This Optiplex Is Faster Than Most Gaming PCs?! 😮 

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These 7040 desktops are insane. I got one for free from a place I worked at. They closed their offices and gave me a few machines for helping them with their IT stuff. I smashed 32gb DDR4 into it, gave it 2 SSDs, and a 4tb spinner. I also put a 1050ti in it and gave it to the stepson. The kid plays so much on Steam, and loves the experience he gets from it. So much that he bought me a Series S in trade for it. I know he plays the MGS games, Gta5, Spider Man, and it does all of his school work with ease. Hands down, the best PC I have worked with thus far.

I bought my own gaming laptop from your guys videos and you guys are the only few people I trust in pc tech :)

I have this exact setup but with an EVGA 3060ti in it. There are a few options that make it much better. This motherboard supports one gen 3 m.2 ssd (up to 2 tb) on the motherboard. Intel invented M.2 Drives and Dell computers were the first to implement them standard on all models since 2014. Based on the similar cost it is much better to use a M.2 rather than a Sata ssd for the 4 lanes of connection they have rather than the 1 lane you get with a Sata connection. You can "Clone" the hard drive to the M.2 to keep the OEM copy of windows that comes with the PC (there are many free cloning programs available online). You need to first start the computer and setup windows on the Sata drive and then "connect" the windows copy to your microsoft account by logging into your account and "registering" your copy of Windows. Then clone the original drive to the M.2 drive. After that you then set the pc Bios to boot off of the M.2. (My boot took less than 3 seconds off of my M.2!) Once this is setup and working you can then wipe the original drive and use it as storage or as a game drive. This particular tower has the room to replace the original power supply as well. You will need to cut out the rear panel to give the opening for a standard size PSU. Stop! Dremel Time! You will need the appropriate 24 pin adapter to connect the 24 pin power cable to the 8 pin connector on this Dell motherboard but those run around $6.00 - $8.00 Depending on your preferences you can do a reverse setup: I did end up swapping things around a bit. I am currently using a 256 gb Sata SSD for my boot drive, but doing that did slow my pc boot from 3 seconds to about 10 seconds but i switched my Steam library to the 1tb M.2 for faster game loading and, most importantly, to get 3 second load screens on my games instead of the 20 seconds provided by the Sata ssd. I now am usually the first to load in on multiplayer games with 3 seconds ahead of the SSD based players and up to 8 seconds ahead of HDD players giving me a huge advantage! Later, I did move the whole thing into a standard ATX case. While this board does have integrated front I/O it does still come with connections for the external front I/O of any case you would put it into. The only issue may be the power switch since Dell uses an interrupt style power switch instead of a circuit connection type, but it is easy to find the pinout solution online to fix this. (You just have to splice 2 specific wires from the case into one single wire to connect to the motherboard power switch). The main benefit of the integrated I/O on the motherboard is you can use those AND the external ones on your case AT THE SAME TIME since they are wired as separate lanes. I use 2 of the integrated front usb to power 2 seperate system monitor screens (one 3"x5" and one 3"x10") that are mounted inside my case. as well as using one of the usb connections to power a generic RGB strip running a loop inside the case. Please note that if you swap the cooler or the case you WILL want to keep the original Dell fans since the motherboard "communicates" wit them and replacing them will result in a system error on boot up that you will need to press F2 to bypass. If you keep those original fans but add additional fans or keep and relocate those fans you will not see the error. I swapped the cpu cooler to one that came with 2 fans so I added a 3 way splitter and ran both of the new fans on the cooler along with the original fan that I relocated to a custom mount so it blows onto my RAM (total of 2.7 watts on the 3 watt header). I kept the original case fan and mounted it as the back exhaust fan in my case but added 6 fans ran off of a Sata powered controller. Additionally the case intrusion alarm switch and the internal speaker switch are not needed and you can toss those if transplanting to a new case without any boot errors. I kept both of mine (switch/internal speaker) to add a joke "car alarm" to my case to amuse those I show it to. Something you can only do with a Dell :)

About a 7% difference from the i7-7700, but still a solid base for a budget oriented gaming PC.

