This might be my new favorite!! Dell Precision T3620 ebay steal!!
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I got a shout out, yet I had absolutely nothing to do with this. Hello by the way.
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@@DLMtechgarageit’s a joke. You said “hello Wayne”. His name is Wayne…
didn't even see that lol... @@hyperprotagonist
You got a nice deal with the I7 and 32 GB of ram. I scored a clean and quiet one 2 years ago with the I5-6500 16GB ram, 365W PSU and a 2TB HDD and paid $110 for mine. I installed another 16GB and a Samsung 980 M.2 SSD and it's my daily driver. I have an HPZ 230 400W PSU with a GTX 1060 for games and I also have a Z 620 with Xeon 1650v2 with a 800W PSU with an old power hogging GTX 770 card in it. Older workstations with decent PSU make nice budget gaming machines. Great video and thanks for sharing this great deal and will be looking forward to your customization on this machine.
At work, me and 5 other guys on the Endpoint Engineering team run Precisions due to what we do everyday needing something more robust than a standard workstation in our org. When we get new ones, I always bring my old one home, put my gfx card in it and it becomes my home/gaming pc.
Does this unit comes with an DVD-drive, or are these complete obsolete 💽
The best part about the dell precisions are the plethora of CPU options with both icore and xeon processors the E3-1280-V5, or the E3-1280-V6 is a locked and tuned iCore K sku chip on the cheap. Way higher base and turbo frequency clocks .
One thing you might think about for this sort of situation is setting up another box that can serve diagnostic tools via PXE. That way, you don't need any media in the box to test soundness and stability; just wire the new box to the net, do a PXE boot, and you're off to the races.
good info!!
I was given a Precision T1650, running the Xeon E3-1225 (Ivy Bridge, 22nm). It has 8Gb of RAM (11-11-11-28) and the Nvidia Quadro 600 GPU. I'm not that much of a gamer, so I use it and love it, completely as-is.
I have three Precision T1650's that came with the i3-3220 and the Quardo NVS310. They're great for light office and server work, but I converted one of them into a gaming machine. A dropped a SATA SSD, a i7-3770K, and an RTX 4070 into one of them, and no one would assume the hardware is 10+ years old.
@@jwdory I've been fortunate with my T7500's (X5667). The precision line really is top of the line in my opinion. Five years isn't bad for a computer, and I've had some T7500's running for 10. My solution is to have spare everything ready to go, including individual parts and a full chassis that I'd just need to swap disks into. I ripped one apart last week to harvest its PSU for a temporary project, which I now get to reassemble. 😏 _Oh, the joy's of self-hosting!_
@@bangdollarsignisn’t a 4070 and that cpu a massive bottleneck
@@CollynPlayz it might be, but we haven't gotten to that point
@@bangdollarsign I think Collyn's question was more about how you'll never "get to that point" with an RTX 4070 on a Dell T1650. The "bottleneck" won't be visible as a general performance issue -- it's more a matter of "wasted potential" for the 4070. You likely wouldn't notice much of a difference had you simply chosen a GTX 1060/1070 costing 80-90% less. Putting an RTX 4070 in a PC with an i3-3770K is like hiring a PhD physicist to do bookkeeping for a local convenience store -- they can do it with proper instructions, but why?
The 4070 is a good choice if you plan on migrating it into a system with a more powerful CPU in the near future, but you may have wasted some money if you purchased the 4070 specifically for that system long-term. By the time you migrate it later, the 4070 will likely be available for hundreds of dollars less than you spent on it for the T1650.
Garage + Goblin = Garageblins
Can’t wait to see what becomes of Wayne
one of my engineering clients has one similar to this, just waiting to see when they are due for an upgrade and i'll be coming home with it
VERY nice find bro! Hope that your back has been feeling good after your surgery these days. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and the family! Be well! 👍👍
thanks, backs been great and I am just about back to normal. a late merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your family as well
Nice score for the price. Well done video.
Awesome deal. I like these builds
I got 2 HP Z220 workstation with xeon e3 1245v2 and 16gb of ram. 250gb ssd's too. Such a steal!
