The Most Powerful OptiPlex Ever

**Upgrading the GT 1030: From Humiliating Experience to Beastly Performance**

We're now packing an Intel i9 processor running on that sexy Strix Z690 M80X board, along with 64 gigs of DDR5 memory running at 5200 megahertz. And finally, we have an RTX 3080 TI in there, which means within a couple of percentage points, this is one of the most powerful gaming configurations in the world.

Upgrading from the GT 1030, which was officially less powerful than an Intel iGPU, has been a significant improvement. While it's running slightly better than before due to higher graphics and frame rates, it's still a far cry from the beast we have now.

Our first non-sarcastic game benchmark at 1080p ultra settings resulted in a staggering 200 frames per second, with the system not even breaking a sweat. Although, with about 35 load on the CPU, it's already sitting at 84 degrees Celsius, which is... interestingly enough, similar to what you'd expect from a Dell system.

Moving up to 1440p and still pegged at 200 frames per second, this hardware configuration truly is monstrous. The system is having to work harder, though, with the GPU getting close to 100% utilization and temperatures reaching as high as 97 degrees Celsius.

After half an hour, the GPU topped out at 80 degrees Celsius, occasionally touching 81 but mostly sitting at 80. Meanwhile, the CPU has been fluctuating in the 90s, with the core frequency stuck at 4.9 gigahertz. It's impressive that the gaming experience has been absolutely crazy on this system, despite the very high temperatures.

Despite our expectations of an immediate explosion, the system is functioning surprisingly well. The CPU is hovering around 100 degrees Celsius, but it's handling that temperature just fine, still getting about 4.9 gigahertz. In terms of GPU temperatures, it was only slightly worse than in optimal conditions.

The case has been performing better than expected, with a torrent of cold air being sucked into the front ventilation and a jet of hot air blowing out of the rear exhaust. It's amusingly ironic that this OptiPlex case is making for a very good sleeper.

In conclusion, it's been an interesting experience upgrading from the GT 1030 to this beast of a system. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one. Until next time, bye!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis trouser tightening example of an old dow optiplex is probably the coolest optiplex gaming pc scam i've ever seen because the seller actually put a whole load of effort into like external appearance upgrades the problem is that the internals are still that of an 87 year old chain smoker but today we're gonna change that by linusing the crap out of it to make the ultimate optiplex sleeper the good thing about this old optiplex is that it's actually old enough that it hasn't been infected yet by the scourge that is the oem proprietary crap virus so it should be pretty straightforward to rip out all of this pulmonary disease in here and replace it with some mad ep so let's start off by tearing the system down to see what we have to work with okay so a bit of a whoopsie i was busy test fitting this power supply to see if it would work because it's a little bit longer than that standard atx power supply and you know good news it does fit in the system but now it's stuck i i can't get it out it seems to just be part of the case now so now that we've removed all of the pulmonary disease from the case uh there is a bit of a problem other than the fact that i'm never getting that power supply back uh but this hard drive cage is so riveted and soldered in place that it's essentially structurally integral uh which is a problem because the graphics card that i wanna use is isn't gonna fit in here with that so it means we're gonna have to do a bit of dremeling okay as you can see i very professionally removed that hard drive cage i definitely didn't just hulk smash it out come on come on oh there we go someone let go there why are you so strong there we go there we go oh hey there we go but now that we've freed up some space for our super powerful graphics card there's just one more mod that we need to do before we can build the system in here and it's to fix a little proprietary cable this is the power button cable uh which as you can see is not gonna fit on a normal motherboard so let's just quickly deal with that now i looked at a bunch of guides online on how to deal with this connector and it seems like all of them kind of deal with the problem the other way around so how to get a normal case uh power button connector which looks about like this one to plug into the optiplex motherboard so the the female plug for this connector but i'm trying to get it to work the other way around now having a look at the pin outs it seems like for the power button to work the two important cables are the black and yellow one the other cables are for the power led now considering that there's like cable jumping and stuff going on in this connector that's kind of above my pay grade to deal with so i think what i'm going to do is just cut the whole connector off and then splice the black and yellow cable onto this plug and then we should have a functioning power button uh i am not super hopeful that that's gonna work but you know let's see what happens and with that we're done with the couple of modifications we needed to do so hopefully we can just build the system in here now so yeah let's roll the build montage oh actually before the build montage i do want to talk about this motherboard because it is very exciting as many of you know i do have a bit of a soft spot for m80x but usually the problem with m80x is that all of the motherboards are kind of like sitting down in a public bathroom stall and feeling somebody else's butt warmth glowing into your taint whereas this is a proper epeen m80x board which i'm very happy to have now i only have this board because i recently kindled a long lost romance with micro santa which is by far the best pc hardware shop ever and they sent this motherboard over so if you do want to get an ep board go check out microcenter with the link in the description below love you oh look at this beautiful little cooler i really hope that it can stand up to the 12 900k that we're going to be using yeah i don't know well how all this is going to work but you know it'll fit in the case so that's important now the first thing that we've got to do is see if my power button implementation works which i i definitely think will yeah like i said i wasn't worried at all that it that it was wasn't gonna work um i i knew the whole time now before we fire up some games we need to put into context just how much of an upgrade this really is because the original configuration that i bought off best buy had an i5 3470 in it with 16 gigs of ddr3 and a gt 1030 whereas now we're packing an intel i9 running in that sexy strix z690 m80x board we also have 64 gigs of ddr5 running at 5200 megahertz and then finally we have an rtx 3080 ti in there which means within a couple of percentage points this is one of the most powerful gaming configurations in the world which should be a bit of an upgrade over that gt-10 city now we just need to hope that it won't explode the moment we fire up a game so what this performance means is that the gt 1030 is officially less powerful than an intel igpu which that's that's kind of humiliating i think that maybe it's it's running a little bit better than it was before because the graphics are are slightly higher than it was with the previous configuration and we've got a a bit of a better frame rate uh so yeah i think it's i think it's made a difference oh damn okay so this is the first non-sarcastic game benchmark that i'm running and at 1080p ultra settings were just pegged at 200 frames per second the systems not even really having to work that hard although with about 35 load on the cpu it's already sitting at 84 degrees celsius you know this is okay i'm just kind of trying to role play the the standard temperature experience you get with a dell system so now i've upped it to 1440p and we're still sitting pegged at 200 frames per second this hardware configuration really is monstrous um it's the system is having to work harder though you can see that the gpu is getting close to that 100 utilization and we're about to take over it oh 97 degrees but honestly considering the fact that we're drawing almost 500 watts on the graphics card and the cpu together uh the fact that it hasn't com just exploded already is is actually quite impressive okay so we're about half an hour in now and uh the gpu topped out at 80. it occasionally touches on to 81 but it's mostly been sitting at 80 degrees celsius and the cpu has been fluctuating in the 90s the core frequency has been stuck at 4.9 gigahertz though so it's pretty impressive like the gaming experience has been absolutely crazy on the system and despite the very high temperatures it's functioning you know it's it's taking it pretty well that's a surprising result to be honest because i was kind of expecting an immediate fission reaction but you know it's it's just it's just fizzling away that actually went a whole lot better than i was expecting granted the cpu is hovering at about 100 degrees celsius with not much load on it but it was handling that 100 degrees very well we were still getting about 4.9 gigahertz on the cpu and in terms of the gpu temperatures it was only slightly worse than it would run in like optimum conditions i was expecting this case to emulate thai prison and summer temperatures but it was more like a thai prison in mid-autumn so definitely better than i was expecting like if you put your hand over the front ventilation you could feel a torrent of cold air being sucked into the case and if you put your hand over the rear exhaust you could feel a jet of hot air blowing out yeah there was a lot of error moving through this case so yeah good job little optiplex case you make for a very good sleeper actually funnily enough uh the last video i did on the new alienware prebuilt somebody said in the comment section that that pc is like a reverse sleeper where you have a fancy looking pc on the outside and then the inside looks like an office cubicle from a 90s auditing firm whereas this it it really is the other way around i mean aside from all of the bling on the outside i guess that does give away the fact that it's that it's a beast on the inside a little