Thanks for 40,000 subscribers everyone!!! Inching closer and closer to that Silver Play Button! This video was supposed to be done last week, but I broke one of the CPU socket stand-offs from the Corsair H100i mounting hardware. Over-torqued the mounting screw and snapped the stand-off. Had to order another mounting kit to finish the video... I also didn't have much faith in this experiment working out, so I didn't film some things. Such as, the re-tubing and re-filling of the AIO. Hope you all enjoy the video regardless!
Haha holy shit dude. "I went with an AIO instead of custom loop" and still ended up making it a custom loop anyway. This PC has been an adventure! It's so crazy how different it is now
I never really thought of it that way! I guess the AIO did turn in a custom loop in the end lol. Glad to hear you enjoyed the adventure that is OptiFlex. I was thinking about how much different it is now as well. May make a montage combining all the videos into one. I still have a few potential ideas for it. So, there may be more life to OptiFlex yet. Thanks for sticking around and watching OptiFlex evolve! I appreciate it.
Because of ur help i have overclocked my Ryzen 3 2200g to 3.85ghz & 1240 mhz igpu without even increasing the volts. Really appreciate your video on 2200G .
That's what I was going for! Was trying to take a boring office PC and make into something crazy looking lol. I'm glad you like OptiFlex. Thanks for watching, Alejandro!
Wooo Southpaws unite lmao. I've always had issues with writing on whiteboards because I drag my wrist a little when I write. My handwriting is much neater on paper where I can't smear my writing! Thanks for watching, as always, Rafeee
I'm not sure I can fit anything else either. I MAY upgrade the GPU in OptiFlex and see just how much the i7 6700 bottlenecks it. Gotta find a GPU that will fit inside though!
Whoa, insanely cool! I wasn't expecting you to actually mod an AIO instead of a custom loop, but this is even better! Imo, totally worth it just for the experience alone. Like in my project, where there are no real benefits to cooling or performance, but the build process itself and the creative ways of unusual PC modding is what I live for. Also, thanks for including my comments :) Btw, that server AIO is weird... Cool, but very weird. As you seen in my mini-ITX, I simply gutted a few cheap Chinese AIOs ($27 each, bought 3 just because lol) and refilled them with the desired rad size, might've been easier for you to do something similar, but regardless, it looks like it worked out great and you now own the most badass OptiFlex in the world. I might consider finding an old one somewhere cheap just to try and mod one myself :) Either way, great stuff as always, can't wait to see more like this!
Happy to hear you think my idea was cool! It was the only route I could take after the custom loop idea fell through! Like you said, there isn't much of a performance benefit to having the AIO in OptiFlex (most due to the locked 6700). But, at least I can say I have a water cooled Dell Optiplex! No need to thank me! I should be thanking you for your suggestion! The AIO from Dynatron is rather bizarre, yes. Didn't even know something like it existed until I stumbled upon it. I think I spent 15 minutes just looking at the AIO itself when I got it. I was trying to figure out if I could actually make it work or if I just wasted $140USD on this thing lmao. At the time of buying the Dynatron L6, I didn't know it was meant for GPUs. I thought it would come with a CPU backplate and bracket to mount it. But, it only came with a GPU bracket. Like you said, there's probably an easier way of doing things, but it worked lol. I would totally recommend modding an Optiplex. They're cheap and easy to find parts for. So, if you mess up, it's not the end of the world. Not sure I have too many ideas left for OptiFlex. But, I'm sure I'll come up with something else! Until then, I have a few more project ideas that I want to work on now. They also are doing my own mods to things. Thanks for the continued support! I appreciate it very much man!
I came here after commenting on your other optiplex video. How you found the room to fit that in is just a feat of engineering. Now I 100% love the window you cut in the side. It's like a mini version of a full sized gaming rig. Pushing old tech until the wheels fall of is the best way to go in my humble opinion. I can basically afford to buy any prebuilt top tier gaming pc any day of the week. But getting the most out of older hardware is more fun. 60 fps on high at 1080p doesn't look any better on a more expensive system. Great job!
