The Trash-Picked BRAND NEW Dell OptiPlex

[@MichaelMJD]

A few people suggested checking the power on hours count on the original HDD, so I did and... 2 hours!

[@TouhouGaijin]

Damn, you scored here.

[@dyter424]

I guess this system was deployed to a Spanish-speaking business as a spare and then never used.

[@TreeRockCreations]

HEY MJD, Why not try installing Windows 10 on a 486 computer? If it Is even possible?

[@GreenvillSSnick]

this is a good find you got here

[@ficojok]

Install Windows 10 LTSC 2021!

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

I got a dell optiplex 3040 from the trash. It’s my main pc now

[@killaraku3591]

I got a vostro 3245 with i5 7 th, optiplex with i5 8th and a dell optiplex xe2 with i5 4th from the same trash for free.

[@alphanvideo]

Mine is a dell optiolex 780 lol

[@Luketube10000]

I got a Optiplex 7010

[@j_stasHCR]

I used a optiplex 3000 (something i forgor) until 2023 when i bought a pc, i had a 1050ti and an ssd (only in early 2023 🗿), it usable even for gaming with a graphics card

[@puppycornthewindowsxpfan9363]

i got a lenovo think centre m81 for 50bgn (~25 dollars) with pentium g620 and 12gb ram, still going strong

[@Koopai386]

I love it when people rescue these old machines. Many people just don't see the full potential of these old computers.

[@clays32]

Man, you can Build such a sleeper PC with a chassis like this, it would be kind of sweet!

[@MK-of7qw]

you could... but the SFF means you have to use half-height cards. your better off maxing out the memory and using it as some sort of home server. but yes they definitely have potential still.

[@kmemz]

​@@clays32You're limited in both CPU and GPU selection because of the custom motherboard form factor and the half height PCIe. Newest boards in these are fourth gen.

[@rzpogi]

Ironically, these PCs can still do most basic office tasks such as running Microsoft Office, play 4k videos, and browse the web. Even some light editing like photoshop and AutoCAD. In my country, these will run until the hardware gives up. Most just slap an SSD and it's ready for its second life as a basic productivity PC.

[@Koopai386]

@rzpogi I got an i5 3470 pc, added a 1050, and now play gtav at medium 1080p 60fps, basic office tasks and content streaming

[@Gravarty]

Don't forget to make a backup of the recovery partition! Afaik there's only one version of the 3020 on archive that doesn't seem to work (and it's only for the mid tower version)

[@insertaverygenericnamehere]

[@Golecom2]

definitely. These optiplex use recovery DVDs and dell sometimes wont release iso versions for recovery media.

[@TJDunaway]

110% a major issue unfortunately.. Factory images are hard to come by ​@@Golecom2

[@bhasitl]

I agree. These recovery images are so precious and should really be backed up to the internet archive!

[@EgoShredder]

Any forums or torrents out there for it?

[@warhaggis]

For Dells you can take the service tag or express service code (you can see it at around 1:26) to the support site to get the exact system configuration and its full history, including any service events like if it was repaired (it says you need an email address to view - anything will work). This Dell was shipped to a customer/client in El Salvador on 22 June 2015.

[@MichaelMJD]

Yep! I already looked that up before filming. Didn't see any service events, probably because it wasn't used. However I didn't notice that it was shipped to El Salvador. That certainly explains why Windows was in Spanish!

[@warhaggis]

@@MichaelMJD It's hidden a little bit. You need to click "Manage services" in the overview - the ship date and location are listed there.

[@midnite59]

@@MichaelMJDwhy did you opt to install Ubuntu over something like Debian or Fedora (or Arch I don’t judge)? I’m assuming you don’t like canonical as much as the next guy, so was it a compatibility choice? Ease of use? PPA support?

[@Crixer234]

What's odd is that Dell was shipped from my country and returned back to the US, then tossed in the trash and finally to MJD desk. usually once they are shipped there ain't gonna get it back, that's a rarity to see being shipped back to the US, there's so many local businesses selling cast off Dells, HP and Lenovo machines here.