Friend of mine got the server version of this unit (PowerEdge T30). Issue I had was that they disabled the M.2 slot on it (and sleep mode). Swapped the board for the T3620 version. Turns out there are valid reasons for it being disabled. Turns out it doesn't like you using the M.2 and the PCIe x4 slot at the same time. They will both detect at the same time but the x4 slot will randomly drop from the system from time to time. So it is best to choose between them.
got one of these as a backup temporary pc when my main pc with i7 4790k's mobo shit the bed, it does everything i need with graphic design and i havent thought of upgrading to something newer
have 32gb of ram, gtx 1650 and i5 6600
i love the T3620, tossed in a WD SN750 500GB as the boot drive, WD Blue 4TB as the storage drive, a Xeon E3-1270 v5 to replace the i5-6500, and a GTX 1060 6GB (with an adapter) to get my friend a very cheap system for older games
Nice find. I have one with a Xeon E3 in it with 128GB ram and a Quadro T1000. Running ZorinOS on it and playing games with PlayOnLinux and Steam. Found mine in the trash with no M.2 but with a 4TB HDD (which was wiped before someone threw it away..)
I just bought the same PC with 2 monitors, a keyboard, and a mouse all for $80.00 and I plan on upgrading it as well.
I forget the "official" terminology but it is nice to see someone that knows to use the "X" or criss-cross method of loosening/tightening screws on heatsinks/coolers.
dang, thats a nice looking case. wish the front was flat, but still, dang, nice dell.
Shipping costs are what is killing buying on eBay.
Man, I agree with you on that. I've seen stuff on sale that cost more to ship then the price of the item smh.
I only buy that has free shipping
That's the old school ebay trick. We'll give ya the PC, but shipping is gonna cost ya
i just got a 800 g1 elitdesk off ebay for a steal and did a case transfer. After a few days of amazon orders and tinkering i got pretty solid second build. its an i5 4590, 16gb of ram, a 2060 super, 1tb nvme m.2 with a rm650 psu. Its bottlenecked but on medium settings i average 100 fps on most games! plus, all thanks to hording as i had most of the components already!!
Nice! I'd love to see what a bigger graphics card you do with Kena Bridge of Spirits
i like the 7050 MT i got. with i7 7700 ddr4 32 g cruitial pro . nvme m.2. with a silicon power ssd .. i swaped out the 240w power suply for a 360w dell with 6 pin adapter and put in a evga 1650 sc ultra. now i want to case mod it like you did the blue one
Dell Precision T1650 T1700 T3620 vs T1600 do have different Side Access (Inspection) Cover (Door Panel). Look from the inside! However it seems that the aforementioned Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE will fit in all of them.
I have the Precision T1700 - Xenon and it's the exact same case. Mine came with a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive, so the case makes sense. I now have an LG Blu-Ray in the second bay.
Having done system reclaims for 40+ years, I always do a system burn in before doing a re-pasting. If the thermal metrics are good, then I leave it alone. No sense in asking for trouble, as it will let you know WELL in advance, IF you listen to your system.
Nice find, I think a gpu upgrade is definitely warranted. It does start getting exoensive though when you factor in thr price of the psu and thr adapters.
When it comes to selling I normally prefer going with a good motherboard, cpu and ram combo ans then buying a nicer case (there are some reasonably priced ones with tempered glass side panel ans rgb fans). I recently picked up an i7-4790k on a z series motherboard so with a mild overclock it should match or exceed the i7-6700. Also came with ram and an aio cooler. The power supply it came with was a cooler master 500w but its 500w in name only looking at the 12v wattage so I swapped that out :)
Ive had a 3620 sitting on my desk for two years. Best bang for the buck hands down.
I've got 3 of these sitting in our recycle pile. Nothing wrong with them. each has 16GB RAM and a Xeon E3 V6. Good machines.
Yea they are pretty awesome, I have flipped 4 already!!
