My father works IT for his company. Every 2 years they refresh their desktop pc's. I got the same version of this except with a 9700 for free. It was awesome. I ended up throwing a bigger ssd some more ram and a RX 6400 low profile in it. It ran awesome! This was a couple years ago.
You might also consider putting an 80 mm fan in the bottom intake vent to help improve airflow. I set up a 7060 SFF for my sister to use, and I installed a Noctua NF-A8 in the intake vent. I used a two-way PWM splitter to connect both it and the cpu cooler to the cpu fan header
There's a spot for a system fan on the board, it's just the pads and missing the headers. I've got a few of these at work and am debating trying to rig one up as I'm running on an old 4th gen. Debating if I want to try my hand at soldering a header to the board.
Another note is that if you have an extra 50-100 dollars in your budget you can sometimes get up to 11th gen optiplexes. You can get optiplex 3000s for around $250-300.
@@geothornton geez thats still cheaper to go than what i was going to do trying to upgrade cpu in few yrs old pc that used to be my mom's and then i had mine which is like ten + yrs old. It needs entire new graphics card as its HP with a ryzen graphics that is obsolete now and the cpu is very outdated. Cost me way more to rehab the two old ones than to fix up this optiplex a little.
My pc for the last 6 years was I5 8600k 3.6 16gb 3000mhz 1070ti, playing everything 1440p, from day ones, now is the same cpu but better coolers and OC to 4.8, same ram and a 4060 ti 16 gb, playing everything on high 1440p never under 60fps, I think that I'm good to go for the next 3 to 4 years. Thanks for your videos to tell people that not everything is buy new.
Went to Walmart the other day and they had a $1100 desktop with a 4060 in it, and a 14600kf. Pretty sure this build will give you something approaching 100% of the same performance at 1440p for 1/3 the cost
@@unacknowledged3537 I’m good for a few years, went with a clearance 12600kf and a h610 32 gb ddr4 3200. With a cooler total platform cost was 225 usd Am5’s better for CPU’s but the platform cost is still too high for me just play games casually, upgrade whenever I stop being able to play the games I want to play.
Funnily enough, older models of these SFF machines, Optiplex 7010 for example, had PCI-e ports in correct position, so you could put 2-slot card with original PSU in place. Well, looks like someone in Dell was designing new models on Friday afternoon...
I scored a new 7060 sff from a school auction for $123, i7 8700 for $75, rx 6400 $120, vengeance 4x16 64g ram $75, nortua NH-L9i $50, after watching your build I felt that I could have done something beefier if I had spent a little more. Its my first PC, if like it building and playing on pc, maybe my next build will be fitting a miniITX in an xbox 360e. Thank you for your content, it’s very inspirational.
I also brought 2 friends with such setups to play on the PC but still with i7 6700 non k and 10 or 20 series nvidia gpus. and haven't had any complaints to date
I have Optiplex 5060 sff, which is the same as yours except without some legacy ports. Throw A2000 on that little PCI rather than longer one. Works well, but need 1 extra intake 80mm fan for better cooling when the lid is closed, pretty solid and stable
You can easily swap the stock cooler with something like the ID Cooling IS-55, which is going to cool a lot better and be quieter. All you need are four m3x18 or m3x20 screws to mount it to the factory mounting. You just need to ditch the chassis intrusion switch as well as use a right angle SATA cable on the optical drive if you have one. Also, one thing to note with the 3060, 5060 and 7060 is that if you buy one planning to upgrade to a 9th Gen i7 or i9, they will NOT work in these systems. Dell never released the microcode to be able to run them. You can inject the microcode yourself by modifying the BIOS and flashing that modified BIOS, but it's risky. You're better off just buying the 5070 or 7070. However, the 9th Gen i5's do work on the latest BIOS, likely because they're pretty much identical to the 8th Gen with a slight bump to clock speeds.
It won't be a guaranteed improvement in such an airflow deprived case. While the stock cooler is loud it does exhaust hot air out of the case with its flow guidance shroud. A downdraft cooler on the other hand is just going to circulate hot air inside the case without driving the heat out effectively.
@@physxme You're right... you really need to add airflow, but you really need to add airflow regardless and you're not accounting for all variables. Regardless, you should add a front fan to these for some added airflow and you can absolutely add a couple of 40mm fans pretty easily to the rear. However, that cooler is just a thin chunk of cast aluminum, which is a cheap solution that doesn't work very well as a heat sink. It's not a lot of thermal mass and is completely relying on the fan to just brute force the air out of the chassis. Problem is... it still doesn't work well and the CPU is running in the 80s while pushing around 57dBa. I know... I'm testing it right now. The IS-55 has more thermal mass, copper heat pipes and better heat dissipation. Could it hot box? Yes, but the CPU temps will still be better, and the cooler will still be quieter, regardless. However, you should absolutely add a front fan and maybe one or two rear exhaust 40mm fans. That would be optimal.