[@realtoadtech]

These things are everywhere, they aged like fine wine when it comes to "it just works performance"

[@lucasrem]

realtoadtech Old crab DELL, not a PC to upgrade ! Wine, are you France ?? TOO OLD, YOU TOO ?

[@valensomm]

I've worked in IT for 9 years now and regularly handeled these different optiplex models in big production environments and I have never had to RMA any of these sffs unlike the laptops, they are really solid and stable machines

[@FloweyFanClub]

instantly blasted back to highschool where someone printed out a picture of a troll face and shoved it in the disk drive of one of these guys.

[@EgoShredder]

To blast me back to high school (we call it upper school here in England), it would have to be a BBC Micro computer!

[@EmberBlitz]

Someone put a picture of Saul Goodman into one of em in my high school

[@WeatherMan2005]

Thats a nice prank

[@cocomonkilla]

@@FloweyFanClub my classmates were a little less sophisticated, they would stick pop tarts in the disk drives

[@lucasrem]

@@EgoShredder You meant the Ai video service in UK poststations, Dia Projector internet ?

[@pastalex421]

“Mostly uninteresting” It’s not nice to lie, Michael. You know why we’re all here.

[@Darth001]

But it all went wrong 😅

[@the_ejumper_0804]

Optiplexs are always a great option. Super cheap 99% of the time for a computer that is plenty good enough for everyday tasks and even some gaming with a few minor upgrades

[@sihamhamda47]

Yeah I saw some of them that has 8th gen i5 being sold for only 120 bucks in mint condition, that's much cheaper than most new celeron mini PCs right now

[@MattExzy]

I've grown out of my late 2000s/early 2010s 'I must build my own PC' days. In my more senior years now, if I need a PC, I cruise eBay for an Optiplex. Which isn't often, since they're like cockroaches and keep living.

[@the_ejumper_0804]

@@MattExzy Yeah Optiplex’s are very durable and long-lasting

[@vuxl]

i was gonna make a custom arcade cabinet (for playing newer windows based games) and i looked on ebay and saw so many optiplex listings and they were all like $100-$120 so like thats pretty cheap

[@zaeltheboss1179]

I use a Dell Optiplex 7010 for gaming. Got mine for $140 on marketplace. I honestly love it. It runs most games I play surprisingly well. I played Halo 2 Anniversary edition on the new graphics and it ran it with absolutely no problems.

[@jrr851]

It's probably the "spare". Most large companies will buy a few extras when the do their hardware refreshes. Need 48, buy 50 so you can have a spare on the shelf. Sometimes they get used... Sometimes they don't. This is the spare that was never needed.

[@gggnkg9093]

I work with a lot of these, we still run them in the office. Honestly, even the older ones, those that run the Ivy Bridge processors are still absolutely fine for lighter tasks. I managed to snag one off work, found an i5 3470 for pocket change, got an ssd, got the ram up to 16 gigs, installed a fresh WIndows 10. Easily can watch KZbin at 1080p, file editing, word, excels, all work absolutely fine. got an sff rx550 and managed to play quite a few games, from 90s classics, to 2000s goats like san andreas and various nfs, ending up with 2010s with the likes of payday 2 and war thunder.

[@9852323]

I use much older for the same tasks. Like core2duo. My gaming PC is an i7 3770 from 2013

[@nashcomp]

Foe older tasks i had c2d with 9800gt run 2000s tripleA while my main cpu using gen7 i3 and rx550 fornmodern triple As 😊

[@cydragon2.099]

no doubt DS (Dungeon Siege) 1 and 2 would be fine

[@kalarse]

Holy, this is so nostalgic. When I worked as helpdesk, I used to support PCs like this (among a lot of other versions of the OptiPlex). When you opened it, it opened some memories. I remember when we were migrating from Win7 to Win10, and we also changed the HDDs to SSDs, which Dell had the great idea of making this so easy to work on, honestly, great experience with OptiPlexes overall!

[@metroplex18]

A coworker of mine actually bought a shit ton of these from a surplus auction. we have actually had to buy some off of him, to sell to customers who needed a replacement machine. his original plan with buying them was to sell to low income families in our area. these things are workhorses!

