The Most Powerful OptiPlex Ever
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- I built a top of the line OptiPlex gaming sleeper and it turned out awesome.
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Full Specs List:
CPU: Intel i9 12900K
RAM: 64 Gb Of Corsair Dom Plats DDR5 @ 5200Mhz
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti
Mobo: Asus Strix Z690M
PSU: 1000w ThermalTake Toughpower G1
SSD: 1Tb Patriot Viper VPN110
Cooler: Noctua NH-U9
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Weird OptiFlex, but okay.
This ratio is weird, but okay.
Love that lmfao
Damn, nice one
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@@voduz999 L
I friggin love seeing sleeper builds
2:02 DREMEL JOB MY MAN!
i feel that a 120mm aio with would've helped better, probably would need to modify the back fan though to fit it
To remove psu from an optiplex mt case there is a small push tab on the back panel of the case rearward to the psu that must be depressed in order to remove the unit.
The new PSU covered it. He’s going to need to remove the 5.25” bays, and use a thin screwdriver.
The stock one is legit the base of my PC, but i had the i7 4790 instead. Then got more RAM, better PSU and a RX580. Works just fine on even modern games.
At 4k? I think you missed the point of the video.
@@Mr1Tanker No, at 1080p and sometimes 1440p. All i was trying to say is that some optiplex can be a good base.
i LOVE the look of this thing.
Good stuff, let’s see a cooling solution. !!
2:30 "Wow, that's neat! He really did it very smoothly"
_Watch him ripping it apart_
"Oh. Well, it was satisfying to watch at least..."
Other random comment, I am shocked that no one makes a cable to convert that power button connector, but I could not find one. So weird!
I keep seeing these all over Newegg now xD
Thats a cool little case
Hmmm I was looking at that shiny panel and I thought.. "That looks a bit like an old Hi Fi "
So there is a build idea, either integrate the Hi fi functions into a PC (not a easy thing I suspect) or just put the guts in a PC case (much easier) Or the reverse, put the guts of a PC in an entirely separate device... I've seen people do this with old Radios for example & even a pinball table.
A modest upgrade, eh? I approve. We work with what we can get in this day and age.
Very nice OptiPlex
It's kind of cute to use old case to make beast PC.
You could have just taken the drill to each of the rivets, there are other videos on youtube on how to do that to an optiplex.
See, it wasn't a scam after all, you got a powerful gaming PC by buying this OptiPlex.
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My pc is a better sleeper: the moment I try to start a game it falls asleep
“The internals are still that of an 87 year old chain smoker” 😂😂
I am thinking you just really liked the case and wanted to do an internal makeover 😂
how tf does the illusion with those lights work
Blows my mind that you have a Dremel kit but you don't have an appropriate pair of wire strippers 🤣
There is a better way to get the power button to connect. In my personal motherboard-swapped OptiPlex I just jammed some leads into the power button connector to get the button and white LED connected. I did the same for the chassis fan at the back and I have yet to do something about the front IO.
Luckily the power button is under $10
If he cut out the front metal panel you can fit a 140 mm fan in the front
Love this!!
Well that was fun.
dude this is literally my pc, same mobo, same cpu, same ram (just 32 gb) and a rtx 3090
What was the song playing after the build was completed?
When it all fails, just dremel it!!
That ain't not much of an optiplex no more!
I have a mint 9020 i7 with with 560 aero gpu and 400w power supply that plays any game we've tried very well. Mine doesn't run hot at all. I replaced thermal paste when I swapped power supply. All for under $175. I don't think this is the pc to go frankenstein on. You end up spending too much money on it.
Dawid I wanna transform my optiplex 3060 SFF but I don't know what to do and how to transform it any ideas
Monke: Where Airflow
curious how old of a case you can get those internals into
Easily Northwood/Prescott era cases as long as the motherboards aren’t reversed.
is 1000W big enough for a 3080 ti, 12900k AND DDR5 ram for all use cases?
what did you put where the dvd drive is?
It's a nice build but once you replaced the motherboard I don't think it really counts as an OptiPlex anymore.
I love these videos😂😂
what wrsit watch are you wearing Dawid?
i wish i could buy THAT optiplex for 150 bux
Noooo. Nothing is ever above your pay grade. You got promoted and it’s below your pay grade.
