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[GorrilaHertz]

I got a second hand 5040 to replace my dad's shockingly bad office PC. Upgraded it with an i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and fitted it with a 1TB M.2 SSD. It's a great and inexpensive PC.

[Linuscracked]

Great now that's going to shoot up in price

[kbhasi]

I believe the reason why the older ones are being shown is that there had been an abundance of them due to companies selling their old hardware to liquidators when they upgrade, then those liquidators selling them on after wiping the internal storage.

The newer ones are starting to appear as companies sell those off. It depends on their accounting periods and such that would determine when they'd buy new tech.

[brutal]

I got a 9020 for free from a friend. I put a rx 6400 in it and now it can play most of my steam library at decent framerates.

[WalterKnox]

I buy old business machines (largely SFF optiplexes) and sell parts from them. The older ones like the 9020 are honestly built so much better than the newer ones. I guess for performance it doesn’t matter, but for every day use, I still prefer the old ones.

[johnhiggins]

One of the best places to pick stuff up like this at is a surplus depot your local university or government agency might have. They typically don't have any storage included but they're always relatively new machines (like the one on the left in the video) and you don't have to pay shipping or tax on them.

[memelord]

Good thing I found my Dell Optiplex 790 MT for free all because some office failed

[pikachuchujelly]

I just got an Optiplex 3050 with a 7th gen core i5 for $110. Came with a decent mouse and keyboard as well. I could've gotten one of these SFF PCs for cheaper, but I settled on a minitower, since it uses a standard ATX motherboard, has more room for a GPU, and uses standard ATX power supplies.

[prod.yungsqueezy]

I use it for hosting my game server and website

[PieStudios]

Better yet, buy an HP ProDesk or EliteDesk. The MT versions around Skylake and Kabylake use standard power supplies so you can swap them and put a relatively power hungry GPU in them

[PC_noobOfficial]

When my laptop stopped working, my grandma got me a optiplex from eBay for 100USD I think I don't remember the exact cost, I can run gta 5 with lowest settings and get 30-40 fps, I usually play older games tho like Batman Arkham asylum and city, tf2, gta 4, half-life 1 and 2, etc. And pcsx2 with gta 3 and metal gear solid 3

[Forrest_O.]

I knew this beforehand, and it will arrive soon.

[zeroturn]

3020 gang, we’re doing motherboard swaps!

[johnruscigno]

Figured I'd mention that they can't be overclocked BUT...if you go into bios by holding down the F2 key, you can find an option called intel turbo boost. It works with the cpu and the gpu. Sometimes if you are planning on using another gpu, you have to turn off secure boot and turn on legacy csm. Then make sure that gpu is selected in bios.

[StringerNews]

Meanwhile, the Skylake 7050 micros are selling for less than $100.

[danmar]

I’ve had a blast with my DELL OptiPlex 9020.

[peterlarkin]

I was about to get a newer gen optiplex, then found a 7010 i5 3570 with an RX550 already installed for €120. Another €50 on 500G ssd + 16G RAM. Just finished RDR2, totally smooth and 47fps average even in towns with a graphics on low with medium details.

[suidyy]

Is there a video on how to remove it from a network pc?

[HavocGaming-dujm]

the only reason i bought a 3020 was because the xx40 series doesn't come in a mid tower form factor

[ShapdCrusadr]

Never owned a prebuilt desktop PC and never will.
Fall last year I picked up locally a used 8th gen i7-8700 & Asus ROG Strix Z390-E motherboard for $50 dollars total. Then during the time finding a GPU was like a needle in a haystack. Bought locally a used EVGA GTX 1080 SC 8GB for $50 dollars.

At the time I bought the hardware the CPU was going for around $225 dollars used. While the GPU in question was going for around $300 dollars on the used market. Got a sweet deal on the hardware.