It looks like the chassis has standard mount points for a micro ATX motherboard and an ATX PSU which is always nice. I have a similar chassis from Dell and the bottom two hard drives don't get any airflow, so I rogged a little 80mm fan to pull air from the hard drives, over the pcie slots.
it also looks like the motherboard has solder points (but not the connector) for a 24-pin ATX power supply. Dang, DELL, why y'all gotta be intentionally perverse? They'll cut corners anywhere to save a buck!
i picked one up for like 80-90$ like a year ago no gfx card but came with the i7 7700,16gb of ram, included m.2 and i just put a cooler on the cpu and my old psu and gfx card and it runs like a charm more than enough for the esports titles and newer stuff on low settings great bargain for like 150$ total
BTW if you had gone one gen newer, Precision 3630, 3640, and 3650 use standard ATX mobo and PSU. If you wanted to transplant the mobo into a different chassis, unfortunately, the Dell LED power switch/button cable is required to stop the pre-boot warning/notification that 'no power switch cable'. There is probably a way to jumper or short two of the pins to bypass this check/warning but I haven't found the pin-out for that cable header and don't want to blindly experiment.
recently i bought a t5810 with a 1603v3, 32gb of ram in quad channel but at 1866 mhz sadly, a 256 gb ssd, and a k2200 for 101 bucks. planning on upgrading it with another 256gb ssd to back up the c drive and two 1tb in raid 1, and get a 2680v3 to use it for a dedicated vm machine to store crypto wallets.
i aggree to holding onto things. i even keep the screws from laptops i trash so i always have a screw for something and keep them in a divided container
Not bad at all i mean it's usually just the cpu alone that's worth like 60$ in the second hand market
I walked in to a local thrift store about 5 years ago and picked up a Dell Studio 8100 for $30. Came with i7 860 and 8gig ram. Used it past 5 years and recently sold for the said same price at $30 to the next guy. Used the $30 to buy another guys Lenovo gaming rig for $200 with i7 8700k 16gig ram and gtx 1080 8gb graphics card. Originally advertised on craigslist with cpu heat error and found out he installed all in one liquid cooling setup and there's two power cable, one for pump and other for the radiator fan. He only ran it on the fan and pump wasn't plugged in.
Computer shopping is always a gamble 🎡
You can say that again, I just picked up a $100 i7 9700k ibuypower desktop and it's all dead.
@@sangkang6294 did you return it ?
@dred05m61 no I like the power supply and the case is still worth selling. Plus I am thinking to build a low end system to sell back on Craigslist so it'll be worth keeping.
@@sangkang6294 OK, good to notice 🔵
The other plus side to these is that they can come with the XE2 365 watt power supply which has a 6-pin PCIe power connection. I got one of these locally for $70 and I really think these are what people should be buying instead of the Optiplex 40 or 50 series. The HP Z240 is also an awesome alternative. And both can run the desktop Xeon CPUs. So, if you buy one with an i3 or an i5, you can toss an i7 equivalent Xeon 1270 V5 for like $20. And you can't run ECC on the core series CPUs, but you can with the Xeons.
Is that true? I thought intel blocked xeon support on consumer chipsets starting with 6th gen. I know this is how it worked for haswell and older though, I used to do that to flip cheap pcs
@@jacksonbtb571 True, but this isn't using a consumer chipset. This is running the C236 chipset.
yea I agree, these are a better value, and the z240 as well
These will also accept a 7th gen cpu as well as long as the bios is current, or whatever the equivalent Xeon series is in that socket type.
Would love to see how Wayne performs with a 4C/8T CPU, either the i7 or a Xeon!
I mean, you could rewatch the video...
@@razorbackuphereShit, I fully thought he said i5 🫣
That was a good deal!👍👍
I like videos like this about bringing a PC back to life. I have a retro PC from 2008, but I can't add an SSD drive to it and install a new system on it. The motherboard doesn't see the SSD connected (even though the drive works properly). Most likely, the BIOS is too old, that's why it doesn't see it. a new SSD drive. As for the video, I would like to watch more videos on repairs or cleaning of equipment. What I like most are videos about PC tips or cleaning graphics cards or hardware updates, e.g. Thank You for the video
Is it a SATA or a NVMe SSD? Normal SATA SSDs should work on most 2008 PCs without any problems
Get a Samsung ssd they have a legacy software on them so the bios sees it some kingston ssd drives also have it my old x58 recognized the Samsung evo 870 no problem
@@Pasi123 It should work like this on an MSI N1996 board, but the disk is not detected even in the BIOS, even though the disk works normally, after connecting it during the installation of the new wine, it still does not see the disk. The shame of this retro PC, despite many problems, the hardware still works, but the only thing it is suitable for now is this. in the closet.. no service center wants to do it because they say the pc is too old to be repaired and the truth is that this pc does not accept new parts or repairs because everything else immediately crashes.. The disk is an 860 evo on sata, a regular red cable + power supply the disk is working but the board doesn't see it, the BIOS on it is probably too old.
