It's funny to see how far Dell went over the years, of course in the wrong direction. The original 7010 (1155 intel 3rd gen) had: - standard sized mATX motherboard - 250W gold TFX power supply with standard ATX connectors - front and rear hadphone and mic jack, plus intagrated speakers - 1 VGA and 2 DisplayPort - front fan - internal bracing in the chassis (they were still designed to hold CRT monitors, it was a cool feature) - you can disable ME with a jumper for security The price didn't changed compared to a custom PC, but the quality did. 10 years ago they built in all the stuff what I listed, now they are extra, back then you actually get something extra for your money. If I have to say one thing why DELL good, bacause the fans have ball bearing after 3-4 years they get loud, but they still spin, thats the only thing why they are "more reliable". If you wanna build 400 custom built PC without bankrupting your company just use the parts what DELL and the others use. Simply choosing the right components for the job, like all the fans had to be ball bearing, memory heatsinkless low power Hynix or Samsung and so on.
Are you comparing the 7010 Tower against this 7010 SFF? (small factory form pc) This is about a third of the size of a desktop tower so full-size PSU won’t fit. The new 7020 mini tower has a few standard size PSU option: 240W internal power supply unit (PSU), 85% Efficient, 80 Plus Bronze 260W internal power supply unit (PSU), 85% Efficient, 80 Plus Bronze 400W internal power supply unit (PSU), 92% Efficient, 80 Plus Platinum 500W internal power supply unit (PSU), 92% Efficient, 80 Plus Platinum Also, this is not that simple because the new 7020 has only two models now, standard and plus. Standard is the base model, like the 3010 would have been 10 years ago. The 7010 you are referring to is a higher-end model like the plus today. Dell shoots themselves in the foot with all these re used old model numbers because the system what we had for over a decade just disappeared overnight at one point last year with the new 7010 model. (no more 3000, 5000, 9000 series only 7000 from now on) For us, (small shop only managing 1100 computers, mostly Dell) they are super reliable even today. If I pick custom parts, we could save maybe $70 / per PC, but you must assemble them, install Windows on them and provide warranty. it’s impossible here in the US. Not sure if you have seen this video, I explained things in here with more details. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gdVWMlqpbEY.html
@@Scott.The.IT.Guy. Yes, I comparing to the DT version to be exact, but most of my criticism is still true for the old SFF model. My point is that DELL gives you less and less quality and quantity for the same price, probably because the competition, both HP and Lenovo earlier started to use nonstandard PSU and other const cutting and eco system locking. From a business stand point the bisiness is business you can't compete with them in volume and power consumption, but you can with quality and performance if there is a demand for it. These machines are overbuilt for office use, but underbuilt for any performance usage CPUs and GPUs under performing in these systems due to heavy current limiting. Here is an example how long can last something if you choose the right parts, my first intel 775 PC from 2006 still works after 18 years what I bougth used then, now it is in a school in Esztergom. The only failure was a bad Hitachi harddrive within the warrianty period in 2008, it was replaced with 500GB WD BLUE which 12 years later produced the first bad sector, 500GB WD BLACK from 2010 still running without bad sector. BTW are you from Hungary? I'm guessing from your accent.
@@sviktor4 "Esetleg folytathatjuk magyarul." :) Van par oreg Dell Optiplex 755 Ultra Small Form Factor nalam amik 12-14 evet siman lehuztak egy patikaban 24/7-be. Tiszta rez huto, hocsovel, mai szemmel nezve , 2 db Dell szerver meretu es minosegu venti van benne, hatalmas hutoborda az alaplapobn, plusz kis venti a hdd talca alatt, na ehhez kepest tenyleg le lettunk gatyasodva, de ez valami kegyetlen arban lehetett anno. Szerintem az uj Optiplex 7020 is ki fog birni 10 evet siman. 5-6 ev utan amit kiszedunk szinte mind mukodik, csak mar lassu arra amire kell. A Speci Dell cucc meg abbol a szempontbol jok, hogy nagyon konnyen szerelheto minden. Csak az van a gepben ami minimum kell a mukodeshez. A PSU kicsi, 3 csavar fogja a csati is kics rajta, egy Optiplex gepen 12 vagy 14 darab csavar osszesen. Az elmult 15 evben ketszer csereltem alaplapot, tehat nincs nagy rutiom, ha most megprobalnek kiszedni minden alkatreszt belole majd visszarakni szerintem 6-8 perc alatt meg lehet csinalni, de lehet , hogy beesik 5 ala is. Ezekre 3 ev a helyszini gar alapbol es minimalis penzert 5 evre tolhato. Ugy vannak megcsinalva, hogy ket het alatt egy nullarol betanitott "technikus" is ki tud barhol cserelni egy alaplapot benne percek alatt. Igazabol arra valo amira csinaltak, fapad irodai gep teljesen kicsumazva belole minden felesleg.
