Engineering machines

Gregry254 · 16 Sep 2011 at 14:10

I just bought an out of warranty PC from my work for my old man. They charge £30 for the PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse and all wires. I thought to myself "for £30 it will be ok for him to surf the net and go on skype"

I just spoke to the woman that deals with IT here and she said she doesn't know what processor is in it but it has 4GB of RAM and a graphics card.

Now this PC must be about 3 years old! I built my last gaming PC 3 years ago and wasn't 100% sure about putting 4GB of RAM in it then. (I will know the full specs when I pick it up on Monday)

So my question is . . . do PCs used for engineering purposes, like 3D design and such need to be as powerful as a higher end gaming machine?

Gregry254 · 16 Sep 2011 at 14:29

I will do on Monday when I pick it up.

Looks like he might get more than he bargained for with his £30 . . . will be a fair upgrade from the 5/6 year old Dell he is using now anyway!

Gregry254 · 16 Sep 2011 at 15:11

Is it wrong that I am a little excited to see what the luck of the draw gives, even though I will never use the thing?! lol

I am considering taking the monitor and using it as a second monitor so I don't have to minimise games to pay the GF some attention on MSN

Gregry254 · 20 Sep 2011 at 20:15

I had a look when I got it and it has 2x Xenon processors, 1.6ghz dual core and there is 2 processors with 4gb of RAM so I am sure it will suffice for his web surfing and online poker lol.

The graphics card that was in it was some kind of Nvidea quatro? As I was installing windows on his PC my new one decided to turn off and refuse to play anymore!! so I didn't spend too much time on his PC needless to say!

Gregry254 · 20 Sep 2011 at 21:41

No can do I am afraid

only one per employee and I only bothered getting one because the old man was moaning about his being old and slow now lol

Gregry254 · 21 Sep 2011 at 01:17

It is a Dell precision so I presume it is the cheapest PSU they could buy

I work as security at GE Oil & Gas but after talking to the IT woman on Monday I may be in with a chance of a job with their IT department (I have a HND but no experience) :eek: