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Hi, I'm looking for an SFF prebuilt that can deliver 75W through one PCIe x16 slot and 50W through another PCIe x16 slot, connected as x8 or x4. Does anyone know of a model off the top of their head? Optiplex 990 and 790 in SFF won't work. (see: attachment) Otherwise, I can't think of any other models with 2x PCIe x16 slots (it's okay if one is only connected via x4 or x8). The unit, without a GPU, shouldn't cost more than ~75€ used. My goal: CPU: 4C 8T min. turbo frequency: 3,8ghz RAM: 16GB GPU: 1x Nvidia Tesla M4 (50W via pcie) 1x Nvidia Tesla P4 (75W via pcie) form factor: as small as possible price: under 180€ What i was calculating with: M4 ~ 60€ P4 ~ 80€ pre build ~ 40€ Thanks in advance, Lenn

Hello. I recently bought a new Thermaltake Smart 600w PSU I needed to finally be able to use a RX 470 I bought some month ago for my Dell Optiplex 3010 motherboard with 12GB RAM, I3 3240, Windows 10 64bit I installed the new PSU, without the GPU and everything worked fine. The motherboard is old so it only has a VGA output which was fine because my monitor is a VGA only. Of course, the GPU I bought doesn't have a VGA output, but I thought I could use a TV with HDMI as a monitor in the meantime. I installed the GPU on the pcie slot and plugged the 8 pin connector and before plugging the PC to the TV I tried turning it on connected to the VGA monitor through the motherboard VGA output. The PC turns on with a message saying the current video configuration is wrong and I should plug the monitor to the GPU, which I expected, so the PC is recognizing the GPU. However when I connect the GPU to the TV through HDMI and turn on the PC there is no signal and the case gives the dell POST error code 1 2 blue On/Off button, the Dell POST code manual says it is a expansion card error, but specifically says it is not a graphics card error and I should remove or install any expansion cards I recently installed or removed. If I remove the GPU the PC turns on just fine. When installed, if connected from the Mobo, gives the message to connect to the GPU. When connected to the GPU, PC won't POST. I haven't tried connecting to another TV, since I have no other TV. I haven't tried connecting through DVI or Display Port since I have no DVI or DP monitors or cables. I haven't tried installing the GPU to another PC since I have no other PC nor I know somebody with a PC I could use to test the GPU. I'm from Venezuela, so it's kinda hard to buy stuff here at a reasonable price when earning 140$ a month One thing I noticed is that the PCIE 8 pin connector clashes a little bit with the GPU board so it doesn't go in all the way, it is just like a millimeter from going in all the way. I don't know if that's what's causing the problem and the GPU isn't getting all the power needed to work. I tried turning on the PC with the GPU installed on the PCIE but without the PCIE 8 pin to test if it was the 8 pin not being connected completely. The PC started just fine using the Mobo VGA port. GPU fans not spinning unlike when the 8 pin is connected.

Hi guys I am going to find out eventually but I will ask here too. I have a dell optiplex 7010 sff and I want to install two gpus on it (a quadro k620 and a tesla p4). The motherboard on this model of computer has two pcie slots, a full x16 3.0 and a x16 wired in x4 2.0. The 3.0 delivers 75w and the 2.0 25w. The quadro k620 draws 30w max but I don't intend on using it at its full tdp, can it run on the 25w slot?

I'm from North Macedonia, I got an old optiplex for free from a family member and i want to put a gtx 1060 in it, I own a xbox for my AAA games I just wanted a pc for my more niche games. i got to see around and not only gtx 1060 but every type of graphics card is ridiculously overpriced, 120 eur for a 3 gb gtx 1060, I understand pc parts are more expensive over here but when i go to ebay for germany i can find plenty of 6 gb gtx 1060 for like 60 eur. what to do?