Glad you decided to check out more on OptiFlex. Getting that Dynatron L6 to fit was not that fun lol. That was pretty much the idea of the whole project, how far I could push an Optiplex 3040. It makes for a good travel gaming and editing rig too, due to its size.
Sorry for the wait. Filming is 95% done. Wasn't happy with some of my b-roll shots, so I need to reshoot those. After that, just a matter of putting it all together and we're good to go.
OptiFlex LC: Pitch Black. The list of all the crazy features you've implemented, packed into a kinda catchy name. This build deserves to sound market-worthy. Wouldn't surprise me to see an arc reactor strapped to it someday, haha. Really like the channel. Science FTW! Best regards from Russia =)
That would've been a good title for the video! Would be cool to see Dell make a gaming PC for entry-level gamers! I'm on the middle of making some more improvements to OptiFlex as we speak! It just keeps getting better and better! I'm glad you like my channel! Hope you stick around for future videos. Thanks for watching!
Really nice man! I'm planing to get an slim optiplex, and just cut off a rectangle in the side panel, and put an full sized 1060 6gb, and put 16gb ram in it, and it has i5 4570 in it, and I got confidence from you. Thanks man
Definitely subscribed and enjoy your videos so much just found you today 😬, you made one of my past ideas reality as well with Optiflex! Awesome content!
Glad you like it! That's fair! I prefer the look of AIOs compared to air coolers, but I know my opinion differs from others. There's more to come for OptiFlex too :D
Working on 3 videos as we speak. 1 video on OptiFlex, 1 video review relating to the Nintendo Switch and 1 on a budget PC build. Sorry for the long wait. Quarantine kinda slowed me down a little. It was a little difficult having my entire family home all at once. Made it difficult to record without getting interrupted. I should have a video finished this weekend, hopefully. Most of the editing is finished. I just need to put the final polish on the video. I don't release videos unless I'm 100% happy with how the video turns out. Quality over quantity!
You just gave me a big inspiration to do the same with the 3040, I'm thinking of doing it next year since I'm still in the early days of my budget ($50 ;-;).
@WiltshireTutorials There's more! You earned a sub! I'm an Optiplex fan as well. A 7050 sits within a PSU outside the case as we speak and preparing a 3620 for case transplant. Keep up the good work!!
Oh man I need one of these pc for school work during this pandemic because my laptop broke like 2 months ago and it’s so hard to do homework on a phone.😭I also need it for gaming streaming and editing videos.😢🙏I mostly need it for school work 😩
Did you consider using a fan adapter to mount a more common 60mm or 80mm radiator and fan? What about using an external water cooling system to bypass all these problems?
I did consider it, I even 3D printed a 70mm to 80mm adapter. However, aesthetics are somewhat important to me. I didn't like the way it looked with the adapter on the radiator. So, I decided to not include it. Going from an 80mm to 70mm fan resulted in a 1 degree difference, which is within the margin of error.
Interesting. Did you have to use a separately sold special 24 to 6 pin adaptar cable to connect the SF600 PSU to the Dell optiplex 3040 motherboard? Or did you not need any separate adapter cable? If so, which standard cables from the SF600 PSU did you use to connect to the 2x3 (6 pin) connecter on the Dell motherboard, and which to connect to the 2x2 (4pin) connector on the Dell Board motherboard? Did you use the 24-pin cable at all? Thanks!
