anyone else like the design of old Optiplexes? I really like the industrial-esque looking aesthetic.
Anyone else like the design of old Optiplexes? I really like the industrial-esque looking aesthetic
Joseph Gomez
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Jose Campbell
Am I a boomer now that these are the "old" optiplex designs?
Joshua Wright
I use a 7010 MT as my main desktop.
Great machine. Does everything I need it to do. Super reliable, great looking. Only pain in the ass was finding a suitable PSU replacement.
Jayden Jones
idk, now they look like this (pic related) which imo looks like complete shite
nice, i use a 990, think yours is like a year or two newer.
Jason Reed
Yep, that's correct. 990 was released in 2011, I believe. Another gorgeous machine. Actually prefer the design to my 7010. Hard to believe we're nearing the decade anniversary for these.
Replace any hardware on your box or are you still running vanilla/stock?
Jace Ramirez
>Replace any hardware on your box or are you still running vanilla/stock?
upgraded ram to 16 GB and added a 250GB SSD + 1TB HDD. Stock it had 8GB ram and 500GB hard drive
Thomas King
You mean professional looking, no bullshit designs? No, user, nobody on Jow Forums likes that
Oliver Wood
well idk it seems like a lot of people like this retarded shit (pic)
Sebastian Reed
Not really. My office still uses 7010s with this design, and 7020 SFF units that are the same thing shrunk down a bit. They're not all getting replaced until three years from now.
Christian Martin
I use one as my daily driver
Gabriel Evans
by some people's standards 2011/2012 is old, i guess it just depends who you ask
Nice, I can't really tell but is that a 790? What upgrades have you made to it?
Bentley Flores
I can't remember what model it is but I slammed a graphics card in it
Oliver Lee
nice, i see that ssd just laying there as well kek
Brandon Edwards
I like the SFF versions. Small, yet capable.
Julian Anderson
Is that a proprietary DVD drive? Or just a laptop DVD drive?
Christopher Jackson
that's the USFF. The SFF is (pic related).
They're both nice, especially if they have an i7 like yours, but there's no way to get a gpu in there and they use mini-itx power supplies.
Jayden Wilson
looks like just a laptop size one. I dunno why that's the case on a full size tower. Another reason newer Optiplexes are shit.
Bentley Adams
Where my opticucks at?
You're posting the mini tower.
Ethan Walker
Desktop* I mean.
Weird form factor names.
Gavin Lopez
oh right yeah DT i'm fucken stupid
forgot the designations for a sec you're right
Tyler Ramirez
get a mini tower and put in a
Nolan Watson
They're magnets for dirt and dust.
Jayden Walker
Bought a bunch of cheap quad core SFF ones and they are max comfy.
John Flores
My job uses the 7020s as PoS Terminals at their stores
Thomas Rogers
i'm more of a xps kinda guy
Adam Hernandez
that sexy gamecom though. I wish any of their current headsets (or literally any wireless headset) was as comfy, mine finally had the headband snap
Daniel Watson
Currently running a 7010 as my daily. A friend gave me a bunch of parts so I put the mobo from the 7010 in the riced out case. Just werkz
Hudson Hernandez
I thought the motherboards had proprietary hole mount positions, but I guess they are standardized. Decent way to solve the high temps and poor ventilation problems that optiplexes have.
Lincoln Rodriguez
Fuck yeah, my gayman daily driver is an Optiplex 790 i5 2400 that cost me 25 bucks. I also have a SFF Optiplex 990 i7 2600 with a low-profile GT 1030 for the road, and it actually does not suck.
Sandy Bridge 4eva
Jace Lee
The company I work for deploys the 7020s as PoS terminals
Brody Gray
Yes
Xavier Allen
I put a real power supply in mine, it's got a 1050Ti (IDGAF about the 144/1440 meme). I also found a drive bracket that fits two laptop drives into a single 3.5" bracket, so it's got 250SSD plus a 1TB laptop drive that I pulled from an old Uverse TV box, both in the same bracket.
One of the cool things about those 2011-2012 era Optiplexes is that most of them have a W7Pro COA sticker, unless you got it through someone who wasted the time to install Win10 and slapped a refurb COA over it.
The hardest thing I did was chasing down a working USB 2.0 card, since Win7 doesn't really support USB 3.0. When adding cameras and other crap for streaming, you start to run out of USB ports and bandwidth (so hubs won't cut it). The 2.0 boards are usually classic PCI and there's one of those on the mobo.
Switch to a mouth fedora, smokefag.
That's almost as comfy as a stack of mac minis is to a macfag.
Nicholas Lee
Since we're working on getting rid of Windows 7 I have two closets full of these things. What can I do to put the old gals to good use?