I can’t get my GPU fans to run on boot stably anymore. I was able to do it once by fiddling around with afterburner but idk if I got lucky or something but they just stopped spinning and won’t spin up again. It’s a Dell Optiplex 5070 with a i5-9500 and an RX 6600, so I can’t just adjust GPU fan curves in the bios or anything. It’s a PowerColor Fighter RX 6600.

Hello all, i have two dell OptiPlex's (a 7010 with 3rd gen i7 and a 790 with 2nd gen i5). I am looking to upgrade their CPUs, but want some opinions first. This is to my knowledge all the cpus that will work in these machines: LGA 1155 cpu list – all processors Intel: Xeon, Core I7,Core I5, Core I3, Pentium, Celeron – FCLGA1155 socket (specifications) – CPU-LIST.COM The 7010 is being used as a server (for Virtual Machines and data ingest from Hard Drives and the like to images on a separate NAS) The 790 is being used for small games, content creation, etc. (will have rx550 i think eventually ) I've never used Xeon so if anyone has experience, please let me know how they perform and how they compare to intel core CPUs. I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Hello I'm kinda new to pc building and I would like to know what is the best GPU for gaming that I can fit in my optiplex 7050 Mt without upgrading the 240w psu Pc specs 16gb Ram ddr4 SanDisk 480 gb SSD Intel i5-7500 3.4 GHz Thank you in advance

Budget (including currency): $500 ish. Flexible if it will make a big difference. Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: RS3, Minecraft, Media Management Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hey everyone, Got this for free, and it is in good condition just missing the drive currently. Kind of a PC noob here, but it is an Optiplex 7050, and says 7th gen i& vPro on the front of the case? Pretty sure it will need a new power supply to run a graphics card. Also ssd's (I believe there is an m.2 slot as well as sata connections?), more ram 32 or 64gb? I'd like to make it a decently capable machine, but it won't be my main PC. Will live in my workshop / garage, for some gaming, media management and playback, and research for car parts and wiring diagrams. Other details from case: Reg Model: D18M Reg Type: D18M003 Dell Optiplex 7050 Tower It doesn't currently have a drive so I can't boot it for more info. Though I will of course order an SSD for it. What other info would I need to provide? Here are a couple photos of the inside of the case, including the ssd connectors and ram modules. https://imgur.com/a/ZGxdbWb What kind of graphics card could I put into this thing? Also what about maximum ram config? Sorry for what are probably very simply questions and thank you in advance!!

I have a optiplex 990 with i7-2600 and 200W psu what graphics card is best for my pc

I have an old optiplex pc in my closet, 4th gen i5, 8gb ddr3, an insanely slow hdd Figured I might as well use it as a minecraft server and basically keep it on 24/7. Hypixel's survival SMP servers suck balls, constant crashes and items disheartening, entity chunk render distance is shit, no mods, etc. Public free server hosting (tried a year ago) is bad with ping and start up is annoying as someone has to go to the website to turn it on with a minute wait. Anyways, trying to set up the server without port forwarding cuz it sounds like it's a no bueno I've seen 2 options without Port Forwarding Radmin VPN, I make network, anytime player wants to play, launch vpn, click to join network, then they can join minecraft server Ngrok: Player will have to change the Server IP in minecraft because the public address resets in Ngrok every time I restart Ngrok/server pc Does anyone know of any other alternatives where the Player never has to use a vpn or change the server IP? On a seperate note, If anyone knows a really good minecraft server customization guide/wiki, like chaning the little image, name, making a spawn area that can't be messed with, whitelist players, stuff like this, please let me know

Budget (including currency): Cheap as possible Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Other details Currently running a core duo q9400, stock psu just looking to run sims,RuneScape,maybe fortnite. computer was free from work and I have a GTX1650 oc already. https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N1650OC-4GD#kf

Budget (including currency): 500$ Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: arcgis, cyberpunk, csgo, elden ring, autocad and some more remote sensing softwares which are CPU oriented. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I got an old dell OptiPlex workstation for free with lga 1155 mobo I added a i7 3770k that I got for 80$ ebay got an gtx 1080 for 150$ ebay 32 gigs of ddr3 2.5 1tb adata ssd for 65$ I have a 1080p monitor laying around Should I try OC on cpu on same motherboard, change the motherboard? change psu ( currently generic dell one) Still have around 150$ in my budget. also a good cheap wireless mechanical keyboard suggestion. anything else i can do?