[@xGMV]

Where I'm from, this stuff is unheard of. Even DDR2 RAM is expensive, SSDs for me are mythical sightings, never used one myself, or a GPU. Junk PCs here are really, but really old stuff and they're usually broken beyond repair, water damaged, or burnt.

[@falcconplanes]

Where are you from?

[@9852323]

Like how old are they usually

[@cocomonkilla]

Where ?

[@yourneighbourhooddoomer]

Blud must be living in Venezuela 💀

[@lemagreengreen]

Then there is maybe business opportunity. Sourcing stacks of these machines in North America, Europe and Asia is no problem, they'll almost give them away.

[@HighImpactFluffage]

Seeing that hard drive mechanism instantly brought back memories of working in a recycling center back in high school as part of an exchange program and running into a couple of these arguably incredibly boring but to me weirdly delightful office/professional PCs. Even if some of them were less than ideal when it came to stuff like cooling and such, I've always appreciated these OptiPlexes and their competitors' counterparts. It was incredibly easy to get into them and either scrap them for parts or fix them up and give them a new lease on life, so many things used tool-free mounts, things were easy to disassemble, I even remember some of them having a motherboard tray that tilted out so you could work on it. It genuinely felt like someone made those cases with the consideration that some underpaid IT guy would have to repair them quite frequently when something went wrong and they were made with that in mind. It's been over 10 years since I last had the pleasure of cracking one open, but every time I see one in a video like this, it's a delight I can't quite explain.

[@jessthnthree]

i swear that old high end office computers are a hidden gym i have two older high end Dells and ever since I made my custom PC be a proxmox server, they have been my partner and I's main computers Dells in particular tend to be pretty easy to repair and upkeep

[@remixedcat]

Optiplex and Precision and Latitude are workhorses. Very nice and solid.

[@DMARrecords]

You're forgetting the Dimension series.

[@ciach0_]

Every of them except Latitude E7470, my cpu just got fried for some reason

[@remixedcat]

@@ciach0_ that sucks.. what cpu ??

[@ciach0_]

@@remixedcat I believe it was i5-6300u

[@jasimaneesahamed1033]

My latitude E6400 still lives on, and runs without a hitch. It runs Windows 10, and is used for niche applications like Android ADB installations and for playing old games... And its still somewhat snappy considering that it runs on a Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53 GHz). One great thing about this laptop, is the GPU, it allows me to overclock the screen to 90Hz, and it feels much better to use tbh.

[@leroyjethrogibbs]

I have 5 of those on a shelf next to me right now. They hardly ever die. Run windows 11 perfectly fine as long as you got enough ram and the i5.

[@lucasrem]

leroyjethrogibbs he need that ubuntu UNIX crab why the trash PC's ???? Just install Windows 11, do office mad stuff on it !!!!!

[@sXpNetworkTv]

Watching this video on my OptiPlex 9020 which is the ultra small form factor version of this PC. It runs Arch really well.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

The 9020 is a later generation, it's not the smaller version of this one.

[@OverTallman]

@@FlyboyHelosim It's actually in the same generation as the 3020 (LGA 1150 and Haswell CPU). The 9020 is just the high end one with better chipset and NIC. Also the 9020 has USFF version while 3020 doesn't. On the other hand they both have MT, SFF and Micro versions.

[@HKtitoOfficial]

Thats my actual PC no way, also great video!

[@MarkRayers]

Thats crazy man

[@Freakishink292]

wait wtf

[@lowykgt]

i keep seeing you everywhere

[@rizzing_mogger]

is it lightning fast?

[@Mariuszgamer]

Same. It's my spare pc and it's right next to my gaming pc

[@ThatOneArgentinianGamer]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this might be the first MJD video that has a Spanish setup of Windows. Boy, it brings me back lol.

[@TheBriefersZone]

Yeah it's the first time, but as i know one time he installed a french copy of windows NT 4.o on the windows 98 5$ pc

[@TonyCR1975]

Saludos argentina!

