We need more PCIe Powered GPUs tbh.

This is what an Intel Nuc should be. Definitely an awesome device.

I 100% would like to see SteamOS and the RX6400! I have been thinking about putting together a low cost, Living room sff pc and the main stopping point has been the need for AMD graphics. The size restraints of the smaller cases have Def limited my choices. Thanks Prime!

Is this finally the RTX A2000 12GB that absolutely no one benchmarks?? Edit - Not yet, still the 6GB version

Mr. Prime, do a side by side comparison of the A-2000 vs. the RX 6400 in that special little PC of yours. The A-2000 is a little pricey and the 6400 is a lot more budget friendly.

As far as games go… it has been apparent that cyberpunk has been your main “stress tester” for your builds of late. I think a new one to add to that is Returnal, which has only recently been released on pc, loads of graphics options to tinker with, not many have tried to get it running on lower end systems (at least from what I’ve been able to find on KZfaq so far as of this scribbling). I’d really like to see you try returnal on this, and any other builds in future videos!

Really enjoying your videos, you inspired me to try out a project SFF rig for fun. Just got an HP 600 G4 SFF in today for $147 (shipped + tax). It's a little chunky imo, but I'm gonna stick with it and see what I can do. Didn't realize how perfect the SFF size and weight was on that Dell 3240 (Kinda wish I waited lol). Looking forward to more content!

That is a super clean sff build. Great videos as always.

I have one of these with a 6 core Xeon W-1250, 16gb RAM, and a 6gb Quadro RTX 3000. It is a solid machine. Best part of these Dells will be when all the companies that lease these have those leases end, ebay gets flooded with some nice cheap hardware.

You made me buy a SFF Optiplex back in December last year and while I am happy with it for my retro gaming needs, I kinda wished I didn't, so I could build this one instead. Oh well, nice video and I am looking forward to the STEAM OS build with this PC.

i just did the hp elitedesk g3 build you did a little while ago. it was already way smaller than my other pc, i cant wait to do this one as well.

Great find as always. Keep in mind that your RTX A2000 is PCIe x16 generation 4 (16 Gbps), and the Intel Gen 10 is gen 3, (8Gbps) and only DDR4. The Dell Precision 3260 is a 12th gen i5 with DDR5 memory that is being sold as low as $600. Same case. A better deal is to find a system with a 11th gen Intel which has gen 4 memory. Keep in mind you have to make sure your riser is gen 4 certified. Don’t think you can get by with gen 3. I tried with two different riser cables, one of hight quality and even a 3cm PCB vertical riser - none worked until forced it to gen 3. PCIe 4th gen riser cables start at $40. I did get better results, especially after replacing the heat conductive foam with a copper shim plate. You can also change out the shunt resistor with a lower value to increase the 75W limit and solder a 12VDC power cable to a 12VDC source and ground to push A2000 further with MSI Afterburner. 8000 points in 3D Mark is doable without it exceed 80c. PS the foldable M6/RX6400 is almost done. Still working out the folding hinge design. 3D Mark graphics score of 3422 (sadly the n5150 CPU score was a piddly 1568). Still it beats the Ryzen 6900HX with over clocked DDR5 memory. To bad the company behind the M6 didn’t have the foresight to add to M.2 PCIe slots. In any case runs “Stray” 1080P, 60fps high settings and “Dead Space” 2023 at 1280P, 60fps at almost all high settings. More than enough to meet my limited gaming needs. Even better works great over Sunshine/Moonlight.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I am betting you are already working on it, but I would definitely be interested in seeing how that RX 6400 does in a system like this.

Its a shame that the A2000 doesn't work well with HoloISO, this would make a great little steam OS box.

Damn that's small,dope already thinking of ways to mod/customise the case,plus that's a very good price for an upgradable platform

You can do some DIY to make it cooler. Cut a hole on side panel and attach a fan on it. It will definitely increase airflow

I've been running a 1050ti LP for a few years, really enjoyed it. I have one of those A2000's arriving today to pair with an EliteDesk with an i7-8700 - I like the larger form factor because there are more cooling options. Right now when doing PS3 emulation, it'll jump up to about 80c. Hoping to get that down to the 60's with some other things I have on the way. Thanks for the demo!

I would not recommend this series of dell desktops, I work in IT in a business that exclusively uses dell. I have recently had to pull every one of those precisions for crashing and overheating issues and replace them with standard sff optiplex models. If you get one, make sure it has good access to cool air and repasting the cpu is not a bad idea either. They also get very loud under load, sounds like a mini jet engine.

Wow, I didn't realize these were actual PCs , There are tons of these in our office, used by the people who work there. I have to travel so, I have a laptop. I thought these were Thin-clients!!

I have a Dell Optiplex 3090 with a i5-10500, an a2000, a sn850x 1 tb, and 32 gb ram. I love it and it can chew through anything at 1080p

Optiplexes are where it's at for budget PCs. I've got a cheap Optiplex 7010 for $40. What a steal.