bit and with that it brings me to the end of the video so thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video byethis trouser tightening example of an old dow optiplex is probably the coolest optiplex gaming pc scam i've ever seen because the seller actually put a whole load of effort into like external appearance upgrades the problem is that the internals are still that of an 87 year old chain smoker but today we're gonna change that by linusing the crap out of it to make the ultimate optiplex sleeper the good thing about this old optiplex is that it's actually old enough that it hasn't been infected yet by the scourge that is the oem proprietary crap virus so it should be pretty straightforward to rip out all of this pulmonary disease in here and replace it with some mad ep so let's start off by tearing the system down to see what we have to work with okay so a bit of a whoopsie i was busy test fitting this power supply to see if it would work because it's a little bit longer than that standard atx power supply and you know good news it does fit in the system but now it's stuck i i can't get it out it seems to just be part of the case now so now that we've removed all of the pulmonary disease from the case uh there is a bit of a problem other than the fact that i'm never getting that power supply back uh but this hard drive cage is so riveted and soldered in place that it's essentially structurally integral uh which is a problem because the graphics card that i wanna use is isn't gonna fit in here with that so it means we're gonna have to do a bit of dremeling okay as you can see i very professionally removed that hard drive cage i definitely didn't just hulk smash it out come on come on oh there we go someone let go there why are you so strong there we go there we go oh hey there we go but now that we've freed up some space for our super powerful graphics card there's just one more mod that we need to do before we can build the system in here and it's to fix a little proprietary cable this is the power button cable uh which as you can see is not gonna fit on a normal motherboard so let's just quickly deal with that now i looked at a bunch of guides online on how to deal with this connector and it seems like all of them kind of deal with the problem the other way around so how to get a normal case uh power button connector which looks about like this one to plug into the optiplex motherboard so the the female plug for this connector but i'm trying to get it to work the other way around now having a look at the pin outs it seems like for the power button to work the two important cables are the black and yellow one the other cables are for the power led now considering that there's like cable jumping and stuff going on in this connector that's kind of above my pay grade to deal with so i think what i'm going to do is just cut the whole connector off and then splice the black and yellow cable onto this plug and then we should have a functioning power button uh i am not super hopeful that that's gonna work but you know let's see what happens and with that we're done with the couple of modifications we needed to do so hopefully we can just build the system in here now so yeah let's roll the build montage oh actually before the build montage i do want to talk about this motherboard because it is very exciting as many of you know i do have a bit of a soft spot for m80x but usually the problem with m80x is that all of the motherboards are kind of like sitting down in a public bathroom stall and feeling somebody else's butt warmth glowing into your taint whereas this is a proper epeen m80x board which i'm very happy to have now i only have this board because i recently kindled a long lost romance with micro santa which is by far the best pc hardware shop ever and they sent this motherboard over so if you do want to get an ep board go check out microcenter with the link in the description below love you oh look at this beautiful little cooler i really hope that it can stand up to the 12 900k that we're going to be using yeah i don't know well how all this is going to work but you know it'll fit in the case so that's important now the first thing that we've got to do is see if my power button implementation works which i i definitely think will yeah like i said i wasn't worried at all that it that it was wasn't gonna work um i i knew the whole time now before we fire up some games we need to put into context just how much of an upgrade this really is because the original configuration that i bought off best buy had an i5 3470 in it with 16 gigs of ddr3 and a gt 1030 whereas now we're packing an intel i9 running in that sexy strix z690 m80x board we also have 64 gigs of ddr5 running at 5200 megahertz and then finally we have an rtx 3080 ti in there which means within a couple of percentage points this is one of the most powerful gaming configurations in the world which should be a bit of an upgrade over that gt-10 city now we just need to hope that it won't explode the moment we fire up a game so what this performance means is that the gt 1030 is officially less powerful than an intel igpu which that's that's kind of humiliating i think that maybe it's it's running a little bit better than it was before because the graphics are are slightly higher than it was with the previous configuration and we've got a a bit of a better frame rate uh so yeah i think it's i think it's made a difference oh damn okay so this is the first non-sarcastic game benchmark that i'm running and at 1080p ultra settings were just pegged at 200 frames per second the systems not even really having to work that hard although with about 35 load on the cpu it's already sitting at 84 degrees celsius you know this is okay i'm just kind of trying to role play the the standard temperature experience you get with a dell system so now i've upped it to 1440p and we're still sitting pegged at 200 frames per second this hardware configuration really is monstrous um it's the system is having to work harder though you can see that the gpu is getting close to that 100 utilization and we're about to take over it oh 97 degrees but honestly considering the fact that we're drawing almost 500 watts on the graphics card and the cpu together uh the fact that it hasn't com just exploded already is is actually quite impressive okay so we're about half an hour in now and uh the gpu topped out at 80. it occasionally touches on to 81 but it's mostly been sitting at 80 degrees celsius and the cpu has been fluctuating in the 90s the core frequency has been stuck at 4.9 gigahertz though so it's pretty impressive like the gaming experience has been absolutely crazy on the system and despite the very high temperatures it's functioning you know it's it's taking it pretty well that's a surprising result to be honest because i was kind of expecting an immediate fission reaction but you know it's it's just it's just fizzling away that actually went a whole lot better than i was expecting granted the cpu is hovering at about 100 degrees celsius with not much load on it but it was handling that 100 degrees very well we were still getting about 4.9 gigahertz on the cpu and in terms of the gpu temperatures it was only slightly worse than it would run in like optimum conditions i was expecting this case to emulate thai prison and summer temperatures but it was more like a thai prison in mid-autumn so definitely better than i was expecting like if you put your hand over the front ventilation you could feel a torrent of cold air being sucked into the case and if you put your hand over the rear exhaust you could feel a jet of hot air blowing out yeah there was a lot of error moving through this case so yeah good job little optiplex case you make for a very good sleeper actually funnily enough uh the last video i did on the new alienware prebuilt somebody said in the comment section that that pc is like a reverse sleeper where you have a fancy looking pc on the outside and then the inside looks like an office cubicle from a 90s auditing firm whereas this it it really is the other way around i mean aside from all of the bling on the outside i guess that does give away the fact that it's that it's a beast on the inside a little bit and with that it brings me to the end of the video so thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye