Recent content by william p

The truth is this- 2x4GB DDR3 1066 will work, this is what the chipset will accept. Non booting is usually using x128 "AMD" RAM. Dells from that era required x64 Low density RAM. Crucial is a good brand for this. Many vendors can't answer this question. Some aftermarket have used x64 then...

A couple of suggestions. Ask at Dell Community Forums. Dell technictions moderate there. Look in the online manual for that sytem. Blinking light on a Dell are usually trouble codes. There should also be a 4 LED diagnostic display somewhere that can be very specific. Try looking in the BIOS for...

Core 2 Optiplexes vary because they made then for quite a while. You can get them for almost nothibg, but no telling what you will have. Here's a rundown of them Opti 745 P4 era, can run 266fsb 65nm C2D and Quads, OC option 130W QX6800 SLACP and Throttlestop software about 3.45GHz. 8GB DDR2 800...

You can look at that system at userbenchmark and see what others are running, and what those parts will do for you. https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Inspiron-3670/89372 Run your own there and see where you need help.

Dell doesn't publish those and changes them at various times for various reasons. Some times fan errors need to be manually removed from SYSLOG in the BIOS. You might have fixed the problemalready but not cleared the message.

I beg to differ. https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-T3500--/2522

I've been away from this forum a while. But I will answer this old question just in case someone looks it up. There were 2 Q6600. One was 105W the newer G0 stepping was 95W. It will have SLACR marked on it. This is probably what you have. With a piece of tape it will go 3.0GHz. Look up Q6600...

The Dell T3500 is pretty good as long as you don't need CPU AVX support. 3 channel DDR3 1333 can keep up fairly well, and 48GB capacity is good also. Fastest clock speed is a Xeon X5687 4c/8t CPU. 3.6GHz/3.86GHz turbo. But there are some unlocked 6c/12t Xeons W3680/3690 that can be overclocked...

The best GPU for that is the ZOTAC Gtx 1050 Mini 2GB. It's 2 slots wide, but has a single bracket. It's just about the only thing that fits as is For the MT the D9729 cooler from the older 130W Pentium D will cool that. The Q9650 or Q9550 are good 4 cores. The E7500 2 core can be tape modded to...

The overclock for those is the BSEL tape mod from 266 to 333 fsb on the E7500 2 core CPU. This gets about 3.67Ghz This was used on the Q6600 to 3GHz back in the day, but the Q9650 runs about 10% better so isn't used for that any more...

You can get the online Delll manual for that and see what that light means. https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_dell_precision_workstation/precision-t3500_service manual_en-us.pdf But yes the PSU can be swapped for an aftermarket ATX unit. If you get it running...

If your video card requires Lagacy to run then you'll get nothing in UEFI. That's probably why the onboard GPU is working.

You need to get another GDG8Y motherboard. That's the way it is with Dells. Each system has it's own MB. Swaps almost never work for the reasons you just listed.

The 1030 won't be much better than the built in GPU. I would go for the 1050Ti at minimum. At least it's capable of some 1080p action. Here are the builds for that at userbenchmark. You can look in the GPU performance column and see what I mean. The 750Ti there is much more powerful than the...

First I would make a System restore point, them remove any old GPU drivers in safe Mode (F8) You may need to disable some UEFI BIOS settings to run the ZOTAC in Legacy Compatibility mode. The R9 290 may have been UEFI.