Lol no wire stripper but has soldering iron 🤣
The internals stink, but man can that seller mod an office PC haha. One of the blessings of these optiplexes was that they supported standard mATX form factors. Great for, and I quote, "Linus-ing the crap out of it" 😄
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Placing a 120mm fan where you removed the HDD cage will vastly improve temps.
i was thinking exactly the same!
A nice NFS 12 might suffice 😉
I saw in another video where the front can fit a 140mm fan. Also, there's a small vent on the side panel that might fit a 92mm fan. There's no way to mount it though without either drilling or praying tape will hold it. I wonder what the temps would be with both of them added and what configuration of push and/or pull would be best.
@@hellooperator6639 I went the hackjob route and hammered a hole through the front. That sheet metal is some flimsy warpy stuff that will cut you easily. I regret my decisions :( technically the easiest route would be a pcie fan card or a reference cooler gpu
A 120 Watercooler Solution would probably help much more for the boiling CPU!
Would be really interesting to see how temps could be improved with some dremeling the fan grill at the back and dremeling some of the metal away in the front and putting a 120mm fan to push air in.
@jackthegamer I doubt that would fit. If it did a better cooler would be possible, but Dawid is saying it’s not.
I was thinking the same thing, get that dremel going and cut some more of the case!
Agreed. The right fans would make a world of difference for the thermals in that case.
@jackthegamer that's the setup i have, although my mobo is stock with a 4790 and 3060
There is a video from The Game Bench channel where he shows how to add a 140mm fan to the front, very detailed and informative. It's called Adding some airflow to a dell optiPlex
You should make a reverse sleeper build where you put dell parts in an awesome case with cool rgb
Or alternatively, you could just buy a Dell "gamer" PC.
Who pays for the waste of time and resources ? wally world or BB PC
What? I just think it would be an intresting video to see how far you can push a dell system with good cooling and to see if he could fit a strange motherboard into a standard case
That’s already happened. Check out the Alienware video. 😂
I like how micro center is so good that people honestly don’t even need to be sponsored by them to recommend them. They’re just great.
It just sucks that they're not more widespread. The nearest one to me is 110 miles away, 2.5 hours + Boston traffic lol
Micro Center shines where Fry's Electronics failed. I hope they take over the old Fry's locations on the west coast.
@@Majima_Nowhere Came here to say this. In USA it's a more West Coast thing and obviously not everywhere in Europ--hey. What do you Euros do for PCs? Because I seen some funny s&%$ in German. Outrageously priced office PCs, literally dell optiplex tiers for crazy prices I just didn't know if those sites were like, mainstream, or it was some weird slumming experience.
When you're new to the area you tend not to know which streets to go down and which ones to avoid, so you tend to find things completely at random that are hidden gems or being knifed and robbed by a GT 450 wearing a "1060" mask.
I miss compusa and I miss fry's. There is no micro center here in Nashboonies. And I miss javanco (the old one).
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I've had to remove the HDD cage from an OptiPlex before, and it's just easier to remove the side and front panels and drill out the rivets to be honest. No dremeling required.
Agreed. Titanium bit with high torque to drill out the rivets
@@davidsnyder2068 I managed it with a cheapo drill that had a worn out battery, so it's totally doable with a basic drill 😅
I did drill out all the rivets but the the cage was attached to the frame with glue or solder. 😁
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I feel like you might be right. It's been a year since I did my OptiPlex case mod (should do a sleeper build with it to be honest), so you could be right that Dell pulled a Dell.
I just feel like I did something that ended up easier than dremeling or going HULK SMASH on it (I don't have a dremel, so that's why I say that. 😂)
@@TheStarkster90 To be fair, I do default to hulk smashing faster than most people. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a way to do it more gracefully. 😂
All I can say is I definitely got all the rivets.
Tip: Use tinsnips where you can rather than a dremel.
Putting tiny metal dust inside a PC case is not a good idea.
That’s a good idea. I’ll get a pair of those.
The reason for the high temps is not the cooler itself but the airflow, you habe no fans for intake at all. I would've tried to fit 2 fans in the front to prevent the airflow suffocation.
i got one of the new hp pavilions gaming computers and it only had an exhaust fan and was causing the gpu to get hot.luckily on those the grill on the side sits right over the gpu and i was able to install a fan that blows air directly at the gpu.
@@kyles8524 wp on that! Most of these Dell prebuilts dont even have intake fans at all
yes look at case you could very easy add in a intake fan or two and I like to see that
While air flow is definitely an issue, he is using an NH-U9S chromax.black. If he was going to use an air cooler he really should be using an u12s/u12a. That is about the largest you can go with that board.