@@Southized depends on the specs but its not enough to throttle the system. Can be a bit noisy if you have an i7 system. With just one case fan/cpu fan a warm gpu is going to get warm but its fine. Heat will dump out the back like a space heater nice in the winter. 🔥
Man that little psu is a savior because I have a dell inspiron 3650 that has the stupid 240w psu. I would love to upgrade the gpu from the 1050 ti to that 4060 you got.
There's some space for an 80 mm fan on the front. Between that and changing the stock cooler to something with a beefier heat sink, those CPU temps should become less scary.
noctua coolers for Optiplex are really the best you can do in small form factor... they are spendy, but will decrease temps 10-15 degrees Celcius overall, letting that boost TDP kick in a lot more with max boost up to 4.6 GHz.
Honestly though, for a lot of games that are GPU dependent, that 8th gen Intel CPU is still pretty solid. If anything, I'd see about swapping that stock Dell CPU cooler for something like a low profile Noctua cooler and then modding the side panel to give it more airflow. Or just run it without the side panel at all. I looked at a very similar build back in the "COVID days" and somehow happened upon an Origin prebuilt PC with the same form factor size, but with more "agreeable" SFX/ITX components and a 2-slot vertical mount GPU setup. With any ITX setup, it always comes back to thermals, no way around it. Great vid! Catch you next time!
Just FYI, I didn't just "like", and I didn't just "subscribe", ......but I liked, subscribed and then "full-screened" the video for all that juicy full screen goodness. I don't even give Russ that kind of treatment. ;D
Huge KUDOS on your "validation" of the Apevia PSU.... I always hesitate on that brand. It looks capable, but it's still not an EVGA or even Gigabyte (even with their bad models), it's just unknown.
You should look at doing a build with a Lenovo P330/340 with an A2000 or RTX4000 SFF Card. You can get them cheep and they come with 9th gen Intels with six+ cores, Dual NVME, 64GB RAM.
NICE! I love these little modded office PCs. I'll have to see if I can sell off some old stock and maybe snag a few used coffeelake (8th/9th) gen optiplexes. I am still REALLY disappointed in dell for putting the x16 so dang close to the PSU. It wasn't always like that.
I have a few of these my work has decommissioned, honestly I like the Tesla P4 option. my kids have these same machines all 3 have a Tesla p4 and it works out really well. Great job on the video!
Also if you can go to the BIOS version right before the plundervolt exploit came out and then factory reset it you can undervote these with throttle stop and bring that temperature down quite a bit
This is a really good idea. The low profile rtx 4060 is a great gpu for sff gaming. Same with the rtx 3050 6gb, not a fast card, but with the right sff pc can get you gaming on a low cost pc.
Mini ITX PCs were very rare in my country infact they still are so what I did was get these small optiplex machinese and turned them into gaming PC's back in Intel 4th days, infact I remember using a HP intel pentium 4 desktop as a gaming machine back in the day too
I have a 7050 and 9020. Both i7's. I put 32bg or RAM in them and the 7050 has a 1tb M.2 drive and running Win11. I might fix it up for one of the scouts in my stepson's troop since he plays Minecraft on a laptop. I figure that this should be a bit better. But they both have some weird little 1gb GPU's that I would want to get rid of but the PSU's are the problem. This video has given my some options to look into for upgrades. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work.
I hadnt looked at flex atx units in a while, that 500watt probably would have been like 120$ a few years ago. That really opens up a lot of options for 40-50$
From my experience dell machines especially undervolt really well and even if it’s disabled in the bios you can usually find the value and change it. That should help with power consumption and temperatures, I was able to undervolt my i7-7700t and went from 35 watts at boost clock down to around 27 watts.
yeah sadly 4060 low profile ain't accessible out here in philippines, i'd love to make a build like that and other ultra sff builds. can buy it on amazon but will cost customs fee of 160 USD, take note that the average minimum daily wage here is 7.5 USD
I love the idea of a small desktop pc, I also build a gaming pc for my son with a second hand i7 8th gen office pc with a used Nvidia 1080 (naturally with a miditower case).. however in this case surely the CPU hold down the gpu
That’s a better GPU max temp than I expected. My RTX 3060 hit 79 degrees in AW2 just walking in the forest. It’s inside of an Inspiron 620 MT LGA 1200 build. As a matter of fact adding a flex unit as a supplemental PSU might be a way forward for those using modern prebuilt MTs.
Such builds have some serious caveats. I would love to see a PC built from scratch. And most importantly a PC built with new and not used parts. A gaming PC with a 12400F paired with an RTX 3050 would be a great emulation machine. The 12400F is a great CPU for emulation and RTX GPUs are perhaps the best for emulation and some casual game streaming (thanks to NVENC technology).
