Dell OptiPlex 7020

[Dentash]

I picked up a supper cheap under $200.00 Canadian Dell OptiPlex 7020 with a i5 4570, 16Gb of ram 256Gb boot SSD and 500Gb storage ssd and ordered a MSI LB 1050ti should I have gone with a different card for this set up?

 

I only ask because I have been getting odd lag from the system I thought it may have to do with the ram the seller has in stalled as they are not great all signal sided.

 

any help would be great thanks a ton.

[SkilledRebuilds]

8 minutes ago, Dentash said:

I picked up a supper cheap under $200.00 Canadian Dell OptiPlex 7020 with a i5 4570, 16Gb of ram 256Gb boot SSD and 500Gb storage ssd and ordered a MSI LB 1050ti should I have gone with a different card for this set up?

 

I only ask because I have been getting odd lag from the system I thought it may have to do with the ram the seller has in stalled as they are not great all signal sided.

 

any help would be great thanks a ton.

What are you playing?

What instance of Lag (in game or in Windows?)
Whats the make/Model of the SSD Windows is on?

Could very well be the 4core4thread in games (we talking about games?) that use 4cores+ and the excess usages cause stutter.
Hard to say without more info.

I know 4c8t machines (I've build a Dell SFF with 1050Ti battlebox) it can handle games well don't know about 4c4t today.. i'm unexperienced because i've not used one in a couple years..
 

Spoiler

^Playlist of games if interested/curious. i7 3770/16GB 1600Mhz and SFF 1050TI

 

[Dentash]

It was skipping frames but I think I found the issue looks like the driver I had might be to blame I changed drivers and it seems on now in War thunder so I will test a few others see if its fine now. I for got that I had the older driver installed because the internet was down so I am just dumb lol

[bfrid3]

25 minutes ago, Dentash said:

I picked up a supper cheap under $200.00 Canadian Dell OptiPlex 7020 with a i5 4570, 16Gb of ram 256Gb boot SSD and 500Gb storage ssd and ordered a MSI LB 1050ti should I have gone with a different card for this set up?

 

I only ask because I have been getting odd lag from the system I thought it may have to do with the ram the seller has in stalled as they are not great all signal sided.

 

any help would be great thanks a ton.

So I actually use one of these in a home theater pc and I can tell you in my experience with mine that the 1050ti will run very hot in this pc. I ended up swapping my 1050 ti out for a gt1030 since i just use it as a glorified streaming box. But if you are playing games, I would recommend maybe trying to find a gtx 1650 lp. That way you are getting the power (and thus heat savings) of the newer architecture. As far as the i5-4570, it performs moderately well today. I have the 4590 in mine, but they are basically the same thing. For Esports titles it will not be a bottleneck in the slightest. and in triple A titles you'll run into a gpu limitation before you run into a CPU limitation anyways, so I wouldn't be too worried about your system being bottlenecked. It seems decently balanced. As far as the stuttering, I would remove any mismatched sticks of ram if there is any. I would also try running the system with the side panel off and see if that allows the temps to go down on the cpu and gpu. The stuttering may possibly be caused by thermal throttling and clock speed dips.

[Dentash]

18 minutes ago, bfrid3 said:

So I actually use one of these in a home theater pc and I can tell you in my experience with mine that the 1050ti will run very hot in this pc. I ended up swapping my 1050 ti out for a gt1030 since i just use it as a glorified streaming box. But if you are playing games, I would recommend maybe trying to find a gtx 1650 lp. That way you are getting the power (and thus heat savings) of the newer architecture. As far as the i5-4570, it performs moderately well today. I have the 4590 in mine, but they are basically the same thing. For Esports titles it will not be a bottleneck in the slightest. and in triple A titles you'll run into a gpu limitation before you run into a CPU limitation anyways, so I wouldn't be too worried about your system being bottlenecked. It seems decently balanced. As far as the stuttering, I would remove any mismatched sticks of ram if there is any. I would also try running the system with the side panel off and see if that allows the temps to go down on the cpu and gpu. The stuttering may possibly be caused by thermal throttling and clock speed dips.

I might return the 1050Ti for the 1650 lp I do not know what I did not even think of the 1650 when I was looking at lp cards 

[SkilledRebuilds]

I should have mentioned I have drilled 6x 1.2cm diameter holes on the DellSFF side panel for GPU Intake.

Allowing Lower temps at same fanspeed (bit loud as stated in someones post) or reducing fanspeeds for similar temps.

 

Seen in my posts previous spoiler playlist.. PUBG specific video,..at the end. 4m20+ mark.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Troubleshooting

[Dentash]

12 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

I should have mentioned I have drilled 6x 1.2cm diameter holes on the DellSFF side panel for GPU Intake.

Allowing Lower temps at same fanspeed (bit loud as stated in someones post) or reducing fanspeeds for similar temps.

 

Seen in my posts previous spoiler playlist.. PUBG specific video,..at the end. 4m20+ mark.

Well the guy 100% did not fit so she looks like this now had to move the psu out and cut the bracket out of the back 

[Dentash]

21 hours ago, bfrid3 said:

So I actually use one of these in a home theater pc and I can tell you in my experience with mine that the 1050ti will run very hot in this pc. I ended up swapping my 1050 ti out for a gt1030 since i just use it as a glorified streaming box. But if you are playing games, I would recommend maybe trying to find a gtx 1650 lp. That way you are getting the power (and thus heat savings) of the newer architecture. As far as the i5-4570, it performs moderately well today. I have the 4590 in mine, but they are basically the same thing. For Esports titles it will not be a bottleneck in the slightest. and in triple A titles you'll run into a gpu limitation before you run into a CPU limitation anyways, so I wouldn't be too worried about your system being bottlenecked. It seems decently balanced. As far as the stuttering, I would remove any mismatched sticks of ram if there is any. I would also try running the system with the side panel off and see if that allows the temps to go down on the cpu and gpu. The stuttering may possibly be caused by thermal throttling and clock speed dips.

I think I will have to go to 1030 as well the 1050ti crashed the system even with the driver update and the 1650 seems to boot loop the pc I think the PSU just cant take the gpus

[bfrid3]

4 hours ago, Dentash said:

I think I will have to go to 1030 as well the 1050ti crashed the system even with the driver update and the 1650 seems to boot loop the pc I think the PSU just cant take the gpus

Yeah that makes sense. pick up the gt 1030 on evga's midweek madness. That's what I did and the card was only around $50 usd