Hey Wiltshire, I've got a question that's unrelated to the video, I recently got rid of my Vega 64 and got a rx 5700 because it had gddr6 vram, and also had issues with my vega drivers. I'm able to play most games at 4k on ultra settings, for example witcher 3, warzone, modern warfare, green hell etc. However whenever I try playing gta v on 4k, my fps just floods down to 20fps. Yet I can run games more demanding then gta, is gta really badly optimised on amd GPU? And also, I have 2666 and 3000 mhz ram only, and its running at 2133, my motherboard supports oc, so I try to oc them to 3000, I get a black screen, I try setting them to 2666 black screen, know what the issue could be ? Cheers
Just curious... You Canadian? I got that vibe when I saw your Reactions to the verge pc build. Do you also do pc at Canadian prices or use the American prices? I am looking to build a PC, but I don't have an idea of how much I am looking to spend to play at like 1440p at high FPS rates. I think $1500 Should be enough, but Not sure.
I am Canadian, yes. The Canadian National Baseball Team hat probably gave it away :p. I tend to use Canadian prices for my videos. I will sometimes include USD somewhere in the video. $1500 will be more than enough to get 1440P at a higher refresh rate. Remember, the more you go up in resolution, the more GPU bound you are. It's best to purchase a really good GPU over a really expensive CPU when gaming at higher resolutions.
@@WiltshireTutorials yeah I'm aware of that. Just been so long since I built my last pc, so I've been looking at sites to get an idea of how much to spend. I just don't want to potentially put 2 year old hardware in a new build. A lot of what I seen going for 1500 and up are still using GTX 1660s, an with a lot of American channels and some Canadian channels are using US prices. Mind you on my own faults I have been using like pre custom built PC's to give me the idea of what I'm looking at.
I could. However, I already painted that CPU cooler and it already affected the cooler's ability to dissipate heat. Not by much though. Only about 4 degrees.
I don't know what went wrong. With my 7040, with an rtx 2060 connect the dividers and turn off the computer and there was smoke, turn it off immediately, the motherboard burned. I think it was a short, something badly connected because it was after turning it off
I'm not sure what you mean by "dividers"? There is definitely a short. Motherboard is definitely toast now, unfortunately. What kind of PSU were you using for the PC?
@@WiltshireTutorials Do not know what happened, the Spliter SORRY, putting a fan of 0.09A and 3 of .60 or of you think it was a lot of consumption of a RTX 2060? The short was with the CPU off :( psu its evga supernova 550 gm
It's difficult to pinpoint exactly the cause of the short was. Are you able to link me the exact splitter you purchased for your PC? It could be the splitter being wired incorrectly. It could even be the PSU that was bad.
It’s amazing that as big a thing Sfx builds are getting there aren’t companies making 80 and 92mm radiators. I have an Opti 3070, is there no way to get a 120mm on the bottom half of the front panel?
Unfortunately, it's not possible to fit one in the front. It JUST doesn't fit. Asetek makes a 92mm AIO. I have it installed in the next video on OptiFlex.
@@WiltshireTutorials No way I’ll have to check that out! I’m running an MT Opti 3070 with an i5 9500k and a 1660super. It’s doing everything I want it to, but I’m looking down the line at a 9900k and the new lp rtx4060, so I see an aio in my future.
@@RespekfulFungus Avoid the 9900K the power delivery on the motherboard cannot handle any processor over 65W. The 9900K is 92W. You can go for the 9900 (non-K) which is still 65W. That's what I did.
That's a shame that Asetek discontinued the cooler! It's a really good cooler! I suppose you could make your own using a pump and radiator from Alphacool
I tried. They won't allow the GPU cable to fit with the side panel on. I have less than a millimetre to get things to fit. In fact, the GPU cables are pressed up against the side panel.
@@WiltshireTutorials also maybe use coloured cooling liquid to fit the colour scheme better? And perhaps a rgb gpu backplate, i heard those were a thing.
@@horizonsystems178 Everything you suggested I've thought about. I was going to use a coloured fluid for the AIO and decided against it. Too much maintenance. Having coloured fluid tends to gum up the insides after awhile. So, I went with a clear fluid instead. I may just put sleeving around the tubing of the AIO though. As for the GPU backplate, I thought of making a RGB one as well. However, I'm pretty much completely out of room to cable manage at this point. I would need to add another SATA power cable in order to use an RGB controller for the backplate or to even power it the plate itself.
