The client said “take them home or trash them”. Did I make the right choice?
The client said “take them home or trash them”. Did I make the right choice?
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The logical consequence of this pile of pc is build a cluster with proxmox or Kubernetes and enjoy the world of homelab
Venn diagram of pcmr redditors and people who struggle with hoarding is a perfect circle.
Sell them o eBay as “Mini gaming pcs” because apparently running Snes emulators make these gaming pcs…
The lower bunch seem to be Optiplex 3020s; if they have an i5-4590T, they’re still usable for light browsing and Word/Excel, if they have a dual-core CPU they’re kinda e-waste despite how cute they look.
The xx50 series and up (the third digit is the generation) are ok
Plug them all into each other to make one super computer!
*downs shot*
RAID THE FUCKIN COMPUTERS
I have a 3080 with an extra hard drive hooked to my living room tv. It makes for a good emulation box and can play stuff like Stardew Valley just fine.
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! *Heart!!!*
I actually need an office pc… You in the US? 😅
If you connect them all with usb cables you can make one full size computer
No you didn’t. Skynet cannot be allowed to rise
Those are a solid machine’s. I’d sell them on craigslist for $100 a pop and keep one or two
r/homelab r/minilab would be drooling for these
Great score. They are quite low power, probably dead silent, perfect for building a home NAS or audio player with Daphile, or even a multimedia player HTPC providing they have HDMI. You can also try installing 2nd network adapter and make pfsense router.
ooh can I get one?
*“I’m not throwing that, it still boots”*
This is how you end up with a PC in every room despite having no use for a PC in every room. Do these micro things even have x16 slots? Otherwise your upgrade options are limited to memory and SSD.
I have an old OptiPlex 3060 SFF which has a GT 1030 in it, and for Roblox, Fortnite and Minecraft it works flawlessly. Keeps the kids off my gaming PC. Sometimes, anyway.
make a kubernetes cluster with like k3 and you could run light game servers (factorio, Minecraft, terraria) or even a website, all clustered so you can have reliability
If your selling them for a good price I’ll take one lol
Bin
It’s dell
I have one of these. Turned it into a Plex server for my TV. Runs fine. Stutters on some 4k movies though.
The one with USB-C is obviously the newest.
Bruh where do people get these for free
I really wish more parts were available in this form factor to do custom PC builds. The Ultra SFF builds usually still lack something but I wouldn’t mind having a maintainable build like this.
I’ve bought 20+ of these things for work XD ,
Hmm, I’ll pick a Dell
I can hear the proxmox cluster starting to power up
Do those machines have PCIE slots for GPU’s? Very tiny GPU’s, of course.
I fucking love optiplex. I would love to have a dozen and play around with a cluster
Trash ’em
Keep them for 20 years, then sell them for a high price as “antique computers”.