Airflow? The side of the case was open! How much airflow do you want? 😃
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Love the video as always Dawid! Do a quick mod and get a 120 / 140 fan on the front of the case pulling some more air in to aid cooling! As we would say in the uk "jobs a goodin" :)
Finally, a proper build that matches the case's aesthetic! 👍
Oh man, I wonder how would the temperature be if Dawid added a couple of intake fans and swapped out the crappy stock fan in the back with a good one. That should alleviate the temperature a bit, even before replacing the Noctua cooler for a stronger one.
I thought about replacing my rear fan, but I read somewhere that you want to build up positive pressure. A exhaust fan may bring the cabinet to equilibrium or negative pressure.
Dawid Build expectations at the start of the video: High!
Expectations after seen his splicing, soldering finishing skills: way downtown!!!
After the specs reveal after looking at that CPU cooler I said: really?
Lol, after temps imo it need some Dremel, a noctua industrial 3000 rpm fan placed into that front and a better cooler
Next, do it with a SFF Optiplex and fit a RTX A2000 GPU into it, the only low-profile, slot-powered card from Nvidia that has RT cores in it.
yes please
I would love to see this in an SFF case.
You have to check first if the Optiplex MB support RTX-cards which not all do.
Awesome upgrade! I would be curious to know how much of a difference 2 fans in the front as intake would make, temperature wise 🤔
2 won't fit, but you can fit 1 140mm.
I love dawids vids, it so like Christmas came early when he uploads often.
i did a sleeper build in the same case and i used jumper cables for bread bords on the power connector to make it work
Dawid!, Very nice sleeper pc! I was very excited to see you get this done! I find cramming new parts in pedestrian boxes to be pretty cool. Thanks man for fun build!
Back in the days when dell parts were actually replacable instead of having one single mobo and power supply model on the planet that would work
Those Optiplex mobos and PSUs are proprietary though. They use a smaller (12? 16?) pin power so you need a matched set. Though you can get a new PSU and buy a third party adapter for $15 or so which is what I had to do to put a GTX 1080 into my kid's system.
@@SyntaxTurtle 1:18 you can see that this mobo has standard 24pin ATX connector
Sure, the Optiplex is Old enough to not have Proprietary Motherboard Disease, but it's also NEW enough to not suffer from having Dell's BTX Motherboard Disease from the mid 00's.
6:48 The way it lights up is magic
It looks a 120mm AIO would fit in there. It might fix that CPU heat problem. Love the build, great job!
Or just using a 12600k or 12700k
Those are 80MM fans.
@@JobeStroud i mean, he still has the dremel.
Air coolers are actually better in most situations than an AIO, mostly when it comes to sustained thermals
@@JobeStroud 92mm
5:37 the fact that Dawid mounted the heatsink upside down, is just a face palm moment.
But then I remember the whole computer was a facepalm worthy piece of junk beforehand and I'm ok with the heatsink.
the top m.2 slot on that motherboard is in the opposite direction from what is usually seen on motherboards, the ssd heatsink was preinstalled so its not his fault but yeah still hillarious
I mean he may have done it as a joke hah
Have you never used an M.2 slot before? 😅
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I never thought about that, I thought it may have been a joke hah
@@thephoenixking1086 Haha!! To be fair, I didn’t even realize it was upside down.
This was the best. Love the sleeper. The hard drive cage removal was fantastic!
I did the same thing, but I actually put a 120mm intake fan in the front to keep temps down.
The temps are in the 60/70's °C.
Please try the Igor's lab "lga1700 washer mod" onto the motherboard and check if temperatures will drop a bit!
That looked like a lot of fun. I would love a setup like that.
Bruh, I went and fixed something to drink and as soon as I left a video was posted (11 mins ago for me). TY for the content Dawid!
BRUH IKR, lol.
love the videos dawid keep doing your thing!
Honestly, just the case alone is sexy enough that I'd consider buying it. Wish you could just get the case by itself.
Always excellent and entertaining.
Um, I hate to be that person in the comments so I hope I'm being helpful and not just a d1ck: Rather than hacking off the end of that Dell-ified cable a neater solution might be: Use the end of a paper clip to pop the metal ends out of the plastic shroud and shove them in 'proper' ones ...always assuming enough of the Dell one wouldn't just fit anyway to get the power button working.