Do you know? I'm looking for the new one who modding optiplex and i glad found you! I've optiplex 3050 and want to modding like you, pleasee how to put 1 ssd 2.5 and 1 hdd 3' into cassing. Hope you read ma commect, see youu~
Since you have a 3050, I would suggest using an M.2 SSD. I would just not use a HDD. Fitting a 3.5" HDD in the build is just not possible. If you really need two drives, use one M.2 SSD and one 2.5" SATA SSD.
@@WiltshireTutorials Thank you much appreciated am grateful i got it with 800$ i have a dell optiplex 3020 mini tower for with cpu i7 4790 / Rx 570 8gb not original one it was used for mining or recycled / 16G ram/ 1tb HDD /120g SSD / PSU 290W / Windows 10 / i've got it 26day a go the first 2 weeks he was working fine but games was crashing i was streaming recording then with the last updates the GPU started crashing i've did some research about it I need a power supply also for the heat i need a Gpu cooler Also the CPU i think i was scammed but i hope you guide me please if there is a useful clear tutorial About it
No problem! Nice little rig you've got there! Let's see... Considering the GPU was used for mining, it could be on it's way out (dying). Ex-Mining GPUs are not very trustworthy or reliable. Mining uses the GPU at 100% 24/7. So, the likelihood of it burning out is very high. If this is the case, try underclocking both the Memory and GPU Core Clocks to see if the GPU becomes more stable. As GPUs age, they may not be able to maintain their factory default clocks anymore. That PSU wattage is pushing it too. That GPU will draw 200W on it's own and the CPU will draw 84W at full load. You're stressing that PSU really badly! Don't forget your motherboard, RAM and SSD all need power too and with the remaining available 6W, it won't be long until it goes pop and blows up!
@@WiltshireTutorials yes it come back to 27 degree when i use MSI after burner thank you am careful with it also im thinking of a gpu cooler also much appreciated you are the best
No, not at all. That GPU at full load would almost saturate the stock PSU. You have to take into consideration how much wattage the CPU, chipset and drives (HDD OR SSD) draw as well. That GPU also requires an 8-pin power cable too. If I'm not mistaken, that PSU only has a single 6-pin power cable.
All good questions. All of which I have an answer to. The AIO pump is powered by a molex to 3-pin fan adapter. This way the pump is running at full speed all the time providing the best cooling possible. The AIO fans are plugged into the CPU FAN header on the motherboard. Luckily, the 3040 motherboard has standard 4-pin PWM fan headers on it. The motherboard is a standard Intel LGA 115X mount design. So, any cooler that fits the LGA 115X socket will work. Hope that answers all your questions. Let me know if you have any more! Thanks for watching
@@WiltshireTutorials ok that makes sense now, i forgot that the 30 series optiplex's have 4 pin fan support. I have an optiplex myself and I was gonna put a new cooler in it so this definitely helped. great videos!!
@@jeekzy8319 installing an aftermarket cooler should be a walk in the park. You will need to remove the factory standoffs from the case. For some reason, the standoffs are soldered to the Optiplex case. Glad you like the videos!
Excellent video. I own a dell optiplex 3040 but i have issue with cpu & case temps, i cant control my fans speed or let the motherboard use optimal speed for the temps in the case, either they run at the lowest speed or override the fans at maximum speed. you said in the video i want to control my fan speed 5:20. How did you do it?? btw both my fans are 4 pin pwm
Hey Admad, I'm glad you liked the video. The Dell Optiplex 3040 has a feature called SupportAssist. Before the PC boots into Windows, it checks all the hardware to make sure it is functioning properly. If it thinks there is a problem with the fans, for example, it will not allow the fans to adjust themselves based upon thermals. What are your CPU thermals looking like? It could be the CPU running too warm and SupportAssist is trying to compensate for that by running the fans at max speed. If the CPU is running too warm, I recommend putting new thermal paste on the CPU. As for controlling the fan speed, I control them by using HWinfo. That app is also quite useful for keeping an eye on thermals! So, you could use it to monitor your CPU thermals to see if re-applying thermal paste helps or not.