Aerospace manufacturing IT here, lol we have loads of these at work , they're good little machines for running programs 24/7 in industrial environments. We always joke about modding one up like this
I put an Apevia 500w in my ssf JOYJOM, with a lp 4060 and about every 2 hours the fan would turn on real loud for about 2 mins and turn off. The power supply was getting to hot even without any load it would still turn on. Its kinda loud and annoying.
This is definitely what I was looking for since I have a Dell OptiPlex 5070 and I wanted to add an RTX 4060 low profile but I didn't know what to do with the power supply, although I would love to change the motherboard (if possible) to a better one in the not too distant future.
You'll have a add more cooling. I have one similar and to run anything higher than PS it heats the GPU up and causes an odd stutter. (In emulation) It does pretty great on something like ps2 with upscaling/post etc. sweet little sleeper.
Got myself a Elitedesk G5 with I7 8700 instead for Batocera. It has 4 PCIE Slots and the 16x has the most available space. Also it can take two 3,5" drives and looks more living room friendly, almost like a console.
I picked up an Optiplex 3070 with a i5-9500 for free from work. I was going to put the RX 6400 in it, but after seeing this video it has changed my mind. Mainly building for emulation, but possibly more modern gaming too.
@Southized I have an Anbernic RG35XX Plus which I installed Batocera on due to the stock OS being very limited. I do like it very much. Even after finding a theme I liked and setting it to the recommended settings for the Anbernic, it was still a little off. But I had started tweaking the xml code for certain menus to fix the display discrepancies. I'm sure I won't have issues on the PC, but I've been wanting to do a Windows build with LaunchBox for several years now. I will definitely consider a Batocera build for a future build.
@@SonicMayhem3787 i prefer batocera over launchbox. Once you get batocera all configured man it just works. All i have to do is turn on the pc and my ps3 controller auto syncs. No keybord and mouse to launch emulators or select roms just controller its like a dream
I made up one of these SFF's with an rtxA2000. I didn't swap the power supply, but did a no-no and cut the housing to make space for the a2000 =D. Is it dangerous? probably. Does it play Cyberpunk at 1080p ~60? yes.
Is it possible that the 7060 case can house a 7080 i7 10th mobo? Is there a big difference between 8th and 10th Intel gen for 1080p games? Watching this video I'm thinking of building something small as this build for a full HD games on my living room.
How does the mounting work in the scenario where you use the riser? How do you fit it to where it stays in place and how do you work with getting a display cable plugged into it
In future videos, could you test more games that run on Capcom's RE engine please? Games like the Resident Evil 4 Remake and Street Fighter VI, and Devil May Cry 5 are really tough to run on lower end PCs. Although, DMC5 runs great on the Steam Deck.
I have to wonder what this would look like with an HP EliteDesk because they tend to have a lot more room in their cases compared to Dell’s SFF offerings
Something you could also do that's even less expensive, at least to begin with, with this build, is shave off the right slot edge of the 4X slot so that you can slot in the graphics card in it, and it could work. It'll be limited to 4X, but in a pinch, it's even cheaper than modifying the case and buying another PSU.
The only downside to these specific models is that the good PCI slot is SO close to the power supply. If you're buying, I recommend folks go for a Lenovo P3XX series.
I don't know why dell and lenovo design computers so that the pci-e x16 slot interferes with the power supply. I use fujitsu esprimo computers. There the power supplies are on the other side of the case and there is more room for such expansions.
I followed this video to install a rtx 4060 low profile and replace the power, it is awesome! I can now play 3a game in 2k! Total cost Sff Pc $200 + 350 graphic card + $50 itx power
@@JLPLay07 The Gpu is at 79 degree census at winter time when playing game. I removed side cover and use a desk USB fan at summer. So cooling is a problem but not a big concern for me.
Good little PC, I was considering an I3 9th gen version for a Windows media server on VLC (download and store movies for streaming on Tvs with VLC). Considering you had to reinvest in another PSU + the GPU the total cost is still worth it considering it's not heating up as bad as a big bad boy with a big case and it's small and fits on your desk like a console
great combination, I didn't expect such results, definitely a good alternative to a mini pc, tell me which model you would choose better, Optiplex 10th gen Intel, thx
As the PSU is modular, is there not a cable you can buy that connects the PSU directly to the 8-pin motherboard connector, rather than using the 24-pin cable connected to the 8-pin adapter?
I literally built this exact build except mine came with a i5-8500t, I did the riser cable method, with welded 90 degree brackets for the GPU to lay down where the old HDD tray used to be so I could fit a full size dual fan GPU. I used the Zotac twin fan rtx 4060.
