Currently at work I have to endure Dell Optiplex 2.8ghz P4 HT 1GB ddr Its woeful. Especially as I am screening images on the bloody thing. I had a faster pc 6/7 years ago. Currently in negotiations to get rid of the ball mouse..... Makes going home feel great though
Same except with 3gb RAM. The RAM makes so much difference. Half tempted to overclock the CPU but I don't trust the fan and dell
My misses has the same thing at work. The systems are so old that she had to retrain herself to go backwards about 8 years. She works for the Holiday inn, so it's not like they're some tin pot outfit either. But apparently the IT mob have said they'll be upgrading this year. what to I don't know, but I think it's just some of the software and the old systems are staying...lol . She has the same thing as you, where she gets home and the oldest thing is probably my old laptop which is about 3 years old. If she had her way she'd take her laptop in but they wont let her, probably afraid it's going melt their severs...lol
Woeful... Dell Latitude D630 T7100 (1.8GHz, 2MB cache, 800MHz FSB) G965 chipset graphics 2.5GB RAM 80GB HD Windows XP The RAM is fine, it is the slow CPU that drives me nuts, everything takes forever...it is worth about £80 second hand, if that. That said, there is a refresh coming and I might get a new i3 or i5 Latitude.
My own computer is an Athlon64 X2 4000+ with 2GB of RAM, 80GB hard drive, VIA Chrome graphics and a 17-inch monitor. I'm the lucky one - mine's the only computer here with PCIe slots. The rest are Prescott P4s (and some Athlon XPs) with 512MB RAM and 15-inch screens. My Dell PC from Jan 2003 has a better spec then them.
custom build (i rebuilt it with some spares) E6550 @ 2.33Ghz 4GB of DDR800 320GB WD cavier blue nvidia 8400GS win 7 pro 64-bit
HP Z800 Intel Xeon X5677 @ 3.47Ghz & 3.46Ghz (2 separate processors) 32 GB RAM 2xnVidia Quadro FX 4800 130GB HDD Windows 7 64 2 x Dell U3011 30" Monitors Mostly used for simulation.
Dell Precision M6300 Laptop T7700 Core2Duo 2.4 Ghz Nvidia Quadro FX 1600M 4 GB RAM 120 GB HDD Win 7 x64 Enterpise It's not bad. I run lots of virtual machines so 4 GB of RAM quickly gets eaten if I have more the 2 running together.
My work computer is my home computer as I work from home although not the one in my sig xfx 780i mobo QX6850 GTX460 4g corsair dominator samsung f1 500g Vista ultimate 64
Main work PC is my laptop but have 2 or 3 spare machines and test servers dotted around. Asus G73JW i7-740QM 8GB Ram 60GB Vertex 2E SSD & 500GB SATA Nvidia GTX460M Win 7 Ultimate x64 Had this imported from the States - comes with international warranty and paid £1275.00 delivered for it. Cheapest it was available in the UK was £1695.00 at the time. Another case of shamelessly screwing the UK market over.
In the office we have to use whatever is lying about. There’s no budget in the IT department for our own computer systems. So: Intel Core2Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz 4Gb RAM (3 showing - 32bit OS) Nvidia GeForce 8400GS 3Dfx Voodoo 3 250Gb WD 3.5" 80Gb Seagate 3.5" 80Gb Fujitsu 2.5" 2x 17" 4:3 TFT 1x 19" 16:9 TFT Windows XP SP3
Inspiron 530 Intel Core 2 @ 1.8Ghz 1GB of Ram Windows 2k. We're supposed to be being upgraded to win7, but our service department (the other half of the IT department, wierd US setup) realised that these computers can't cope, and need more memory first, so they were going to order some more RAM first. That was in december. Could be worse, at least i've got a 17" monitor, poor sod next to me has a 15" screen, and a computer that appears to run on hamster-wheel power.
Core 2 Dual E6750 4GB RAM with 32bit XP 2400XT graphics card gets the job done. many of my work are done in Xserver, so desktop doesn't have to be so powerful.
I envy anyone who runs a dual core machine of any type in this thread You dont know your born *shakes fist*
Hah! I just rebuilt our shared Optiplex for clinical use. We have the 270 model which is: 3.2Ghz P4 HT 2GB DDR RAM (I upped it from 512MB) 40GB HD Intel IGP, 15" TFT With a fresh install it actually boots in less than a minute! My personal work machine is a Dell Optiplex 745, it has the following: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86Ghz 3GB DDR2 40GB HD Windows XP Pro SP3 Intel IGP, Dual 17" TFTs Wacom Bamboo tablet I'm supposed to use Photoshop on this. It's slow, hates multitasking and I hate it back.
POS Lenovo ThinkCentre. Core2 Duo. It stuggles to wake up in the morning unless I call down to the engine room for more power.
Dell Optiplex 770L (P4 2.66ghz, 512meg ram with Intel 82865G on board graphics, rollerball mouse and 15" monitor). It's a big week next week. It's being upgraded to 2gig of DDR333 plus a 400 dpi laser mouse!! Let the good times roll. I will add; I hate it.
More power? She'll fly apart! Forgot to add that the case I'm using is basically an open frame with the guts of the machine spilling out on the desk. I got frustrated with the beige box and over time the facia, case cover, face plates and reinforcing bar have been scattered to the four winds. I actually prefer the case in it's dystopian state.
I do my so-called work at home, so it's the only computer I don't take apart all the time X6 1090, 4 GB, GTX 470, 4 TB.. You might also want to list the screen(s) as for normal office use I'd say that's the most important part. For me it's a single 24" p-mva screen.
My work computer is as follows Dell Precision 390 with: Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.40GHz 6Gb RAM Nvidia Quatro fx 3450 150GB Windows Drive 500GB Storage Monitors: 1x 17" 4:3 TFT 1x 23" 16:9 TFT Windows 7 Pro OS Does the job pretty nicely.
