DELL expect you to use this PC in Alaska/Northpole with that CPU Fan 😁

I’m also a big fan of minimalist aesthetics. Update: Purchased

Eta: "dell please upgrade your cooler" Dell: "whats that? Make it proprietary? Gotchu!"

For those who are thinking about getting this pc, there are a lot of things you have to do to make it run well with good temperatures. You have to change the cpu cooler to a vtroo v5 cooler (this is plug and play). DO not buy 3200mhz ram because the board only supports 2933mhz ram and buying 3200mhz will only be a waste of money. If you are going to buy ram, make sure that the ram operates at specifically 1.2v. Also, buy a vrm heat sink so that it is regulated and does not overheat. Also, use the fans from the dell cpu heatsink and re-use it as an intake fan towards the bottom. (I have an i7-11700 with a 3070ti). With good cooling and upgrades, this can be the ultimate pc you own. Also, use hwinfo to control the fans.

Those poor VRM mosfets need cooling. Idk what DELL was thinking pairing an 11th gen i7 with such a basic motherboard. But alongside the lack of airflow, those will throttle big time.

Looks like on old Optiplex on the outside. Great video as always! Cheers 🥂

I have a 10th gen i7 10700K XPS 8940 SE with a 3060ti. Order the "K" variant CPU and you get a MUCH better cooler and heatsinks on the VRM. Thankfully I did some research and realized what was going on. Added a Noctua 92mm exhaust fan and moved the existing fan to the front and it works great.

please mention the price as well along with the other specs. In fact price is the most important part of specs. without it, no other part is constrained and can be anything.

Just a heads up, 4 DIMMs does not mean quad channel. All mainstream boards (LGA 1200/115X and AM4 sockets) support dual channel RAM configurations only. Quad channel is only supported by HEDT MOBO''s and processors like X99, X299, Threadripper, etc. And on many of those boards, you can install up to 8 DIMMs.

I got one of the white ones with the 3060Ti, i7, and upgraded cooler (this part’s really key) back in April when the shortage was really kicking off and I’ve been happy with it so far. I probably paid a tiny bit more than I’d have wanted, especially for the cooler upgrade simply to ensure adequate cooling, but I needed a computer and things were (and are) super uncertain. I really appreciate the retro-modern case. In white it reminds me of the first PC my dad got back in the 90s, which was kind of my goal.

Dell is charging over 2k for this PC. You can a more balanced PC from Lenovo with a Ryzen 5800, an RTX 3060, and 16gb of ram for $1800. Lenovo uses standard parts and a quality cooler to boot.

I drilled four 1/2 inch holes in my side panel. Heat problem solved!

Just bought one of these myself. Amazon does have an upgraded CPU cooler and a Voltage Regulator Heatsink available.

For someone looking for a Prebuild this just aint it, its overpriced for the components and the proprietary parts will just make it difficult to upgrade in the future. The computers I would recommend would be abs master with the RTX 3060ti and similar i7 11700f, or CyberpowerPc Fall Special 1 with the RX 6600 XT and similar i7 11700f. These have much better parts, cooling, less bloatware and faster graphics card, overall a quality experience compared to the dell for the same or cheaper price. Dell $1600 ABS MASTER $1600 CyberpowerPC $1545

The cooling is inadequate because the non-K models weren't designed to run at boost speeds for any prolonged length of time - that's how they can rate the TDP at only 65W. Intel's own stock cooling doesn't work any better. I wouldn't be surprised if the benchmark delta you're seeing is possibly the result of some difference in motherboard/bios settings in addition to aftermarket cooling. The performance you're experiencing is pretty much what it's designed to give.

Non standard MB, non standard PSU, crappy cooler. Nothing to like about this thing.

Guessing this one's not winning the Better than a Dell award.