I did something similar with a HP elitedesk 800 G4. Honestly, spending any more than $100 for a graphics card is insane so I got a 1650 (gddr5 version) with a riser cable and mounted the card fan side face down towards the MB, so the case would close. It also helps to undervolt the I7 8700 for better performance and cooler temps. Right around that era is when AMD cpu's really starting kicking Intel's butt.
Black box 7040 optiplex ... Just vrm heatsink on stable and over drive I used two types of heatsink metal then a thermal paste and heatsink on the power driver Intel chip it's the weird chip on those style of motherboards that do not add cooling to that chip . As a governor
3 months ago I got this very pc free from my job because they were going to throw it away. I thought about turning it into a cheap gaming pc but couldn't because of the dell specific PSU plugs. So I gave up and started piecing together a gaming pc and over the span of THREE months I completed that build YESTURDAY.....and the very next day you post this video showing exactly how I could of saved $400 and THREE MONTHS!!!!!! ETA I love your content but right now I hate you lol. great vid and build. Guess ill get started on my second one thanks for the content.
@@edwincorreajr that is the CPU connector and you will need it. If you look at the CPU connector on the power supply cable it may look like a 8 pin on most after market PSU but its actually 2 four pin connectors clipped together. Only one of the 4 pins will work. Lucky the PSU in the video here (and the one I bought) has a 4 pin only connector and its red colored so its super easy to pick the right one.
This is fascinating! However I wish you showed the back of the unit after the GPU was installed. We can't see how ugly it looks back there. I'd probably wanna make a 3D printed bracket or somethin' specifically for the case if I did this. I mean, I really want to do this and make a LAN machine or somethin'. This is super cool!
My father works IT for his company. Every 2 years they refresh their desktop pc's. I got the same version of this except with a 9700 for free. It was awesome. I ended up throwing a bigger ssd some more ram and a RX 6400 low profile in it. It ran awesome! This was a couple years ago.
PSU wattage?
Still got it?! If no what are you running with now?
yea i had a lenovo sff pc with a 10400, i added another 8gb (total 16gb) and rx6400 with 260w psu
@@holeing wow i never thought u could put on a gpu with a 260 watt psu
@@yako9992 u got a lot to learn the low profile cards exist due to them
[4060 pegged at 100%] "what's holding us back is that CPU"
Bottlenecking is very real. This same GPU on a more modern ryzen 5 would perform better despite it pegging out reaching 100% on this combo.
You might also consider putting an 80 mm fan in the bottom intake vent to help improve airflow. I set up a 7060 SFF for my sister to use, and I installed a Noctua NF-A8 in the intake vent. I used a two-way PWM splitter to connect both it and the cpu cooler to the cpu fan header
Hello @nickfury1270, I would like to know if the modification you did is working fine. Just asking since I'm planning to do the same thing. Thanks!
Can you make a video tutorial?
There's a spot for a system fan on the board, it's just the pads and missing the headers. I've got a few of these at work and am debating trying to rig one up as I'm running on an old 4th gen. Debating if I want to try my hand at soldering a header to the board.
Sleeper PC with Ryzen 4070
This meme is spreading fast
Just stop it
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@@mtaufiqnmtn deal with it u prob have a nvidia 7700 xt
Another note is that if you have an extra 50-100 dollars in your budget you can sometimes get up to 11th gen optiplexes. You can get optiplex 3000s for around $250-300.
@@geothornton geez thats still cheaper to go than what i was going to do trying to upgrade cpu in few yrs old pc that used to be my mom's and then i had mine which is like ten + yrs old. It needs entire new graphics card as its HP with a ryzen graphics that is obsolete now and the cpu is very outdated.
Cost me way more to rehab the two old ones than to fix up this optiplex a little.
Just got a optioned 3080 sff with a 10th gen i5 16gb ram and 500gb ssd for $80
ETA PRIME @ 10:14 : "What's holding us back is that CPU."
That CPU: *barely goes above 70% utilization*
My pc for the last 6 years was I5 8600k 3.6 16gb 3000mhz 1070ti, playing everything 1440p, from day ones, now is the same cpu but better coolers and OC to 4.8, same ram and a 4060 ti 16 gb, playing everything on high 1440p never under 60fps, I think that I'm good to go for the next 3 to 4 years. Thanks for your videos to tell people that not everything is buy new.
14:00 that GPU anti-sag support is divine
With the obscene costs of graphics cards, I definitely like seeing the options for putting together some low cost capable gaming systems.
Went to Walmart the other day and they had a $1100 desktop with a 4060 in it, and a 14600kf.
Pretty sure this build will give you something approaching 100% of the same performance at 1440p for 1/3 the cost
@@zpodfjaoij4 14600KF, oh dear. Probably not a good prebuilt value in the first place, and Intel's recent stability issues make that doubly so.
