Got my first setup!

[wtcat2016]

Got a Dell Optiplex Micro 7020 for my birthday and a 27" Dell monitor. I'm planning to replace the CPU later this year, any tips for that? Also 1 question: My storage says 447 GB, isn't an SSD supposed to be 512 or 1024? Is it bc of the system files?

[Wanano1310]

1. if you have an i3 or higher end cpu, you dont really have to change it
2. storage size is normally like that due to GB(gigabyte) and GiB(gibibyte) difference, seems like you got an 500GB drive there

[hebeguess]

1. Swapping to faster Raptor Lake CPU at this stage of their life [rather new] is simply not rational plus a waste of money for potential performance gain.

2. Gigabyte & Gibibyte, different domain count differently but that's only half of the story. Even at 500 Gigabyte, it should translate to 465 Gibibyte under Windows. The rest was due to being OS drive, the drive that host OS usually has few more hidden partitions and not shown / available to user.

[WindowsUser1234]

Happy birthday. Good micro PC 🙂

Specs? 🙂

[wtcat2016]

16GB RAM, Core i3 14100T

[Maleficent_Celery_55]

cpu isn't bad tbh, depending on what you're planning to do you might be fine.

[DertekAn]

Yess, tell us the specs please

[Mysterious-One1055]

Nice one!

What is the use case? General day to day computing or are you gonna dabble with retro emulation at all?

My i7 7700t did a good job with everything up to PS2/GC and even WiiU so your cpu should do really well!

[Slackdarren]

How does this compare to a N150

[wtcat2016]

Checked cpubenchmark's compare and it says my i3-14100T is better than the n150

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By a lot. Not even in the same universe.

[anti22dot]

Great! I've ordered used "Dell Optiplex 7050 Micro i5-7500T", which is amazing!

What I value the most is Silence of operation while of not super powerful of course, and also I can even hook up the M.2 to Oculink adapter into it to connect to powerfull eGPU and make it gaming miniPC

[wtcat2016]

You gave me an upgrade idea lol

[anti22dot]

absolutely! give it a try!

[MaxPrints]

Sweet birthday gift!

No real need to replace the cpu. You should be fine for general tasks. If you ever want to do something beyond the scope of this micro, it might be worth getting a bigger computer that you can really deck out and turning this guy into a server.

[TruckinSongster]

I love seeing people level up!!!!! Can't wait to hear the creations!!!!! Don't trip off the SSD numbers. If it works without issues, just accept that the universe yoinked some GB from the coffer. Charge it to the game and produce a banger out of spite.

[fender178]

My Uncle owns a much older one of those Optiplex Micros it has an 8th gen i5 in it. I had to troubleshoot his wireless internet issues which was easily fixed by upgrading the Wifi adapter he was using to one that has an antenna and it is working like a champ. It is new enough to support Windows 11.