Optiplex 755 Raid 0

Dell Optiplex 755 Upgrade Project

1. Optiplex 755 Raid 01
2. Optiplex 755 Sata

Overview

It has been a little over a year since I installed three new Dell Optiplex 755 systems (see my earlier review here and here). A memory problem in one of the systems and a moaning power supply fan in another (oddly, not from cat fur) caused me to open a support case with Dell for replacement parts.

This lead to the dreaded 'since I'm in here, I wonder what I could do to improve things' thoughts. Since I purchased these systems a year ago, a number of faster components have become available, or have had major price reductions. The main items that I wanted to speed up were: hard drive, video and CPU. Download breaking bad season 1 mp4 download. I'll discuss each of these in turn.

RE: Enable Raid 0 in Optiplex 755 SFF? Jump to solution Thanks Captain- I would get a hardware card in a heartbeat, but it's my understanding that the Sata 2 speed in AHCI would be faster than raid 0 speeds from a card in the bottom PCI slot. RE: Enable Raid 0 in Optiplex 755 SFF? Jump to solution Thanks Captain- I would get a hardware card in a heartbeat, but it's my understanding that the Sata 2 speed in AHCI would be faster than raid 0 speeds from a card in the bottom PCI slot. I got a Dell Optiplex 755 in my second house and it's enough for what I do with it but I have 2 drives (same specs) and I thought about raiding (raid 0) this old PC. I tried to search on the web but didn't find any solution for my question, only messages saying it's not supported officially.

Hard drive

As I mentioned in my previous articles, I've been very loyal to Seagate in the past. However, they've fallen on their face in a number of areas recently. First, they dropped the warranty on many of their drives from 5 years to 3 years. Second, they have had some heavily-publicized firmware problems, including a 'fix' that rendered some classes of drives completely non-functional. Plus, drives from other vendors out-perform the Seagate products at certain capacities. One of these is at the 250-300GB range, where Western Digital offers the VelociRaptor™. This drive is offered in 3 configurations, which differ only in the way the drive is mounted. The BLFS version is a bare 2.5″ drive, good for servers with backplanes that require this size drive. It won't work in a notebook as it is much taller than a normal notebook drive (15mm vs. the normal 9.5mm for a notebook drive). The GLFS version is the previous drive mounted in a 3.5″ frame (which WD calls an IcePack™). However, due to the industry standards for location of the SATA power and data connectors differing for 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives, this version cannot slot in to an enclosure that has backplane connectors for 3.5″ drives. This brings us to the HLFS version, which is similar to the GLFS except that the bare drive is mounted in a slightly different location on the IcePack and there is a passive adapter board which has the connectors in the right spot for mating with SATA backplanes. Since many online merchants list the GLFS and the HLFS at the same price, I don't know why WD bothers with the GLFS version. There are apparently some minor cooling differences between these versions, but I don't feel they are enough to justify keeping the GLFS around.

I purchased the HLFS version as the Optiplex has a rather unusual mounting (side-to-side vs. the more common front-to-back) orientation and the cables would line up better. Plus, it would keep my options for future re-use of the drive open.

Here is the drive ready to go into the chassis. The red strip on the right side is the adapter circuit board I mentioned above:

Here is the drive mounted in the chassis. I'll discuss the non-standard power cable in a later post:

Video card

These systems originally shipped with ATI Radeon HT 2400 XT cards. As I mentioned in my earlier review, that card didn't support the Dual Link DVI mode that I needed to operate the 3008WFP monitor at its maximum resolution of 2560 x 1600. I replaced it with a different version of the HD 2400 that supported Dual Link. Since then, there have been a number of additional generations of ATI video cards. Unfortunately for me, most of these are dual-slot configurations due to the large fans found on the card. In the Optiplex 755, the video card occupies the uppermost slot in the chassis and there's no place for the second bracket to go. And that is the only PCIe x16 slot on the chassis.

Looking around, I found the Radeon 3650 which was a single-slot solution. It supported the Dual Link DVI that my monitor required. It also supported the DisplayPort interface which was also found on my monitor. As finding 'Built by ATI' video cards is getting harder and harder, I selected the HIS H365F512DPNP card. I have some Cyberlink software installed on this PC which requires a HDCP link to the monitor. Unfortunately, the 3008WFP monitor doesn't support HDCP when operating in Dual Link mode, so I have to drop the resolution down to 1920 x 1200 or I get an annoying message about my display not being supported and then playback stops.

Since I now had both a monitor and a video card that allegedly supported DisplayPort at 2560 x 1600, I gave that a try. It was a total failure – the display would go into screen saver mode immediately at that resolution. At lower resolutions it would randomly cycle in and out of screen saver mode every few seconds. So much for that idea – back to Dual Link DVI. The monitor is revision A01, which according to Dell has no issues with DisplayPort. But this technology seems to not be ready for deployment.

Here's the card installed in the system. By the way, I didn't turn the fan so the HIS logo was right-side-up – that's just the way the fan stopped when I shut the system down to take the picture:

CPU

I had ordered the systems with the Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU as the only faster quad core part offered by Dell at the time was the Q6700 which wasn't a lot faster (2.66GHz vs. 2.40GHz) and which was a lot more expensive. Since then, Dell started offering parts in the Q9xxx family. However, the top-of-the-line Q9650 still isn't available from Dell in these systems.

Looking at the specs on Intel's web site, I couldn't see any reason why a system that supported the Q9550 wouldn't support the Q9650, so I decided to give it a try. Let's compare the specs of the Q6600 vs. the Q9650 to see what sort of performance improvements I might get:

• 2.40 GHz clock speed
• 1066MHz bus speed
• 8MB cache
• 65nm technology

This lead to the dreaded 'since I'm in here, I wonder what I could do to improve things' thoughts. Since I purchased these systems a year ago, a number of faster components have become available, or have had major price reductions. The main items that I wanted to speed up were: hard drive, video and CPU. Download breaking bad season 1 mp4 download. I'll discuss each of these in turn.

RE: Enable Raid 0 in Optiplex 755 SFF? Jump to solution Thanks Captain- I would get a hardware card in a heartbeat, but it's my understanding that the Sata 2 speed in AHCI would be faster than raid 0 speeds from a card in the bottom PCI slot. RE: Enable Raid 0 in Optiplex 755 SFF? Jump to solution Thanks Captain- I would get a hardware card in a heartbeat, but it's my understanding that the Sata 2 speed in AHCI would be faster than raid 0 speeds from a card in the bottom PCI slot. I got a Dell Optiplex 755 in my second house and it's enough for what I do with it but I have 2 drives (same specs) and I thought about raiding (raid 0) this old PC. I tried to search on the web but didn't find any solution for my question, only messages saying it's not supported officially.

Hard drive

As I mentioned in my previous articles, I've been very loyal to Seagate in the past. However, they've fallen on their face in a number of areas recently. First, they dropped the warranty on many of their drives from 5 years to 3 years. Second, they have had some heavily-publicized firmware problems, including a 'fix' that rendered some classes of drives completely non-functional. Plus, drives from other vendors out-perform the Seagate products at certain capacities. One of these is at the 250-300GB range, where Western Digital offers the VelociRaptor™. This drive is offered in 3 configurations, which differ only in the way the drive is mounted. The BLFS version is a bare 2.5″ drive, good for servers with backplanes that require this size drive. It won't work in a notebook as it is much taller than a normal notebook drive (15mm vs. the normal 9.5mm for a notebook drive). The GLFS version is the previous drive mounted in a 3.5″ frame (which WD calls an IcePack™). However, due to the industry standards for location of the SATA power and data connectors differing for 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives, this version cannot slot in to an enclosure that has backplane connectors for 3.5″ drives. This brings us to the HLFS version, which is similar to the GLFS except that the bare drive is mounted in a slightly different location on the IcePack and there is a passive adapter board which has the connectors in the right spot for mating with SATA backplanes. Since many online merchants list the GLFS and the HLFS at the same price, I don't know why WD bothers with the GLFS version. There are apparently some minor cooling differences between these versions, but I don't feel they are enough to justify keeping the GLFS around.

I purchased the HLFS version as the Optiplex has a rather unusual mounting (side-to-side vs. the more common front-to-back) orientation and the cables would line up better. Plus, it would keep my options for future re-use of the drive open.

Here is the drive ready to go into the chassis. The red strip on the right side is the adapter circuit board I mentioned above:

Here is the drive mounted in the chassis. I'll discuss the non-standard power cable in a later post:

Video card

These systems originally shipped with ATI Radeon HT 2400 XT cards. As I mentioned in my earlier review, that card didn't support the Dual Link DVI mode that I needed to operate the 3008WFP monitor at its maximum resolution of 2560 x 1600. I replaced it with a different version of the HD 2400 that supported Dual Link. Since then, there have been a number of additional generations of ATI video cards. Unfortunately for me, most of these are dual-slot configurations due to the large fans found on the card. In the Optiplex 755, the video card occupies the uppermost slot in the chassis and there's no place for the second bracket to go. And that is the only PCIe x16 slot on the chassis.

Looking around, I found the Radeon 3650 which was a single-slot solution. It supported the Dual Link DVI that my monitor required. It also supported the DisplayPort interface which was also found on my monitor. As finding 'Built by ATI' video cards is getting harder and harder, I selected the HIS H365F512DPNP card. I have some Cyberlink software installed on this PC which requires a HDCP link to the monitor. Unfortunately, the 3008WFP monitor doesn't support HDCP when operating in Dual Link mode, so I have to drop the resolution down to 1920 x 1200 or I get an annoying message about my display not being supported and then playback stops.

