The Trash-Picked BRAND NEW Dell OptiPlex

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

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

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!

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 YouTube 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.

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.

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.

Thats my actual PC no way, also great video!

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

I've rescued a few of these 3020s. With a BIOS update, (A25) it can take up to 16GB DDR3-1600, i7-4790 CPU, and 2TB SATA SSD, with an adapter. Rock solid PCs.

That's a very good find ngl

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.

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

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.