I've just started a job as tech support for the high schools in my county and I've come across a bit of a challenge. In my school's media center we have 8 nearly decade old OptiPlexes all with 4GB of RAM and spinning HDD. They've been getting a lot of tickets for being slow since at idle the utilization is 100% for the HDD and 85%-90% of the RAM. My immediate thought is to upgrade the drives and memory, however we may not have funding to replace parts or computers. We found some other computers in our school that work better and we may replace those so my second thought is to cannibalize some of the OptiPlexes we replace to upgrade the memory and configure the remaining slower computers into RAID0. Can anyone confirm whether or not they've been able to configure on a hardware level RAID0 on OptiPlex models 3010 and 3040?

Hey there, Anyone here have any experience with dell optiplex lineup? i have a dell optiplex 7090 11th Gen And i'm trying to use the front Audio Jack (It's Headphone Microphone Combo) To connect headphones and no matter what it doesn't detect any input from the microphone The Headphone I'm Trying to use works on other devices like my friends PC or my laptop without any problem I've installed all the drivers from dell official website and still no luck. anyone ever encountered the same problem or have this issue or is there any possible fix?

So, recently, I purchased an Optiplex 990. It came with a 500w PSU, so I thought it would be able to handle my R7 260X. I put it in, and nothing. I update the bios, I switch to a 600W PSU, and nothing. So, I make sure that it's not a gpu problem, so I plug the 260x into another PC, and it works. So, to see if the PCIE slot is bad, I plug another GPU into the 990, an HD 6570, and it shows up in BIOS. So, I plug in the 260x back in, and it shows up at boot, but disappears when I get into Windows, and then when I restarted the PC, it never showed up in BIOS again. I even tried Linux to see if it would recognize the card, but no. I'm at a loss. The GPU is fine, the slot is fine, the PSU is fine, I don't understand what's happening. Any help is appreciated!

Hello. My computer was hit by lightning, it came through the lan cable, mobo fried. Custom pc, asus 1150 mobo, i7 4770. So I've got a dell optiplex mobo 48DY8 on ebay, I have read the info about various pinouts and headers present in dell cases. However since the motherboard I acquired is new, it prompts the Dell Service Menu with the AMT options and service tag input. It says that the service tag cannot be changed after it is set, I am afraid I can mess things up. I have no clue what to do here. Please advice. Thank you.

Hey! Me and some friends have a not so small Minecraft server which I host at home. I'm looking to purchase a server to keep at home running 24/7. Ive seen a couple of really cheap servers on Amazon. I do know that an Optiplex with an i5 or i7 could do well but once I'm done with the Minecraft server I'll just have an Optiplex. I would like to get into the server world and tinker with it. The Minecraft server we are running is a Bungeecord based spigot server on 1.18.2 with around 15 plugins. There are actually 4 different servers on it. 2 Skyblock servers a flatworlt for redstone builds and the actual SMP. There can be 15 to 20 players online at any given point. Right now is running on an Alienware 17 R3 laptop. Would this server be able to run this and expand what we already have?