I built a similar rig with the A2000 6GB in the Precision 3460 Small Form Factor in March as well. The need to run at base clocks no turbo with a fan using an i5 12500 while still being *VERY* warm and throttling constantly was an annoyance of mine. The first strike was the rough stability situation in games with frame rates fluctuation even locked at 60fps in triple A and locked 120-165fps in e sports. It just could not perform consistently. The noise on the desk where such a machine would stay ended up being the final straw. I am holding out for 784X HS variant small form factors for the time being. The dream of Noctua 120mm 800-1200rpm levels of quality woosh sound in a small, but not tiny form factor especially under 100 watts load *Mwuuaah** perfecto. You have shown many a good option thus far. Currently rocking a 4600G in waiting.

This thermal paste replacement stuff is always fun in my eyes. Had a i5 3570k watercooled undervolted and overclocked running for 10 years with the same arctic silver 5 paste. When i removed it finally cause the watercooler had to go the paste was surely a bit goe but aside of that provided for 10 years the same temps. So i guess it´s not really that important unless you choose to go with the cheapest gunk you can find.

Yes, definitely want to see this using SteamOS.

Dell Optiplex computers are underrated. I have been using one as a media server for 10 years now and it's still running.

I am looking at building an "ultralight" pc for my bicycle camper...the motherboard from this would be a great candidate for the build. The a2000 is almost a shoe in if the budget is there...but i dont mind modifying other gpu with laptop style blower HSF assembly and low profile power connectors. The case will be custom...as little metal as possible, probably fiberglassed foam and plastic bits from my scrap case heap. I am even removing things like PSU housing and just mounting the PSU PCB inside the case. I have also been looking at laptop motherboards. Price is basically the determining factor when I go to order, but I will check into these motherboards as well. Or even a whole system and flipping the extra parts on ebay or something.

Bro that PC is going Mastered Ultra Ego with it screaming that loud! :D

I used your coupon for my office pcs.. Thanks Prime, greetings from the Philippines

I'm making an AI Workstation for my start-up company and I need a professional GPU for all the cuda and tensor cores and I've been looking at the low profile A2000 for a while, ordered it thanks to this video in the 12gb vram variant since machine learning reqires large vram amounts and can't wait for all the other parts to arrive next month. Pairing it with 64GB ram and i9-13900 so I can make some future GPU upgrades if needed. Building mine in the NZXT H210i ITX case

I dunno. At this price you can get a Nuc 9 Extreme and an RX 6600 XT that will give you a lot more performance without being much bigger.

Great video. I love the things you come up with. I would really like to see a video with the steam OS. Hope you do that one soon.

I really like these kind of form factor. I just wish the parts were more accessible and cheap.

I have that exact computer. You can toast bread on this thing it gets so hot. I have a GT1030 in it lol didnt realize there was something better i could have put in it.. thanks a ton!

You should adapt a fan so that the graphics card and processor fans can catch more air.

This looks like a nice little box. I'd use it for MIDI rather than gaming, but I appreciate this channel.

Thanks so much, you have a nice intro and much better content!!

I'd definitely love to see that steamos setup!

i did the same but adding the a2000 to hp elitedesk 800 g4 sff which has i7 8700 (about the exact same performance as 10500) though a slightly bigger case. i do plan to make a video on it with upgrades of ram adding wifi and Bluetooth card and maybe a new cooler too if I manage to make it happen. i will be starting a new channel since my last one got hacked and coudln't recover, but I am loving the small PCs same as you do which is why I subscribed a while ago and keep watching most of the old and all of the newer videos you make, great job

I was able to improve the heat situation a bit on my i5-10500 system by getting the larger CPU heatsink / fan combo directly from Dell. Part number FKGPC for the larger fan and KJ6KH for the heatsink. I think this heatsink / fan combo is intended for the higher wattage CPUs, but worked great with my i5-10500. There just doesn't seem to be any way to add a case fan in this small system.

This is crazy good! Thank you for that

it's my kitchen laptop but it's a 10500h and a 1650 msi lets you overlock it by 100 then 500 on the memory it's perfect for everything i've used it for. Mainly photo editing, I added another 1tb ssd into it and then 8gb of ram so it's duel channel. 670$ for something I can play game on is perfect. My fav thing about it was adding the extra memory. I've been on 32gb on the main pc for so long I can't imagine only 8. also the 6 cores and 12 threads helps cemu and ps3 as far as I can tell. the extra threads really helped out my overall lows to the 50s.

100% would like to see SteamOS and the RX6400!

Rtx A2000 costs around 700 dollar at my local seller. Crazy

Thanks doood just what we needed to know 😊

My build features a Dell D756 with i7 6700, 16GB DDR4, RTX A2000, 256GB M.2. SSD, 3TB HDD for about 300€ (330 USD). It uses about 180 watts of powerage. I am very happy at the moment. Next buil will go with RTX 4000 SFF if prices drop on a significant level.

i was able to snag a dell 3070 for $140 in my area, i5 9500, 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD. Pretty good deal

love it,, what a great little performer.

If u cap the fps to 60 the temps would be good for gaming

Awesome device! I wanted to bay Precision, but it is expensive . Finally I bought Optiplex 7000 on i7-12700T. Thanks for video.

One of these could make a great pfsense box because of being able to use a true pcie nic.

