Just recently had one of these. Upgraded to a e3 1240 v2, 500gb SSD, and a 1050ti lp. Little thing is a machine. Surprised me how well it was for the age of the system.

@brycestechlife

6 ай бұрын

They’re very capable machines for such low cost especially compared to what you can buy today. Thank you for leaving a comment. It truly means the world to me :)

@cdoublejj

6 ай бұрын

hows that works hows it compare an i5 or i7? EDIT: it seems to crank out just over 6000 passmarks at just under 70 watts which is better than an i7 3xxxT which is a little lower wattage but, notably less performance. so the xeon wins with a slightly higher wattage but notably more performance

@forzaflyracer3473

6 ай бұрын

@@cdoublejj Xeon much cheaper and offers around same performance as i7.

@MrEffectfilms

6 ай бұрын

​@@forzaflyracer3473Yeah it's basically a better i7 2600 and doesn't use as much power, making it perfect for sff builds like this.

@MrEffectfilms

6 ай бұрын

Only other thing I'd probably do is upgrade the RAM to 16gb, you'd be surprised how much difference that can make.

I have used Optiplex 390, 790, and 990 boxes over the last 6 years. I gave away one of my two 390s and the other passed on during a Texas thunderstorm; but all three were dependable (if small) PCs. In fact, they make great "starter PCs" for labs working on installing hardware and OS as they are typically okay with modern Linux distros and up to Windows 10. With something like Splashtop they can be used to simulate remote network management and so on.

@thatguyinelnorte

6 ай бұрын

I think basic office tasks with LibreOffice or the like are imminently practical, too. Use inexpensive SATA SSDs to speed up processing vs. the slower spinning HDs.

Thank you for the time you spent making this video. I appreciate real people that repurpose electronics. I subscribed and the thumbs up was at 333 and the comments was at 66 so I am the 334th subscriber and the 67th thumbs up. I have the 390 and it was my mothers. Your video motivated me to boost this PC up and try some games with the grandson. The 333 and the 66 are matching winning numbers . To my mom and I. This touched my heart because she is deceased but still showing me her spirit. Thanks Bro. so Awesome. Long live Mom "Joan"✌🙏

I actually have an dell optiplex 7010 and i have a gt610 in it. I dont use it for gaming because i have a gaming pc already. I did some fan mods and i actually dropped about 20 degrees off the graphics card under load. Thats really good because my GPU in that dell has no fan and its just using a heatsink to cool its self i cut a usb cable in half then i soldered it to the fan and plugged it in. I glued it to the gpu and i closed the case. I glued a bigger one on the side panel and it works great. I just use the dell for scrolling through youtube and emails and other stuff. It handles every job smooth as butter. I actually bought a i5 2400 to replace the i3 3240 the new cpu is a quad core and i think it will do better when it arrives.

i'd suggest to lower a bit the volume of the background music, good video tho.

@brycestechlife

6 ай бұрын

Thank you sir🙏 this is the type of advice I’m looking for 💯🙏 I appreciate your honesty. Im a beginner with editing.

Good video , keep it up

thats actually a nice looking case for a older one be amazing with a clear side on it with some led lights in there it has a modern ish look to it still besides being small

Love seeing more tech youtubers, this was a very good video, and I wish you all the best. Also love your editing skills :)

Just sold a 390 to a person that makes music. He was very happy. I paid $10 for it and sold it for $50 as is.

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

Yessir that’s what I’m talking about! Awesome brother keep on doing what you’re doing.

95th subscriber, wish you all the best, keep it up.

I have a 390 ssf running gigabyte gt 1030 graphics card and 16g ram and is working great.

Nice

Great system an be turned into alot of things

@brycestechlife

26 күн бұрын

Yea it’s fun just to have to tinker with or maybe modify the case for fun like I do sometimes on older computers. As long as you enjoy what you’re doing that’s all that matters!

Nice. I always feel like I have to have newer equipment to be functional but only have a 4790 cpu 32gb ddr3, 2060 RTX. I love to see older equipment still gaming just fine.

@strawberrysherbet96

2 күн бұрын

I have same specs except I’m on the sff build with a Rx 560 low prof. DDR3 mixed with gddr6 is the better and max combo for these og Optiplexes. Throw in an rtx Gpu and you’ll be up to date in games.

top meu broder

the 3/7/9 Dells are still useable till the end of windows 10(oct 2025) Windows 11 will kill them off because the cpus chipsets and tpm are not supported hardware. I took my 790 and replaced the 95wTDP quadcore for a 65wTDP hyperthreaded dual core and dual booted win XP&7 so I can XP game and run my editing software i have from the 7 era. Ive had an active offline Windows XP computer since 2007 using serval hardware configs over the years. but the 790 is the newest and i got the one iam using and 3 more since for parts so my 790 is gonna be around for a LONNGG time

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

They are cool little computers to have kicking around if you wanna tinker or try something out without harming your main rig

@TheDman216

Ай бұрын

@@brycestechlife its running 50+ xp era games up to 2008 era

That Service Tag Number/ Sticker May Be Important For Anyone Wanting To Look Up Parts & Stuff On Dell's Website.... You Can Peel It Off And Stick It Inside The Case Panel... I Buy A Lot Of Refurbished Dell's & That's Always A Plus To Have That Number Somewhere....

You are working for ur vids bro good work

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate that!

This is very good quality for a small youtuber! The background music is a bit loud though.

@brycestechlife

6 ай бұрын

Thank you I’m trying my best!!! I want to build my channel into something great I really do 🙏❤️

i have an optiplex 7020 sff with a gt730 and its a beast on some AA games.

Those office pcs are just lovely and cute. will always make a good starter with a small gpu

@brycestechlife

5 ай бұрын

Yes they are, I’m going to be making another video on this that’s going to be way better since this one got so much attention. New cpu and gpu on the way!

Just got 4 390s for 25 bucks off my local Facebook marketplace

@brycestechlife

26 күн бұрын

What a deal.

I have a 7010 usff for a media pc. Cost £30.00 and seeing as virgin media want £10 a month for multi room it's well worth it

i have at least 6 optiplex 990 i7's sitting behind me, these are still very capable for basic day to day tasks, the hard part is convincing a buyer that.

@brycestechlife

6 ай бұрын

Right? Especially the i7 models. You can drop an i7 in these i3 ones and make them so much better. Thank you for leaving a comment, it really does make my day. Truthfully. Thank you.

@martinez1701a

2 ай бұрын

I bought a couple of optiplex 5050 sff to make gaming setups for me and my son, I was actually playing Apex Legends last night. With little adjustments it was pretty good and both my 5050's are running 6th gen i5 6600's. Planning to max them out to i7 7700 when I get a chance. I'm also running Dell oem Radeon RX550 4gb. These things make good setups and I only paid like $50 for them, with a good card more ram and ssd you can make a decent gaming setup for under $200.

mine is a SMB/jellyfin/minecraft server and also runs an archiveteam warrior instance

i recently bought a prebuilt pc thats inside of an optiplex 3020. radeon r5240 1gb with 16 gbs of ram and a 1tb ssd i was wondering if you could recommend a better gpu? I dont know much about pc building as this is my very first one and any help would be greatly appreciated

@brycestechlife

25 күн бұрын

I’m about to upgrade mine with an AMD Radeon R7 450 4gb. It’s nothing special and definitely nothing crazy but it would be a significant improvement over your 1GB r5240, considering it’s only about $35-40 on eBay too.

Where the hell are people getting these $30 dollar optiplex pc's ? Never seen one for less than $100. CAD

@brycestechlife

14 күн бұрын

It’s one of those things where you gotta hop on the deal as soon as you find it! I think I got this one from an older woman who was just trying to get rid of it because it was basically junk to her. The other one that I got for $40 that is 4th gen was because the kid couldn’t game on it and didn’t know he could pop a graphics card in it. So I was able to buy that one cheap.

I’m planning on getting a prebuilt with an Xeon e3 1240 v2 with 8gb of ram and a 240gb ssd then adding an rx 570 do you think this would run well?

@brycestechlife

6 ай бұрын

I definitely think that you’re going to have a very affordable & usable build that should be able to play a good amount of games at decent settings at 1080p of course. The only thing I’d suggest is maybe getting more storage as SSDs are so cheap these days for 1TB, as well as adding another 8gb of ram would make that build a beast. But yes it will run very well for all basic tasks and needs. As well as some gaming I think it will impress you.

@kwikz1665

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

i turned mine into a sound waves server

@brycestechlife

6 ай бұрын

I’ll have to look into that, I have no idea what that is.

Although you can use it for basic tasks it would be nothing but a potato for any kind of gaming and it's mostly because of the 2nd Gen Core i3 chip. It's going to be a major bottleneck in even E-sports titles. Honestly, anything older than a 4th Gen isn't worth spending the money to upgrade it. I guess if you've got a closet full of legacy parts it would be a good deal. It would be as great system for a child or something like that.

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

Some people don’t need anything more than a computer that can literally go on the web, check emails, shop on Amazon etc. for some it might be a really good deal

19:51 That's a Bruh moment right there lol... anyways. i have a Similar PC too! but im using HP and im using gtx 1650lp and shove 4gb of ddr3 ram

@NASSAARR

Ай бұрын

what is your power supply watt?

@jeredE99

Ай бұрын

@@NASSAARR i think its around 200W stock psu From HP prodesk

@NASSAARR

Ай бұрын

@@jeredE99 it is 200w exactly or around because i have 200w psu and a i5 6500 with 8gb ram ddr4 and ssd 256 and i want to upgrade it with gtx 1650lp but i don't know if the 200psu is enough or not please answer me

@NASSAARR

Ай бұрын

@@jeredE99 ...

@jeredE99

Ай бұрын

@@NASSAARR its enough :)

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Rx550 would do a better job on this beast

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

I have a couple graphics cards that were gonna try as well as some cpus to swap out as well :)

I have dell 390 im using gt 1030 sddr4 2gb can i upgrade cup right now using i3 2120??

@brycestechlife

2 ай бұрын

You can upgrade the cpu but not the cup the cup is permanent.

@SeeJayPlayGames

2 ай бұрын

For a one line post, I'm about to write a huge reply with way too much information... oh well... Oh no, the ddr4 version of the 1030... yuk... please tell me you didn't buy that "GPU" on purpose... the gddr5 version is roughly 80-100% faster. Also it's possible to find GTX 1050s that fit (I have such a card) which are ~88% faster than the 1030. Also, 1650s are out there in that form factor as well (and another 67% faster. There's also the Quadro P620, as well as the T400/600/1000 cards that are nice options in this form factor. But they're all probably too expensive of an option because NVIDIA. But if you're having a bad time gaming, I highly recommend upgrading that GPU before looking at the CPU. The DDR4 version doesn't even keep up with Ryzen 5 2400G. The card I'd actually recommend for small form factor PCs that strikes the perfect balance of low cost and decent performance is the RX 550 4GB. It's at LEAST as fast as GT 1030 GDDR5, has twice the VRAM and also has encoding support. The only reason I have a GTX 1050 is because I found a good deal on it; usually they're unreasonably expensive for SFF. I found one for $100 (on sale, normally $165). The RX 6400 is way faster but also way more expensive (~$130), and also lacks encoding (if you're just gaming, that's not important but if you're trying to do any streaming, video editing/transcoding, then yeah, it's an issue). With the RX 550 you get VCE so at least Handbrake has you covered. Plus you can find these cards on eBay for $40-50. There's also the workstation version of it, the Radeon Pro WX3100, which is just as cheap, but has a blower fan and a cool blue aluminum fan shroud. And yes, you can (and should) upgrade the CPU on it. I would recommend going with at least an i5 if not an i7 if you're gaming. The i5-2400 is about $10-15 and the i7-2600 is about $25-30 on eBay (USA). I don't know where you are from but hopefully the prices aren't too different because these processors are OLD. Real old. Like, 2011 old. edit: I wrote this before watching the entire video. Going further in, I noticed that the 390 has the PCIe x16 slot in the correct place (this is the last generation of Dell SFF that does; later ones put it right next to the power supply) so it WILL support a two slot wide GPU such as the SFF RTX 3050 6GB or SFF RTX 4060. However, those cards are both several times the cost of the PC itself, and both would be bottlenecked by the CPU (even an i7). Actually come to think of it, the 3050 might not be too bad when paired up with the i7-2600 so that's the only one I'd consider. It'd be like a 1070 or something. But with RTX. Not that you'd want to use RTX with a card that only has 6GB VRAM. But yeah, I'd be interested to see that combination (2600/3050).

Music and slow video at the start is bad. Get straight into the content people want nobody is gonna watch that.

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

You’re right, I’m changing up my style & I’m going to do my best to make my content entertaining but informative at the same time. I appreciate your feedback!

This guy must work for big box computers as his thermal paste jobs suck and there is spills all over. I would not want this on my machines.

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

No I don’t. It’s hilarious to me how many people sit there and pick out wrong things and give misleading information. Thermal paste will spread when pressure is applied it’s common sense just like silicone when you’re working on a vehicle, do you make it look all beautiful? No. It doesn’t matter. It’s very sad to see someone sit here and down talk on another that’s just trying to give back. And let me tell you I’m not just some big box computer guy. I know much more than you think I do. Just because I don’t post everything I do and know doesn’t mean I don’t know it. Haters just giving me more motivation to post what I know and what I can do and prove people wrong. You’ll see. To anyone else I apologize and I’m honestly just trying to share my knowledge with the community, without hate.

@retrorocketman6969

29 күн бұрын

👁💤💤snore💤💤💤💤snore💤💤💤snore. Haters are such a bore boy😁😆🤣

Edit and cut out the first 9 minutes.

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(Sorry for my bad english. But i text it easy.) I have an Optiplex 9020. its newer as your System. And my Model have an i5 4690 with 16gb 1600mhz Ram. Original was an r7 250 in it. Whit very good Overclocking... ;D But i upgrade it to an Quadro P1000. i'ts very nice, but an Quadro T1000 have mutch more Power. But cost in Euro 200-225€. (In Germany...) The Optiplex 9020 cost's me 90€ and the Quadro P1000 too 90€ All runs good. But not for Fortnite with Unreal Engin 5... The CPU are too old.

@brycestechlife

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately with newer titles, I find it that the instruction sets are no longer supported by the cpu. Like newer games require newer instruction sets that these older CPUs just don’t support. Not to say they are bad or anything there are still many uses and I think everyone should be doing more about our E-waste problem but big box stores always want new and improved. Good pick up