Dell Optiplex GX110: Ebay goldmine

[@Rhewin]

Managed to get one of these out of a church's office for free. It hadn't been powered on in 18 years but everything was flawless. It had XP and I have dual booted Win98 for some legacy software. I was genuinely amazed by the design of the case and how easy it was to get in. The slide out of the expansion port blew my mind. Added a period-appropriate GPU and sound card and it's a great machine. If you're wanting something for late 90s/early 2000s gaming this is perfect.

[@rhysholdaway]

I just picked up a broken Dell Optiplex 400mh P2 in a G1 tower case. Planning to transplant my old Dell Desktop GX115 motherboard with a P3 933mhz into this case. Hopefully create an ultimate 2000 era sleeper PC. 😁 Only downside is onboard graphics, which I'm still puzzling over what to do with (on a smallish budget). 😕

[@mgk2600]

These were the workhorse PCs in the early and mid 2000s

[@dennisp.2147]

They're great machines. I picked one up in 2001-2002 when they were first going off-lease. I got mine off eBay at the local eco-recycler for $50. No Shipping! Because it was local! I ran Windows 2000 until around 2005, when XP service pack 2 had convinced me of it's effectiveness. I retired it in about 2007, mainly due to the 512mb memory maximum and the lack of an AGP slot. A 1ghz Coppermine PIII was a cheap upgrade back in the day and made a heck of a lot of a difference over the 600mhz chip I had in mine. I still have it, it's one of my "tweener" machines that I use for moving stuff between different generations of machines. It runs Dos 6.22/WFW3.11, Windows 98 and God help me... OS/2 Warp 3. There IS a Tualatin Powerleap upgrade to allow you to use the later PIII/Celeron server chips with higher clock speed and more cache. This requires you to revert to the A05 bios. There's also a Pin-mod you can do to allow you to use the bare chi, that's still available from a seller in South Korea. Neat Machines, well built. I'm keeping mine!

[@lhuser]

+Dennis P. Wow! Thanka for sharing your story! This is a perfect example of a machine that can do much more than people would think. Even though it lacks an AGP slot, the PCI slots can compensate for that. Latest PCI card I've seen was a Nvidia 8400GS. I think it can go to 1GB (2×512MB) if my memory recalls correctly.

[@KainiaKaria]

I used a Dell optiplex GX1 from 2003 to 2007. They were great Windows XP machines.

[@tristangrice2064]

Me and my family have this desktop computer at home.

[@DrDroogkloot]

I have a desktop version p3. Got it for free back in 2005. Now after more than 12 years i powered it up again. Damn thing still works. My plan with it i to use it as a win98 machine because i want to have the dos option to use those old dos programs again. My machine has sound build in. Also i keep it. Gonna make it run again and restore it. Btw... also using my period correct compaq keyboard without windows key.

[@charlesbrown7746]

What is one of these worth now ? I have one with a cd drive and a cd rewritable drive as well as the floppy . Still works as it should in fact I just hooked it all and actually played a couple games !

[@linksmith1057]

I have one of these. Got it for free about three weeks ago, and I've decked it out since. I love working on the case. it's fantastic compared to other "mini towers" from the day. Had an HP Pavilion from 2000 and it was a piece of shit to work on. I have not had this work with more then 512 megs of RAM, but I haven't tried. I'm a little dry on PC100 these days. For gaming, mine has an ATI Rage AIW Pro and a SoundBlaster Live, and those run period correct games fantastically. I will admit it weighs like a thousand pounds compared to the Compaq I also got.

[@WalterKnox]

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[@mikefuston4494]

I have one those works good and its older brother a gx1. both were free

[@HP_Games]

Do you know how to remove the right panel? Trying to but can't figure it out.

[@lhuser]

You probably (definitely) won't like what I'm about to say but, the right panel is fixed with the frame and can't be removed. Unless you use a grinder or hammer but you won't do that.

[@HP_Games]

@@lhuser ok thank you

[@HP_Games]

@@lhuser i might try to remove it somehow because I'm gonna try and turn it into a sleeper so I'll need to drill motherboard holes somehow

[@lhuser]

@@HP_Games Well in that case, go nuts. Let me know how it turns out.

[@HP_Games]

@@lhuser I'll try and remember. Lol. I have to wait for the chip shortage to let up. Also, I cant build it at all unless I can drill motherboard holes, so the right panel has to come off to do that.

[@theturdninja9986]

Just got one of these unopened for free with an unopened marching crt monitor

[@muddyriverdogz]

Hello. I have a Dell Optiplex GX110 with 1.0 ghz processor but it wont boot up.Is this machine worth anything ?

[@lhuser]

To Ebay it seems like it, but for me, it comes down to if you want to keep it for old school games, retro apps or if you want to hang on to it. There's four LEDs at the back when you power it on. What does it show you when it's on?

[@plainsabertooth7828]

i have a dell similar too that, it had a 866mhz p3 and 256mb of ram but the issue is the gpu,, it doesn't support openGL so it didn't boot. mine was a desktop verson. i've even upgraded the cpu to 1ghz.

[@lhuser]

+stockingandblossom1 Was it an Intel IGP or an ATI?

[@plainsabertooth7828]

intel i believe. it's the same model the only difference it's lays down.

[@lhuser]

+stockingandblossom1 According to Wikipedia, it is an Intel. It claims to support openGL 1.1 and no openCL. It's a AGP based chipset, which is weird as the 810 doesn't have AGP card support. So my guess is that the integrated graphics uses the AGP bus, therefore, no AGP slot. Weird...

[@plainsabertooth7828]

did i say opencl sorry, but i don't think it's enough since everything was jurky and sluggish. mine doesn't support agp either.

[@lhuser]

+stockingandblossom1 Apparently the intergrated graphics uses the AGP bus. I don't get it, but you could try a PCI graphics card that could handle that. Still, you'll be in for a patience game.

[@guapinudos11111]

I have 2 ❤️

[@juancarlosvegagonzalez5248]

Hello friend I was detailing your information on KZbin My original language is Spanish I am using a translator for the moment my computer is an Optiplex gxa pentium 2 with 512 ram and two hard drives of 3 and 10 dell nx 333 motherboard, my problem is I need a disk to enable the ports isa and pentium I do not know if you would have them I would appreciate all the information you have about this record atte juan carlos vega gonzalez