Great video. As usual! Thank you.

I wasn't impressed with this until you said "not using resolution scaling". That's actually very good performance then.

I really have a thing for sff machines, that one is just mad smol

Imagine that performance in a handheld with enough battery power to last for 8 hours. Probably possible in 2123. But just imagine what kind of mini pc´s you could buy if laptop hardware would be modular. Heck you would have no issues fitting a 4090 mobile into that build.

The ebay link isn't right. The results of that search are Dell Optiplex 3240s which are completely different because they're all in ones.

It's like a mini optiplex sandwich.

Kinda wish you showed this step by step still a great built tho

110% cool 😎 Thank you Eta. Kindest regards, neighbours.

The 7040 series Ryzen chips gonna make that discreet gpu obsolete. Will make mini PC's ludicrous.

Interesting build re: repurposing the 3240. I5 10500 performance similar to a 4750G build (not advocating an AMD in a Intel mobo) with a comparable GPU, but the AMD build would set one back more. Surprisingly a 4-core 4770K struggles to keep up but makes a valent effort. The A2000 is certainly a nice SFF GPU given the space available and have come down appreciably in price. Nice! Thank you.

Good video! Please, make comparison with 1650 low profile and A2000 =)

by the time you factor in the storage, gpu, memory and hassle you're better just getting a mimi pc from Ali Express. I got one 3 years ago with I9-9880h and a gtx 1650 for 700 USD and it game with RAM and 512 gb NVME SSD. Nowadays a 12-th gen with RTX 3050 is abot 800 USD barebone, it's way smaller, way quieter.

Please, could you add emulator's test? That'll be terrific, thank you

Amazing PC I loved it's like a cute little dragon 🐉 with the a power of Godzilla 👌

Holy moly the 12GB A2000 is $1200aud!

I might want to cut a big hole at the side panel and put a big fan there LOL.

I think that temperature can be fixed by putting non office PC fan and different radiator. Maybe even cut the hole for bigger radiator, so fan can be outside like in old american car ;)

When we finally can game 60 fps 1440fps with these small factors I'm sold and forever set lol

You can reduce advanced power management cpu percentage.

Very interesting. Have worked with a lot of Tiny pc's but never seen a two story model with space for add-in discrete graphics.

Wouldn't you want to show 2077 after changing the fan setting?

Can you add a more detailed video of how you got the a2000 to fit? I have an A2000 and that same single slot quadro single slot bracket, but it DOES NOT screw onto the A2000. I’d be fine with cutting my machine, but I can’t figure out the bracket lol..

I would like to see SteamOS and the RX6400! I absolutely love seeing SteamOS builds and the comparison to windows.

for a small pc you can sure cook an egg on it with those temps

Nice. may have to check this out.

What about ChimeraOS? I was hoping you'd have more coverage of it. It should play with nVIDIA a lot better than holoiso does.

Id love to see battlefield 2042 tested, ive been wanting to build something small for so long and this looks promising

There is a new low profile 40 series available.

I would love replacing my dell g5 with this. Would make so much more space

This PC alone costs more than a brand new PC with the latest spec.

It could be better if Dell put PSU into this case. May it be bigger, and more weigh but it will be actually nice

Which is a better frontend for emulation? Batocera or Bigbox, which one should I use? Great content by the way, keep up the work

Can you do a long form video of taking it apart and putting it back together?

AMD AIBs need to make GPU smol again! We need a rx7600 low profile stat!

That's a nice build

Just want one of these just for gfn 4080 tier. Have to upgrade a laptop I use currently.

Hey, I think this would be really cool with the new 4060 single slot by galax that is coming out soon

Would this work with the 4060 LP? An update would be nice.

Why was Emulation not tested???

Great video, a Steam OS test would be great

That's a micro system amazing

I work on a lot of dells of very different sizes and when you opened this up i realized that it's basically a vertically stretched dell ultra small form factor. Made wider to fit a video card. It even uses a very similar cpu cooler to deel usff PCs, but i definitely can see the temps being a lot better

Sff rtx 4000 will be out in a few days 😊

Dann this Dell precision is expesive😢 i love you Build!

Having just completed this build, I can honestly say it's not worth it. I like the small form factor, but there just isn't enough cooling capacity for everything that's stuffed inside the case. The limitations of the Dell motherboard restrict it's usability in the long term. If you're thinking of building a gaming rig, stick to more conventional options. On top of that, this video is misleading, with regard to the GPU bracket. The single slot Quadro bracket won't line up with the screw holes on the RTX A2000. I had to grind down a dual slot bracket to make it fit.

If you want an A2000 but still want the SteamOS look and feel, you should have Big Picture Mode enabled on startup. Regardless, it would be interesting seeing the RX 6400 with SteamOS.

These are still too expensive to consider IMHO. For similar price you have 3260 with 12th gen CPU. Or for same price build miniITX with 5800X3D and better I/O. If they were going for half the current asking price second hand, they would be great but at the moment it's a hard sell.

SteamOS would be cool to see on these videos.

you should check out the Lenovo ThinkStation P360 Ultra

update. now fastest gaming low profile card is gigabyte's RTX 4060 LP.