@@zpodfjaoij4 Should have went with AMD buddy, especially their newer AM5 chipset CPUs
@@unacknowledged3537 can you give me budget amd cpu good for video editing? Can i combine it with radeon gpu
@@unacknowledged3537
I’m good for a few years,
went with a clearance 12600kf and a h610 32 gb ddr4 3200. With a cooler total platform cost was 225 usd
Am5’s better for CPU’s but the platform cost is still too high for me just play games casually, upgrade whenever I stop being able to play the games I want to play.
one of the most often cited limitations of these systems are the power supplies and this is a genius solution to that problem.
I had a similar system with an i7 on LGA 1151 that I replaced with a compatible Xeon processor. I was really pleased with the result.
Funnily enough, older models of these SFF machines, Optiplex 7010 for example, had PCI-e ports in correct position, so you could put 2-slot card with original PSU in place. Well, looks like someone in Dell was designing new models on Friday afternoon...
I scored a new 7060 sff from a school auction for $123, i7 8700 for $75, rx 6400 $120, vengeance 4x16 64g ram $75, nortua NH-L9i $50, after watching your build I felt that I could have done something beefier if I had spent a little more. Its my first PC, if like it building and playing on pc, maybe my next build will be fitting a miniITX in an xbox 360e. Thank you for your content, it’s very inspirational.
Nice!😎 Can you post a video about it when it's all done? Should be a nice first computer for sure
@@mike_t_007 😂 sure, can’t say I know much about the subject to give any in-depth review, but I can try.
I also brought 2 friends with such setups to play on the PC but still with i7 6700 non k and 10 or 20 series nvidia gpus. and haven't had any complaints to date
I have Optiplex 5060 sff, which is the same as yours except without some legacy ports. Throw A2000 on that little PCI rather than longer one. Works well, but need 1 extra intake 80mm fan for better cooling when the lid is closed, pretty solid and stable
Sometimes pc building is simply but these other guys makes it so luxurious i asked myself see style of consoles so simply
You can easily swap the stock cooler with something like the ID Cooling IS-55, which is going to cool a lot better and be quieter. All you need are four m3x18 or m3x20 screws to mount it to the factory mounting. You just need to ditch the chassis intrusion switch as well as use a right angle SATA cable on the optical drive if you have one.
Also, one thing to note with the 3060, 5060 and 7060 is that if you buy one planning to upgrade to a 9th Gen i7 or i9, they will NOT work in these systems. Dell never released the microcode to be able to run them. You can inject the microcode yourself by modifying the BIOS and flashing that modified BIOS, but it's risky. You're better off just buying the 5070 or 7070. However, the 9th Gen i5's do work on the latest BIOS, likely because they're pretty much identical to the 8th Gen with a slight bump to clock speeds.
It won't be a guaranteed improvement in such an airflow deprived case. While the stock cooler is loud it does exhaust hot air out of the case with its flow guidance shroud. A downdraft cooler on the other hand is just going to circulate hot air inside the case without driving the heat out effectively.
@@physxme You're right... you really need to add airflow, but you really need to add airflow regardless and you're not accounting for all variables. Regardless, you should add a front fan to these for some added airflow and you can absolutely add a couple of 40mm fans pretty easily to the rear. However, that cooler is just a thin chunk of cast aluminum, which is a cheap solution that doesn't work very well as a heat sink. It's not a lot of thermal mass and is completely relying on the fan to just brute force the air out of the chassis. Problem is... it still doesn't work well and the CPU is running in the 80s while pushing around 57dBa. I know... I'm testing it right now. The IS-55 has more thermal mass, copper heat pipes and better heat dissipation.
Could it hot box? Yes, but the CPU temps will still be better, and the cooler will still be quieter, regardless. However, you should absolutely add a front fan and maybe one or two rear exhaust 40mm fans. That would be optimal.
This was just like my first set up! INSANE Value!!! ran hot but does the job+++ even edited and streamed w it.
What is considered hot temps?
@@Southized depends on the specs but its not enough to throttle the system. Can be a bit noisy if you have an i7 system. With just one case fan/cpu fan a warm gpu is going to get warm but its fine. Heat will dump out the back like a space heater nice in the winter. 🔥
Man that little psu is a savior because I have a dell inspiron 3650 that has the stupid 240w psu. I would love to upgrade the gpu from the 1050 ti to that 4060 you got.
yeah 200w aint gonna cut it for any gpu
@@remixedcat i am buying 1050ti now, crazy how much gap we both have !😔
I have an i7 8700. Do not sleep on it. It even performs amazing in RPCS3 1620P
There's some space for an 80 mm fan on the front. Between that and changing the stock cooler to something with a beefier heat sink, those CPU temps should become less scary.
noctua coolers for Optiplex are really the best you can do in small form factor... they are spendy, but will decrease temps 10-15 degrees Celcius overall, letting that boost TDP kick in a lot more with max boost up to 4.6 GHz.
Bought two of these recently at a garage sale for $5 each i5 8th gen. Thanks for the tips!! I’ll try it out!
did similar with a no name psu, i5 7600 optiplex and a 1030 sff gpu way back. Had 512 nvme + 4tb hdd was great for many games years ago
Oh, good. I was thinking of doing something like this (measured dims of PSUs, interior of case, etc) but never got to doing it. Nice to know it works
Love Sleeper PC. It's a new hope.
Honestly though, for a lot of games that are GPU dependent, that 8th gen Intel CPU is still pretty solid. If anything, I'd see about swapping that stock Dell CPU cooler for something like a low profile Noctua cooler and then modding the side panel to give it more airflow. Or just run it without the side panel at all.
I looked at a very similar build back in the "COVID days" and somehow happened upon an Origin prebuilt PC with the same form factor size, but with more "agreeable" SFX/ITX components and a 2-slot vertical mount GPU setup. With any ITX setup, it always comes back to thermals, no way around it. Great vid! Catch you next time!
Just FYI, I didn't just "like", and I didn't just "subscribe", ......but I liked, subscribed and then "full-screened" the video for all that juicy full screen goodness. I don't even give Russ that kind of treatment. ;D
Huge KUDOS on your "validation" of the Apevia PSU.... I always hesitate on that brand. It looks capable, but it's still not an EVGA or even Gigabyte (even with their bad models), it's just unknown.
@@SaltyOldBaldurian keep up the good work boss 👍
You should look at doing a build with a Lenovo P330/340 with an A2000 or RTX4000 SFF Card. You can get them cheep and they come with 9th gen Intels with six+ cores, Dual NVME, 64GB RAM.
love the content
NICE! I love these little modded office PCs. I'll have to see if I can sell off some old stock and maybe snag a few used coffeelake (8th/9th) gen optiplexes. I am still REALLY disappointed in dell for putting the x16 so dang close to the PSU. It wasn't always like that.
you saved my life with this video. i was struggling to find a way to not change out the mobo for a normal powersupply
Nice build!
I have a few of these my work has decommissioned, honestly I like the Tesla P4 option. my kids have these same machines all 3 have a Tesla p4 and it works out really well. Great job on the video!
The new 7090 mt case is just a piece of art 😍😍😍
It would make an absolute killer of an emulation box to sit under your TV!
Also if you can go to the BIOS version right before the plundervolt exploit came out and then factory reset it you can undervote these with throttle stop and bring that temperature down quite a bit
This is a really good idea. The low profile rtx 4060 is a great gpu for sff gaming. Same with the rtx 3050 6gb, not a fast card, but with the right sff pc can get you gaming on a low cost pc.
Mini ITX PCs were very rare in my country infact they still are so what I did was get these small optiplex machinese and turned them into gaming PC's back in Intel 4th days, infact I remember using a HP intel pentium 4 desktop as a gaming machine back in the day too
I have a 7050 and 9020. Both i7's. I put 32bg or RAM in them and the 7050 has a 1tb M.2 drive and running Win11. I might fix it up for one of the scouts in my stepson's troop since he plays Minecraft on a laptop. I figure that this should be a bit better. But they both have some weird little 1gb GPU's that I would want to get rid of but the PSU's are the problem. This video has given my some options to look into for upgrades.
Thanks for the video and keep up the great work.
I hadnt looked at flex atx units in a while, that 500watt probably would have been like 120$ a few years ago. That really opens up a lot of options for 40-50$
From my experience dell machines especially undervolt really well and even if it’s disabled in the bios you can usually find the value and change it. That should help with power consumption and temperatures, I was able to undervolt my i7-7700t and went from 35 watts at boost clock down to around 27 watts.
yeah sadly 4060 low profile ain't accessible out here in philippines, i'd love to make a build like that and other ultra sff builds. can buy it on amazon but will cost customs fee of 160 USD, take note that the average minimum daily wage here is 7.5 USD
I love the idea of a small desktop pc, I also build a gaming pc for my son with a second hand i7 8th gen office pc with a used Nvidia 1080 (naturally with a miditower case).. however in this case surely the CPU hold down the gpu
That’s a better GPU max temp than I expected. My RTX 3060 hit 79 degrees in AW2 just walking in the forest. It’s inside of an Inspiron 620 MT LGA 1200 build. As a matter of fact adding a flex unit as a supplemental PSU might be a way forward for those using modern prebuilt MTs.
Such builds have some serious caveats. I would love to see a PC built from scratch. And most importantly a PC built with new and not used parts. A gaming PC with a 12400F paired with an RTX 3050 would be a great emulation machine. The 12400F is a great CPU for emulation and RTX GPUs are perhaps the best for emulation and some casual game streaming (thanks to NVENC technology).