I cant beleve you guys acculy did this, Made my day.

Nice! My boy got an Optiplex he been looking for a GPU for his 7020. Toasty bros help in so many ways. I appreciate you guys!

honestly these dell optiplex are live saver for you sleeper gamer build

Note, if you run into a situation of needing an adapter to use sata power to 6 pin gpu power that the sata's voltage will be limited and in some cases not sufficient as a power supply solution for GPU and depending on the driver in the GPU could actually throttle or bottlenecks performance.

I like these optiplex videos. I recently bought a 5040. Good pc

Love the video, cant believe they buffed the Optiplex strat.

I'm guessing the problem is the memory. Judging by the FPS counter, the memory was showing that it was maxed out. Seems like that would be the bottleneck of the system. Everything else looks good though, and honestly that's still respectable numbers to see as far as temps go, and FPS. The only thing i would have been interested in seeing more of, would have been testing during the whole upgrade process. I.E. Remove one stick of memory, because it was only supposed to come with 8GB to begin with, then test. Then, re-paste the CPU, and check the temps. Then, swap the HDD for the SSD, and test. THEN swap the GPU, and test. Finally, add that last stick of memory. This way you could see how much extra performance the computer has from start to finish.......Or at least test it in its original configuration before doing the thermal paste. Then, do the thermal paste, swap the GPU, and change to the SSD, and run the "after" test.

built a gaming pc for 250 bucks with a 1tb sata ssd, 16gb ram, rx 580, and i7-6700k with an optiplex

I love the look of this Optiplex model

I've been looking at this exact setup for a couple of months now and you just confirmed what I thought would happen 👍👍

I came across something similar, had an i7 6700k , 32gb of ram and a 1070ftw… for office work.. it was given to my son for his first computer

Wonder if you can use an RTX 3050 driver for this graphics card. From what I read, you can get game ready drivers for the A2000, don't know how true it is though.

I've built one with a GTX970 still good now can play modern warfare online effortless limit would be CPU and GPU options other from that its a beast

thank you for another great video, can you please review some more laptops? I am looking on buying one!

I can't explain why I love toastybros videos so much. I guess I just find the recycling and upgrading stuff more interesting than all new builds.

Thing to check is if the system didn't originally ship with a graphics card, look up the motherboard and make sure it had x16 on the pcie slot. we inherited a bunch of dell i7 machines at work and were going to put gfx cards in, I looked up the mobo and they were only x8 so we ditched the idea.

Dell makes a taller (more mass) heatsink/cooler that fits via the same mounting screws. It roughly has a 50% taller heatsink.

Solid starter build. In GPU intensive tasks, this configuration has 6.9% of graphic card bottleneck .

8:36 brownie points if you dremel off that line that is partially blocking your gpu exhaust - right there in the middle of it.

Interesting performance for sure.

I was about to get another 500$ pc but I’m considering this because of the windows key and pretty good performance

hows the quality of that asus M4 mouse you guys use for testing? I have been wanting one for some time.

Thank you so much I was able to buy a dell optplex with a 13 gen I7,16 gigs of ram, 1tb of ram and I installed a rtx 3070 to but saving for the 4070 or 4090

I should have waited and bought that from you guys, damn.

I just started upgrading a Precision 3620, as I'm putting the new power supply and gpu in, I noticed it has an m.2 slot. Just wondering if this one has it as well.

I just want to say that I am very impressed that your video is sponsored by the website that makes it possible for us to purchase tons of counterfeit items from Chinese organized criminals. You obviously are a trusted source for misinformation and don't care who sponsors you, so congrats!

at this point change the name of the channel in Opti Bros 😂 love these budget pcs videos tho fr keep it up

Guilty with the config. Have an optiplex 7040 i7 6700 with a A2000 RTX gpu ❤❤❤ This optiplex was going to the recycle and I just requested this from the IT dept. They just removed the hdd. So i just bought an ssd and os :) the got the keys at gvg mall. But the funny thing is…i have the sff one. So i put the card at the pcie 8x (black) port 😂 but it still working

Why Sata drive if there is NVME?

Only tech channel that talks about unnecessary proprietary stuff as cool

Does anyone know the song that is used during the benchmarking?

