I Got a Free Dell XPS 8700 From Family! Intel i7 4790, GTX 745, 16GB DDR3 

If you want to skip the showcase, I start talking at 2:35 . Also, it turns out I am blind, the desktop has 16GB of RAM (not 8GB as I initially thought).

Jesus, you practically robbed your uncle :D

Dude I love your content. It’s very informative and interesting at the same time. I’m thinking of starting my own tech channel soon too. Keep it up!

Any reason why you don't seem to be considering using the XPS 8700 as your main rig and wanting to swap the motherbaords instead?

So Lucky, Just Wish You Good Luck!

Dude, this is awesome!

great video! i like and really love the video quality 1080p looks great

Great video as always

That XPS is a beauty.

This PC case looks SO NICE!!!!

I had the 8500 i7. It was a power house in its day. Still pretty good today, still running at a friends. That 8700 is a great score.

I have an XPS 8700 as my main computer except its slightly upgraded (graphics card was upgraded to a EVGA geforce GTX 1050 TI, has 16GB of ram, 2 1TB 7200RPM + a Sandisk (soon to be a samsung) 500GB ssd and it's running windows 7 and not the windows 10 copy it came with) But even before the upgrades, it was a solid machine and is now even more solid and does everything i need/want it to do. Great Video!

Wow what an absolute beast of a free PC!! You should upgrade the GPU to something like at least a 6GB 1060 or maybe a Vega 56 if you want to go more high-end. Good luck!

i have an 8300xps given to my by a friend upgrade that beast to 32gb of ram and it is is pure joy!

I found the music very intriguing! Could you tell me what it is?

Great video. I have the same model

i'm really surprised that u got that XPS for free. It's almost same spec that i'm using.(Except graphics card) i'm also interesting that OEM graphics card. how does ti perform compare to none-OEM 750 or pascal based newer GPU?

Great intro

Why did you out this music at the beginning ... i almost cry damn it My uncle also give me a laptop (that was supposed to not work) but he was woring

I have the exact same with 2tb. 2 hard drive later still have problems to boot with it. No boot available nigtmare.

So some advice from experience. You can swap the motherboards that would be a pain. You could swap the gpu and psu from you editing rig into the dell and if you need to mod the dell case to fit the gpu or just buy and motherboard and maybe ram and put that into you current system. Just the thing is dell uses stupid proprietary headers which make it hard to boot with out the machine freaking out. Same thing with fans the dell headers are proprietary and you only have what they put on the board.

I own a dell xps 8700 exactly as this one. After 3 years of non stop gaming usage [not overclocked though] I upgraded the GPU to GTX 1060 6gb ddr5 [It's basically the best gpu you can fit in the rig without the need to update the PSU or case] And that actually made the whole rig relevant and new again.. I have to say that this model holds up extremely well even after all this time. Either switch this to your main rig or move the xps 8700 to your new case each of these solutions should be considered as a legitimate upgrade. But if you do deiced to move the motherboard please make a video about it - as there are no current videos about it and the old ones are pretty dull when it comes to the mboard moving process and I am considering moving the mboard to a new case just for the sake of better air flow [this case is nice on the outside but pretty cramped on the inside] Basically it's microATX moboard but because it's dell and somewhat customized I am kind of afraid to move this to a different case .. Please do keep in mind that i read that there's an issue with plugs on the dell xps 8700 front panel connectors but I can't personally verify this. I was very surprised to see a video about this PC so far along the road and i am glad you did it ;) Which ever decision you make I do hope to see a follow up video about his *subscribed*

I love my 4790k with a gtx 980ti. It plays everything today at 1440p just fine.

Nice! I also have a Dell XPS 8700. I've swapped the psu for a xfx 500w, the case for a Thermaltake Versa that my cousin had lying around, upgraded the GPU to a RX480 and installed 4gb of ram (totaling 12gb of RAM, 4-4-2-2) and a terabyte hard drive from the older family computer. I've also grabbed some random drives from old notebooks and such. All of that for less than 1000USD (converted from Brazilian Reais, and our market is all messed up + abusive taxes, its really a miracle that i got such great prices!).

I have a XPS 8700 but it is only a Core I-5. I got mine from Dell Outlet but I know that COSTCO and Office Depot carried them for a long time as "workstation" desktops.. they are great machines. I wish I had a Uncle that would give me a free computer.. LOL

To be honest, you'd probably be better off buying a Haswell motherboard and just taking the processor and RAM from the XPS. Dell likes to put all sorts of sensors on their boards that may not be too happy when the board isn't in an actual Dell case. Also, in some instances, the standoffs that the heatsink screws use are actually part of the case, making it a bit of a pain to get the motherboard out. It might also be worth noting that some Haswell boards might even give you an m.2 slot instead of the older mSATA, which the XPS board has.

Just swap the parts from the editing rig into the XPS and use that, the front panel connector on the XPS is non standard anyway

Hello, do you mind telling me the serial number of your CPU heatsink?

Brought my 8700 in 2013. It comes with 12GB of ram. Which I beleive is two 4GB & two 2GB ram sticks, I want to upgrade to 16GB. Where can I upgrade ram for this 8700. I just might pull all the ram I stick in new ram.