Aerospace manufacturing IT here,
lol we have loads of these at work , they're good little machines for running programs 24/7 in industrial environments. We always joke about modding one up like this
Awesome job Prime
I got one with a sff WX4100 in it that I got for about $60 and it make for a sweet lil emulation PC that can do a good bit of gaming at 1080p.
The 8700k and 4060 looks like an amzing fit for me for 1440p gaming
I put an Apevia 500w in my ssf JOYJOM, with a lp 4060 and about every 2 hours the fan would turn on real loud for about 2 mins and turn off. The power supply was getting to hot even without any load it would still turn on. Its kinda loud and annoying.
Jolly delightful 👍
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I have a optiplex 5050 running my home server and it’s great for the price
great video as always, dude, the current Tekken, and KoF, would be great to see in this
This is definitely what I was looking for since I have a Dell OptiPlex 5070 and I wanted to add an RTX 4060 low profile but I didn't know what to do with the power supply, although I would love to change the motherboard (if possible) to a better one in the not too distant future.
You'll have a add more cooling. I have one similar and to run anything higher than PS it heats the GPU up and causes an odd stutter. (In emulation)
It does pretty great on something like ps2 with upscaling/post etc. sweet little sleeper.
Got myself a Elitedesk G5 with I7 8700 instead for Batocera. It has 4 PCIE Slots and the 16x has the most available space. Also it can take two 3,5" drives and looks more living room friendly, almost like a console.
I picked up an Optiplex 3070 with a i5-9500 for free from work. I was going to put the RX 6400 in it, but after seeing this video it has changed my mind. Mainly building for emulation, but possibly more modern gaming too.
Please try batocera linux man. You will not regret it.
@Southized I have an Anbernic RG35XX Plus which I installed Batocera on due to the stock OS being very limited. I do like it very much. Even after finding a theme I liked and setting it to the recommended settings for the Anbernic, it was still a little off. But I had started tweaking the xml code for certain menus to fix the display discrepancies. I'm sure I won't have issues on the PC, but I've been wanting to do a Windows build with LaunchBox for several years now. I will definitely consider a Batocera build for a future build.
@@SonicMayhem3787 i prefer batocera over launchbox. Once you get batocera all configured man it just works. All i have to do is turn on the pc and my ps3 controller auto syncs. No keybord and mouse to launch emulators or select roms just controller its like a dream
Lovely. I have got an Hp 10th gen i7 10700 and would love to do this too.
I have a PC from the 80s I'm considering making into a sleeper build
The Apple II... wenty sixty TI
@@therealwhite do a TI994A
What I did was diy a psu adapter and set the psu so that it sits externally.
I made up one of these SFF's with an rtxA2000. I didn't swap the power supply, but did a no-no and cut the housing to make space for the a2000 =D. Is it dangerous? probably. Does it play Cyberpunk at 1080p ~60? yes.
I am using a 3060 lp on this same optiplex it is amazing. Will recomend for a first time pc
Insane PC!
Love to see fan noise at load
Impressive build man, lovin your work :)
Is it possible that the 7060 case can house a 7080 i7 10th mobo? Is there a big difference between 8th and 10th Intel gen for 1080p games? Watching this video I'm thinking of building something small as this build for a full HD games on my living room.
How does the mounting work in the scenario where you use the riser? How do you fit it to where it stays in place and how do you work with getting a display cable plugged into it
for the PSU you can also put a huge double sided tape under it and it wont go nowhere no more 😂
that was my first thought, man ;)
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The i9-9900 is supposed to be compatible. Might be nice to see if that upgrade is worth it, especially if your starting point is an i5 machine.
I would be gratefull to see how much performance drop would be, when gpu installed into x4 slot.
10:10 seems its not the cpu thats holding it back but the gpu, the gpu is at max usage while the cpu is pretty cool and in the 60% usage
In future videos, could you test more games that run on Capcom's RE engine please? Games like the Resident Evil 4 Remake and Street Fighter VI, and Devil May Cry 5 are really tough to run on lower end PCs. Although, DMC5 runs great on the Steam Deck.
Seen this video so many times with other tech channels
I have to wonder what this would look like with an HP EliteDesk because they tend to have a lot more room in their cases compared to Dell’s SFF offerings
i bought one of those OptiPlex for $50 last year. it had the 8700 and everything, just have to look out for deals
ETA prime can you do a review on the ryzen 4070
Something you could also do that's even less expensive, at least to begin with, with this build, is shave off the right slot edge of the 4X slot so that you can slot in the graphics card in it, and it could work. It'll be limited to 4X, but in a pinch, it's even cheaper than modifying the case and buying another PSU.