Oliver Cruz
we still use these at work. IT still pushes them out, just upgrades the hdd to an ssd and loads Windows Ten in place of 7. I use the sff 7020 at work.
Sebastian Evans
Did Jow Forums actually run off a fucking iMac mini cluster? Those look like core 2 duo.
Dylan Evans
it looks like it belongs more on a rack in a server room than on a desktop
John Thomas
Reporting for duty
Colton Perez
Incorrect. Rocking a 4 GB 1050 ti low profile card in my i7 2600 990 SFF, also put in 16 GB of RAM and a Crucial MX500.
Runs Cities Skylines flawlessly.
Michael Allen
forgot Speccy
Dominic Taylor
Do you need a SATA splitter if you have two drives or can you just use the cable that goes to the disk drive?
Christian Nelson
They each connect to SATA ports on the motherboard, dumbass. You know, with a wire? This isn't some gay ass slot-in server frame, it's just no-screws rails.
Jaxon Martin
I never implied it slotted into the frame. I asked if I could take the SATA connection that goes off from the main SATA cable going to the disc drive and use it to connect another hard drive.
The alternative is something like Dell SATA Power Splitter Cable N701D but I don't want to buy that shit.
Ryan Cook
I prefer the thinkstation design
Ayden Martinez
Anyway, it looks like you can. Thanks for the help, you fucking asshole.
Jackson Flores
What, split the data cable? That doesn't make sense. Did you mean power? Then why didn't you fucking say power, and it's got the old-school 4-pin power plugs so it's like asking if you can hook up two sprinklers to a garden hose, yes you just use the standard adapters.
And I was talking about a mini-tower anyhow, so why are you showing me a video of someone replacing the optical drive with a drive adapter in an SFF?
Adam Reed
>only one handle
Looks like macfags BTFO again!
Connor Cooper
You just want to admit you completely misread my post and are a contrarian retard so we can skip this argument and you pretending you don't understand what a SATA cable is?
You also wasted money buying a PSU when any 255 watt plus SFF or mini tower PSU can run the 1050ti without any issue, but that's beside the point.
Ian Moore
>implying nothing else is going into the box
Ian Ross
>>implying nothing else is going into the box
Yes, or at least nothing that would need a PSU upgrade.
Brody Brown
Mason Baker
Flip your PSU dude, that's why there are holes in the bottom of your case
Parker Allen
OP here, I fell asleep so that's cool this thread is still up
that's fine, to each their own i guess
that's max comfy
that's why i like it. The professional looking design.
Oh right. I forgot about those low profile cards.
disagree, but if you like it that's fine.
yep that's me.
Bentley Parker
Ryan Walker
That actually looks pretty nice, user. Imo it looks better than this lenovo
Ryan Wood
my daily driver. got it for 300 bucks including screen, keyboard and mouse. upgraded the ram to 28gb, top comfy.
Isaac Hernandez
Sounds comfy to me. Did you put any gpu or ssd in there, or just upgrade the ram?
Nathaniel Cooper
i left the two 500gb hdd inside, it just werks. some 3gb geforce was already inside, works well enough for my needs.
Ian Richardson
For those in or near Austin, go to the Discount Electronics on Anderson Lane, they have pallets of stacks of all kinds of Optiplex in the store. It's so kino, they've got more Dells than Dell because they have so many old models. I guess they buy out all the used post-lease Dells that they can.
Ian Rodriguez
nice, if you don't need an ssd, you don't need an ssd. Lucky it had a card in it already
I live nowhere close to Austin, but that's pretty cool anyway
Liam Robinson
got one for 8 years not a single glutch
Caleb Russell
>There's no way to get a GPU in there
I got a 1050ti in it. Waiting on the 1650 release.
Also managed to fit a 4TB 3.5 inch with a 256GB M.2 SSD.
My thermals are in the 50s idle though.
Chase Lee
The new full tower Optiplexes also has the mini tower PSU which makes it useless as compared to the mini tower itself
Dylan Gonzalez
A year ago we bought a few used 7010 sf's. I'm kind of disappointed now because we a actually had a lot of issues with those (more than with other used PCs) like broken ram slots, broken power buttons, broken fans etc
Luke Cooper
>When one botnet is not enough
Xavier Martin
>my uni wont sell them to students
fucking jews i swear
Adrian Bell
>got one for 8 years not a single glutch
nice, I only had a few hiccups with mine, but nothing major.
>I got a 1050ti in it. Waiting on the 1650 release.
Also managed to fit a 4TB 3.5 inch with a 256GB M.2 SSD.
My thermals are in the 50s idle though.