So I am like $300 USD on budget so what can I do? -optiplex with i5 8th gen or higher and decent gpu GTX 970, GTX 780, rx 570, rx 580, rx 590, rx 6500XT, GTX (1650 to 1660 ti) -5600g or other modern APUs -want to play fh5 1080p (30fps minimum)

Hi, I'm looking at using/ upgrading a old optiplex with a SATA3 ssd, 4590, and 16gb ddr3 to try and set up a steam caching server, along with some other smaller servers (2-5 vinilla mc, SCP Secret Lab, etc) Mine main question is what my bottlenecks are going to be and how much it's going to affect performance of the cache. Ideally once I have that then i can start looking at what upgrades I should get and/or whether they are going to be worth the cost. I also don't know if this is the right place to be asking so please point me in the right direction if it's not Thank

Budget (including currency): ~AU$500 Country: Australia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex, (Linux) VM's, NAS Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hi all, this one is a little complicated and not 1 build per say... in short: I want a little more power in my NAS, and add a second SFF machine to my setup (HTPC). I currently have an unraid NAS running on: Pentium G5400, Gigabyte B365M HD3, 16Gb RAM, Quadro P600, Corsair RM550x, LSI HBA running a 7 drive array. There are two parity drives. The NAS runs a fairly typical array of docker containers for downloads, file sync, and media server duties. Most of the time, this processor is enough for my needs. The processor seems to be a bottleneck during times such as disk preclearing, parity checks, and when transcoding more than 1 video - all threads get pinned to 100%, or near 100% usage for more than a few seconds, and file access slows down, even on the cache pool. Also, I can't run transcodes (even on GPU) and something like a parity check simultaneously. I'm also keen on playing around with some virtual machines on my unraid server, mostly just for fun/curiosity. I'm sure that my transcodes (Plex and Tdarr) are using the GPU, so any CPU use is just unavoidable overhead. My plan is to upgrade the CPU to something efficient, but has more cores/performance than the G5400. At the same time, I've been thinking about adding a SFF HTPC to our living room. So I've been eyeing some refurbished Dell Optiplex 7060s that happen to contain an i5-8500T - these are priced around $500 or so, which is as much as I would be willing to spend on this project at this point. They also happen to be nice and small, which wins mega points with the rest of the house. So the idea is to get one of these Optiplex 7060's, and swap the i5-8500T with my Pentium G5400 in the NAS. The NAS will be upgraded to an i5-8500T, and the Optiplex will be downgraded to a Pentium G5400. We won't be gaming on the HTPC, just Plex/Netflix etc. some web browsing, using the included Windows 10 Pro license for now. Is this a wise move? Would this be possible on the Optiplex? These chips should be of the same generation, use the same socket, and are compatible with the same chipsets? Feedback is appreciated. Thanks! P.S. There are various models of 7060's so the i5-8500T may end up being an i5-8500 non-T version, depending on availability.

