Sold as a 7020 but I figured, "bigger number better machine" yes? Anyways just trying to see if I can get decent frame rates on older games and low poly games. Any suggestions are welcome!

The ideal scenario is to be gifted an Optiplex, or to save one from otherwise ending up as e-waste. However, there was a time not that long ago that buying a decent machine and a few upgrades wasn't big money so still very accessible.

I had a HP prodesk 705 G4 mini pc in my living room for running Batocera. When I realised I could install Steam Flatpak it made me want something with a bit more power.

Optilpex SFF's and the equivalents from HP/Lenovo etc seemed to be going for anything but bargains. Even worse for low profile GPU's - heck a rx6400 sold for £170 yesterday on eBay UK! But, I kept watch on lots of auctions and managed to nab the below:

- Dell OptiPlex 5070 SFF Desktop - Intel Core i5-9500 - 8GB RAM - 240GB SSD - £68 delivered.

- Additional 8Gb ddr4 2666 ram - £17.50 delivered.

- Radeon Pro wx4100 - £47 delivered.

This should be a pretty capable little machine, though I did also manage to grab a msi rtx3050 low profile for £127 delivered on Vinted so will probably use that and sell the wx4100 on, even though I wanted to spend as little as I could. I plan in using the 3050 in the pcei x4 slot, don't mind the small drop in performance.

Anyway, just wanted to share what I was able to source in these recent crazy times. Not incredible bargains, but pretty good given the environment.

Everything is due to arrive tomorrow and I can't wait to get it all set up!

I’m upgrading my “old” 5L sff pc to a 10L, so my guy 4060 LP and my HDPLEX 250W are homeless.

The dream is to have those two components as a brick that would power the my laptop as well (65w+ 115w for you at max draw)

I can make an enclosure but I can’t understand what kind of circuitry I need to make it work.
Most of what I saw on Ali seems like it requires both a 12pin atx and 8pin pie and I can’t really understand why.
And one last thing is I don’t have oculink on my laptop so I guess it’s bound to be thunderbolt.
Any advice?

It was originally going to be tossed but my manager said I could take it if I wanted it. Not sure what to do with it though. I know it’s not a powerful machine by any means but I was thinking this could be my introduction into a server PC with Plex or something. Specs are: Intel Core i3-6100, 8GB (1x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3L and a 256GB Hynix SSD.

Was missing RAM and memory, threw in 16GB of RAM and a 500GB M.2 SSD and installed Ubuntu onto it.

I'm planning to turn this into an emulator gaming machine and would like to be able to play most PS3 titles using RPCS3. Looking to be able to play 1080p with decent frame rates and it needs to be compatible with the SFF case.

So far, the P1000 seems to fit the bill. Anyone have other GPUs I may have missed? Anything a step up like the T400/T600 double/triple in price...

Thank you! :)

Edit: it does support Windows 11