In the UK a second hand NVIDIA RTX A2000 is £280+ or £500+ on Amazon........ffs!

Would I get better performance with i7 8700 or would it bottleneck or something

I think its better than my third pc, which is an apu system :P main pc is 5800x3D/rtx 2080super second pc is ryzen 3600 / gtx 1070 third pc is just a 2200g pc I put together to test my curiosity with an apu and I'm happy with it

Just built mine in a optiplex 790 with rx 580, 16gigs of ram and 256gb ssd with 2tb gamedrive hdd any upgrades i should also do? Also have one added led fan

would the A2000 fit into an HP 800 G2 case? I have that case here and want to put a GPU in

The pc is a optiplex 7050 I think on Amazon is has a i7-7700 32 gigs of ram and either 1-2 tb of storage very cool and it cost 294$ rn

Could please include F1 or asseto courses in your testing?

12:18 the normal Game Ready Drivers work on the A2000 as well. Simply download them instead of the studio drivers. Low GPU usage is mainly because the i7 6700 is a big bottleneck for the A2000.

one thing to point out, when blowing air into the fans always hold them in place

Is the power supply replaceable or is it fell only?

Me who already has a optiplex 7010 and want to do something similar...

Maybe make a channel called OPTI BROS 😂! Love you guys ❤

I wedged a 1660super in it with a data adapter. I’m about to lord the case a bit though, tilts really tight. Runs great!

I got a Dell 5050 i5 6600 for 37$ no os on eBay a rx 6400 for 100$ eBay and Ssd 20$ Amazon and ram on Amazon 28$ 183$ for a pc that runs whatever I want thanks to y’all for helping me know where to look thank yall

Pretty neat for gaming

Good ideas to clean up that old dry thermal paste.

I would have just retrieved the windows key, from the hard drive for a fresh install on the SSD.

are the full size optiplex's the same internals as a smaller for factor? What if I case swaped to a gaming case to fit larger gpu?

can you put 1 TB harddrive or only small harddrive fit?

Thanks to you guys I found out it's not that expensive to have a nice pc. Today I received used msi rx 570 4gb for 40 eur. Now next in the list is Optiplex 7050 with 7 gen i7. Fingers cross if Optiplex I get is the right one! 😅

How size this tower??

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office software will allow you to backup that small HDD and recover it back to an NVME M.2 PCIe SSD stick.

"Thank you for your patient".....😐 I wouldn't trust em after that 😒🤣🔥

The title is mostly cap sometimes not cap but optiplexes are very good

Toasty Bros Vs. The Dellasaurus. 😊 Those newer ones are a bit more restricted than their early 2010s counterparts in terms of potential GPU upgrades, plus I think the PCI Express was a gotcha lol. 🙂

Guys, I have a suggestion. Can you make a review on the MSI Delta 15 AMD Advantage with R7 5800H, RX 6700M with 1TB SSD? It was going for $899 at best buy a few days back so I bought it and I'm having a blast with it. I think it's a good deal and more people should look into it considering even RTX 3050ti laptops are going for same price or more.

you can install geforce gameready drivers on an a2000... you can install "studio" drivers on a rtx 3060...

Could you use an A2000 in a DeskMeet?

So this is the mini tower right?

I’m getting a mini optioned 3070 for Christmas and hopefully it will live up to its expectations with gaming and general stuff 🙏

Why don't you turn on 1% lows and average fps on msi afterburner?

Hi what upgrade do you recommend for dell optiplex 7020 sff i5 4th gen processor 240 ssd 16gb ram 1tb hdd for storage what can I do to upgrade

I have the 7040 MT myself and YES, it HOLDS 64GB of ram. It’s the only reason I bought it as I run bots on my pc that uses RAM. But, I haven’t been able to play actual games with my I5-6500k with no video graphics card inside. I’m highly considering maxing it out with the i7 and add a graphics card in order to play games. 😊

can you try the aliexpress motherboard with integrated intel laptop processors

So is this the mini tower?

I just built this pc last week. I got the pc for 150 bucks and GPU for 180 on amazon.

