It's actually near impossible to transfer Dell motherboards to a non Dell case, as MOST Dell models have proprietary front panel/usb/audio connectors. So if you don't care about not having any I/O then it's an option, otherwise try a Acer or Lenovo which have standard connections. Thumbs up this comment so others are informed about this.
@Deutschrap Alben it works, well its the easiest way that doesn't involve rewiring, the other way is to just cut the front panel out and leave it inside your new cause, maybe you cut a small slot somewhere to feed your peripherals through and plug them in, inside the case LOL
I just case swapped a Dell 3010 DT Motherboard into a old HP Pavilion Slimline to make a “Sleeper PC”. Honestly everything plugged right with a little help from the wire pin out diagram. Starts right up without any error messages and every IO ports is working correctly.
That's not always the case, not at all. Dell, HP, Asus, etc all have a few proprietary boards (I think they fazed them all out years ago though) but most confirm to the usual standards as do the pins and connections. I have a Dell Optiplex 3010 board with the i5 it came with in my old budget build right now as well as an Optiplex 7010 based build I built for my Wife. I have never had an issue with any of my Connections, Connectors, Front Panel, Power/Reset, or anything else other than not having the pins for extra LEDs due to them being slightly older boards made before LEDs were really popular in systems. Also, my brother wanted a budget PC too so I linked him to a Dell with an i5-3470, another link for a GTX 970, and lastly a 500w Corsair PSU. He didn't have a problem either and he didn't even know what he was doing. I had to walk him through it over Face Time.
@@mattketner7597 I did the same and had no issues either. Idk what OP is talking about unless he is specifically referring to purely proprietary boards cause I've never had an issue with any of the Dell mobos I've ever worked with.
I'm honestly surprised it's LGA1150, especially for that price. Haswell seems to get skipped over alot as it wasn't much of a step up, but it was produced so much that they're available cheaply both new and used. Great Video Man!
A couple weeks ago i found a lenovo ideacentre with a i5 4570 8gb of ddr3 500gb 7200rpm hdd with windows 10 pro for 100 dollars i talked him down to 80. One of the best deals i have gotten
Gary Oak tell the you can only take (insert amount wanted) and if they say no make some excuse like your broke and you need it for school and thats all the money you have
Any low profile 750 Ti / 1050 / 1050 Ti will fit and work well with this. You can make a tiny cheap beast capable of playing modern AAA games in 1080p very easily with these optiplex
With a 290w PSU you could use a molex to PCIe adapter and run something like a RX 470 or GTX 1060 if you wanted to, a 1050 Ti would be no problem at all
This Del board has the gpu full length pcie slot at the bottom, the older ones had it at the top with a 1x slot below giving you 2 slot space which the 1050/to LP would need. In this case the psu gets in the way
Picked up an Opti 790 i5-2400 for $60, added 8 gb of ram making 12 gb for $15, and threw a MSI 1050 TI low profile for $180 in which fit beautifully. Undervolted and overclocked the GPU to 1850 MHz at 1000 mV to avoid overloading the PSU. Works like a charm. Nice video!
Now that is a proper bargain! such a machine goes for anywhere between 200 and 300 Australian dollars over here. The GT 1030 is one awesome graphics card, great seeing it in action :)
I know noone would believe me but I will say it anyway. My dad was working and saw a computer being thrown away. So he stopped them and asked for it to give it to me as a gift, so they offered him the PC for a dollar. The specs freaking blew my mind. i7-4770 Intel MOBO (idk what kind) 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz 240W PSU 80+ Platinum 1TB Seagate HDD Cooler Master Hyper T2 SFF Case Seriously, idk where you get these dad but you are amazing for getting this for a dollar. A MADAFOKING DOLLHAIR.
Work Sleep Repeat Productions Are you kidding? omg I'm so tired of kids who think gtx 1080 sli are the go to. Look please go away this is seriously so annoying. /s
My new 6th form has these machines, it's an incredible upgrade from my college's 300Mhz VIA Windows 2000 machines. They took over 60 seconds just to start a powerpoint show.
I just ordered an old HP desktop with windows 10 pre-installed, a core I3, a 500gb hdd, and 6 gigs of ram. All for $90. Best purchase I've ever made because it now has a GT 1030 installed in it and works like a chat all for less than 200$
FYI - I have a 7010 SFF (same case and PSU as your 3020) with an i7-3770. The MSI GTX 1050 Ti LP fits, works fine, the watts are OK, and the heat seems fine.
Love the videos, got a Dell 7010, changed the psu, removed the hard drive caddy and managed to get a r9 280x in + 250gb ssd i5 3rd gen, 8 GB memory . Brilliant sleeper rig.
my rig (in a tiny tiny case that looks a bit like an older apple desktop to normies) holds beast power lmao most people are like "can that even run minesweeper" then i run it at 4k medium with 57fps avg :)
Thank you very much for this video, I literally bought a optiplex with the same processes and was planning on putting a gtx 1030 in it as my first gaming rig.
It's a great productivity pc, very reliable and sturdy too, did a lot of spreadsheets, slide shows and documents on that rig back in the day, it still works today and I still use it for my accounting, taxes and notations.