@@79huddy It should work normally, but I don't see the disk in BIOS, I only have ahci or legacy, I don't have anything else on SSD
Have you tried formatting the SSD to NTFS?@@wiedzmin3050
Think that's a good buy for 70$ it will do things no problem. I just retired my old Ivy Bridge the other day, i build that poppy back in late 2012 early 2013 if my memory serves my. All i did there was changing the cooler from an AIO to a air cooler after 10 or so years. Changed the graphics once or twice over the years and put in some ssd's here and there. Maybe extreme to have a pc 11ish years but if you build it right and maintain it well it last you a good long time
You got a great deal! 👍
on cemented termal paste use wd40 (its the only thing that disolves that) aflter that use alcohol to clean the oil left from wd40 :) and the gold contacts cleans best with bread based eraser (brand Stadler).
@8:10 that's your video card power supply (when used with adapters).
I always buy used Dell machines for my needs. Dell doesn't cap the hardware in the BIOS so if the specs claim it can only use up to 8GB of RAM you can still cram 16GB in there. My current setup has seen better days. Currently rolling a 2nd gen i7. However this video has convinced me to buy one of these. I was worried for a moment but since there is a power supply adapter for it I'm sold.
the reason it might say 8GB of RAM max is because of the size of memory modules available at the time of the printing of the manual. That was the case with my Optiplex 3020 - it has 2 DIMM slots and the maximum size DDR3 modules available at the time of the system's release was 4GB, hence the manual says 8GB max. However, 8GB DDR3 modules came out afterwards, and I can confirm that they work just fine in every DDR3 PC, including mine. It's really up to the memory controller in the processor; why (indeed, how) would Dell "cap" it in BIOS? That makes no sense. However, there is one thing you pretty much universally CAN'T do with a Dell system - overclock.
I bought a used Dell 3630 with a 8700k and 32 gigs of ram. I put a rtx 4070 in it, Cost of the 4070 was more than double the cost of the pc. I was hoping to get a used workstation with rebar support but they are expensive, even used ones. The 3630 only has Direct Storage support, no rebar.
Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE goes into this machine (and also into T1600 and alike) as an exact mechanical fit (use Intel blue spacers and Intel screws from Thermalright package; no motherboard removal is required). However, check fan wires, because I remember that for T1600 the wires should be rearranged in order. Do NOT take Thermalright Assassin King 120 SE, because, despite the same external dimensions, its fifth pipe will interfere with some reinforcing element of the case cover. Thus, it will be necessary to make small hole for this 5th pipe in the above-mentioned reinforcing element (this hole will not be visible from the outside, of course, but it should be done accurately and it requires time for precise measurement - it would be better to avoid this procedure). Just take Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE. Avoid non-SE version (it requires motherboard removal).
I love refurbishing old PCs. Cool thing about Dell and Lenovo (unsure about HP) is that you can put the serial number into their website or install their support tool to scan your system. Then you have the exact support page for your old PC. This allows you to update the BIOS (often required for the best CPUs) and find out exactly what various parts can be upgraded to. This is important because you can get these old PCs with Celeron processors dirt cheap and then get an i5 or i7 from Ebay very cheap to upgrade it. SSDs work miracles on these old PCs. I love to use these kinds of older PCs for Linux or to play the 20 to 25 year old games I love.
HP has the option to look up a system by serial number.
@@i80386sx As does Dell. If there is no sticker on the outside of the box, you can find it within the bios. Or from within Windows you can run cmd and "wmic bios get serialnumber"
good stuff bruh
I have a dell precision 3620 on order and hope that when it arrives it has the 16 G of memory and the i7 cpu they advertised and that it works. If so, I plan on installing Linux cinnamon mint 21.3 like I have on most of my other computers. I have found that most dell computers work with this OS without issues. Don't know if there will be a problem but will soon find out. I will never go back to Microsoft OS since cinnamon mint is so much more functional, faster and all of the hundreds of software programs available for it including the OS are totally free. Also Linux is much more secure than MS or apple OS. I have never installed a virus checker for the 10 years I have been using this OS and never got a virus like I use to often get on Win7. Cinnamon Mint has a GUI very similar to Win7 so the learning curve for me was easy. Cinnamon Mint will open any of the Microsoft Office programs with Libra Office which comes as a default installed suite of programs.
Great video, awesome find and refurb. Side note, am I the only one annoyed that he didn't remove the tamper alarm? Dumb annoyance lol.
arc a310 uses less power and runs twice as fast. it comes is single slot as well a 2 slot variations. It also comes in low pro so it would be good for sff dell and hp upgrades.
I need to try them
Good to see full ESD precautions taken - as in pretty much all these videos of pc strip downs - not.
I watched eBay a couple years back and got a decent thinkcentre for $33
Excellent base PC....throw in an m.2 SSD, Nvidia GTX 1070 or GTX 1660 and game.
Good Day to fav tec
Hi, have you ever had issues with windows 11 on older unsupported hardware like this? In the past, ive had windows 11 updates be blocked on older systems like the skylake and kaby lake ones. I build and flip pcs like you, but I basically never install windows 11 for this reason, since I don't want customers messaging me about windows 11 issues later. By the way, thats a pretty sweet deal for that whole PC. The nvme slot is hard to find on 6th gen oems, nice find!
I have not, it works fine with all updates and I have yet to have a customer come back with an issue because of it.
Can't beat that price.
I rock a HPZ820 with Dual Intel Xeon E5, 256Gb ECC RAM and dual Quadro 600's and a 18TB storage Split into 8TB HDD in RAID0 and a 10TB SSD (sata) in LVM (cause i dont use windows)
In our country, 70 bucks for just the CPU would have been a good deal, let alone a whole PC for that price. Nice pickup ;)
In the video you mentioned to be cautious if the PC comes with a HDD or SSD, why is that and what to do if it does?
This would be a great server build, even adding 2 more 16 gig stick to push it to 128 gig
yeah except 32+32=64
@@SeeJayPlayGames oups, my bad 🤣
Great cpu cool case just hate the property stuff @ that price sure especially if you can reuse the case
You could use hand sanitiser and paper towel to clean up the thermal paste on the cpu and cpu cooler
homemade alcohol wipe
Custom pain, how about white and blue colors. Those colors would look perfect.
That would like great.
i just did a white and blue build, need to find something different.
How about red and black? Black and Yellow. @@DLMtechgarage
Fire it up ! Fire it up ! Fire it up !
i got a dell precision t5810 for $143 usd and it has a xeon e5-1650 v3, 64GB ram, and i bought a gpu for it for $88 usd it plays most games
nice!!
Now how un the world do I enable onboard graphics. I want to use it headless.
I agree with eBay being the place to snag deals. I just bought a Dell Optiplex 3000 MFF with an i7-12700T, 16 Gb DDR4 3200 RAM and two M.2 SSDs (500 Gb NVMe and 256 Gb SATA). He threw in a brand new Dell keyboard and mouse along with a Samsung 500 Gb T7 Portable SSD all for $200. He told me he was selling it becasue he just bought a new Dell Optiplex 9000 with a 13th Gen i9. His loss was my gain.
now that is an awesome deal!!
It's all about the hunt!!
I'd be surprised if that Dell mobo will allow a Kabylake CPU (as long as there is a Bios update that allows it). Those Precision Towers are good finds, I always keep my eyes out since new shtuff is up to 14th Gen so you can get some steals/deals on 8th-10th gen machines.
I pulled the service tag, looks like that machine originally came with 64GB DDR4, and a 512GB m.2 - more than likely the seller used the drive for something else and the memory for another machine to flip.