1080ti also could be a good gpu for that build(will need a psu upgrade)

It is very nice system somehow these Dell optiplex does not kill the gaming vibe while being fitting to home in viron ment

Was Going To Get A 9020 MT, But Decided To Get The HP Z440. I Feel As If It Is A Better Starter Build.

I'm running the same 7040 mt i7 6700, rx 580, 16gb sk hynix, 500 crucial m.2 and its a budget beast. Plays everything so far and I can stream in 720p. I have a asus z170m-plus mobo and thinking about picking up a i7 7700k and upgrade my gpu to rx 6600xt

FYI you can clone any drive to any other drive like an ssd if you wanna transplant the windows/etc. Also...curious I have the same issue on warzone with my i9 9900kf with 2080 ti and 32gb of ram 3200mhz. The gpu is always at 40 or less usage...and cpu is closer to 50 or 60..if I max it out at 4k the gpu usage goes up to 77 but cpu goes up to 80s 90s...it is weird to see a newer gpu like the a2000 having issues with the same game...something is up?? Are manufactures not updating certain drivers or updates in games to cause us to continuously buy the newest gpu? Is it a cpu issue?

can you connect a controller to this?

Could you fir a RTX 4060 ti in it?

Will I need a new power supply if I get a GeForce 1650 super graphics card? Or no? It's the same pc as this one too

Will a 3040 work with this?

What about the RTX A4000?

I was hoping he wasn’t going to do war zone. I wish just tried mw2

could i put in a 1660 super?

I got an i5 ver could I get the graphics card to work on there too

Purchased one of yall pc's 2 days ago can't wait How long does it take to ship i didn't get a date?

Actually have the 7040 in sff its a good little machine, i have the rx6400 low profile in it and it can kick.

I am glad that I got the A2000 for $249.

is dell optiplex 7040 motherboard compatible with ryzen 5 3600??

had to upgrade the PSU to support a 2060 super. to test if it works at all, used an unbranded 400w office pc PSU. it worked fine at first until the PSU exploded. pc survived, which is good, but i have yet to test the gpu.

Parted magic has a disk cloning utility

Can I add a RX 6400 instead of the one they used?

what opti plex in specifically works the best this guy near me has s ton of them is selling the for $50 to $70

It’s funny how I was recommended this video since I have an OptiPlex 3020 sleeper PC w/ a 12400f and a weak sauce GTX 1650.

My friend upgraded to a much more expensive setup and his Dell 7040 has a RX 5500, he took very good care of it and wants to sell it to me for $100. I don't mind an older gaming rig but will it be able to run some of today's games on it? I know I could ask him and I trust him but I wouldn't mind an outside opinion lol

been wanting to find out about the 3880 i currently have an rx550 in mine on stock psu lol cant find much on it. has 10th gen i5 12 gb ram

Could you fit a RTX 4060 ti in it?

Is this ltt screw driver??

I think biggest bottleneck on the optiplex is the cpu not drivers

Nice system guys. (Mine Optiplex 9020SFF RTX A2000, i7 4790 running at 3.8ghz. AND (I have two Optis'.) Optiplex 9020MT RTX 2060, i7 4790K 4.0ghz base, running at 4.4ghz, Corsair CX 750M power supply.) Again! Nice system. I'd like to grab one of those newer systems if it uses DDR4, but the listing you put up says DDR3. My systems are DDR3 for sure. I think you MIGHT be nudging out my SFF Opti a tad. Might. My 4790k does feed that RTX 2060 pretty well, and I get about as much out of one of these systems as possible. It can run almost anything. Know what starts to cripple the 4790k??? Hogwarts Legacy. When running on my 12 core newer system, you can see in even a task manager performance graph ALL 24 THREADS are used by HWL! At about 30% by the way. Its actually a nicely optimized game BUT. . . I'm afraid there is just loads going on in HWL, and boy does it give 4 cores 8 threads a hard time. It'll do it! But yeah. . . HWL of all things starts to say, 'that 10 year old Optiplex. .. is still friggin awesome! And you can still play HWL!' Once more. Nice system. 99% of people would be very happy to get THAT for the money.