@@WiltshireTutorials My cpu is i7 6700 when i play games like cod warzone my cpu temperature gets to high 80 low 90c at the same time my cpu fan as well case fan are idling running at lowest speed, similar temps are in other games depending on cpu utilization. There is an option in the bios to let me choose to run the fans at maximum speed but they'll run all time at max speed even on idle which makes the pc so loud. I re-applied thermal paste but that doesn't appear the issue. The software im using is HWMonitor, also tried SpeedFan program same problem. Any idea why im having this problem? I really appreciate your reply and help.
@@WiltshireTutorials Thank you so much for your help. It worked perfectly with HWinfo64 finally the problem solved. I had this problem more than 2 years until now. Finally i can use my pc without worrying about overheating. Again thank you so much, god bless you.
Technically, you could make it work. I personally would recommend just going with a 90mm CPU cooler from Aliexpress over the Dyantron L6. The cooler is quite expensive.
The RGB strip is completely up to you my friend. It's all a matter of aesthetic taste. Again, I don't recommend trying to get the Dynatron L6 to fit. Modification is needed to even get it to work.
Another user suggested the same idea. They actually DM'd me with sketches of some rough ideas they had and I liked what they had. I may do a video on customizing the front panel in the future.
I'll investigate the possibilities of it some more on my own time. But, for now it's not on my list of things to do. I work spontaneously though. So, I may one day wake up and feel like making it happening.
@@WiltshireTutorials This sounds like a lot of work, but you could design a top hat for the optiplex where you could fit a 240 radiator, and use the cpu pump for both the cpu and gpu. Though I dont know if the cpu pump is good enough for that.
You could probably put a radiator externally on the top of the OptiPlex 3040 case. I personally don't like the look of having things outside of the PC case. I'm not sure if the pump that's attached to the radiator of the Dynatron L6 is strong enough to circulate the fluid through a full water loop.
@@WiltshireTutorials yeah that's the main concern, I have seen it done for itx cases, but for something that big (LMAO optiplex is too big) it might be too much, thanks for listening to my idea thought. I'll be waiting for your next video!
One thing that could be done is to look up the flow rate for the water pump on the Dynatron L6. This could be done by looking up the model number of the pump and looking at the datasheet for it or by seeing if Dyantron has the flow rate listed on the webpage for the L6 AIO. You could then compare the flow rate of the water pump on the L6 to a known water pump that can support a full water loop. It's not a bad suggestion at all. Some may try it and like it aesthetically. I'm always open to taking ideas from the comments section!
@@WiltshireTutorials Exactly, will there be problems with the order of the cables? I had read that dell inverts the voltages and the fans can go in reverse or not detect them.
It is clear to me about the rgb, I do not speak English, it is the reason for not understanding very well I am putting together the same although I have added an rtx 2060.
Trying to find one is very difficult right now. I'm not willing to pay scalpers for one either. I'll be going for RTX 3090 when they're more available.
The AIO isn't manufactured anymore, so the price has gone up on it. Although you could install the 90mm AliExpress CPU I had on it before for $12 and get close performance. The only other thing that cost a lot of money was the GPU. That's it. You could theoretically do all the modding cheaply
Great video! Anyway, a RU-vid Channel by the name of LGR (Lazy Gamer Reviews) has made a PC Build video 1 month ago about building a Threadripper PC Build, and here is a link to this very video, and I'd like to hear what your thoughts are on this video in relationship to the PC Build, the selected parts, and any other thoughts. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jMZKJYkD2Fk.html
@@WiltshireTutorials well that's a dope name. I'm modding a 9020 mt soon so it hit home. Soon I'll be dropping more money on a 1660 super than an rtx 3080 msrp 🥲🥲