[@steelsofliquid]

As someone who has my own Dell OptiPlex 3020 SFF, I found this kinda cool. I got mine back in June of last year, has an 4th-gen Core i3 and Windows 7 CoA (with a manufacturing date of July 2015, ironically), chucked Windows 7 on it and it's quite an enjoyable unit!

[@trance_trousers]

These 'old' SFF office PCs are great. I got one a few years ago on eBay as my main PC, it's an HP Elite 8300. I added an SSD for Windows (11) and 3TB of hard disks for everything else. I also maxed out the RAM to 32GB, and fitted an Nvidia GTX 1050Ti graphics card, a WiFi card, and a card reader. It does everything I need it to do flawlessly and plays all the games I want it to at 1080p with more than acceptable frame rates.

[@zeze64.]

I think if your psu supports you should go for a rx 550 or 580

[@ourchicken]

@@zeze64. 550 is trash tbh

[@TelcirisWarlock]

Did you censor the Thermal paste to avoid the great debate between pea size and small shwirl?

[@MrPir84free]

Actually that sounds like a great way to avoid the know-it-alls..

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@MrPir84free honestly I'm personally a fan of spreading the stuff smooth (necessary for bare dies) but I understand that the X pattern (on a heat spreader) is good enough and the second-best method. But yeah 100% he did it because of that.

[@Nickelbender]

My school still has a room full of these, they are used for PCB design and are equipped with double monitors. We use them quite often. In other classes we have either Lenovo laptops or Dell all in one PCs

[@BCProgramming]

I had a 4th gen (4770K i7 paired with a GTX 1070) machine as my primary computer until last October. I find people wildly understate how capable these machines are. People talk about how they are "good for light tasks" or apparently only good for browsing. That old system of mine is still perfectly capable of playing a lot of relatively modern games, and frankly I didn't even have a great reason to replace it except that I wanted a new PC.

[@nexpreet]

I had a pleasure to work with dozens of these machines. One time we had an order of 30 of these which needed cleaning, thermal paste change, swapping hdds for an ssd and installing windows on them. You wouldn't believe how well built these are. They were made with repair and maintenance in mind, plus they're fairly speedy machines too!

[@doger944]

We have tons of these at my job waiting for the landfill. I've considered just taking some to tinker with.

[@morganrussman]

Grab them, upgrade them, and sell them.🤷‍♂️

[@aname-kg3cb]

put a rx 560 on those machines and you basically got a good gamin pc

[@Kagawwy]

Do it, these things are awesome.

[@JordonAM]

Something about reviving old computers that intrigue me. I guess that's one huge thing that I really like about Linux, it gives older computers another chance at life due to being lighter weight than Windows while also having modern software support and has security support. An old office PC from 2014 and here it is running a 2024 OS absolutely no problem. Just wonderful, less e-waste in the world is always good

[@thetechconspiracy2]

This machine would run just fine on Windows 10 (I actually used one that was a year older until last year), and would also be perfectly capable of running 11 if Microsoft didn't have arbitrary CPU requirements. From experience using older machines, the biggest bottleneck (after adding an SSD, this is true for both Linux and Windows) will be the web browser, since so many modern websites are built entirely in poorly optimized JavaScript.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Man, why can't I run into old Optiplexes looking that good? Most old office PCs I find are beat up.

[@lucasrem]

Philt You must be German or Russian Most office crab in the West is HP or DELL

[@philtkaswahl2124]

​@@lucasremFilipino, actually. And I can find used Optiplexes and Pavilions just fine. It's finding one of that quality that's difficult. Most I find look much more worse for wear, or even missing parts.

[@trevormcclellan]

You could check the S.M.A.R.T data for the hard drive and look at the power on hours to see if it was ever used also

[@HeroRareheart]

This reminds me of my Mom's "new" PC. It had a fried mobo and got thrown out, fixed it for $40. Sure it's a decade old but it's more then plenty for my Mom. One Kubuntu install later and she's more then happy with it. Edit: MJD I'm one of those people who will buy random old computers at good prices. Sometimes I add to the PC horde with Craigslist deals I really don't need out of force of habit.

