Dell Optiplex 7050 Review

Welcome back to an Element Productions video. In this episode, we discover an OptiPlex 7050 that's far more capable and reliable than the price would let on. Just how much can you do with one of these machines? Watch on to find out!

Let me know what you thought of the video. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Leave them below. Thank you and God bless.

[thebat]

nice review, I got an Optiplex 7050 SSF desktop i5-6500 3.20GHZ quad core 8 GB RAM 250SSD usb-c win pro for $440 AUD just recently, I like it a lot

[UTFapollomarine]

thanks and God bless bro i just grabbed one for fruity loops hate using my main editing rig and gaming rig for music or audio

[Max_Mustermann]

It seems a bit weird that Dell only put a 180W power supply in its newer SFF models. I bought a 9020 SFF for my father a while ago which came with a 240W power supply and it handles a GTX 1650 just fine. It's a really neat little machine and besides the PCIe slot situation (wide slot being at the bottom) the only significant drawback seems to be that the platform only supports CPUs with up to 4 cores.

[stevenbeeney]

Impressive lingo, "small form factor.". Next time I get groceries, I'll ask if they have any SFF tomatoes. And why can't Detroit make a good, small form factor car?

On a happy note, I just got a Dell 7050 and deleted every nasty SFF bit of Windows OS, of course, and installed Ubuntu Pro Studio. It screams! I love it. 16 GB of RAM easily handles large 4K video and all of the max quality audio editing I can imagine. A great machine like the 7050 deserve a great OS.

[Zaxbox]

I've had a 7050 sff sitting in the corner for about a year that was given to me for free. I finally opened it up and started messing around with it. Might use it as a replacement for the old HP Compaq at work or find some other use for it. It has 16gb of RAM, no hdd, a low profile 1gb RAM AMD card. It's also TPM 1.2.

I added another 16gb of RAM (32gb total) and a 1TB M.2 drive. I'd like to add a 4gb low profile videocard but I think that the PSU would need to be upgraded. I'd like to put Win11 on it but it needs TPM 2.0 but I've read that the 7050 can run Win 11 if manually loaded from a USB drive. I'll have to check into it.

[napowolf]

Nice walkthrough of internals of the machine. I don't know why Dell decided to put only one PCIEx16 slot in Optiplex SFFs ever since 4th gen Intel era, and also put it under under the x4 slot.

If you need both expansion slots, you would naturally go with a single slot option for a GPU upgrade. By placing the x4 slot up top, Dell essentially limits the machine to a GT1030, RX550 or some LP Quadro cards for discrete GPUS.

RX6400 gets pretty huge performance hits without PCIE 4.0 support, since it only has 4 PCIE lanes

[budad]

180 watts is less than the 230 watts on the 9020, I got the i7 9020 for the same price as a i5 7040 and the extra cores do make a difference. (NOTE the half PCI slot can take a 1050ti, the power output is less but you will never push it to the level it will need the extra power, probably a good thing given the watt output on the PSU)

[BoshiNagare]

2x Sata3
1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16
1 x PCI Express 3.0 x4
1 x M.2 2280/2242 (PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe)

[SINISTERthe]

I’m contemplating buying this model but idk how well it can run games would this still be suitable if I want to play cod or escape from tarkov or any other larger games?

[Somatom_Man]

I have purchased 3 of these for $60 each. They are very fast, if not gamers.

[kevintran]

I just got one today lol I paid 20$ for 7050 series good PC

[yuan.pingchen]

This machine should be called Optiplex 7050 SFF(small form factor)

[aceato]

Would you say this is decent for video and picture editing?

[GuitarWithDofka]

This 7050 tower has an optical drive slot. Being it’s a smaller tower do you need a specific size(smaller) optical drive?

[Megatog]

crazy that this thing has a serial port still

[daxmoney]

Put a low profile 1650 in there and you can game pretty well because since it’s not going to use as much power as a normal 1650 and if you remove the vents next to it you can actually get some decent ventilation on a low profile but the big ones heck no

[Nrd_Rush]

Previously had 9020, fan was extremely quit. Same with 70 series?

[Trptz]

Can you please recommend internal upgrades for this pc? I’m new to desktops and I’m not sure what to get

[dynahzm]

at the time of making this comment, you can buy a dell optiplex 7050 with 32gb ram and intel core i7-7700 for $245 refurbished

[alphabet]

I’m think of getting the i7 6700 16gb ram and 512 ssd can this do some light gaming