So it all started when I was browsing PC parts forum and saw a guy selling a bunch of Dell refurb RX 640 4GB that were single slot, half-height cards for MYR230 (~USD50) with shipping. To the uninitiated the RX 640 is a rebranded RX 550. At the current market, this ain't a bad price for an RX 550 equivalent 4GB card. I also wanted to build something for my wheelchair-bound neighbour, since the lockdown life has been rough. And I kinda owe him my very identity because he was the one that gave me a copy of Warcraft 3 when I was a kid almost 20 years ago and it's PC gaming for life. Right now he's still using the very same Pentium 4 with Nvidia chipset on-board graphics PC he had all these years. So i bought it in a heartbeat (which was the right decision cause moments after it was all gone). It arrived 2 days later and lo and behold it is exactly as shyt as I expected it to be. PERFECT It only comes with DP and mini-DP but I can manage with a HDMI adapter since I bought a brand new Lenovo L24i-30 Freesync 1080p 75Hz monitor for my neighbour as well. The first thing that cane to mind was cheapo Dell SFF Optiplex that are available everywhere. I settled on the cheapest 2nd/3rd gen Intel one I could find since they are significantly cheaper than 4th gen and above in my region. I bought one with an i3 3240, 4GB DDR3 and 250GB RAM for MYR300 which I will all change out later. Now I went ahead and bought two sticks of 4GB DDR3 RAM for MYR100, then proceeded to sell the included 2 x 2GB DIMMS for MYR50 online. I also added in a Crucial BX500 480GB SSD (Which I regret not getting the 1TB later) for ~MYR250 and sold the 250GB HDD for MYR20. As a bonus I also bought a USB 3.0 half-height PCIE card for ~MYR40 which I will need to transfer all the games I want him to experience that he missed out for the past 20 years. Alright, now things are coming together. The insides are so compact and tight, let's see how're the thermals. Well, as expected the thermals are horrible. CPU is fine but GPU idles at 60°C, watching YouTube jumps to 70 °C and shoots to 94°C when gaming. I guess this is what happens when you cram an RX 550 into a wire mess SFF case with a dinky little 80mm intake and a single slot, half-height cooler. Let's try changing the fan to an Arctic P8 and see if we can get better thermals. Oh great, Dell even makes their fan header a 5-pin proprietary design. Guess I'll need to buy the fan adapter off Taobao and wait a week. Cost of the fan was MYR35, adapter with shipping was MYR8. In the meantime I decided to upgrade the i3 to an i5 3570S that I found for MYR160 with shipping, and I sold the i3 for MYR80. Cool I'll also repaste the GPU and add some thermal pads for the VRAM while I'm at it. ------------- Well a week has passed and my adapters are here, the Arctic P8 fit in snuggly and the adapter works. Buuuuuut, it was turning super slowly in stock config. Good thing I used Google and found that people use HWINFO to control fanspeed on Dells. HWINFO reports the Arctic P8 to be spinning at 7000rpm lol, I guess this is why it was spinning so slowly, the embedded controller was trying hard to slow it down. I guess Dell even has proprietary OWM singals. So I manually adjusted the fan profile, set HWINFO to start minimised with fan control on startup, voilà. Thermals are much more acceptable now. 50°C idle and 89 °C when gaming. Not like amazing but at least it ain't throttling. I loaded some of my favourite single player games: - DOOM 2016 -Quake Enhanced - Warcraft 3 - Homeworld Remastered - MGS V The Phantom Pain - RE2 Remake - Yakuza 0 - Starcraft 2 Trilogy - XCOM Enemy Unknown - Civ VI - Skyrin Special Edition This is where I regret not getting the 1TB model cause there were so many more games that I wanted to load on for him to enjoy. Oh well, this is what I'm sticking with. All in all I'm quite pleased with this build, it costed quite cheap during the PC parts shortage. DOOM was running at 50fps at 1080p; RE2, Yakuza 0 and The Phantom Pain at high 60fps+ Not bad at all Parts list: - Dell Optiplex - MYR300 - RX 640 4GB - MYR230 - i5 3570S - MYR160 - 2 x 4GB DDR3 - MYR100 - Crucial BX500 480GB with 3.5" cage - MYR250 - Arctic P8 with adapter - MYR43 - SFF USB 3.0 card - MYR40 Sold i3 for MYR80 Sold 2 x 2GB for MYR50 Sold 250GB HDD for MYR20 Total system cost ~MYR975 = USD235 Monitor was another ~MYR500 = ~USD120 I had some unopened bundled Dell keyboard and mice lying around to be gifted with this rig as well.

Hi, Recently purchased an optiplex 9010 and want to get graphics card upgrade for obvious reason but don’t have the Budget to upgrade psu as well so what’s the best Gpu within 240 W?

can someone help me through modding a stock optiplex 7010 mt any suggestions? like styles and how do i connect rgb

Hey, I want to buy a Dell Optiplex 380 because I like the case. Does someone know if it is possible to remove the I/O-shield? It doesn't look like it is a possibility. (See pictures) Thanks in regards -Emmanuel

Hello, I want to use my Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro (4GB RAM; i3 4160; Samsung SSD) to idle steam games (Steam idle master) (for card drops). The pc is running Windows 10 home. Is there any better OS for this purpose. And is the pc made for this kind of application. Should i restart it sometimes? Thanks for your help