dell optiplex 7040 MT

[jonrosalia]

        kind of just want to pick peoples brains and see where this $270 pc takes me and what comes out of this for the community

 

Starting specks "new"- i5 6500,500gb 7200rpm drive, 8gb DDR4 2133,the bigger 240 watt PSU(might be upgrade for SSF 180watt), stock fans WIN10 PRO and no discrete  GPU right now.

 

Things I have done today is made a dust filter for the intake it is going to live in a workshop environment "aka hell for electronics" I installed a crucial 240gb M.2 sata3 drive installed a fresh copy of windows pro on it and wiped the original drive making it separate storage taped over the white led indicator and taped up the back of the 5.2 bay in the front so it doesn't suck dirt into my drive bay.

 

the first question I really have is has anyone found a aftermarket AIO that would work on the dell motherboard or atleast a good fan because I may if prices come down want to swap in the i7- 7700 or I might give up on the dell board and get a z270 board and put the 6500 in it back in this case because  it has a lot more room than  the SFF having a pair of 2.5 bays and the power for more drives along with the 2 full length 16x,8x pcie slots with the 1x and legacy pci also the back having dual display already and the 530 gpu surprised me with how much power it had over my older i5 -4210u with 4400 gpu dell xps 1820 that is my home rig for now.

 

Also whats the opinion on a good priced monitor that would match up to the integrated gpu my current one is a hp 2311x so its 1080 60hz but its just kinda meh looking when im watching content.

[jonrosalia]

installed a evga 1050ti for $ 230 in it today as well as a 1TB firecuda drive clearance sale $56 and set it as my game drive nothing to exiting except my HP 2311x monitor is mind blowing now and can be scaled up to 2715x1527 now and actually looks really good at that resolution kind of a shame I ordered a $200 27" spectre 4k panel to replace it already will post pics of this build having issues with iPhone connecting to things.

so total build is a whopping $800 right now with cables and everything not to bad but its a dead end in the end unless I swap out the motherboard and im not interested in that its a monster at its odd resolution playing fortnite with all its broken goodness at epic settings fluxing between 55-60 capped FPS.  

[MonitorFlicker]

On 7/5/2018 at 3:05 AM, jonrosalia said:

installed a evga 1050ti for $ 230 in it today as well as a 1TB firecuda drive clearance sale $56 and set it as my game drive nothing to exiting except my HP 2311x monitor is mind blowing now and can be scaled up to 2715x1527 now and actually looks really good at that resolution kind of a shame I ordered a $200 27" spectre 4k panel to replace it already will post pics of this build having issues with iPhone connecting to things.

so total build is a whopping $800 right now with cables and everything not to bad but its a dead end in the end unless I swap out the motherboard and im not interested in that its a monster at its odd resolution playing fortnite with all its broken goodness at epic settings fluxing between 55-60 capped FPS.  

The PCI-E card has 35W output according to this blog

http://www.mrscience101.com/index.php/2017/06/22/dell-optiplex-7040-psu-and-gpu-upgrade/

Do you happen to see any kind of problem while you max the 1050Ti GPU usage with this set up?

 

Also, can the motherboard and power supply be swapped?

[jonrosalia]

I haven't gotten a aftermarket psu to work but haven't given up all hope of it it may happen eventually but I have a rock solid build with the 1050ti running at 1928 on the core clock and 3600 on the ram on only slot power maybe something happened to his motherboard that he's only getting 35 watts mine is alot more than that I have all the power that it needs running benchmarks its pegged at 99% and my cpu isn't far behind. 

 

swapping the motherboard out of it might be a challenge because the I/O shield is part of the case and you would have to cut it and the stand offs knowing dell are going to be in the wrong place so you would have to change alot so I would think something like a thermaltake g3 case that's almost as small as the MT and can use a stock ATX motherboard or smaller would be a better choice 

[jonrosalia]

3 hours ago, SileNTMar said:

The PCI-E card has 35W output according to this blog

http://www.mrscience101.com/index.php/2017/06/22/dell-optiplex-7040-psu-and-gpu-upgrade/

Do you happen to see any kind of problem while you max the 1050Ti GPU usage with this set up?

 

Also, can the motherboard and power supply be swapped?

his card needs 2x6 pins to power it or it will never start you need a aftermarket psu for that card its a power hog. the EVGA 1050ti is the top dog as far as slot power right now mine doesn't even have the option for 6 pin. then he has the i7 and the 4 dimms of ram to power along with that spinning hdd maxing out the poor 240watt PSU it has im running half that ram a M.2 ssd and the 6500 i5 with the firecuda drive for large storage so I have enough power to sneek the 1050 into the system but im close to maxing it out.

[MonitorFlicker]

5 hours ago, jonrosalia said:

swapping the motherboard out of it might be a challenge because the I/O shield is part of the case and you would have to cut it and the stand offs knowing dell are going to be in the wrong place so you would have to change alot so I would think something like a thermaltake g3 case that's almost as small as the MT and can use a stock ATX motherboard or smaller would be a better choice 

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I haven't seen a thread or a blog that changes the motherboard on 7040MT' case. If you take a closer look, the motherboard has different screw hole locations compared to a mITX or an ITX motherboard.