Thank you so much for talking about this machine! I bought a 3060ti variant about a month back and have had problems with it crashing ever since (Clock_Watchdog_Timeout and Machine_Check_Exception error codes) and believed I'd narrowed it down to the temp, but, being very new to the technical side of computer, worried I'd come to find that the temp was only the tip of the iceberg and the rest of the box was incompatible or unusable. It sounds like upgrading the cooling or somehow pushing work onto the graphics card rather than cpu is what I need to do. This has given me a tentative peace of mind that I'm extremely grateful for! That said, if I've misunderstood anything or you know something else I don't know, please feel free to reply and let me know.

I'm waiting for Dawid from "Dawid does tech stuff" to appear here in the comments to complain that when he bought his Dell XPS prebuilt, he didnt get an EVGA gpu, only a standard Dell oem one XD

You should do a video on trying to fit the biggest cooler in this case and a extra case fan and see how low we can get those temps! lol thanks!

Oem usually cheap out on vrm cooling as well. My HP with the old and fx 8300 processor had baked the green pcb coating with a brown tint after several handbrake sessions over a year.

Hopefully the title of the video stays cause it gave me a chuckle

For better CPU cooling move the HDD into the top mount, remove the front mount, install an intake fan, and replace the rear exhaust fan with a bigger one. For even better CPU cooling replace the stock CPU fan/heatsink with one more adapt for todays 10th 11th 12th gen CPU heat output.

The cooler is an easy fix. M2 20mm screws, and any cooler that comes with the intel spacers and will fit the case and layout. I used a Noctua u12s redux for proof of concept, and it was outstanding. It was too tall for the case to close though. Easy enough to pick shorter cooler.

These manufactures don't care about their coolers. They are cheap systems that are made by the thousands. This is why I build computers for my customers.

Good review the question is that with the same amount of money you could build your own PC with top notch parts with standard connectors. So a better cooler and no propierty power suplly.

almost didn't notice the banana in rdr, but not bad of peformer

The motherboard is also proprietary. The front panel is direct attached to it. Max money milking possible.

I highly doubt Dell will listen to anybody about putting beefier coolers on the high end CPUs they get their grubby hands on. You can basically just tell the CPU to thermal throttle on command. Its absolutely terrible. You could do what Dawid did on his channel. He put a Noctua NH-U9S on his 10700 which was also in a Dell XPS build. It brought thermals down by a LOT.

If the CPU is hitting 86c when booting and opening a few simple apps? Sounds like they didn't apply the thermal paste properly. I mean the cooler is obviously insufficient but even then the temps spiking at such low usage levels often means poor contact between the cooler and the CPU's IHS. In some odd cases it could also mean that the CPU's IHS is not flat enough and thus it hinders the cooler's performance.

Holy Dell! Another Video!

Bought an XPS 8950 that arrived out of the box with a bad PSU. Also had previously tried 'Gaming' Pavilions that had a bad 3060 ti on 2 separate shipments. The build quality is just so subpar now that I had to build my own for the first time in 20 years.

It's still only dual channel ram if 4 slots are filled, quad channel ram usually has 8 slots and needs chips that support quad channel.

Great review, as always. I don't know why stock coolers are still such complete garbage. It's definitely not quad channel RAM. Only server grade processors can do quad channel ram (like intel's X series and AMD's Threadripper and Epyc series). True quad channel motherboards usually have RAM slots on both sides of the processor. What happens when you have 4 sticks of RAM otherwise is that it still runs in dual-channel mode but, depending on the motherboard's architecture, the RAM is either accessed daisy-chained (each pair of sticks' memory addresses are treated as if they were one much larger stick, better for stable overclocking) or T-topology (each pair of sticks are dealt with in parallel, generally faster than daisy-chained).

ETA Prime launching grenades on GTA 5 at 121 fps LOL, well it looks pretty good.

The memory is NOT quad channel. The CPU doesn't support quad channel. it's a 4 slot motherboard, that's all it is. The CPU sports 2 memory channels.

would have loved to see the difference with another cpu cooler.

I never buy any of these but for some reason love watching every single video haha

I bought a very similar PC and sent it back because the fan was on full blast all the time. Turned around and bought a PC from Microcenter and so happy I did that ... Still waiting on my refund from Dell BTW!!!

