Is this a steal?
The CPU is an i5-2400
Is this a steal?
Daniel Lopez
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Mason Green
Ehhh, its ok. OEM though
Julian Anderson
Yes. It's a common tactic these days to buy cheap i5 Optiplexes and outfit them with low-profile GPUs. They're not great, but they make adequate low-end gaming rigs.
Installing something like a GPU won't fuck with the OEM. Anything beyond that will, generally.
Colton Peterson
I should also mention that you can find newer machines with Haswell i5s for fairly cheap, just not as cheap.
Samuel Garcia
Bought a full tower Optiplex 3020 for $150 and installed Debian with no issues. Only has two RAM slots compared to my previous Optiplex 980, but has USB3 and DP out from the motherboard.
If you don't need real high end, used Dells or HPs off ebay are great.
Easton Young
No. You can find OEM machines with Haswell i5s for that amount of money.
Wyatt Parker
can you link one?
not gayming, just shitposting on /gee/ and learning programming. will the op pic be adequate for that w/o a low profile video card?
Blake Sullivan
You can get them with 4GB RAM for $110, so $140 with 8GB isn't a huge steal. (unless you simply count getting a freaking sandy i5 system for that cheap to be a steal, which it is)
If that's a mini tower and not a small form factor then it's worth a little more.
Colton Lopez
>this is considered a steal in burgerland
I recently bought an old i5 office machine (ThinkCentre) for 50€. Also with 8GB RAM. Deals like that come and go all the time, usually several pop up at once, old offices gettings rid of their "old" shit.
Popped in a low profile (only low profile slots available, it's a desktop, not a tower) Quadro GPU. Runs macOS, pretty much innately as it's 100% compatible hardware.
Gavin Sanchez
Also popped in an SSD as boot drive and replaced the optical drive with another HDD and run two HDDs in RAID too.
Isaiah Lewis
Which i5?
Lincoln Richardson
Third gen quad-core. 3400 something.
I don't have it next to me to check.
Tyler James
Does this picture remind anyone else from a titan from Shingeki no Kyojin?
Tyler Lewis
kek
Juan Barnes
Go big or go home, user. Put a Xeon in that bad boy. Chinks can get you sorted on that.
Colton Scott
I just bought a small form factor optiplex 9020 with an i5 4590 8gb RAM 1TB HDD and win10 for $160. Is it easy to install a low profile gpu or will I need a new psu and will I need a proprietary one too? Or will I be stuck with just using the computer for Web browsing? I'm not really complaining but the option would be nice
John Reyes
>mocks OP for thinking its a deal
>his CPU is literally only one generation ahead
smdhrntbqhwyf
Ethan Ramirez
you'll find that most low profile GPUs suck. That's why I switched from a low profile desktop to a tower. If you're just browsing the internet and not gaming, the Intel GPU is good enough, especially on linucks
Thomas Carter
someone answer please
Christian Carter
Would it be fine for shitposting? Yes. So would this.
Aaron Perry
looks nice, i have some money to blow though so how hard is it to replace ram in an oem desktop opposed to a full tower?
Kevin Bennett
fuck no. these machines go for $50-60. if you're gonna bother spending that much at least look for one with an i7-2600k or ivybridge equiv
Jaxson Garcia
his CPU is literally worse since Ivy has no IPC improvements over Sandy and Ivy is Intel jizz paste where sandy was all soldered TIM.
James Roberts
Depends on the desktop. Look it up.
Caleb Howard
Virtually no difference. In an SFF you might have to move a tray to access the RAM. 5 minute job vs. 3 minute job
Nathan King
like this?
Bentley Morgan
I'm a retard
Aiden White
yes, if you get one and replace the PSU and put a decent gpu in it they make fantastic gaming machines. I've done it a few times and they work great. even the i5-2400 is great.
Oliver Parker
No, i got a prebuilt with an i5 4590 for $130 a while ago.
Aaron Turner
>Link one
Here, she's a 9020, good machines.
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Josiah Turner
And here's the build specs for that particular machine.
dell.com