Yeah I forgot about the low profile cards
>The new full tower Optiplexes also has the mini tower PSU which makes it useless as compared to the mini tower itself
Yep. New ones are shit.
A year ago we bought a few used 7010 sf's. I'm kind of disappointed now because we a actually had a lot of issues with those (more than with other used PCs) like broken ram slots, broken power buttons, broken fans etc
Hmmm. Maybe they were just treated roughly.
>my uni wont sell them to students fucking jews i swear
That's pretty fucking stupid. Maybe there's another surplus store in your area, user.
Hudson Reed
it's not personal you fool
they'd just rather sell everything in bulk to one buyer instead of selling them piecemeal to students
Ian Watson
Had these guys back in college
Jack Gonzalez
It's obvious they took a page out of Apple's catalogue but it's a nice touch
Luis Taylor
>1000W
Hope you have that thing bolted down
Julian Stewart
Somewhat related; I really like the look of thin clients. There's just something about those little things that I really like, especially the ones with the little pcie slot. Yeah I know laptops are more practical and ITX pcs are more powerful but I'm still thinking of picking one up just to play around with.
Brody Sullivan
Those things were everywhere from 2003 to 2010.
Noah Price
>that pic
>"""old""" optiplex
nah you mean pic related
Nolan Hernandez
Boomer detected.
Connor Long
>boomers at work still have only just decided to start getting rid of 780s
Zachary Hall
My uni just put em all out in the dumpster. I use them for makeshift shelving instead of cinder blocks. Of course they're p3/p4 like
Jaxon Thompson
yeah this is how it works
like 13-15 years ago i got like 20 gx 260 / gx 280 from a local school at an auction pretty cheap..
no hard drives in them but a lot of them had cpu/fans/mobo/ram/connectors/optical-drives/etc so i think it was worth it.
i sold most of the parts and used some for repairs and on occasion still use the case fans and the other few things that weren't propiretary dell garbage.
nowadays most companies just lease PCs or throw them away.
or even funnier, when a company my friend used to work at moved buildings, they just left a buch of them at the old one. didnt bother moving shit from the storage rooms lol.
Josiah Mitchell
based clampshell case poster
fuckin' dell man. glad shit has gotten better.
Logan Cruz
>nice, if you don't need an ssd, you don't need an ssd. Lucky it had a card in it already
yeah, totally. i would install a new ssd, but the hdds are still fine and i don't need the extra space, so no need to waste money on this.
Julian Brown
Oh, Optiplex users of the world
Unite and take over
Optiplex users of the world
Hand it over
Hand it over
Hand it over
Learn to love me
And assemble the ways
Now, today, tomorrow, and always
Jaxson Foster
I recently bought an Optiplex 990 MT, wasn't able to get one with i7 so i got a i5 instead. Does it make a lot of difference in these models?
Julian Powell
God these sucked major ass
Daniel Barnes
I have one and it's really solid. Really good temps too. Only issue is that I broke off the plastic/metal pci door/latch on the back so I hope it doesn't interfere with adding a GPU. The pci slot is fine though.
Elijah Ortiz
You may just be able to screw it in place. I believe there's a hole there that the latch would have fit into.
Just remember you need a low profile GPU for the SFF, if you have one. Nothing else will fit unless you keep the cover off of it.
Jonathan Thomas
What about these?
Leo Cruz
Holy shit that was my first Desktop and left it to rot somewhere. I had no idea it was an Optiplex.
Adrian Jenkins
can you buy any of these enclosures, second hand.
planning to stick a r5 3600 into one and do a sleeper build.
Jackson Barnes
For me, it's Fujitsu.
Zachary Miller
Build a cluster, user
Jackson Roberts
no. 4c4t
Brandon Powell
Daniel Richardson
the new precisions are honestly pretty fucking great boxes
wish i could nab one for a personal server
Luke Adams
I too love the Fujitsu paunch
Parker Miller
>TFW no Optiplex GF
IT HURTS
Bentley Rodriguez
Oh I have a tower so size is fine. I've used my PC without the pci cover and it works fine. It shouldn't be a problem fitting the card in without the black plastic cover on the back of the case. Ive seen modded cases with the entire GPU exposed.
Camden Parker
>when your eyes are drawn to the model number
Carter Adams
lol
Hudson Turner
I'm running a very similar config. Though the case is not Dell, but a strangely similar looking one.
Nice monitor tho
David Wright
What case is that?
Joshua Nelson
It's some OEM PC, says "Aquarius Pro P30 S67" on the sticker. Got it with Intel DQ67SW mobo. I wonder if it has very similar design to Dell's (grey mesh in front) because the case it made in same chinese sweatshop or something