I just pick this exact one up with the 3060 TI. Can't wait till it comes in.

Congrats on your prebuilt whole room heater lol

I've been digging into all the videos on this specific PC as I'm looking to upgrade my AIO PC at home. (Tired of waiting for Sony to figure out how logistics work in 2022... re the PS5.) That said, love the video, never seen one use emulators aside from the usual PC game benchmarks. Also, that cooler seems to be a common theme on this one. Optimum Tech did a similar breakdown for this PC (his had the 3060ti in it) and he found that replacing the cooler with liquid cooling helped a good bit in temp and overall benchmark scores. Liked and subscribed. Thanks again.

As an aside: just because a machine is using 4 RAM sticks doesn't make it "quad channel" it's still "dual channel", just using 2 sticks per channel (interleaved). A true "quad channel" setup is something HEDT (High-End Desk Top) grade like Threadripper. Those "require" 4 sticks (in the same vein that "regular" machines "require" 2 sticks to work at maximum potential).

I just ordered the one with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB Studio (LHR), 64GB, 16Gx4, DDR4, 2933MHz,11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K processor ,NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB Studio (LHR),2TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD (Boot) + 2TB SATA 7200RPM HDD (Storage). I cant wait until it arrived. It will go nice with my new Alienware m17 R4Service

I want to see different PS3 games, I understand if it's all you got but there's much better and more demanding games to emulate

Why two bananas on his revolver???? 9:02

I MISS XPS 720 MONSTER

Quad stick with at least 4 ranks available, but only dual channel

Dell Optiolex used to stand for Amazing quality. The only good parts inside that case are the Graphic card and the RAM. The rest is cheap junk. The squeezed every penny out of that motherboard. And that CPU cooler is worse than a joke. For the kind of money Dell charges for this thing, one could build a great gaming PC. That said: Microcenter Rocks! Long live Microcenter! 😊😊

Whoever put those CPU cooler for gaming PC should be fired, does he think its good idea to put small cooler for those high performance CPU?? *smh

Excellent review I am totally gonna be picking up this bad boy next week woohoo. This is a major upgrade for me from a 6 core 4 thread cpu and gtx 1060 6gb system. :)

thats an interesting rdr cover there 🤣

My local micro center has this open box for $975 a steal if you're looking a solid gaming PC.

This gave me confidence of running i7 10700 on h410 motherboard

that's not "quad-channel"

Its actually just dual channel. Though, using all four dimms does give a 10-20fps boost in games when compared to just using 2 dimms. Using a 4x8GB kit will net better performance than a 2x16GB kit. The reason is because there are more IC's. I wonder what that UHD750 can do. At least dell used the eVGA 3060.

I was just eyeballing This model in Costco for 1599. Edit: 32 gig, 1 Tb hdd, 512 SSD, nvvidia rtx 3060ti (8gb ddr6)

I can hit 10000 no cbr23 all day with my ryzen 5 3600

According to Ark, that i7 only has 2 memory channels.

Great review, and you get bonus points for including Doom Eternal with awesome gameplay!

So mine came with an i9-11900k and a 3070, I got the premium cooler and I had the same heat issues. if you crack the case open it will drop significantly. One place I stepped up was the back exhaust fan. It has holes for a 92MM fan so I put a Noctua NF-a9 in. I then removed the front drive cage. Mine has the m.2 but there is a cage up top as well if you have an SSD. On a bench it will put to 100 but dropped my games into the 75C range for the cpu and the GPU stays roughly the same with the case shut. My benches went up a small amount, it did improve my throttling and it idles at lot cooler as well

i just picked this up at costco for $999. hope it’s worth it.

that power supply reminds me of a server power supply.

Excellent video. Is it hard to change out that cooling fan? What cooling fans are applicable with the XPS 8940? I am buying one for myself in the next couple of months.

