How over-specced are your work's computers?

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I'm all for the justification of a beefy machine in a work environment, but sometimes things get silly.

This is now the standard set up for anyone in the company, which includes standard call takers who at the most will be running 3 telnet windows (LOL) and maybe 3 webpages open.

E6550
1GB PC5300
80GB SATA
DVD-ROM

What a waste of power! I'm half tempted to open one of them up and swap my E2160 for the E6550, grrrr!
 
krooton said:
I'm all for the justification of a beefy machine in a work environment, but sometimes things get silly.

This is now the standard set up for anyone in the company, which includes standard call takers who at the most will be running 3 telnet windows (LOL) and maybe 3 webpages open.

E6550
1GB PC5300
80GB SATA
DVD-ROM

What a waste of power! I'm half tempted to open one of them up and swap my E2160 for the E6550, grrrr!
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Over-specced? Phttt

Dell OptiPlex GX270
Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz
Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller (96 MB)
Maxtor 6E040L0 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
System Memory 512 MB
Intel Springdale-G i865G(V)

Makes me cry :(
 
i installed a server today in a school

2x quad core cpu's, 4gb ram, 2000gb hard drive space (in raid 5), it replaced a pc that could 'just about' handle what it was doing.. a 2.4 celeron, with 256mb ram, 80gb

lol!
 
bledd. said:
i installed a server today in a school

2x quad core cpu's, 4gb ram, 2000gb hard drive space (in raid 5), it replaced a pc that could 'just about' handle what it was doing.. a 2.4 celeron, with 256mb ram, 80gb

lol!
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Wow, talk about upgrading it too far :p

Think it'll handle it? :rolleyes:
 
I have these two workstation, the same as most colleagues have :(

P4 2000Mhz 512mb ram. (common)
P4 2800Mhz 2048mb ram.

new ones are all c2d's from dell with 2gb. my software development group colleagues have Dell Laptop's with T7200 2gb ram
 
Craig321 said:
Over-specced? Phttt

Dell OptiPlex GX270
Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz
Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller (96 MB)
Maxtor 6E040L0 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
System Memory 512 MB
Intel Springdale-G i865G(V)

Makes me cry :(
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I dream of having a work PC of that spec, mine:

P4 1.6
geforce 2 mx 64 mb
40 gb hard drive, very slow
768 ram(I found another 512 laying around)
Win 2000
Adding the extra ram has made it just about usable. I had 2*256 before yesterday.

I also have a laptop of similar specs and another laptop with Linux on it.
 
I put together 3 over the past week, with some parts from here of course:

2 x E6750's
1 x E6420
3 x Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Motherboard
2 x Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II
1 x 120GB Seagate IDE drive
2 x 8800GT's
1 x 8800GTS
3 x GeIL 2x1GB PC2-6400C4 800MHz
3 x Pioneer 20x DVD burners
3 x Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU

:D
 
Pah!!... Over-specced my arris!!...

Dell Precision 360,
P4 2.8 (Prescott),
1.5Gb DDR,
80Gb Crappy ATA33 thing (unknown make),
Quadro NVS280 SD 64mb,
Dell 191FP Monitor...

All this running (or struggling to run) AutoCAD 2009 (its below the minimum spec! but can I get an upgrade!!.. can I balls
 
Craig321 said:
Over-specced? Phttt

Dell OptiPlex GX270
Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz
Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller (96 MB)
Maxtor 6E040L0 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
System Memory 512 MB
Intel Springdale-G i865G(V)

Makes me cry :(
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You should see the machines we are replacing with the E6550s.

Old Compaqs, either Celerons or 2.4Ghz P4s, but with 128/256MB RAM respectively, which was causing the main problems as user profiles/images are all stored on the network.

I even found a P3 powering one of the wallboards, hahaha!
 
How about underspec'd. Up until recently our 2 domain controllers were working on 3.2GHz Pentium 4s. Our email server is a sempron 2800 and print server is something like a sempron 2400.

We are currently doing a refresh of all the Teacher Stations in the school (and some admin machines) which are AMD x2 4200, 1GB RAM, DVD RAM drive Lenovo machines.
 
Dell Precision 470
Xeon 3.6GHz
2gig RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 1400 128MB
Some noisy 80gb hdd
24" dell screen

and it strugles to run 4/5 10mb files in autocad 2005 :(
 
lol, we've just been upgrading many of the machines in our office, most people (including reception) have Optiplex 755's, Q6600's and 4gb ram all round. :D
Engineering are mostly on Precision 390's or M6300's but they actually take advantage of those machines.

At least we wont need to upgrade for a while...
 
All of our machines are also well over spec... We all (appart from me) use Acer 5720 laptops with:

c2d T7300, 3gb ram, 160gb sata disks with intel chipsets.

These machines have an 18 month replacement policy and are simply used for creating models in excel.

Personally I use a Asus f3k, Turion TL-56, 4gb ram and 120gb sata disk with an x2300 which is great as I do some coding, photoshop etc.

Even so these machines will bearly be used before introducing new machines to replace them 18 months after purchase.

Edit : Worst thing is some people still complain that they are slow.
 
Ours are under specced :(

I really need a new workstation, but given the market (mortgages), and the current climate for said market, that is unlikely to happen.

:(

schumi84 said:
How about underspec'd. Up until recently our 2 domain controllers were working on 3.2GHz Pentium 4s. Our email server is a sempron 2800 and print server is something like a sempron 2400.

We are currently doing a refresh of all the Teacher Stations in the school (and some admin machines) which are AMD x2 4200, 1GB RAM, DVD RAM drive Lenovo machines.
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You think that is underspecced?

Until this week, our one and only SBS2003 server (running exchange and ISA) was a CELERON 2.66GHz with a GIG of RAM, and a single IDE disk!

I managed to blag the cash to upgrade to nice quad core Dell with 4GB RAM and SAS RAID 5 :)

I'm the first IT support the company has had, before me everything was done in-house by someone who didn't know a thing about IT.
 
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I work in engineering and all the machines i've worked on only the ones for the motor industry using CATIA have been proper spec'd machines.

We use 3D CAD (quite demanding on some projects) the worst i've used is a P4, 512MB RAM, ONBOARD! Graphics and a 21" CRT (try lifting the bloody thing). The best is the one at the moment: Pedntium D 3.00, 1GB RAM ATI X600.... Cheap gits
 
T42 Pentium M 1.5GHz, 1GB.

Often XP, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Remedy, Outlook, IE7 with F@H in the background.. need a faster machine but this one is possibly the best designed laptop I've used - it works still after all the airports it's been through..
To be honest this just needs a reinstall to speed it up again.
 
ah back at school we had 1ghz celerons with 128meg ram on win 2k. that was a laugh playing quake 1 over the network on, though in my final yeah the upgraded to the dell p4 (i laughed a lot)
 
My hospital has splashed out on loads of Core2Duo HP Workstations and Desktops, most with 2GBs of RAM, entirely pointless as the only thing they ever run is Internet Explorer. Some even have nice Samsung 20" widescreen monitors :D
 
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