Restoring a old Dell Optiplex 380 from the early 2000s Part 1
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2023
- Hey everyone welcome back, I am restoring an old dell optiplex 380 tower, if you like computer resteration videos, then this video is for you!!! I hope you enjoy, this is part 1 and there will be a part 2 of restoring it!!!
I have tons of these in my inventory because some arcade games like Terminator Salvation, Big Buck Hunter World, Guitar Hero Arcade, and etc. But the arcade ones uses either a Nvidia GeForce GT 240 1GB Video Card or better. These are extremely reliable Dell towers you can get for so cheap, even your local e-waste facility would have tons of these units.
Oh wow good to know, thank you for letting me know
I gave this pc to my family, they use it for internet browsing and using microsoft office.
Specs: core 2 duo E8400,4 GB of RAM and 500 GB HDD 7.2 rpm + windows 7
That is a really good use for it, I hope they enjoy it, I love this desktop it’s a god machine
It’s a good machine meant to say
An interesting project.👍👍 That computer uses Non-ECC dual-channel 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, up to 4GB and as it operates in dual channel, a 2 gig., stick in each slot should do the trick, giving the slots and the ram., a good clean often helps.
Thanks for the info!
No these should handle 8GB
I am surprised you didn't turn it into a cool sleeper!
you know that is one of my plans, i wish I would have kept the case for the one opti plex i gutted the componets on and scrapped the case, mabey someday is the future, thankyou for the idea and the nice comment, and thankyou for watching my content, feel free to ask me any questions, its what Techsimplified is here for ;)
@@TechSimplified910 for a kind of hobby I look in dumpsters and curbside stuff for electronics - PCs laptops Chromebooks gaming systems tablets... Have a few Dell PCs! I know what you mean about not enough time!!
I still use this pc till this day
I run ddr2 2gb ram 800mhz
Core 2 duo and gt 610 gpu
Its rhe dell optiplex 745 mini tower same model
Thats really cool, thats something I like to here,
thankyou for commenting
Ive the same pc, currently use xeon e5450 isnt hard to apply just pnp with simply upgraded bios in windows 10.
agreed thankyou for that info and thankyou watching my video
You could do a couple of fun projects with that Dell. You can turn it into a NAS if you have the HDD's or you can install a couple of NIC's and Pfsense software and turn it into a router. Or you can install Superlite or Ghost Spectre just to name a few Windows 10, 11 OS. Or you can install Linux. Lots of fun projects you can do with old hardware.
oh yes I know I can,t wait to get started wish i had more time lol, but thankyou for the ideas, and thankyou for watching my content and thankyou for commenting
I think i have the same model
its a pretty good model, i like this version, i imagine we do
Well I suggest is doing the simple method reinstall the CPU sometimes dust gets in between the contacts and I can't make full contact with the motherboard it also may help to change the CMOS battery as with my research a dead CMOS battery may cause the system not to post at all.
indeed yes, thankyou for that information and thankyou for watching my video
@@TechSimplified910 Very welcome excited for part 2. 😀
I have a mighty old dell optiplex g1 I found in one of my side rooms at my home-I'm looking for any information on any upgrade I may be able to do to it-it is a VERY OLD machine(not a tower,but a square shaped base that a monitor would sit on top of)-i'd like to upgrade the ram & have a better soundcard installed into the machine.-as I stated it is a Very Old desktop & I know nothing of how I even aquired possession of such a fossil.-I fired it up & it runs smoothly-not the fastest machine but for how old it is, I'm thinking I might just use it for word proccessing-it doesnt even have a printer interface on the back of the cpu base... is there anything I can do?
Well the best thing you could do is install windows 10, install a ssd in it and put as much ram that it allows into it, you will have to reinstall drivers after that you should be all good to good
Good to go
Lubuntu 22.04 would be great for this system, Antix would fly on this system. I prefer Lubuntu though, a bit easier to use. I think that computer uses DDR3 10600 1333MHZ Non ECC DIMM Memory. Do you have a "high" or "low" voltage memory stick?
Thats a good idea, Ive worked with ubuntu but not lubuntu but I would love to give it a try, thats really cool, I would have to check on the low and high voltage memory stick
The 380 was released in Late 2009.
yea i know, i noticed after i uploaded i have to fix that error, thankyou for telling me
@@TechSimplified910 dont be silly-the 380m is late 2000 not early
I assume the problem is ram speed, try 1066 MHz.
yes, that was the issue sadly, I was able to get the correct mhz and all is well, the system was able to post, thanks for commenting ;)
@@TechSimplified910 if not you could do as what i did, get a cpu that can support 1333, the cpu will make it work but the motherboard will limit the speed to 1066 MHz, so in conclusion it’s the cpu that rejects it, not the motherboard.
As I brought a e8400 and put on 1333 ram kit, it works, only for 1066. But I’m happy with it overall :)
Is it possible to run PUBG or Free Fire on this device and what are the requirements?
Hi Hows it going? You should be able get away with running Free Fire on the dell optiplex in question, but pub g might require something much faster. hope this helps.
PUBG Specs
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.
OS: 64-bit Windows 10.
Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300.
Memory: 8 GB RAM.
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB.
DirectX: Version 11.
Network: Broadband Internet connection.
Storage: 40 GB available space.
Free Fire Specs
OS: Microsoft Windows 10.
Processor: Intel or AMD Multi-Core Processor with Single Thread benchmark score > 1000.
Graphics: Intel/Nvidia/ATI, Onboard or Discrete controller with benchmark score >= 750. ...
Please ensure Virtualization is enabled on your PC/Laptop.
RAM: 8GB or higher.
@@TechSimplified910 How do I do virtual simulation when it is not in the BIOS?
i use this as my main computer, its pretty decent but gaming on it is terrible, mine is the pentium model so im trying to get a new cpu and maybe a gpu
also, this pc is from 2010, the title is incorrect
Oh ok that’s cool
Thankyou for the correction
it's actually from late 2000's not early 2000's
Yea sadly I messed up on the title I have to re edit, Thankyou for letting me know
well i have some sff 380 got them for 25 bucks each playing around i found the will run with q9550 quad core cpu and use them as retro gamers witrh XP and win 7 to play all y old games like fsx and tomb raider and all the combat fight simuater the machine will take 8 gig of ram so ps your ram is bad
oh wow thats really sweet, well thats really good to know, yes I have discovered that there was a ram issue, its because i was trying to boot the system on just 1 4gb ram stick and the bios was not ready accept that stick, I needed a 2gb to start and then boot successfully with that stick and I was able to boot using that 4gb stick that I thought was bad, so I am up and running now. thankyou for that information