I love watching pc talking sauna bath and suffocating 🤝

I have made a custom PC build with Intel core i9-11900K (I will later upgrade the processor and the motherboard to Intel core i9 12th Gen and ROG Z690 motherboard) and ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial with RTX 3090, 1TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD and 64GB RAM and 360mm MSI MAG CORELIQUID K360

The motherboard is proprietary too. It uses that weird prebuilt motherboard stand off. Cant recase it without a custom adapter. Same thing with the HP pavilions.

2.5 to 3.3 on all core load, with dell bios sneaky power throttle

UPDATE: ordered the Dell XPS 8940... similar to this one you reviewed but mine on order has the i9 processor (2.5 and 5.2 GHz) and the 3070 graphics card. Everything else the same.... I'll look into the fan issue when it arrives. Hopefully, it's been resolved but this isn't the first video that talks about questionable cooling.

You are asking Dell to spent $5 more on the cooler man, they'll go bankrupt.

technology has come so far since the 9020. Yet we are back to a grey io shield.

With a aftermarket cooler and extra case fan Im getting 14100 cinebench multi core. Zero throttling. Its a good stable PC and I was able to get RTX 3060 ti wih it

Great video as always, but what is the price $? My apologies if I missed it.

Do a review of the Nvidia T400, could be a great budget card.

Now that is a sleeper pc

Love the microcenter offerings but sadly there are no stores in my area.

Was surprised to see a brand name GPU in this Dell.

Imagine how bad that cooler will be when it gets a bit dusty *shudders*

Hello ETA Prime, I Don't know if YOU don't know, but there are two games extremelly hard to emulate on PSP, XBox 360 and PS3, that is DANTE'S INFERNO, so, I wanna suggest You to include it on Your tests. Regards, Jimmy Gresik

btw don't worry about cyberpunk fps drop that game is laggy as hell even the highest end pc gets hella frame drops the game is broken

Great video ETA! If this isn't a "rental" unit from Micro Center, could you throw in a 3rd party cooler and see what gaming and Cinebench temps would be? Maybe something simple like a CM Hyper 212?

open it up and put a Pi. No need for a cooler. Maybe enough space can put 2 Pi.

Hey curious what keyboard is that?

Thank you @ETA Prime, I was thinking about buying this unit (for sale at a nudge under 1000$). Stylistically would you prefer this unit or the one in white?

Holy Jesus, that CPU looks like it has one of those really tiny CPU coolers from the old Pentium 1 days. Hopefully, Microcenter sees this video and pressures Dell into upgrading the CPU coolers.

Hi! Can you tell what is name of this keyboard on preview and in video?

Could you please say how much time it takes to install all your applications in each setup? I mean, you install many repetitive games in each laptop and pc (and some older one even don't have SSD) and I'm curious to know how much time it takes it each occasion... And please mention if you install them at once using some tools, or using online installers?

Why bananas on RDR cover?

You should try changing the cooler for the Vetroo V5. Biggest air cooler that will fit in that case.

I heard there was ps4 emulators recently released have you got any of them working on this beast??

Since they have bought infinite amount of that cooler from the OEM ,they are not going to upgrade it in this timeline.

I would add a better cooler or put wide masking tape on and make a grid and drill holes on the side panel

I have xps 920 case custom only for server rendering.

Way does this have a CD drive in 2021 does anyone even own a CD. And no vents what so ever hahahe this case should be in a museum.

I have exactly the same model but 16 Ram. And yes 😁 it is seperated 2 * 8ram. I have noticed that the fan is crappy. What model do you suggest I can get so I can change my fan for a better one.??? Thanks good day

strange i considered one of these cuz i wanted that oldschool psu mount and they dont have one. its at the bottom like external gaming pcs.

Dell tests its coolers in Yakutsk, Russia. The coldest (inhabited) place on earth!

i just bought this pc from costco and it had 2 16gb sticks in it

I know the cpu cooler is small, but that is just far too little airflow. What is that a 90mm on the cpu and a 90mm on the case?

Thank god I live near canada