Review on 💻 Dell Optiplex 7010 Business Desktop, Intel Quad Core i5 up to 3.6GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 256GB SSD, USB 3.0, DVD, Windows 10 Pro (Renewed) by Tim Harrington

(received by system on Friday 12th April 2019) Fairly good delivery time (approx 3 days from order). I knew I was getting a repaired unit and expected cosmetic damage. When I opened the box, I noticed a strong smell of spray paint. Parts of the case have been spray painted, as have parts of the front panel. You can see the power button is completely blacked out in the photo. As soon as the system was removed from the packaging carrier, the paint left marks on my arm. The bezel was also loosened (it was later found to be due to a broken tab holding it to the case). The kit included a keyboard and a mouse. When connecting peripheral devices, I noticed that the expansion slots on the case were bent. (shown) Make sure the system is powered on before opening the case; The system booted up flawlessly and had an active Windows 10 Pro digital license as promised. However, this always gave me a "missing jumper" error. Inspecting the system components, I noticed that the case fan, the CPU heatsink (not the CPU fan), the CMOS battery, and the blue PCIe slot were all covered in dirt. The bios password jumper was also missing. As promised, it had an SSD and an i5-3570 processor. The characteristics of the processor are within the two described, since the name indicates 3.6 GHz and the description indicates 3.2 GHz. Installed were VLC and MS Office 2016. Generally the system worked in such a way that I don't care about the dusty and cosmetic state it arrived in. Dust is easy to remove but wonder why this wasn't done during the refurbishment. The smell of the paint has become bearable but still disappointed with the quality of the paint which has already accumulated dust that does not easily wipe off and transfer to anything/object touching the case and power button.