Since I now had both a monitor and a video card that allegedly supported DisplayPort at 2560 x 1600, I gave that a try. It was a total failure – the display would go into screen saver mode immediately at that resolution. At lower resolutions it would randomly cycle in and out of screen saver mode every few seconds. So much for that idea – back to Dual Link DVI. The monitor is revision A01, which according to Dell has no issues with DisplayPort. But this technology seems to not be ready for deployment.

Here's the card installed in the system. By the way, I didn't turn the fan so the HIS logo was right-side-up – that's just the way the fan stopped when I shut the system down to take the picture:

CPU

I had ordered the systems with the Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU as the only faster quad core part offered by Dell at the time was the Q6700 which wasn't a lot faster (2.66GHz vs. 2.40GHz) and which was a lot more expensive. Since then, Dell started offering parts in the Q9xxx family. However, the top-of-the-line Q9650 still isn't available from Dell in these systems.

Looking at the specs on Intel's web site, I couldn't see any reason why a system that supported the Q9550 wouldn't support the Q9650, so I decided to give it a try. Let's compare the specs of the Q6600 vs. the Q9650 to see what sort of performance improvements I might get:

• 2.40 GHz clock speed
• 1066MHz bus speed
• 8MB cache
• 65nm technology

• 3.00 GHz clock speed
• 1333MHz bus speed
• 12MB cache
• 45nm technology

The change from a 65nm feature size to 45nm means that despite the faster clock and larger cache, the thermal specification remains the same at 95W. This means that the existing CPU heatsink and fan could be re-used, which is important as the Optiplex 755 uses a custom cooling solution and not the heatsink / fan provided with the boxed CPU.

After installing the new CPU, a quick power-on test shows that the system properly detected the new CPU:

Dell systems tend to not provide the assorted overclocking tweaks found on some motherboards, so this is likely as fast as this system is going to get unless Intel releases a faster CPU. I had spec'd PC6400 memory when I ordered the systems, and that is the fastest memory the Q35 chipset supports. With 4 matching 1GB modules, the memory runs in what Intel calls 'Dual Channel Interleaved' mode, which is the fastest mode. Since the motherboard doesn't provide tweaks, this CL5 memory is the fastest that can be installed in the system. (All of the memory I've found that runs at CL4 and faster still reports itself as CL5 in SPD and expects the tuner to override the SPD settings).

The system is noticibly faster. Backups to my network file server run at around 70MB/second now, compared with 50MB/second before the upgrade. Windows startup is much improved.

One thing I discovered when I re-installed Windows and all my software from scratch – I had previously thought that the Intel Ethernet chipset on this motherboard didn't support jumbo frames (because the option didn't appear in the configuration menu as delivered by Dell). But after installing the latest drivers from Intel, the jumbo frame option appeared and I enabled it.

20 part 2 of the dell optiplex 30 dollar gaming computer. Download dell optiplexx 755 specs for windows 7, 32-bit for better output. Hi all, i want to upgrade my optiplex 755's graphics card so that i can play some of the more recent games which require more powerful hardware. How to comment about my optiplex dlel. However, but many more demanding games.

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20 the optiplex 755 isn t designed to be a low-power machine, not by a long shot. For those users who are happy to have some slight reduction in finish in order to save a few more pounds. I am absolutely not up to date when it comes to hardware. The new 780 has high definition audio, the power. The update contains changes to improve the reliability and availability of your dell system. I guess you want to be. However, a card based on the nvidia gt 710 graphics chip would give significantly better performance higher gpu and memory clocks , while consuming slightly less power.

Optiplex 755 Raid 01

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Optiplex 755 Sata

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20 please read video description this is my small series focusing on my new dell optiplex 755 mini tower, that i purchased off ebay for only 45. Samsung 5010. Here i show you how to overclock a dell optiplex 755, that is the intel core 2 quad q6600 model. Dell optiplex 755 vs 780 between these two models, dell optiplex 780 is indeed more recommended. Popular components in pc builds with the dell optiplex 755 motherboard.

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Memory Video Card.

20 hey guys, i got dell optiplex 755 sff small form factor with windows 10, pcie x16 slot. I guess you have no pci-e gpu card, the w10 driver or the igpu onboard is weak. Microarchitecture i3, broadcom ethernet controller. Crack sonicwall. Download and install the latest drivers, firmware and software. Business-oriented components, such as gigabit ethernet, displayport, tool-less. Optiplex 755 documentation find articles for projects that if the power. The systems typically contain intel cpus, beginning with the pentium and currently with the core microarchitecture i3, i5, i7 , although dell sells some models with amd cpus as well. Hello, i m devon and i have the dell opltiplex 755, the 3rd biggest model.