gutted about college computers

v3n0m_dk · 30 Oct 2006 at 16:44

well im starting this to see if anyone feels my pain or wether its jsut time i got out into the "real world"

my rig which is a slightly outdated 144, 7800gt 2gb gskill and a 20" dell tft used to be somehing i could brag about back in the day but now after i ariving at college today i was gutted to find that all the old pcs have been replaced by some new beasts.

so thinking nothing of i went over to check them out only to find that under the hood lies conroe 6600's, 2gb ram and 7900gt's.

on top of all of this they've got some 19" widescreen samsungs.

shoudl i feel gutted or jsut upgrade my rig come G80 so i can feel good about myself again.

also i might try getting cs set up on those, with a t3 and all

Joe42 · 30 Oct 2006 at 16:47

Don't upgrade unless you need to, try not to give in to temptation.

I know what you mean though. Anyone who goes out and buys a half decent dell tomorrow will get a faster system than me

Have to keep reminding myself that the jump forward caused by core 2 is a good thing for the industry and good for the customer, lower prices and higher performance etc. Just means i loose out because i bought my system just before a big jump in technology and lots of pricedrops...

A Christmas upgrade is looking mighty tempting though...

Adam Senior · 30 Oct 2006 at 16:50

i wish my collage had them

Defcon5 · 30 Oct 2006 at 19:56

Joe42 said:
I know what you mean though. Anyone who goes out and buys a half decent dell tomorrow will get a faster system than me

Ive been thinking that. depressing aint it

Kmodo · 30 Oct 2006 at 20:01

LOL my university has nvidia 4 series GPU'S and amd anthlon xp cpu's

so your rig is significantly better than these. PS why would your college have such good PC's???

z0mbi3 · 30 Oct 2006 at 20:04

v3n0m_dk said:
shoudl i feel gutted or jsut upgrade my rig come G80 so i can feel good about myself again.

Might be time to sell your old stuff tbh. Trouble is if you wait it out it'll just decrease in value.

Kroegen · 30 Oct 2006 at 20:05

Wow Wow Wee Wow :eek:

We have good old P4 1.5ghz rigs with 256mb ram. Beat that :cool:

Hawk Tuah · 30 Oct 2006 at 20:08

We had spectrum 128k's. 6 of them.

R B Customs · 30 Oct 2006 at 22:28

what do you do at college, why on earth have they got machines that powerful.
i can understand the ram and cpu... but the graphics card WTF ?
Rick

Slogan · 30 Oct 2006 at 23:12

R B CUSTOMS said:
i can understand the ram and cpu... but the graphics card WTF ?

We have similar Dells (smaller screens) and they're used for the "games class" that our college has.

Must not be doing much - they got their backsides handed to them everytime we play COD on LAN.

Day03 · 30 Oct 2006 at 23:35

Why don't you swap the components round

Just leave the case

v3n0m_dk · 30 Oct 2006 at 23:40

yea me and my mate were tempted too, after all, being year 2, were allowed to work in the classes after time and theres no cameras. :eek:

I was at a loss as to why they were so powerfull, the old machines were p4 1.8 512 ram and onboard graphics,

however due to the recent installation on 3d max and photoshop cs2 on the machines they all bee upgraded.

by the way the course is E-media , its a btec at NCN Adams in Nottingham if anyones interested :rolleyes:

Northwind · 31 Oct 2006 at 00:37

My uni installed P133s back when I had a P75. Very jealous. 17 inch CRT monitor... STB Trio with 2 whole meg on the card. They still have them now

PardonTheWait · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:38

Sweet jesus, how awesome's that for a College PC?

c@tbyte · 31 Oct 2006 at 12:50

v3n0m_dk said:
at NCN Adams in Nottingham if anyones interested

Great ! I'll be round at 2.30am with the van.

krooton · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:24

I've got 7 new HP Desktops sitting next to me that I need to install this afternoon at work.

Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz
512MB DDR2
Onboard gfx

I've only got a lowly P4 2.8Ghz, I want dual core

Nice for the people getting the upgrade, they are running 2Ghz Celerons with 128MB Ram, lol!

ishamy · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:54

c@tbyte said:
Great ! I'll be round at 2.30am with the van.

I'll meet you there and give you a hand

*sneeks in quietly*

PeteLucky7 · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:04

Two less teachers, but hey, at least you can play Oblivion with all the settings maxed out.

Captain Fizz · 31 Oct 2006 at 16:49

If Work (college) PC > Home PC
It's time for an upgrade!

Good effort on the college's part though - Those PC's should last them a good few years.

mikeymike · 31 Oct 2006 at 17:07

i used to go to uni at nottingham trent, the year i left they introduced a games development module using the half life 2 SDK, all the pcs in a couple of labs were upgraded to beasts (well relative for a uni) with brand new 6800GTs, and a cafe steam licence

this happens just as i leave and ive been using their rubbish p4 1.8ghz machines with onboard video to play space invaders on the net to while away lab time