my workplace is selling a few optiplex 3040-s with i3-6100, 4gigs of ram of unqualified variety, 120gb ssd, 512 gb hdd, for about 55$, is that a good deal? (this is in hungary btw)
I’ve seen worse deals. The platform itself is probably worth that much (meaning the mainboard, chassis, and all the accompanying stuff like heatsinks and power supplies)… 6th gen CPUs are probably dirt cheap, assuming those systems use a socketed CPU, and you wanted to upgrade to something more than an i3. I can’t imagine RAM would be much more.
You can probably turn these into very decent little machines for under $100 each and a bit of effort.
It really depends on whether you need the extra capability for a bit of effort or you’re fine with the i3 with 4G RAM.
I usually want to replace the storage on a used system with something new or refurbished because of wear and tear, but that’s me. Still, that’s not a bad deal. Free would be a great deal, but I’m not sure you could ask for better.
The thinkcentres replaces them well IMO, the tiny is a monster, it’s now my daity driver (6600T IIRC, 32GB, 2TB + a rust spinner) amazing and the power draw is way less than my old optiopexes.
Does anyone have a few optiplexes lying around?
Dude I have my childhood desktop running a jellyfin server, I’d kill for an optiplex
my workplace is selling a few optiplex 3040-s with i3-6100, 4gigs of ram of unqualified variety, 120gb ssd, 512 gb hdd, for about 55$, is that a good deal? (this is in hungary btw)
I’ve seen worse deals. The platform itself is probably worth that much (meaning the mainboard, chassis, and all the accompanying stuff like heatsinks and power supplies)… 6th gen CPUs are probably dirt cheap, assuming those systems use a socketed CPU, and you wanted to upgrade to something more than an i3. I can’t imagine RAM would be much more.
You can probably turn these into very decent little machines for under $100 each and a bit of effort.
It really depends on whether you need the extra capability for a bit of effort or you’re fine with the i3 with 4G RAM.
I usually want to replace the storage on a used system with something new or refurbished because of wear and tear, but that’s me. Still, that’s not a bad deal. Free would be a great deal, but I’m not sure you could ask for better.
I never exactly paid for any. Didn’t exactly steal. Didn’t exactly pay. I’d call it “appropriate”
My favorite dependable cheap Linux host. Just sucks about the power draw.
The thinkcentres replaces them well IMO, the tiny is a monster, it’s now my daity driver (6600T IIRC, 32GB, 2TB + a rust spinner) amazing and the power draw is way less than my old optiopexes.
I have an Optiplex SFF woth an i5-6500TE. It has a maximum TDP of 35 watts.
The little ones are great
The desktop ones are great for storage arrays, especially with an LSI controller thrown in.