What program is that you use when you fist setup that shows the temp GPU temp etc?
hw info
heaven benchmark
msi afterburner
I just ordered the same PC, what I'm having trouble finding is the NVME version. Is it version 3 or 4 ?. Gen 3 is 3,500 MB/s read and write speeds, Gen 4 SSDs is 7,000 MB/s.
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Interesting. A word of warning: not all T3620's have an M.2. Windows 11 won't install on them w/o cheating. You can't install a full sized video card without removing the drive cage (which takes a lot of drilling.
I was wondering how he got w11 installed on it with that cpu...
I did it with "setup /product server" upgrading from Windows 10.
What’s the app you use for the CPU/GPU/FPS overlay?
msi afterburner
nice pc
what kind of power supply is this for the board, an 8-pin one?
yes
I am using optiplex 3050 MT i3 7th gen
I bought one from eBay for $45 but you have to be careful. Mine has Computrace enabled and locked in the BIOs so I had to buy a new motherboard.
yea, i should of mentioned that, I too have run into that issue.
Not sure what you meant be caucious with SSD or HDD coming along the prebuild? Can always just clean format windows :P pop in a 1660s and should be a good "gaming machine" for competitive games. Nice video tho.
I bought a pc and did a video talking about having some "inappropriate material on the drive"
Have you ever tried the 2x xeon E5 or E3?
I have not
I have been trying to find one of these “ugly” systems, but they have eluded me. The last one I saw one for $50 locally but someone beat me to it.
It looks just like a big optiplex haha.
I have 3 T3620 Precision towers. Not sure if they are the 1000 type. All 3 have the Xeon CPU! I got them for free! And a T1650!
nice!!
@@DLMtechgarage well, make that just 2 T3620s! Gave one T3620 & the T1650 to Goodwill.
32 GBs of memory-you going to content create with it?
What type of power supply would i need to put in this thing i ordered one on amz and it has 32 gb ram ddr4 and then a i7 6700 and i want to add a rtx 3060 what power supply am i supposed to be looking for
any 650 psu should be fine, make sure you get the adaptor for the psu
@@DLMtechgarage any at all like say atx psu
Win11 will install on an i7 6700? I didn't see that cpu on the list
you have to do a workaround to get it to work
you can put a xeon cpu
I bought one from dell but that one have i7 3770 and gtx 1050 just for 160£ .
i7 7700 if you have it ok. But if you got to buy it. is it worth it to upgrade ?
prbly not, but I get them really cheap
A great deal to use offline, I wouldn’t bank on it
love your content mann tooo much but put some links for the thing that you buy
Yea i need to do better
case mod wayne that would be very interesting to watch
thats the plan!
@@DLMtechgarage awesome
These are great machines for windows 11 as long as you remove tpm and secure boot bull crap requirements
New methods don't even require you to disable TPM, in fact I think they require it. Now you just have to bypass the hardware check and Windows 11 installs just fine. The irony is that the Skylake Xeons are on the supported list for Windows 11, but the desktop CPUs aren't. Just goes to show how BS M$ "requirements" are.
Is it as quiet as I'm hearing or rather not hearing in this video?
More Powerful than a fat xbox one.
I scored 3 XPS 8900's for free. Work throw aways. i7-6700, 16gb ddr4, gpu's are crap, decent HDD's. Too bad not "officially" capatible with Win11 and Win10 end-of-life is Oct' 2025
Nice score!!
The M.2 is it gen 3 or 4 ?.
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no need to swap out to a 7700, if it even supports it. The difference is negligible. Try an RX-6400. it doesn't require any additional power other than board!
How did you get windows 11 to run on a 6th gen intel?
had to do a work around on them
Good video but Windows 11 does not meet the requirements for 6th gen processors. Either you used the available workarounds to get Win 11 to work on unsupported hardware or Windows 11 PC Health hasn't done a check on the current hardware on the system which may involve running Windows Update
I do the workaround version and it still gets all the updates!!
@@DLMtechgarage my man. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Nothing similar on ebay today for less than $300, so you got a good buy. 😢
it takes a bit to hunt and get lucky