[@y87_99Firebird]

Honestly Id loved this as a potential sleeper just for the body alone. I don't know the specifics on how much you can upgrade this (seeing that VGA port). Id run Win7 on it and just games in that general timeframe if I could modify it as a 2011 era PC Edit: as a garage PC that's perfect. Id have manuals for my vehicles for maintenance and use it as a parts buyer for them too

[@sonicpika4ushka]

That's a very good find ngl

[@BrianThomas]

Did I just time travel to 2002? I don't find people tossing out PC's like they use to anymore. Those were the good ole days when I use to find Old PC's being tossed out in the trash. Then they moved to the recycling center when we use to be allow to pick through. Someone in the town got wise and put a stop to that.

[@NoodlesTBograt]

Very nice for free perfect for a kids first PC. Just two things for anybody getting one of these check cmos battery & replace if low also update BIOS.

[@lucasrem]

kids need STeam Windows, Ubuntu is for nerdy creepy only ! Cadet Spaceball ? mad guy !

[@NiyaKouya]

Business PCs are so nice to work/tinker with. We have quite a lot of Fujitsu machines at work, and the towers from the last ~10 years or so can be serviced without a screwdriver (unless you wanna remove the heat sink). That's mostly so technicians that might get called in for repairs can swap parts faster. The only downside is that especially the smaller formfactor models often include proprietary tech that's not so easy to get replacements for. Fujitsu has been using custom mainboards and PSUs that only supply 12V (with custom connectors on the MB and proprietary cables) for many years.

[@JoCaTen]

Oh the optiplex, my vocational school's economy lab got equipped with those, replacing ancient PCs from over 20 or so years. Me being part of the IT students were in charge of replacing the old stuff with these ones. Was kind of controversial for us considering our labs were equipped with much weaker PCs.

[@ergosteur]

I sent one of those to recycling that looked exactly like that, nearly perfect condition, front plastic on it. I deployed it when it was new. It was used in an office environment for about 7-8 years, was reliable and decently fast. Most of these shipped in i5 4GB or 8GB configs with a 500GB hard drive. I still have like 4 of them on my shelf lol.

[@wiktorwiktor12]

always a good day when michael mjd drops a video

[@kyleighc06]

One of my friend actually runs Minecraft servers on an OptiPlex! I'm not sure if it's the same model, but it was really surprising to figure out that it can handle modded Minecraft with 5-6 players at a time

[@mastralhassani]

1:17 wasn’t handled very DELLicately

[@Roneekz]

Work for Dell off lease returns, often these are used in an office 2-3 years and for whatever reason some of them never have the plastic peeled off.

[@delancre5858]

1:21 my guy literally just told us, that he found his content in a trash

[@RobDEV]

These specific old optiplexes have such a special place in my heart, because my old school used to have them back in 2015 and 2016

[@LoganKaval]

If you want a simple distro like Ubuntu than use Linux Mint. Linux Mint doesn't force you to use snaps and is more popular. Due to it being more popular there is more support.

[@oldipodee]

I had an internship at a local university a year ago and worked on these computers. I had to clean these up and upgrade them, since they were usually dusty. One thing I learned with these is if you want to upgrade the RAM, you should remove the hard drive bay to make upgrading the RAM so much easier.

[@beltnet97]

Who's watching this on a Dell Optiplex?

[@FrustratedApe]

What a find! It's a shame its not a 9020, I'm sure they had a better chipset, 4x DIMM slots, RAID and more USB ports. The usual max factory CPU for these Optiplex was the i7-4770S.

[@wvistalover]

Also if you have any problems with it try updating the bios to the newest version, that fixed all my problems

[@AmazedStoner]

Having worked at a dell factory before. Their computers would be designed to be easy to work on as it is necessary to make it fast to assemble your configuration for your new computer. Each computer would be assembled ideally in about a minute or two.

[@adamn7516]

These 3000, 5000 and 7000 series Optiplexs are bulletproof. I've had have dozens in the field running all their original hardware even after 10+ years. The only drawback is the 3010 only allows for 8 gb ram max but starting with the 3020 you have there allows for up 32gb and all the 5000 and 7000 series all accept at least 32 or more depending on model year.

[@miguelmsilva16]

I've seen an OptiPlex 3090 with a Core i3 in my mother's office, and one day I'd love to open it, that thing is so small that would be interesting to see how are the components arranged inside

[@JonnyKeyZero]

I have the optiplex 790 MT and I did the Nvme Pci mod with the custom bios and it was worth it, my grandmother was going to throw it away but I rescued it for 15 dollars and now it is one of my best personal PCs, especially when I had the adrenaline of the custom bios, it runs Ubuntu great along with Windows 11 on that 1Tb Nvme

[@weegeemike]

I remember my high school had a bunch of these in the computer lab when i took a computer class as a senior in 2014. They were relatively new then. Solid computers. They ran photoshop smoothly and without issues. Didnt get to do much else with them but seem like competent machines.

[@tw350z7]

I got multiple Dell and HP desktops and laptops from a Corproate dumpster dive. I had to get some cmos batteries to replace the ones in some of the laptops .

[@ukaszstempnakowski3263]

i got dell vostro 3266 from trash ,now its my main computer,i found it with pentium g5460 inside and upgraded to i7 7700 and working like a beast

[@TheHearseAroundJimThorpe]

I was given one of these that was refurbished to run windows 10. it'd be used more if the external wifi adapter was working constantly

[@adamwhite2364]

This reminds me of my first days doing desktop support and I i got a ticket from a small service area and this woman was still suffering along with a GX280 that took like 15 minutes to boot up.. She had an Optiplex 770 that was still sitting in the box and had burned up 2 out of 3 years of warranty just sitting there. Apparently they'd had really bad experiences with other techs who wouldn't migrate their stuff and she never wanted to move it over. She was pretty pleased with the performance boost after that though!

[@BG101UK]

Apart from the graphics, that machine is probably better specified than one I built a few years prior, and certainly better than my remaining desktop machines. And people just throw these away?! Wish they'd throw them my way. (Nearest recycling warehouse I know of with this sort of stuff is about half way to London from here).

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 the garage is the only place that I dont have a PC, but even for the garage it doesnt have to be a SFF Dell, it reall can be anything, what im trying to brainstorm is setting up a TV or a Big Monitor, what kind, what size, and where to place it

[@manmanynames]

I bought a SFF HP a few years ago after a while of watching a ton of videos like this one that featured Optiplexes and the like. Yes they're just common school and business PCs but I love mine, it's been my main PC since I got it. I hadn't had a desktop before it and it's the first PC I ever bought with my own money. Whenever it is that I get the chance to upgrade to a more modern setup I'm not gonna get rid of it because I know it'll still have uses and it'll always have sentimental value to me.

[@braxtonbunner4990]

We had these until a few years ago at my workplace, with Windows 10. But was a terrible experience on the mechanical hard drive.

[@waynefong5960]

I bought a 3040 for around 40 bucks, and it's now a backup server of my main NAS

[@z1pbomb]

I rescued a mini office pc recently and made it my Plex server. I love these little computers and how handy they can actually be for a lot of non-intensive tasks

[@shawnd567]

I got an XE2 saved from the dump and swapped in the best server CPU I could find. They are basically i7s. $20. Maxed out the ram to 32gb, SSD and 1060 graphics card. Thing runs like a dream!!!

[@fttsen]

i've worked on these model at my old company, and from what i'm remember all of them will shipped with win7 pro and they will give you a DVD to upgrade to win8 and 10 and from what i recall the win10 pro recovery disc is kinda broken at least i never able manage to use it to do the upgrade

[@RampantLeaf]

These old Optiplexes are everywhere since businesses have moved on from them. I bought my parents a refurbished one a few years ago for dirt cheap and threw in a 512gb SSD. Works like a charm.

[@alhuno1]

I have two of these at the office still looking brand new. Boss already said I coulf leave with one whenever. I'm just waiting for the right moment. Slap an SSD in there and its good to go.

[@DeanVRS20VT]

Got 2 OptiPlex 3050. One runs Windows 11 Pro, and the other is a Hackintosh. And, I have an OptiPlex 7010 which runs Windows XP Pro. I love them!

[@Kagawwy]

Just got two 5070s and a 5090 from the trash, all with I7's. Not NEW, but still in very good condition. Surprisingly, they all still work after being (literally) thrown in the trash.

[@JMG3769]

I’ll take it! my hp s5-1414 broke with a motherboard issue and i cant afford a new one and that one was the only windows 10 or updated computer i have😔

[@nashvaughan3175]

I just refurbished an Optiplex 320 with a Core 2 Duo e7500 CPU. Put in an SSD and W11 and it runs just fine. For web/e-mail, it can last probably quite a few more years.

[@SpecialAussie]

if you want windows 10 support for longer get the IoT enterprise LTSC iso and install that, i use it as my main windows build, and it doesn’t have all the bloatware and spyware

[@AvidSonicFan]

To comment on the beginning, I actually saw these while working in an electronics recycling facility a few years back and I tore apart/tested several of these!

[@Ophidicus]

I have the Optiplex 3010 version of this because the 3010 has native driver support for Windows XP - Windows 10 which I have XP on there for Retro Gaming

[@KrisPops64]

don't judge me I use dell optiplex 3020 as my main gaming pc when i was a kid

[@AwesomeGames56]

ClassiCube isn’t just a clone, it’s a direct port of Minecraft Classic with some quality-of-life improvements and of course a texture pack for legal reasons.

[@pityuuuuu3693]

I work at a computer refurbishing company, and I've seen hundreds of these. Most of those were filthy as hell, some had plant seeds in the power supply, and the whole thing was covered with some sticky dust inside, wich also smelled bad, I wondered where they get these machines, the front covers where often broken, scratches, and lot of them just broke down without reason, I hated to work with them, but otherwise they easy to disassembly at least.

[@bub_sy]

I have the same pc sitting under my TV. It's runs Truenas and my CCTV server. Mine was free too, a thank you for sourcing and setting up it's replacement for a mate.

[@anthonygotttheonly]

Older dell business pcs and a used/older spec gpu is a cheap way to get your siblings and friends online!

[@arlopsopticblast]

I still have my dell optiplex that I use still for school and some gaming. It works like a charm

[@Sterling_Silver04]

I play around with an Optiplex 790 Ultra Small Form model, it is absolutely tiny and VERY cramped inside. It showed up addressed to us a few years ago despite no one having ordered it, and no one ever came to get it returned, so it just sat on a shelf untouched. When I first got into Pc building my parents gave it to me because I was the most likely to actually use it. Took it with me when I left the house and got it fired up and upgraded. It only had room for one hard drive, so I added a second caddy to replace the optical drive for more capacity and the ability to boot from SSD and store data on HDD. i5 2400S, 8gb ram, boots from a 120gb SSD and uses the 500 HDD as storage. Considering slapping in a 2600S, but I doubt it will need that much power under the hood. I haven't gotten to fully implement it into home use yet, but the plan is for it to work in tandem with my home server/network pc as well. When Windows 10 is no longer supported I'll likely just bypass the system requirements, I'm not literate enough for Linux and the bypass is fairly easy to do anyway.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

you don't need to be super computer literate to start using Linux. Later distros have made it quite easy to start. The learning curve is a thing but very satisfying when you do learn stuff. The user community is quite helpful. No one expects you to be an expert. You can't learn to swim without getting wet. Just consider it. If you can admit you're not literate enough then you probably are better off than you think and don't suffer from Dunning-Kreuger distorting your self-assessment in the wrong direction. So that's a start.

[@Revoltyx]

I love Dell Optiplex machines. They're so fun to mess around with, wish they were a bit more flexible in terms of components but small form factor and easy to service

[@chemergency]

These things make for killer MAME machines. I picked one up from Goodwill for 10 bucks a couple months ago and it came equipped with an I7 and 8gb of RAM which I went ahead and upgraded to 16gb with some unused spares I had lying around. It had no HDD but I threw my old 1.5tb WD Black drive in there and it works like a champ. Not to mention it had an old AMD Radeon card so I was able to load CRTEmu drivers on it and it looks incredible on my CRT monitor, like a real arcade system.

