz turbo) and gtx 980 : ]
with xeon w3540 45nm and uo16f heatink my cpu temps were hitting above 80c under heavy load. As I upgraded to x5677 with 32nm technology, temperatures rarely go above 60c. I added one 80mm exhaust fan on the back grill, and this also keeps things cooler. But when I had two of those 80mm fans running on the back it caused front fans to work at very high speed most of the time, making the workstation very loud. I grabbed dirt chip thermaltake VR fan controller with four fans on ebay, so I'll be experimenting more with cooling this pc. Good to hear your t5500 stays cool, excuse my english : ]
All stock components here. But it's not getting really hot anymore after cpu and gpu upgrade. I think it stays about 60-65c during gaming, and only sometimes can go above 70c on passmark performance test.It was very hot weather here for the last few days, whenI was testing it. Previously I had msi gtx gpu, now I'm using reference design card which is probably better at exhausting the hot air outside the case. The thermal paste I am using at the moment is not to bad but average quality, I am waiting for arctic mx4 delivery. The extra fans I will be adding is kind of DIY/ FUN project. I am a bit surprised that you have such a great results with that heatsink since there are more people reporting quite high temps on those pcs. I also have one of those T021f heatsinks, currently it seats in t3500 with 2.2ghz processor, so maybe there will be no need for upgrading it in the future if yours is doing so well.
the fans are fine. These worksations are very quiet on idle, but they can get really loud under load. I would say that 45 nm vs 32 nm cpu also makes a difference. Btw, nice work you've done with swaping psu, some say that it is a bit complicated : ] t3500 and t5500 are exactly the same in terms of case size, the t7500 is a huge PC
Shouldn't you just convert one 6pin to 8 pin with an adapter and use the second 6 pin cable on 6 pin socket? Edit: I see your gpu needs two 8 pin connectors. I don't think you can use cpu power cable, but I am not sure.
Found a Dell Percision T3500 workstation. Has quad core xeon but am going to upgrade it to a quad core 8 thread x5687. Had one bad 2gb ram stick so have to find a new one to get 12gb. Gtx770 card. Items needed: lga 1366 cooler, sata power to 8 pin adapter, 2 80mm fans to increase air flow since shrouds won't fit right GPU. OS SSD do you think all this will work as a gaming computer
Scott Family of 8 yeah but make sure you don't get a super fast SSD as you will be limited to 275 mb/s unless you buy a SATA 3 card which isn't always reliable ;) Try and get more storage for your money rather than speed dude! :d
I know this is an old post but I hope you are still on you tube and can answer a question. I have a Dell Precision T7400 with dual xeon processors running at 2.6GHZ and I replaced them with a matching pair of xeon 3.16GHz pulled out of a working T7400 but after putting it all back together instead of booting I get a screen saying that no processor is detected in either slot. Do you think that this may be due to my pc having an older bios version, I was trying to find an answer before flashing the newest bios for this model to my pc.
hello a question I can put a psu evga 500w 80plus since I want to buy one (dell t5500 1 cpu 8gb ram quadro 5000 1thdd) that does not have psu i am from venezuela my budget is very limited if someone in the comments can help me thank you very much
cool vid man !!! looking to upgrade the PSU in my Dell Precision T1650 power supply looks like it's a Standard atx mainboard do you think there will be any issues?? what PSU would you recommend??
Got my T5500 benched at 1600 ! 2 6-core xeons clocked at 3.06 ghz. :-) 72 gb ram, and two gtx 960's in SLI. It's ok for gaming, but will DOMINATE video editing, and workflow. I love my t5500
I have a Dell t3400$30 with a xeon x3360 $12, 6gb ddr2 800, Evga Gtx 570 2.5GB$62 and Antec Neo 620w 80plus$27. The hardest part was installing windows. When in auto raid/ahci mode I wouldnt be able to install windows, I installed windows on auto raid/ata mode and then after the first restart I switch to ahci and let windows installation continue, no problems and seem to work fine. If i didnt switch from ata to ahci the drive wouldnt boot to continue the installation.
