Is This The PERFECT Dell Optiplex?

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Timestamps:
0:00 This Optiplex might not seem like much...
0:35 Sponsor - Ugreen
2:16 The Original Dell Optiplex 5055
3:02 Upgrade Plans
5:59 CPU Upgrade
7:07 RAM and GPU
8:22 Cinebench R23
9:10 Cinebench R15
9:24 PC Mark 10
9:42 Power Consumption and Temps
10:21 Comparison with i7-1260p
11:15 Gaming and Emulation
12:53 10GbE Woes
13:37 DaVinci Resolve
14:10 RAM Overclocking
15:04 Virtualization with Proxmox
16:53 Jellyfin and Transcoding
17:44 A good value?

[Mihai-Marian-Cenusa]

In order to have that network card working you need to cover with tape some smbus pins... google it!

[psyclptic]

First rule of hardware upgrades, always update your bios first…it’s the core hardware interface.

[romayojr]

i've been using 3 dell optiplex 7060s as my primary proxmox HA cluster for over a year which i salvaged from my IT job. i upgraded the ram for each node to 64gb for a total of 192gb and installed 1tb of ssd for each which gave me 3tb of ceph pool storage. it's been stable and very reliable for me so far and am very happy with it

[dominick]

I bought one just like this thinking I could fit my GTX 1080 and give it away to my little cousin.... The GPU is exactly as long as the whole case 😂😂😂

[TheQuickSilver]

That turned out to be a pretty great little system for not a lot of money. It may not have as much flexibility as a MT PC would but for being as small as it it it has a lot of potential!

[G-Foxy.]

1:03 Speaking of ugreen, please ask them to send you one of their new NAS devices for review

[haydenc]

I really like these types of homebuilt "build" shows...well within reach of most home users...and it shows that even older hardware can still be used/upgraded to hold it's on in a homelab/server situation.
Good on you...just glad you don't whip out "sponsored" over $1000 machines on the regular and try to compare to "home user" level stuff (then claim you represent the home brew croud)...that really grinds my gears
Keep em coming!!!!

[DaarkCloud]

My primary desktop is an Optiplex 7050sff with an i7 7700, so I always get a little excited seeing Optiplex get some love

[ogrooster]

The small joke about the drive S/Ns in truenas made my day, shit that was funny

[stey]

I picked up an optiplex 7060 sff last week with an i7 8700 and 32gb ram, going to move my entire homelab into that machine. Even though it is bigger than the Dell micros I currently run, it's impressive that the SFF is still relatively small and has a lot more upgrade potential!

[gordonfreeman]

I used to see those Intel 10Gb Ethernet cards come in all the time for RMAs. It was almost always the little fan that had completely failed, similar to what’s happening to yours. Great video!

[drakkon_sol]

I love watching old tech find new life.

(I still have my Opti9020-USFF with an i7-4785T, 8gb 1600 and dual drives. It is a reliable and great little machine.
But as my homeserver I replaced it with a Poweredge T110-ii using an e3-1265Lv2, 16gb 1600, a TeslaP4, a 2.5gb nic and 4x8tb drives.)

[JordosTechShack]

1st gen and zen+ memory controllers sucked compared to Zen 2 and 3. My main desktop with a Ryzen 2600X could get 2 sticks two 3200, 4 matching sticks could only get 2666. Dropped in the 5800X3d and they "Auto Tuned" to 3600 and have been stable ever since. Same ram and mobo.

[mostwantedkiss]

I got the OptiPlex SFF 5060 that had an i5-8500 CPU. Upgraded it with 16GB RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD, added another 4TB SATA SSD for PLEX, a WIFI 6 card and a full dual slot dual fan GTX 1050 Ti Graphic card by using a PCIE raiser and removing the HDD holder mechanics. Its working pretty well for my home server and remote access needs.

[UntouchedWagons]

In the future look into the acs override setting in the proxmox documentation, it might help with splitting up those IOMMU groups, plus the ACS override patch is preinstalled.

[rysterstech]

Didnt know you daily drove a framework, you should do a video on your experience using and upgrading it!

[kevinhu]

I'm honestly impressed by the idle power draw of first gen ryzen system

[coletraintechgames]

I bought three Dell 7020 sff for about $130 in probably 2019. They have played every game the kids wanted. Upgraded ram, added a gt1030, changed to SSD. I am still on the i7 it came with.

My one regret is that I didn't get the MT, it would be so nice to be able to fit a better GPU in there. I'm actually kindof stuck on this issue. I need a whole new computer, I guess, times 3.

Separate thought. You could do a divinci resolve video! I edit a little and I'm not sure wether to use 264 or 265 and at what quality... Sometimes the files are huge. Just a thought, but I haven't found that answer.

[grizzlyindustries]

14:18
For a lot of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen Ryzen based on my testing as a used local buyer/seller and Bryan from Tech YES City made a video on it as well a while back.

These Ryzen CPUs saw an improvement of memory to 2933mhz to 3000mhz would make around 7% to 11% increase. After that 3200mhz made not much a difference at about a 1% to 2% more. Then no more improvements or making it worse at above 3200mhz.

This is based on memory and the motherboard. Teamgroup has mostly been best in compatiblity with majority of AM4 CPUs and mothetboards. Corsair was usually worse. But that was based on my variables.

My sister has a Ryzen 5 3600 for editing for some years now with an MSI A320M using PB. I have a Ryzen 7 1800x in my newer rig with an ASUS X470. And I've built only with Ryzen 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen before covid.

Loved the videos.

Completely forgot about Ryzen Master software. Man I love Ryzen. Was funny cause I remember AMD wasn't a favorite to anybody back then. Now, more buyers want AMD like Intel making it half and half of sales and great for customers.

Hope you have a great day everyone.

[tyler]

This machine with one of the new sff Arc GPUs would be a perfect media server. The encoder on the A380 is amazing, pcie power only and can do AV1 encoding and decoding for $115 bucks.