These Dell Optiplexes are very cost effective. I have 2 - Dell 7010 with an i7 3770 16GB Ram and a GTX 1070. The other one is a Dell 380 with a Core 2 Quad Q9550 (upgraded from Core 2 Duo E7500) 8GB Ram and a GTX 750ti. Both pretty good:)
i bought the optiplex 990 for my gf's pc about a year ago. it came with just the board and cpu, i5 2400 for $75. i put it in a case with a 1060 3gb. it kills any game i throw at it. even GTA on max settings (except grass and postfx) at 1080p runs great at 60 frames. this pc in your video is about the same setup. i would really like to see, like you said as different from each other, one with a mighty i7 and the with a better i3/i5 and different gpus. The only bottleneck in her rig is the 1060. the cpu at stock speeds never gets stressed, i wish my life was as easy it the 2400. thanks, great video
hey RandomGaminginHD, I have recently been working really hard on my video game and have optimized it for low end systems, I had this channel in mind, and I was wondering if maybe you can benchmark the game in some of your videos? Thanks for reading this!
I've done something similar with a Dell mid tower system with a core i3 4150. Got for $20. Put in mid tower case and added 16 gigs of ram, SSD, Windows 10, And a Msi gtx 970. After upgrading PSU to an EVGA 450 watt. This Rig rocks and has blue tooth and WIFI built in. I sold it regrettably but made money on the deal. (was going to upgrade CPU to an i7 4790) Thanks for reviewing these OEM small form factor pc's
I bought an i3-4160 and a GTX 750Ti in 2014, really a nice little setup back then. Actually I'm still using the Z97 Mainboard with a Xeon Broadwell and a GTX 1080, still enough for my needs. Such long usage wasn't imaginable 20 or 25 years ago, when you had to throw out you motherboard, CPU and graphics card every other year in order to be halfway up to date ...
I have a Lenovo M58p with a GTX 1050ti from MSI (full size card), 10 Gigs of ram, a TX3 CPU cooler, a Q9650 CPU, a 350 watt psu, a 250 Gig ssd, and that's about it. This is totally a custom build, I've made these tower parts fit into this sff case with much modification. I use it to play ARK on custom settings (low/medium) and I get around 30-55 fps depending on where I am in the game. It's a neat little project of mine.
They are awesome pcs just upgraded one now..........i3 to i7, 280w power supply, windows on sata sdd, 16 gb ballistix ram, gt 1030 gpu 2 gb, m.2 sdd for games, new dvd drive, 500 gb basic hdd for files. They are superb bits of kit for the living room.
Have been a long-time lurker and thoroughly enjoy your videos. Saw people on JayzTwoCents recently saying he copied your idea regarding the minimum vs. recommended settings topic. Keep up the great work!
Neurobio Boy I made a 750ti fit, bought one of these small cheap i3 4150/4gb PCs, the seller added an extra 4gb of the same brand for free, so it had 8gb dual channel, also bought a very cheap used 750ti superclocked, the card arrived before the PC, finally when the PC arrived I was so excited, only to realize, "duh, the card is too big to fit", lmao, I wasn't gonna let that stop me, so I went in all caveman and simply made room for it with an electric jig saw, I was careful to not touch the motherboard, which was actually easy. I know it sounds dumb and funny, but It works flawlessly, I will eventually change the case with a new or used one when I see a deal a like.
I built a system similar to that in fact I am typing on it right now. Mine is an HP 8200 with similar specs and similar proprietary low power PSU. I put a GT 1030 into mine and I am very happy with it. I also love that it can take up to 32GBs of RAM.
I found something similar and I had to buy. (It cost £30) It was an optiplex 7020 with an i3 4160, 4gb ram and a 500gb hdd. I upgraded to 12gb ram for £6, and added a new ssd for £20. Overall a good buy, I bought a gt 730 ddr3 but it was faulty so now im saving up for a gt 1030. Happy days :)
spooderman it's slower than the Xbox one (and ps4), but it's much cheaper (if you can get it at this price and if you get a low profile used card to fit in it also depending on the card it may become better than the Xbox one and ps4).
I have a stack of Optiplex 990's I got from my work that was just tossing them. I found that the motherboards werent actually ATX or ITX so they wouldnt fit in any case I had on hand. I was going to make a budget build with one so I could use a full case with a full gfx card. So keep that in mind if you're thinking you can swap it to another case.
The Optiplex's aren't bad PC's at all. I managed to pickup an Optiplex 790 for £20 with a 500GB HDD, 8GB DDR3 1333MHz, and a Core i5 2400. Though, I took it out of it's case and put it into an ATX case (it actually had holes for it so it fitted just fine) and paired it with a GTX 560 Ti I had lying around. I also bought that for £18. I now use that PC for when I visit my fathers, sitting in the living room. We mostly use it for playing games on the 50" TV, but since the TV only supports 720p, it has no issues running most games on high settings 60fps. The TV does support 1080i, but 720p looks better on older TV's imo.
RGHD, the 750 Ti and 1050 Ti both absolutely fit, you can get both as well as the normal 1050 in a low profile variant and all of them just use the PCIe socket power.