Super dope idea. I am surprised that the internals did not reach the temperature of the sun.
Haha same here!
I know you said it was doing a good job taking in air, but I would have dremeled out a 120-140mm-ish sized hole in the front to put a case fan in. The front facia piece has plenty of gaps to allow air in, just need to make a place to mount the fan. Wonder if that would help temps any?
YOU DID use the SPECIFICALLY LGA1700 mount from Noctua didn't you ? I had these kinds of heat issues when I used the LGA1200 mount that came with the cooler. It fits the Z690 motherboard, BUT the studs are 1mm TALLER than the LGA1700.. IT SEEMED good but had the 90-100C spikes. ONce I ordered the LGA1700 kit from Noctua I dropped 20-25C with the correct studs.
This is so janky, I love it. That CPU needs a good AIO to tame it, so the little Noctua had no chance. Better to go with an i5 or AMD CPU if space is limited.
Sleeper PC's are the move. This has to be the most gangster OptiPlex on the planet.
LOL @ the HDD cage part. You missed drilling out some more rivets which could have saved you a TON of physical exertion. You at least made it an entertaining process :)
Haha!! I promise I got all the rivets. The cage was stuck onto the side of the case.
@@DawidDoesTechStuffthat part has 4 rivets. I ended up brute forcing mine as well, because although I have an extension arm my drill bits aren’t hex based.
"Linus-ing the crap out of it"
So you are going to drop it ??...
The whole video is like watching Jeremy Clarkson doing a tech review.
Definitely the most powerful OptiPlex ......... IN THE WORLD.
I’m feeling a little threatened by Micro Center…. I thought I was Dawid’s one true love 😅
Well just replaced my Dell 3020 SFF i3 4160 with a i7 4790 and this is the first video I'm watching 😂
Bro where on earth can I buy that infinity mirror on the front of the pc case?? I literally just searched the internet for 2 hours trying to find one to buy for my OptiPlex but I can't find it! Where on earth did you buy it?? Can I get a link??
Scalpers will be flocking for Dell Optiplexs’ and selling them thinking that they all contain the latest Nvidia GPU & Intel 12 gen behemoths in them 😝😜🤪🤩
There may be space for a small 120 or 144 mm AIO watercooler in the front of the case. It can´t perform worse then the aircooler installed on the CPU. ;)
BTW: That is a good looking Dell case. Gives me serious 80s vibes. But get rid of that bling or you won´t be able to install a good old fashioned 5,25 inch diskdrive in the case. ^^
Haha!! But the seller put so much effort into all that bling. 😂
Dawid, feel free to ignore me if you know all of this, but you could get some depinning tools or get created with home solutions. Basically, you could remove each pin from that Dell connector and hook them up one by one like a lot of cases come with individual breakout pins. You could also either buy the individual pin sleeves or just put some heat shrink tubing around them for protection from accidentally touching. Really fun build!
Oh no no no! I think a 12600K would had been enought CPU jajaja but ofc that would defeat the purpose of having the best PC evar
G'day Dawid,
This is the crazy sorta thing I do 😂, upgrading components in old cases & forcing airflow to keep them cool enough,
Like one case where I cut a hole in the Case Floor adding a 120mm Fan sucking air in so I didn't ruin the Closed off HP Front Panel
Put Asus motherboard on dell pc case? This is like counter strike source computers
I know it really doesn't matter that cut off that power button connector, but next time you can do that non-destructively with male-to-female jumper wires.
Dawid should put 1 or 2 fans behind front panel ventilation and dremel out the metal mesh to further improve airflow, that could be topic for next video
This is the _David Carradine_ of Dell Optiplex, looks ok on the outside but is secretly in constant danger of fatally choking itself out.
Man I would seriously love to buy that OptiPlex wow.
That cpu cooler is quite good despite it's size. It saved many a small case from thermal throttling the CPU. I used one myself in an Omen case and that was the best cooler that would fit. It made a huge difference over the stock cooler. It was able to cool an i7 in a cramped case, but asking for it to cool a new i9 is asking a bit too much of it. I do love your ambitious approach though. 😃
Using scissors as wire strippers. A man of culture I see. By that I mean you most likely bought a wire stripper, used it a couple times, then lost it forever. Totally not speaking from personal experience. Great video!
"builds powerful spec pc"
"Case has as much ventilation as a cloth mask"