The 4x slot is already indented on his model. Mine isn't though so I don't think I'll make it a gaming PC, I'll just sell it as is.
The only downside to these specific models is that the good PCI slot is SO close to the power supply. If you're buying, I recommend folks go for a Lenovo P3XX series.
I don't know why dell and lenovo design computers so that the pci-e x16 slot interferes with the power supply. I use fujitsu esprimo computers. There the power supplies are on the other side of the case and there is more room for such expansions.
bro took the newer version of my first desktop pc and upgraded it like crazy
would that power supply work with the HP prebuilt with the Ryzen 7 4700g and 180w power supply?
VERY GOOD, A REVIEW OF THE MINI PC Beelink GTi14 Ultra WOULD ALSO BE GREAT
I build the same Console Killer atm. i7 8700, 16GB Ram, RTX A2000, 500GB SSD, 8TB HDD and thousands of console games :-)))
Looks at those CPU temps. Horizon hit 99C. Yikes!
I followed this video to install a rtx 4060 low profile and replace the power, it is awesome! I can now play 3a game in 2k! Total cost Sff Pc $200 + 350 graphic card + $50 itx power
@@gymgymdove how's been your PC? U don't have any cooling problems?
@@JLPLay07 The Gpu is at 79 degree census at winter time when playing game. I removed side cover and use a desk USB fan at summer. So cooling is a problem but not a big concern for me.
What "2k"?
1920x1080?
Good little PC, I was considering an I3 9th gen version for a Windows media server on VLC (download and store movies for streaming on Tvs with VLC). Considering you had to reinvest in another PSU + the GPU the total cost is still worth it considering it's not heating up as bad as a big bad boy with a big case and it's small and fits on your desk like a console
Until now, I had never heard anyone say, "Let's buy everything."🤑
great combination, I didn't expect such results, definitely a good alternative to a mini pc, tell me which model you would choose better, Optiplex 10th gen Intel, thx
Damn that gpu stayed real cool! My 3060Ti goes up 75+ in a micro atx case 😂
yoo I have the MT verison of the 7060 optiplexes! it had 8gb and I upgraded to 16gb
As the PSU is modular, is there not a cable you can buy that connects the PSU directly to the 8-pin motherboard connector, rather than using the 24-pin cable connected to the 8-pin adapter?
I'm currently doing the Same but with a dell precision t5810 workstation as they already come with pcie cables and a 685w or 825w gold rated psu
I literally built this exact build except mine came with a i5-8500t, I did the riser cable method, with welded 90 degree brackets for the GPU to lay down where the old HDD tray used to be so I could fit a full size dual fan GPU. I used the Zotac twin fan rtx 4060.
Do you have a build somewhere online? Would love to see more
I did something similar with a HP elitedesk 800 G4. Honestly, spending any more than $100 for a graphics card is insane so I got a 1650 (gddr5 version) with a riser cable and mounted the card fan side face down towards the MB, so the case would close. It also helps to undervolt the I7 8700 for better performance and cooler temps. Right around that era is when AMD cpu's really starting kicking Intel's butt.
Same thing I’ve done but I was lucky to get a 3070 which I tossed in and it worked pretty good for basic gaming
yeah so I did the same thing except put an ITX chinese board in and a 2697 v3.
did you see the new egpu from minsforum ?
I wonder what the OEM power supply resells for 🤔
Black box 7040 optiplex ... Just vrm heatsink on stable and over drive I used two types of heatsink metal then a thermal paste and heatsink on the power driver Intel chip it's the weird chip on those style of motherboards that do not add cooling to that chip . As a governor
just as a side note, look out for dell XE3's, same generation, better cooling and spec
3 months ago I got this very pc free from my job because they were going to throw it away. I thought about turning it into a cheap gaming pc but couldn't because of the dell specific PSU plugs. So I gave up and started piecing together a gaming pc and over the span of THREE months I completed that build YESTURDAY.....and the very next day you post this video showing exactly how I could of saved $400 and THREE MONTHS!!!!!! ETA I love your content but right now I hate you lol. great vid and build. Guess ill get started on my second one thanks for the content.
Question do we ignore that second connector in the top left corner, the 4 pin one labeled atx cpu?
@@edwincorreajr that is the CPU connector and you will need it. If you look at the CPU connector on the power supply cable it may look like a 8 pin on most after market PSU but its actually 2 four pin connectors clipped together. Only one of the 4 pins will work. Lucky the PSU in the video here (and the one I bought) has a 4 pin only connector and its red colored so its super easy to pick the right one.
This is fascinating! However I wish you showed the back of the unit after the GPU was installed. We can't see how ugly it looks back there.
I'd probably wanna make a 3D printed bracket or somethin' specifically for the case if I did this. I mean, I really want to do this and make a LAN machine or somethin'. This is super cool!