I have a machine of the same series, only with an i5 4570 and 8GB of RAM. Great machine with a lot of performance under the hood. However it needs a single slot card in the original SFF case. I was able to use a GTX 645 even though the HDMI and Display Port connectors were not reachable without messing with the case. It worked well enough with the DVI socket. I also tried to move it into a new case. The problem is that these compact machines are full of sensors and I couldn't find a way to disable all of them in the BIOS. Therefore each time the PC was started, I had to press F1 to bypass the sensor checks. I got tired of doing that after a while and moved everything back into the original case.
Random gaming hd you are my favorite of all time I am not a budget gamer nor am I a extreme overkill pc gamer I just like watching benchmarks and seeing what would happen not all of us have the money in the world to test all this stuff so ya. Thanks a lot.
I found in Ebay a Dell Optiplex 7010 DT with a I7-3770, 8GB of RAM and 1TB for 210€, also included an hd 19 lcd, and mouse and keyboard. It has the normal 20/24 pin MB connector, and uses a TFX PSU, so I fitted in a 500W PSU for 30€ and installed a GTX 650 2GB I had previously (I have the case open because the case is made for SFF VGA and my GTX 650 is normal size). GTA V runs perfectly at 50fps with Vsync with high textures (+100 mhz core +250 mhz mem OC). I think it's a good value for the money. And with the I7-3770 I have plenty performance for updating this rig with a better graphics card. So I can confirm that Dells are so good to get a "Console Killer" PC at a very good prize.
@RandomGaminginHD An idea i thought of was to get rid of every component except mb, and replace the hard drive with m.2 adapter or 2.5 SSD taped to the internal walls of the case, replace the PSU with an itx PSU, get a riser cable and put a 2 fan GPU with the space of the former hard drive and end up with a console-sized pc
I got the same R7 250 for 30€! It fits perfectly in a small form factor Dell Optiplex 740 with an AMD Athlon 64 X2. At the moment I use it for retro windows XP gaming and it runs games like GTA San Andreas at full details at good framerates
I built a cheap gaming system from an Optiplex 790 which had an i5 2400 and 8gb DDR3 The case was kinda mATX and relatively standard apart from the front panel connectors. The PSU was only 265w but 80+ Gold rated, so I picked up a sata to molex power adapter, connected a molex to pcie to that and then threw in a GTX 960 The performance was quite impressive.
i've used a slightly overclocked GT 710 (€29.99)for about 8 mths now and it's going strong (200 fps in minecraft 1.12.2, lowest settings and optifine and C2Q q8300 2.5ghz)and it came with those small LP brackets for low profile systems(didn't use them). also the small PSUs are called TFX power supplies.
I got a dell optiplex 990 MT, I plan on upgrading the psu to a 400w corsair 80+ psu that my dad has lying around. I also plan on upgrading the gpu from the hd 7470 to the gtx 970. I think that would give me plenty of gaming performance for years to come.
Wow I'm quite impressed actually. I have an HP slimline pc laying around that I've been meaning to upgrade and this video just made up my mind. Cheers!
I say get one of these with a cheap intel dual NIC, a switch, and a separate wireless AP and run a pfSense router. I have a former Dell media center PC from the Vista days that sports a C2D, set up with the aforementioned parts, and my internet has vastly improved. Level1Techs has an intro video that explains this in further detail (of course, YMMV, ultimately you cannot surpass your ISP's speeds without upgrading your service).
Can u rate my new pc plz? A8 7670k 8GB 2133Mhz DDR3 AsRock FM2A68M 2GB RX 460 Be Quiet 400w PSU GameMax Proteus Gaming Case 120GB SSD 320GB HDD Im planning to play older gamea like Fallout NV, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat and HL2 Thx
I have an XFX R7 250 low profile that basically looks like the GT 1030 in the video but with a 1050 mhz clock and 2 gb of vram. It might be more expensive than the 1030 but it performs very well for a slightly outdated budget card. Only concern with it is the power draw as it uses about 80-85 watts from the slot
Hey RandomGaminginHD, I have got a request for you. This may get lost in sea of comments but I am actually begging you to give away a low power GPU. I live in India where graphics cards are expensive as hell and my parents don't have that kind of money. I was hoping to get a gt 730 or gt 710. But pretty much anything would be nice. I have been a huge fan of your work. Any way keep doing what you doing
I have bought a Optiplex 3020 sff with quite simular Specs, but the 3020 can hold normal mATX Board with the 24 Pin connector. With a GT 1030 they are still a decent PC for older Games
Our company is momentarily modernizing these computers, we used them i think for 5 years but had only celeron versions. The new ones have i3 and are super small
I found a HP 8200 small form factor with 500gb hd and 4gb ram at a thrift store for $50 usd. It came with monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse. The casing said core i3 but when I checked the specs it was actually a 3rd gen core i5! So I bought it up even though I really didn't have the need for another desktop. I crammed it with more ram and a GT 1030 and it's now a little budget beast. I just don't really know what to do with a second PC though.
i3 4th generation processors are amazing tbh, I'm using a 4150 since 2015, still runs games just fine with a 750 Ti, a better graphics card would do even better.
