FRUSTRATION! DOES A SWITCH HAVE AN IP?

tonyyeb · 22 Aug 2006 at 20:09

lokkers said:
Surely doesnt take a genius to work out

And IIRC it is the 'administrator' who is querying this???!!! What kind of IT dept is this??!!

Over Clocker · 22 Aug 2006 at 20:25

tonyyeb said:
And IIRC it is the 'administrator' who is querying this???!!! What kind of IT dept is this??!!

Obviously one that needs to be retired!!

Justintime · 22 Aug 2006 at 20:38

My god, have seen worse mind you.

Rich · 22 Aug 2006 at 20:50

I see much much worse every single day. Remember, these people may be network admins because they knew something about a specific product 15 years ago and havent been replaced. Its shocking the amount of times you see this.

Justintime · 22 Aug 2006 at 21:25

I work with a guy whos scared to change a DIMM or put a new one in, bought DDR2 for his PIV Williamette Rambus mobo and dosen't bother with thermal compound when building his pcs, that'd be ok if the sinks he uses had some pre prepared but they don't. Luckily i service most of the hardware at work. :eek:

FrankJH · 22 Aug 2006 at 22:52

Justintime said:
I work with a guy whos scared to change a DIMM or put a new one in, bought DDR2 for his PIV Williamette Rambus mobo and dosen't bother with thermal compound when building his pcs, that'd be ok if the sinks he uses had some pre prepared but they don't. Luckily i service most of the hardware at work.

To be fair cpu's dont REQUIRE thermal grease or whatever, yes the cooling is aided significantly but its not actually required and remember most office applications dont over utilise a cpu anyway so they wont be at anywhere near their highest temp

Justintime · 23 Aug 2006 at 00:54

FrankJH said:
To be fair cpu's dont REQUIRE thermal grease or whatever, yes the cooling is aided significantly but its not actually required and remember most office applications dont over utilise a cpu anyway so they wont be at anywhere near their highest temp

Er mate, i'd honestly like to see you install a cpu without any sort of thermal interface material and 1. stay stable 2. not trottle 3. keep the cpu alive for any fair amount of time. Might've gotten away with it in the early cpus but their lifespan would be cut short. Even a cpu at idle without any TIM would run excessively hot and when things loaded up it'd definetly fall over. Where in the world did you get that idea from? I've seen an Athlon 1100 burn before my eyes within minutes when installed by a technician who forgot to put thermal compound and constantly turned the pc back on when it kept freezing. Bare die or IHS to metal sink don't do so well in the conductivity arena without some help.

lokkers · 23 Aug 2006 at 08:08

FrankJH said:
To be fair cpu's dont REQUIRE thermal grease or whatever, yes the cooling is aided significantly but its not actually required and remember most office applications dont over utilise a cpu anyway so they wont be at anywhere near their highest temp

oh really? so why do they put the thermal pad/goop either on the HSF or packed with it? Surely not for fun?

Justintime · 23 Aug 2006 at 13:18

lokkers said:
oh really? so why do they put the thermal pad/goop either on the HSF or packed with it? Surely not for fun?

Guess they like losing money on 'trivial unnecessary things'

Lex · 23 Aug 2006 at 14:17

Rich said:
I see much much worse every single day. Remember, these people may be network admins because they knew something about a specific product 15 years ago and havent been replaced. Its shocking the amount of times you see this.

everyone seems confused. I want to know this because my administrator is on my back. However i personally know that switches dont usually have an ip unless its a managed switch. In anycase it was purely prove a point but like this forum and articles i've read it really seems to depend on the switch itself.