I just modified my Dell that has the same format case with an Apevia ITX-PFC500W Mini ITX/Flex ATX / 1U 500W Fully Modular Power Supply for USD$50 with an adapter USD$5 24pin to 6 pin the space difference means I can put in a Gigabyte low profile 4060 in it so if I had that Motherboard and Processor that would be amazing value for a i7 14th gen 128GB 4060 gaming machine! Wow thanks for the video . I wonder if I can get that MOBO and CPU and fit it into my modified case to see if it work!
That setup you have is pretty cool! I have not seen a new 7020 mobo available by itself for sale yet with DDR5 memory support. Dell had some sale not too long ago where you could get an i5-14500 with 16 Gb of DDR5 and the 250 GB SSD for $650. Also, the power connector on the 7010 and 7020 looks different than the previous generations, at least color code wise for sure. Once I start feeling better, I will start getting through these videos.
So I’m very curious can you install larger Ram into the old OptiPlex ? I see them capped at 16GB for the i5-7400 old models, can you put in 32GB or 64GB DDR4?
Dell’s website sates Configurations supported 2 GB, 4 GB, 6GB, 8 GB, 10 GB, 12 GB, and 16 GB . So I’m wondering if it can take 32GB since it can take 16GB as long as the memory voltage is the same.
@@rukaerika You should be able to add two 16 GB stick make it to 32 GB total, like this. Of course I would get a used kit, insted of a new: www.amazon.com/Tech-Inspiron-2400MHz-PC4-19200-288-Pin/dp/B087QS9G5D?th=1
@@Scott.The.IT.Guy.Awesome, I’m guessing 64GB would be impossible then ? Also thank you very much ! For the link I hope I can find the same model in my local Amazon as with shipping it’s over $200! So the local equivalent is A-Tech 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400MHz DIMM PC4-19200 UDIMM Non-ECC 2Rx8 1.2V CL17 288-Pin Desktop Computer RAM Memory Upgrade Kit at $130 just it’s not designed for Inspiron
You would be surprised how many browser tabs and excel sheets a medical biller or accountant can keep open all the time. They been used for sure, we are pretty much started to remove all Gen8 i5 equipped desktops because they are slow even for Office apps and browser use.
Hi, Anyone could suggest a good GPU that could fit in this machine? It is clearly low-profile. No problem with that, but I believe the 'width' as in how many 'slot' it requires is the problem since beneath the x16 slot Dell put the PSU. Is it possible to put like GeForce GTX 1650 OC Low Profile 4G (Google: GV-N1650OC-4GL) card that clearly requires 2 slots? Or are we stuck with something like (Google: GV-N710D5-2GIL)?
The dual slot Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 OC Low Profile should fit but I never tested it. Your power supply should be the 300W one to be able to support this card. I just got a New Dell Radeon RX 6500, 4 GB GDDR6 Half Height 2 DPs PCIe for $68 on eBay and planning to get a LP RTX 3050 or 4060 and run some test with this 7020 SFF and make sure that its fully functional.
single channel ram? what!!!! pls bronze PSU?? should be dual channel ram and Gold PSU for that price. i do like dell buy thier laptops when ever i need one, as a hobble i recommend dell laptops.
I mean, when you go to Dell. com and select the 7020 Standard, you can only choose a single stick ram configuration, (but later on you can more ram to make it dual channel) When you select the 7020 standard plus , you can only select the combination of two module no matter what. To be fair, I went to PC part picker and built the same PC from the cheapest parts I could just find and it`s $729 while this one is $779 right now. This one has 3 years of onsite warranty. If it`s a hardware failure, the next business day they will show up and replace your motherboard (or whatever is the problem) at your house or office. They also put the PC together and install windows on it and you get free 2-day shipping. For me this is worth a lot more than the $50 difference. Power supply could be better for sure but 98% of my clients will never do anything but browser and office 365, so they don’t need anything better.
you can build better pc for that price for sure just dont pay 200$ for windows key and if you sell it in few years time you will get more of your money back because it wont have weak powersupply and non standart motherboard and space for full size graphics card. These office machines sells for dirt cheap used.
@@suprerxero As a home or individual user, you can. As a business owner or IT professional supporting businesses you can`t. When we tried to custom build 400 desktops for a client it almost bankrupted the company in 3 months. if you have a few minutes watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gdVWMlqpbEY.htmlsi=IngrMQFjHCbZUIuC
Dell messed this up by bringing back the old model names a decade later. If they keep things as it is, we are going to have a new 7050 in three years. The “new” models 7010(2023) 7020(2024) Should have been called something different like 7023 and 7024 that would have been a better choice, I think. So confusing to have two different 7010 one from 2014 and one from 2023.