nice mod sitting on the desk lmao my system is actually running 24gb of ram, dual e5640s on a supermicro x8dtl3-f motherboard, a gtx 1060 6gb and 2 wd blue 1tb's, and the cpus are pretty good but I might upgrade to x5675's and my dual cpus easily outperformed the 4770k on the cinebench score ;) pic: prntscr.com/erig3t
Games donot use 12 core 24 threads but more clock speed per thread ....... Only for gaming a high clock-speed quad core will do. A single CPU system like T3500 with a Quad Core X5687 (which is a Quad Core 8 thread with highest Clock Speed in this Xeon Family) with high end Graphics card will give you a higher Score ....... If the purpose is gaming not rendering ..... then why bother about a dual CPU system instead of bothering about getting more graphics power. If the view is only gaming ...... skip the idea about Dell system, get a overclock able X58 MB on ebay with X5687 CPU and use the best Gaming Cabinet with lots of Fans and GTX1080s in SLI mode.
Hey , have you replaced the cpu heatsink perhaps? Im trying to but the damn backplates sqrews is from jupiter or something and wont match several brackets even though they support 1366..
So i just bought a dell precision t1600 motherboard and it has 2 16x slots and im getting a xeon e3 1230 can i run crossfire on that board? and maybe sli?
I have one question more: I have dell t5400 with 2 xeon e5400 cpus. So, my system (w8.1 64bit) does not recognize second cpu when I go to my computer + properties. It shows only one cpu. But, BIOS and device manager shows both of CPUs (all of 8 cores) and thisi is confising to me. My question is: does my PC use both of CPU or only one of them. If it doesn'tuse both of CPU, what to do to fix my problem. I saw some guys on youtube have same configuration as I do, and their OS use both of cpus. Thanks for your time.
I have a T3500 , but if I get the chance ,and at a good price, I would get the T3600 ( LGA2011) , which can take the E5 processors . Casing is not so nice though .
Hi there! Awesome job with Terminator, it's been a source od inspiration for my budget PC project. However, I am stuck in OCing my x5670, I know I can squeeze its performance to another level, but I have read so many forums saying that dell's motherboards are solid bricks for OCing. Any idea or experiences OCing Terminator?
I have been using this machine dell T5500, if i want to upgrade what is the next dell precision machine? planning to find a used one on ebay or Craigslist
I could run assassins creed syndicate with high, even ultra settings with my dell t5500 on 500gb samsung ssd and Nvidia Quadro K4200 GPU, the only problem I am having right now is cooling, since on long time gameplay, gpu is becoming 80C+ and failing with green screen+distorted sound. I tried to change curve of cooling with msi afterburner and got longer run, but had dangerous result, since after long run motherboard failed for some time, because of the heat. Any advises to get better cooling will be greatly appreciated.
Hi there.. I have a T5500 with two x5670, 36gb ram and gtx1050i. Runs very powerful. But one question... Is there a bios mod for overclocking the cpu's ?
U need to update the bios in that machine..... put old older put and turn on the machin and download the latest bios and install it ... its common matter dont worry
Does the original dell t3500 with xeon W3650 support gtx 1050 without any problems ? If it not how to make it support it please what should i do? Can you reply because im going to buy one soon please.
I've got a T3500 with 12GB RAM that cost me about $10, and a T5400 board that cost me about $25 with dual X5450s. I need one of those X5450s for a Vostro 230s, so I'm debating on whether to do the conversion. Of course I haven't even put both side by side to see if it is possible. If not, it will make things easier and I'll go for a single 6-core in the T3500. Not a gaming machine, just a daily use box.
Could someone advise; Have a t3500 W3530 2.8ghz 24gb ram, stock PSU, would like to turn into a gaming rig for son, have a GTX 960 ssc 8pin PCIe connect on card so can't use stock PSU as only has 1 x 6pin PCIe, so need to upgrade PSU..any pointers without breaking the bank? Thanks
Actually i did order exactly that cable from NewEgg, after the EVGA rep i talked to on phone suggested, then another rep later said that would not work so.... I actually managed to have the card running by using the adapter that it came with without issue seemingly, would not have thought twice unless friends advised against, hence calling EVGA. Any recommendation for alternate PSU at resonable price? I have alternate cards I can get by with GT545/750TI, just wanted to have more options going forward with card.. thanks for the help
Maybe this in conjunction with the one 6 pin PCIe on psu, as I have a spare 4 pin molex: www.amazon.com/4-Pin-Molex-Female-Adapter-Length/dp/B007NMSUUA/ref=pd_sim_147_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F59G7GQMS2NMP5K6CG26 should that work?
Not sure if newer Windows support multiple sockets. Basic/Home version of Vista/7 could only see 1 processor unit/socket. Although it could see multiple cores per socket.
absolutely it's not like you're keeping tax documents or something. i'm wonder if a cheap h700 or something might have unleashed even more speed on your raid 0.
GTX 1060 should be ok, but the 1070 could find itself being bottleneck by the lower IPC of those core 2 based xeons in games that are still single thread focused.
Thank you for the reply. Im still debating between the RX-480 and the 1060/1070 then but dependent on the bottleneck being less which will be my go-to GPU (whichever card will bottleneck less based on my ddr3 and pcie 2.0 limiting factor, will be the one I buy)
Son of a Tech Intel Xeon W3565--it's a little workhorse. system came with 12gb ram so I stuck in an SSD and an RX 580 and BAM it's the little machine that could. I've been playing Solitaire at (60fps!) while mining lol
Since it has PCIE expansion slot so technically yes it can support , however not sure if the case can accommodation such a huge (physically) Graphics Card. Also in a cabinet like this with little room for air flow and no scope to add many large case fans, only a blower style card can be hosted.
X5690 is the best CPU that T5500 would support. It is always advisable to update the BIOS to latest version which in case of T5500 is A18. You can download it from Dell support site. Upgrading BIOS is easy. Whether X5690 would be best option for yr system denpends upon what you do with your system. For Productivity/ Vedio Editing / Virtualisation / Photoshop stuff more cores means more horsepower. For other day to day stuff / Gaming etc. faster cores are advisable over more cores. For your system fastest core CPU is X5687 which has 4 cores whereas X5690 has slightly less clockspeed compared to X5687 but 6 cores i.e., 2 more cores. However, second hand X5690 is priced almost twice the price of X5680 in used CPU market, whereas X5680 is only about 100 MHz slower than X5690. So, if price-performance is a priority than X5680 scores over X5690.(Depends upon what exact deals you are getting). GTX 1060 is supported by your system also SATA SSDs are supported without any issues. But in my case I boot windows 10 from PCIE NVME SSD but it requires a lot of MODs as it is not natively supported.
Did you have two in for your benchmark? I'm looking at getting one of these on ebay but its really unclear as to whether or not there are two LGA1366 sockets
oh cool probably can get it on ebay somewhere if its missing. I sold my AMD bulldozer machine a few years back and built an old server similar to yours but its LGA771 so max is 2 X 3Ghz quad cores still a very powerful cheap machine been using it ever since with no issues ...looking an upgrade haha
Son of a Tech I just got a t5600 with dual Xeon 2690s and a Quadro K2000. My 825w Dell PSU only has 2 6 pin connectors for a gpu, can I just get new psu cords or do I need to go for a gtx980 or some other gpu that needs the 6 pins only?
You need to get into the biosa and activate the technologies so he can see the 24 cores. I had the same problem as myself very simple enter and activate via bios.
Yes i have watched, i see several forum that speaks of hypersli or slipatch, but posts are old enough and do not speak dell station more these forums are in english, i am french and i do not necessarily understand all Technical terms. Do not you help me?