HAve been using this pc since 2014 May. I just upgraded the GPU from GTX 760 to 2060 Super. My xps 8700 cpu is actually i7-4700 3.4ghz.. obvious i using a 650 EVGA gold GQ Power supply..

Hey just an off topic question, is it possible to remove the anti glare coating or the matte thing on a thinkpad? To be particular, I have a Thinkpad T430u with a matte display, I am wondering whether it is possible or not

I love my XPS 8700. I have an i7 4790, AMD r9 270 graphics, 16 gb of ram, dual Samsung 840 SSD in raid0 in it. It's a very good machine, very fast. I special ordered mine with Windows 7 pro, latter upgraded to Windows 10 pro. Well worth every penny. It's faster then the Mac pro (2010) model it replaced in every way for less then a quarter of the cost. If your considering using it for your video editing, upgrade your GPU and don't look back. You'll have a fairly decent experience. Mine powers a Dell UltraSharp u2714 just fine.

Sweet.. I just scored a XPS sans hard drive for $15 at the Humane Society Thrift store today. I'm a total nube but it's going well so far..

What is the specs of your editing rig?

I had almost the same config as this as my first computer, mine had a bit more ram Also Since I owned this same pc, the board will indeed fit in any case supporting MATX, as I put my 8700 board in a SPEC-02. Just make sure you have fan splitters because this board only has 1 fan header...

Dell has had some great case designs over the years but none are better than the XPS 700 series cases.

My mother's boss just gave me a free Dell t320 server. The only thing I had to do was build him a new one which he covered the costs for.

Really good 4790

Have never heard of the 745, since it's an OEM variant. I wonder, is it a slightly cut down 750, or is it closer to being a weak GT 740?

That intro...

I got a 4790k, still a great CPU, still good enough to run a titan pascal with no problems.

you should use Throttlestop to open up the multipliers, as well, the i7 4790 will destroy the FX 8350 in anything

That was the Costco special.

Hey AACAT, the HDD in the Dell might be failing or Windows 10 was unstable.

Weird question, but by any chance you know the brand or model number of the hard drive? Did you test it yet?

In before a brake cleaner cleanse. That is pretty okay dust buildup for a 4-5 year old ish machine.

YAY! Meanwhile I can't afford 160€ for an used business desktop for a 400€ gaming PC build! You're lucky as fuck man.

If you're looking for good software to test your harddrive. Take a look at HDTunePro. Awesome software for benchmarking, Details, diagnostics, and bad sector reading.

Nice CPU i have the same but i use 16 gig ram its my spare computer

That gtx 745 is so under rated.

Heyo first., love the videos by the way

I have one with a I5 it no run Mobo problem

i have the same pc upgrading gpu to a gtx 1060 6gb

yes this more powerful since icore 7 4h gen 2014, 22mm, ur cpu is circa 2013 = i bought it when first came out, i would put a ssd and 16gig of ram then u be set

nice !

Now you need to run gta v on this computer to show it off :)

Swap the boards or use this Maschine!

But... How is there any Motherboard without like 1000000 RGB-LEDs on it in 2018? How does it even work? I'm shocked!

I recently inherited a HP Pavilion a1630n XD.

4790 is still a beast.

Wow!!

Best operating system on an XPS Computer? Windows XP

Sweet business

I though you had a Ryzen chip in your editing rig?

That CPU fan placement doesn't look good

This computer gets so much hate. I love mine. Word!

Just change GPU keep as other wise

Insanely great CPU in the system. Just need to upgrade the GPU double the ram and maybe upgrade the PSU as well. Also add an SSD if it doesn't have one already. Also nice dust bunny by the battery LOL But yeah Intel stomps all over the old AMD FX line like your 8350. Even back when the 8350 was brand new Intel still stomped all over it. AMD Really dropped the ball with Bulldozer aka Faildozer. Intel hasn't had any competition since the first gen core i series so Sandybridge+ has been pretty much nearly identical in performance. and thuse Not worth it toupgrade from my i5 3570k until Coffee lake/Zen series. Just not worth it to change out at least 2/3rds of my entire system for little to no performance gain. If you check the single thread perforamnce rating in passmark on both the i7 4790 and the amd 8350 you will see the i7 is much higher and thus performs much higher than the amd fx cpu.

1:03 you look at the front and it beutifull then the back😝

just put that 750 ti in the dell and you're good to go.....

He looks like RiceGum

recently got a dell precision t1500 from family dual core i5 16gb of ram complete potato graphics though

Lucky lol

throw the ram and 1050 ti in the 8700 and lets see what happens !!! you either get a good rig or set your house on fire

Looks oily....

Bro I have one of these but it went amber on me *aux pwr*

The intro is way too long

get gtx 1050 ti

😒 thats great but why the video besides to brag about it? 💻🤔

The editing rig is pretty weak

GTX 745 sucks and is nowhere near a 750Ti, even a 750.A 4790 i7 paired with a potato GPU.

I Hate Dell pc