The Optiplex 9020 is an affordable desktop, Great for your work and studies
• CPU - Intel Core i5 4570 3.20Ghz
• Ram - 8gb ddr3
• Hard Drive - 128gb SSD - High quality brand from Samsung, gigabyte, western digital, Kingston
• Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 4600
• Connectivity - Headphone Jack + Mic Jack, 4 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0,2 x display port 1x vga
• Optical Drive - Yes
• Network - Ethernet
• Operating System - Windows 10 Pro
Bonus extras
-Power cable-Vga Cable
It's like bike pedals…
Or the VGA cable.
I literally have a box full of AU to IEC leads and a box full of VGA monitor leads at work…
I've had plenty of refurb Dell Optiplexes before (although not through Fuzetech). I have found them to be rock-solid, reliable competent workhorses.
Sure, you're not playing latest games on these, but at $180 (delivered) these are terrific value. They'll handle any 'normal' office tasks without issue.
Internally, they are neat, tidy, easy to remove/replace RAM, disks, cards, etc. Parts, (eg PSU, DVD) if needed, are cheap on eBay.
Bang on! These aren't for all the 'rocket surgeons' out there. I cannot fathom why there is all the carry-on about fitting low profile cards to these - if that is your 'game', please go and get something that is fit-for-purpose! Please!
We've had three of these (or minor variants). Perfect desktop replacements for my parents - and as a spare for when my aged Medion bites the dust. Only addition needed has been a WiFi dongle!
FWIW: No NFC or Band 28 either…
If you want better/faster graphics without fitting graphics card pay an extra $20 or so and get the newer i5-6500 rather than the older i5-4570
link to the i5-6500?
@Homr: Search HP EliteDesk 800 G2 on ebay for best value on i5-6500. Current best I can see today is $219, more than 10 available and asking for offers.
Another advantage of this HP unit over the Dell unit is that it supports booting OS from M.2 SSD thru PCIe adapter card provided you update the HP bios to v2.51. CrystalDiskMark giving me 2440MB/s Read and 1852MB/s Write on WD (Blue) SN550 Win10 boot disk installed in this HP unit.
@Cronium: Item 133427370677 and Item 333957373587 both $229 with $10 off ebay code PLUSDE1 usable on both.
"carry on"?
Adding a low-profile graphics card to these makes a great general purpose PC than can also play 3D games.
I just put a GT 1030 in, and it was able to play most of the games I tried from Steam. The built-in Intel graphics cannot do that, and you'd be back to playing Doom or Leisure Suit Larry :-)
Sure, you could get a cheap new PC with AMD, but it would be big, ugly and noisy, and no Windows license.
and you'd be back to playing Doom or Leisure Suit Larry :-)
I'd be happy with a $200 PC that plays DOOM
yeah i don't get it, is he gate-keeping 7 year old used office equipment?
Assume you can still chuck a 1050ti low profile card in one of these for some light gaming?
I did this with this same model a few years back. It was a shit show. the slot for the card is right up against the power supply… so the heatsink makes it impossible to install the card.
I ended up doing open air cases…
Holy shit, really good job making that! Especially for a beginner at woodworking.
My attempts at wood working always end with measure 500 times, cut once and it's still bloody wrong haha
heh, ta. was a pain in the arse to do building up to xmas in the summer heat hammering away with the chisel :-P
kids are still using them today… so 4 years is pretty decent. :-)
Nice build. 3 years ago I had the same problem my solution was to cut a hole in the top of the case and have the power supply external. Still running today.
so the heatsink makes it impossible to install the card
I managed to install one just fine, impossible is an exaggeration.
My game-box is a 9010, which did not have that problem.
But can't you just use the x4 slot? The performance penalty is not that bad.
You could have just installed it in the 4x slot, the performance loss is negligible with that card.
An unsafe assumption, some SFF only rate their pcie slots as less wattage than 75 (mine said 35W but it ran the 1050ti fine… dunno what's up with that)
Also with my SFF optiplex, the Gigabyte 1050ti just fits, whereas the MSI 1050ti is a few mm too large in one dimension
You can fit some models but you need to get a card with 2 fans and look to undervolt it to get reasonable thermals.
I had some success undervolting a 2gb 1050 (non-ti) galax 2 fan model which I spiked from eBay.
LP cards are difficult to get at a good price so keep that in mind (even more so in this current climate)
Sounds like there's been issues for some people. I bought two of these, put a Gigabyte 1050ti (edit: low profile) in both and they just worked. No fit issues, power issues, anything.
These will fit a low-profile 1650 or something similar right?
Yep, I built 2 of these as budget gaming PCs for my kids. I got GeForce GTX 1650 D6 OC Low Profile 4G from CPL Online. They aren’t easy to find anymore as they seemed to be out of production, but you don’t need to cut or chop the case. Fits like a glove.
I’ve got an old atx case, can I swap the motherboard etc over from these sff to that so I can fit a normal size graphics card?
I can't personally recommend this unless you intend to mcgyver the front IO from the dell into your current setup. the reason is because they have a check for components and you'll get all sorts of "press F1 to acknowledge no front IO" sort of warning messages coming up.
if you can live with that then it's perfectly workable but consider that if it's for a server or anything like that that is potentially unattended, with the huge number of windows updates it can become a serious nuisance
Thanks for that, I wold not have thought of that issue.
The motherboard sometimes has proprietary connections which you need an adapter for - or so I'm told
Hmm, yes there are little adapter plugs on eBay.
Got one of these for the office. Works well for the price, has had no issues.
I had a client try to dispose of about 40 of these last year. I managed to save a dozen before it was too late thankfully.
The internals are good and it's really easy to disassemble and upgrade. I'm using a few as an ESXi cluster now.
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Running pfsense on ESXi. Perfect!
Is that with an additional PCIe network card?
OOS now
Right when I was thinking about getting one too!! Typical lol
They'll probably get more in stock soon.
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How is the power cable a bonus?