[@AricVogel]

That's a good choice for a garage PC, I've been using an identical looking Optiplex for the same purpose these last few years and I love it. Mine's still running Win7 for the time being, I hadn't even considered Linux at the time, but I think that just might be what I upgrade it to next (seeing as Windows 11 isn't an option).

[@willfultrain6779]

I got an inspiron 3252 from a goodwill outlet in a big blue bin in the outlet section for $6.52 because they go by pound. Unfortunately, I don't have a power supply for it since it doesn't have your usual psu. I don't even know if it works, and I've had it for over a month.

[@yamiyukiko7362]

I got a Dell OptiPlex 7050 after my old computer's motherboard failed. I use it to do work on and play games. it works really well

[@Firespecialstar]

i actually started a job in an office just 1 week ago, and we actually work with these dells, what were the odds of you uploading a video on this exact type of pc just after i started my job lol

[@Tuliolatenn]

I got Optiplex 790, I still use that, and it works fine

[@averagedev7768]

Where i work for we have a ton of these 3020 and just by putting in some Samsing 870 evos of 250GB saved theme from the trash. I guess there biggest weakness are the PSUs and sometimes they can be repaired but its strange that they never fail for the same reason, sometimes its the trafo itself, sometimes the mosfet sometimes its one of the big caps. All in all a solid little computer, i upgrade all of theme to 16GB of ram when i put in the ssd, runs windows 11 fine in domain env

[@Reziac]

I have 3 Optiplex 3010 units, almost the same. Good little PCs. i7-3770 CPU, takes 32GB RAM. Using one to write this (with PCLinuxOS/KDE) Turned one into a Hackintosh and everything worked out of the box except networking (didn't even bother with Clover or kexts). Performance on my three are all good... BUT the Hackintosh was laggy with 8GB, is slick with 32GB. I would not expect Ubuntu to be slick with only 8GB, regardless of what they claim. It's a bloody hog all by itself. I've run Win10 and Server2008R2 on mine as well, with good performance. But I maxed out RAM on all three of them.

[@benjiwon]

recently spent a few weeks upgrading exactly the same optiplex's with exactly the same SSD

[@WilliamHollinger2019]

Those Dells PC were everywhere now they are getting rare. One of them had my Facebook account messed up on there.

[@jeffjankiewicz5100]

As a former Microsoft tester, Vista really sucked. Blue screen of death on install reboot twice in a hard drive I swapped in my pc for the test. Pc was supposedly Vista compliant. Had Windows 7 Pro, Windows 8 8.1(junk) and 10 a year before release. That pc should run Recalbox console emulation.

[@kami-kun_va]

I have a 7010 that looks almost exactly like this one. Mine runs XP, surprisingly well for a 2014 computer.

[@AvantleFox]

Man I've worked on so many of these things lmao. They aren't terrible, they're perfectly usable for what they're designed for. And I can attest to the fixability of them, even doing a board swap is fairly quick. The only downside is the use of proprietary stuff that limits how long you can keep them going.

[@anatolklops]

I can confirm this, the 4th generation of Intel can really do a lot in 2024 (as long as it's not I3 or the low-power T version). It may not give you 120 frames in the latest games, but used every day it will be all what person might need. In addition, combined with the low-profile GT1030 (even passive) can easily take the latest Minecraft and a game like The Long Drive made on Unity, and in combination with the used low-profile GTX1650 it will allow you to play a really impressive bouquet of games, still in a low-profile case. Obviously, not in 4k, not in 120 frames, ... But if someone is satisfied with 60 frames with drops to 30 on their older monitor in games, then this is a really strong proposition. And in addition, this proposition in the version without an added graphics card for everyday work probably draws only about 40W from the wall socket.

[@crobulous9581]

Seems like a hot swap back up that just never got used, we used to always order extra units that would sit waiting for someone's to break down, then it was a case of swap the desktops and take the broken one away for repair, strange it hadn't been set up though so maybe not