The 'how slow is your work computer' thread

Works PC:

Very old!!

350ghz CPU
128mb Ram
4g Hard Drive
40x CD rom
Onboard Graphics / sound
Win XP

Only use it for email, internet. A right dog to use!!
 
P4 2.8ghz HT
1gb ram
80gb HDD
Radeon 9200 Pro
Dual Screens :D

Easily fast enough for my helpdesk needs.
 
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at college they have old school 256mb ram

CAD lessons are erm intresting , especially since they just "upgraded" to XP , guessin its cheaper now vista is out
 
P4-3.02Ghz, 1Gb of Ram, 160Gb Hard drive & a PCI Express x200 graphics card. Runs nice and nippy, already done a few tweaks... oh and installed Folding @ Home :D :p
 
Mines a Dell Optiplex 745, Pentium D 3.0Ghz, 2 GB RAM.
I work on the helpdesk and i get a new computer whenever i want, which i usuallly when we get an increase in the spec, gotta have some perk of the job :D
 
P4 3.0Ghz.

I could really do with a dual core machine though. I run lots of intensive numerical simulations which only use 1 CPU (until we develop the code further that is :p), but the simulations usually take about 10 - 30 minutes per go, during which time my computer becomes completely un-usable.

On my e6600 @ 3.5Ghz at home, I do the calculations in 1/3 the time, run 2 simultaneous copies of my program, AND still get to use the computer for regular things (word processing / excel / web browing) while I wait.
 
I know ours is a P4 with HT.. think its 2.4.. but cant get exacts as the My Comp and Run is locked..

Os its decent atleast lol
 
New laptop made by the big D

Core Duo 1,2Ghz
512Mb ram

Not too shabby, seems ok until I run a few applications, Visual Studio .net 2005 makes it crawl though :(
 
Dell Dimension 5000

P4 3ghz HT
1gb ram
160gb HDD
Intel integrated GFX.

far too easily hammered for my liking (running VS 2005, SQL Management Studio, Outlook and WMP normally).

God I hate HT :(
 
P4 3.0ghz, 1280MB Ram, Win 2k.

It's absolutely dog slow though, bloated with way too much crap and nowhere near powerful enough to run the couple of VPC's I normally have open with any kind of speed. The CRM software on the network constantly hangs as well and is due for replacement so hasn't been fixed. :mad:
 
Acer travelmate 8100 laptop with 2GB pc4200 RAM :) runs like a dream, though it's usually using about 1.2GB RAM... running SQL express, Visual Studio 2005, office 2007. RUns Vista like a charm

Cracking laptop
 
Intel Celeron 1.0GHz (I o/c'ed it to 1.3)
128mb SDRAM
80GB HD
Samtron 76E
Windoze XP

It's actually so slow, that I can scan, proof read and name documents faster manually than what the computer does it on auto.

I asked if I could put in an extra 512 stick I have at home from my old P3 733, but I was told that our computer contract is with dell, and upgrades are randomly handed out - none of the computers in this building are made by dell though. Also our fastest one is an Athlon XP 2200+, even though it is the one which does the least amount of work - a total of 30 minutes a day.

I even went so far as to suggest they could take a few of my spare p4 3.0 + 512mb machines and they said no to that as well - although our IT manager gave me a LOT of advice on how to overclock my 3700+ SD, and is now supremely jealous of my 3.4ghz C2D.
 
jim5000 said:
Working on a computer helpdesk, and today I am using a 1GHz Pentium 3 with 256mb of memory..

What makes it worse is that the library catalogue machines (for students to search for books) sit there all day with a single webpage open, running on 2.4Ghz, 1gig memory, hyperthreaded P4s!!!!!!!!
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Our student abs have 10 OEM desktops: 1Ghz Celeron, 128Mb RAM running Windows 2000/Novell Client and have lots of problems getting security updates they're that slow. With any luck we're replacing them in the summer, well, need to really since I'm putting WinXP in the clusters. Some staff machines are even slower.

My own machine is reasonable:

AMD64 3500+
1Gb RAM
1x160Gb & 1x40Gb SATA HDD's
NEC ND-4570A DVD+RW
x200 ATI on-board graphics
 
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:~)

Pentium D 940 3.2GHz Dual Core ("Presler")
2GB RAM
Humungous hard drive (no RAID, but a managed backup service instead)
2x humungous TFT screens
PCI-E 16x Nvidia workstation card ("NVS" something?)
Windows XP x64
 
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