How over-specced are your work's computers?

All the pcs here are P4 dual cores, 512mb ram, onboard sound/gfx, 80gb hdds, cheapo PSUs, but then again thats all they need :) the P4 dual cores are crap, they run really hot too, but then again i didnt spec them

do have a few PCs which i speced, E2160s (i think) 2gb ram, which we have started standardising too now, all the older PCs we're yet to move are P4 2.8ghz or celerons (EURGH)

my office pc is brand new as of 2 days ago :D Q6600, 2GB ram (4gb when the returned stick comes back), 400gb hdd, X1650 i took out of an older pc all inside a shuttle case :D but i do a lot of media related stuff, editing videos etc so it needs more umph, managers pc is an E6600, 4GB ram, 2x80gb drives , which was my old one till i got this shuttle, the headteacher here is dusing a dual Xeon server as his desktop pc :S been there for ages, no idea why but hes happy so nevermind

all our servers are Xeons, mostly brand new or around 1 year old max due to a recent complete network overhaul

heres our nicest server, sadly running on a 32bit OS even though it has 4gb of ram:
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8 cores woooo
 
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Most of our autocad designers are running 3ghz with a gig of ram. Pretty slow, we've been holding off upgrading them because soon we will be switching to inventor with 8gb of ram, quad core etc. Should be a nice upgrade.

The rest of the company get what's the best bang of buck at the time, at the moment that is nice HP dual core machines with 2gb of ram and vista. The laptops we use are toshiba but similar in spec.
 
I work for the NHS... calculators give our PC's a run for their money...

My work rig is:

P4 1.8Ghz
256MB mem
Integrated graphics + sound
15" TFT
40GB HDD

And that is one of the good ones...
 
Just this week we have taken delivery of 6 shiny new Dell Precision T7400's.

Very much an overkill situation as only one of the people working here could possibly need close to the power they deliver but the boss is computer mad and has a boner for Dell.

Specs are as follows....

Intel Xeon E5410 (2.33GHz,1333FSB,2x6MB,Quad Core)
2GB DDR2 667 MHz Quad Channel FBD Memory (4x512MB)
160GB (7,200 rpm) SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with NCQ and 8MB DataBurst Cache™
256MB nVidia Quadro FX 570, Dual Monitor DVI or VGA Graphics Card (ELGA11)
16X DVD+/-RW
Vista Business.

5 of the machines are mainly used for data input, invoicing, web browsing etc, the remaining machine is running on a 19" Dell TFT and is used for some photoshop, solidworks, CAD and web browsing.

Oh ye, its overkill alright.
 
redeye_uk said:
Why don't you enable PAE switching? That way you can address the full amount of RAM
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PAE slows memory access, we'd prefer to keep memory access at a maximum rather than have the additional ram, but i guess at least its there incase we ever switch to server 2008 or a 64bit variant
 
Working with the NHS in the IT department and most of the PC's that are around atm are:

GX50's.... I mean these are really bad normally having 256MB SDRAM but some have 512MB. All are Celerons as well.

GX60's... Bit better as these are DDR, most have 512MB and some even have P4's!:eek:

GX270's... These are ok'ish and all have 512MB. Some again are P4's

GX280's... These are again pretty good as these are DDR2, all have 512MB with some having 1GB and most/all are P4's.

Trying to replace all the above though with GX520/620's and some new HP AMD dual cores with 1GB+ RAM but will take an age.

There are a few decent PC's allready out and about, most are the HP dual core ones. For what most people want they do the job though and the making the PC faster doesn't really help when they have to load the amount of carp that the NHS makes the PC's start up with :rolleyes:

Don't have my own PC atm as I borg anyone's I like :D
 
NickK said:
Got a c7000 with 8x BL680cG5(4xQC,16GB&FC) for a test bed at the moment.. that's 128 cores.. the closest I get to techyness is doing it's cost-benefit analysis for the products.
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Pity you cant stick a decent video card into the enclosure! haha
Ive also got a ml350 loaded out heading back my way after being on a site for 5 months trialing some of our software, I think I might just have a few spare hdds to see just how quick a single server can run.
What is the c7000 being used for , can I ask?
Last time I saw something with that sort of power, I was doing a job a couple of years ago for royal mail was a set of 40 ibm blades servers in a huge rack, daisy chained and got as hot as hell in a massive air conned room. When one failed it was a total pain in the arse getting one from the middle pulled out as it kind of pulled half of the rest of them down.
 
Not work but at my school where I use the computers every day. We have Intel Celerons with 256MB of ram and we get allocated 100MB of disk space for documents lol.

But a few weeks ago they finally decided to upgrade to internet explorer 7 and damn these computers run dog slow with IE6 now its depressing using IE7 especially sites with any kind of flash content.
 
Current computers we use at my office are Fujitsu-Siemens. Intel Core2, (don't think C2D, though they could be) 3Ghz, 1Gb ram, 80Gb HDD. They bought 140,000 of them, so they must have got a half decent deal.
 
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Latitude D610, 1.6Ghz with 1.25GB of memory ... and compared with some people I work with that quite good. It's an absolute dog most of the time and gets bogged down badly at times.

Had it installing OpenSolaris in a virtual machine a couple of days ago ... took ~6hrs at 100% CPU :rolleyes: ...(toasty)
 
Just finished loading up my slightly modified Vostro 400:-
Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2 cache
3GB DDR2 667
9600GT
2 x HDD

+ my existing dual 19" Dell UltraSharp monitors

Sadly my work PC now trashes my home PC and thus it is purchasing time.
 
Im on a rather beastly SunBlade 2500, but its pap for CATIA CAD. Works so much better in windows anyway before you start looking at computer specs. Dunno this specs on this but its certainly not over-specced, previous place had 2ghz pentiums, 4gb RAM and Nvidea fx800 Graphics with the Unigraphics boxs upped to fx1500.

Costs the serious money how slow the network is here. Someone needs to get a grip but atleast the servers are no longer all in the US now Ford have sold us.
 
Our call centre is being upgraded, most of the machines now sport an e2150, 512/1024 ram and 160gb hdd????

Some of the old machines are still in use, these are p3 700mhz, 64mb ram and a 10gb hdd.
 
My work machine is only passable.

E4400 @ stock
3gb Ram (2gb of which I added myself)
20" bottom of the range Dell TFT with awful viewing angles and colour reproduction

I use it for Photoshop/Flash for work and it's just about ok.
 
P4 @ 3.0Ghz
512MB RAM
80GB HDD

It collapses in a heap at random points during the day, usually when running a virus scan I can't turn off leaving me unable to work for about half an hour as nothing responds. It also takes five minutes to log me in.

Almost everyone else gets to use an E6400 or E6750 with at least 2GB RAM. Quite why about four of us were left with older computers when all the others were upgraded a while back, I have absolutely no idea.
 
i work in tech support in a rather large college with around 1-2000 PCs they are anything from PII rigs with 128mb of ram running win2k sometimes XP... generally take 30 mins to boot. we are trying to get rid of them all though but they just keep poping up. same with Pentium 3 rigs. all p3s a 1ghz with the odd exception

if its a pentium 4 the college keeps them. generally they are 1.5 or 1.8ghz

everything we buy now is either a dell or a mac. sx260 sx270 sx280 gx620. a load of optiplexes and i foreget what elsethey are still underspecking some of the new buys with 512mb. academic staff all get dell laptops now.

we do get some really nice macs in but i will say that generally in the college anyone that uses a mac is in some way retarded. stupid people use macs because its all they can use lol. a diferent bread of people mac users are. hmmm i think that requires a post all of its own tbh.. ill do that now.
 
All our desktops are HP DC7600 ultraslims, think they are 3 gig P4 with 2 gig of ram and 80 gig disks. Do the job fine :)

We do have a couple of old servers running with P3s, they are creaking now!
 
I have a 1.8GHz P4 Compaq machine with 512MB RAM at work. It's alright most of the time but looking at pdfs is a nightmare.

I'm tempted to add some RAM myself sometimes.
 
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