got a new office workstation

[zanejohnson]

fast machine.... i like

connection is sucking up here right now though

 

[OutHouse]

You bragging about 8gb of ram and a i5 proc? My phone has more than that. What did you have before a PII With a turbo button?

 

[jlee]

You bragging about 8gb of ram and a i5 proc? My phone has more than that. What did you have before a PII With a turbo button?

It's better than some.

I have an i7 4600u / 8Gb / SSD. It does everything I need, as much as I'd like more.

 

[disappoint]

Going on the forums to brag about an i5 processor is like asking a prostitute for a handshake.

just kidding:\

 

[jlee]

just kidding:\

I don't mind my i5, actually...though running ESXi in VMware Workstation, it'd be nice to have hyperthreading. I am a cheap bastard though so I don't want to upgrade.

 

[Sonikku]

Intel Pentium G630
4gb ddr3 ram
Radeon 7770
Windows 7

My "gaming" rig.

 

[tynopik]

Intel Pentium G630
4gb ddr3 ram
Radeon 7770
Windows 7

My "gaming" rig.

just run at 640x480

blazing

 

[disappoint]

I am a cheap bastard though so I don't want to upgrade.

I doubt you're a cheap bastard, you just spend your money on other things that you find more enjoyable like a turbo boost button that makes an invisible ramp magically appear in front of your 1980s black trans am or something not entirely like that at all but rhymes with servo.

 

[rsbennett00]

You guys just can't be happy for the guy? You have to berate him for ... uh ... I can't even think of a reason...

 

[GOLI@TH]

Intel Pentium G630
4gb ddr3 ram
Radeon 7770
Windows 7

My "gaming" rig.

Replace your G630 with 1155 i3 or i5 chip and feels the difference, plenty of those scattered with reasonable 2nd hand price.

 

[QueBert]

Depending on where he works that PC could be the equivalent to an uber top of the line work station. I've worked for large companies where they had ancient PC's.

 

[disappoint]

You guys just can't be happy for the guy? You have to berate him for ... uh ... I can't even think of a reason...

This is ATOT. Welcome. This must be your first time so I'll guide you through the setup process so you can enjoy iATOT aka hatetot today.

People here don't need a reason to berate each other. That is to say they don't need a good reason. It comes naturally to them like venom to a King Cobra or stench to a homeless person, or pretty much anyone who doesn't shower. Moonbeam would say it stems from self hate. I would say the origins are based in fear. Sometimes I joke condescendingly because I am literally making fun of hatetot right under their noses but unbeknownst to them. I'm not sure unbeknownst is actually a word. I don't really care. Sometimes my humor is purposefully undetectable so I don't blame people when they don't get it. Sometimes I'm serious and they don't get that either. The human mind will almost always subconsciously reject ideas that don't fit pre-existing ideas of people's world-view or self-view. This makes it difficult for them to learn things that might be true in reality but "not true" for them. This has been a public service announcement of the emergence of thought broadcast system. If this had been an actual emergency you would have been directed....blah blah blah

 

[sdifox]

lulz at the place I am working at now the replacement machines are all used thinkpads.

 

[lxskllr]

My work machine...

description: Tower Computer
    product: Precision WorkStation T3400 ()
    vendor: Dell Inc.
    serial: 7BCKZF1
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: administrator_password=enabled boot=normal chassis=tower cpus=2 power-on_password=enabled uuid=44454C4C-4200-1043-804B-B7C04F5A4631
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 0TP412
       vendor: Dell Inc.
       physical id: 0
       serial: ..CN7082181250F6.
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Dell Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: A03
          date: 01/31/2008
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppytoshiba int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu:0
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6850  @ 3.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 400
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.15.11
          serial: 0000-06FB-0000-0000-0000-0000
          slot: CPU
          size: 3GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1333MHz
          capabilities: x86-64 boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
          configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 id=0 threads=2
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 700
             size: 32KiB
             capacity: 32KiB
             capabilities: internal write-back data
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 701
             size: 4MiB
             capacity: 4MiB
             capabilities: internal varies unified
        *-logicalcpu:0
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.1
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:1
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.2
             width: 64 bits
             capabilities: logical
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 1000
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 4GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: CM2X2048-6400C5
             vendor: 7F7F9E0000000000
             physical id: 0
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM_1
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) [empty]
             vendor: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
             physical id: 1
             serial: FFFFFFFF
             slot: DIMM_3
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: CM2X2048-6400C5
             vendor: 7F7F9E0000000000
             physical id: 2
             serial: 00000000
             slot: DIMM_2
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) [empty]
             vendor: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
             physical id: 3
             serial: FFFFFFFF
             slot: DIMM_4
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
     *-cpu:1
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@1
          version: 6.15.11
          serial: 0000-06FB-0000-0000-0000-0000
          size: 3GHz
          capabilities: vmx ht
          configuration: id=0
        *-logicalcpu:0
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.1
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:1
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.2
             capabilities: logical
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=x38_edac
          resources: irq:0
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82X38/X48 Express Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:40 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fa000000-fdefffff ioport:c0000000(size=536870912)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: G84GL [Quadro FX 1700]
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
                resources: irq:45 memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:c0000000-dfffffff memory:fa000000-fbffffff ioport:dc80(size=128) memory:fde00000-fde1ffff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82X38/X48 Express Host-Secondary PCI Express Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 6
             bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:41
        *-usb:0
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:16 ioport:ff20(size=32)
        *-usb:1
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:17 ioport:ff00(size=32)
        *-usb:2
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:22 ioport:ecc0(size=32)
        *-usb:3
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1a.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.7
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
             resources: irq:22 memory:fdffbc00-fdffbfff
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 02
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
             resources: irq:46 memory:fdffc000-fdffffff
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:42 ioport:1000(size=4096) memory:f9f00000-f9ffffff ioport:f0000000(size=2097152)
        *-pci:3
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.5
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:f9e00000-f9efffff ioport:f0200000(size=2097152)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
                vendor: Broadcom Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
                logical name: eth2
                version: 02
                serial: 00:1d:09:32:37:0e
                size: 100Mbit/s
                capacity: 1Gbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.134 duplex=full firmware=5754-v3.24 ip=192.168.1.142 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
                resources: irq:47 memory:f9ef0000-f9efffff
        *-usb:4
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:23 ioport:ff80(size=32)
        *-usb:5
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:17 ioport:ff60(size=32)
        *-usb:6
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:18 ioport:ff40(size=32)
        *-usb:7
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
             resources: irq:23 memory:ff980800-ff980bff
        *-pci:4
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: 92
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
             resources: irq:0
        *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
             resources: irq:44 ioport:fe00(size=8) ioport:fe10(size=4) ioport:fe20(size=8) ioport:fe30(size=4) ioport:fec0(size=32) memory:f0400000-f04007ff
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 02
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:fdffbb00-fdffbbff ioport:ece0(size=32)
     *-scsi:0
          physical id: 2
          logical name: scsi1
          capabilities: emulated
        *-cdrom
             description: DVD reader
             product: DVD-ROM TS-H353B
             vendor: TSSTcorp
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/cdrom
             logical name: /dev/sr0
             version: D200
             capabilities: removable audio dvd
             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
     *-scsi:1
          physical id: 3
          logical name: scsi3
          capabilities: emulated
        *-disk
             description: ATA Disk
             product: ST9250315AS
             vendor: Seagate
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sda
             version: 0001
             serial: 6VCRHHLS
             size: 232GiB (250GB)
             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
             configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=1cd2fc5b
           *-volume:0
                description: EXT4 volume
                vendor: Linux
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0,1
                logical name: /dev/sda1
                logical name: /
                version: 1.0
                serial: f4597b14-7427-45da-a807-a0e73f2dcb19
                size: 18GiB
                capacity: 18GiB
                capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                configuration: created=2014-02-15 15:24:40 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2015-02-12 15:21:40 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2015-02-12 15:21:41 state=mounted
           *-volume:1
                description: Extended partition
                physical id: 2
                bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0,2
                logical name: /dev/sda2
                size: 214GiB
                capacity: 214GiB
                capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
              *-logicalvolume:0
                   description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                   physical id: 5
                   logical name: /dev/sda5
                   capacity: 1906MiB
                   capabilities: nofs
              *-logicalvolume:1
                   description: Linux filesystem partition
                   physical id: 6
                   logical name: /dev/sda6
                   logical name: /home
                   capacity: 212GiB
                   configuration: mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,data=ordered state=mounted

Pretty old, but it works

 

[Tweak155]

I work at a company that updates your stations reasonably often (every 2-3yrs or so). Right now I have a 3rd gen I5 and 8gb RAM in my laptop.

 

[twinrider1]

Depending on where he works that PC could be the equivalent to an uber top of the line work station. I've worked for large companies where they had ancient PC's.

Worth repeating. We had to campaign to get just to get the memory doubled in our laptops. Excel tables wrote so slowly you could watch them happen.

 

[brianmanahan]

You bragging about 8gb of ram and a i5 proc? My phone has more than that. What did you have before a PII With a turbo button?

my work laptop is better than that

gotta have a buttload of RAM to run like 5 websphere servers at a time

 

[rudeguy]

so now we post in OT every time we get a new work laptop?

 

[rudeguy]

I work at a company that updates your stations reasonably often (every 2-3yrs or so). Right now I have a 3rd gen I5 and 8gb RAM in my laptop.

Ours is as needed. Well....for the office drones. I just buy something if I need it.

Right now my desktop is an HP Pro with an i5 and 8GB of RAM, lappy is a Yoga Pro 2 with an i7 and 8GB. Drones get Lenovo Mini PCs with i5s.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

My work laptop, which is less than a year old, has an i7 processor and only 8GB of ram. But the worse part about it is that it is running 32-bit Windows 7 Professional. WTF?

 

[Tweak155]

Ours is as needed. Well....for the office drones. I just buy something if I need it.

Right now my desktop is an HP Pro with an i5 and 8GB of RAM, lappy is a Yoga Pro 2 with an i7 and 8GB. Drones get Lenovo Mini PCs with i5s.

This place is wonky. 5 people doing the same job could have 5 different laptops. I know one developer who has 32gb mem and an I7... we probably "need" an I3 and 4gb max... we're not hosting any VM's or even compiling code really.

 

[TwiceOver]

Company can't afford real Outlook though I see.

 

[sdifox]

This place is wonky. 5 people doing the same job could have 5 different laptops. I know one developer who has 32gb mem and an I7... we probably "need" an I3 and 4gb max... we're not hosting any VM's or even compiling code really.

How else would a dev write shitty code with tons of memory leak and not notice?

 

[rudeguy]

This place is wonky. 5 people doing the same job could have 5 different laptops. I know one developer who has 32gb mem and an I7... we probably "need" an I3 and 4gb max... we're not hosting any VM's or even compiling code really.

Our problem is no two people do the same thing here. The IT director tried to do the right thing and ordered a bunch of really decent HP laptops to issue to people. But since then he's had to order SP3s, Yogas, MBPs and other high end stuff because so many of use do so many different jobs that an out of the box computer just won't work.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You bragging about 8gb of ram and a i5 proc? My phone has more than that. What did you have before a PII With a turbo button?

That's actually super awesome for a work machine. Work machines tend to be about 5-10 years behind what people will have at home. I wish we could have 8GB of ram. Our machines don't even support more than 4, then again XP does not either so what would be the point.

Our machines are core 2 duos with 4GB of ram. Used to be like 1GB by default till our department managed to get approved to get 4. Worse part is they're working on upgrading to 7, and instead of giving new machines that have more ram they're upgrading the existing machines. It's going to be bloody slow as hell. We don't even have enough ram left over as is, it's going to be brutal with 7.

A few years back we did buy a SSD on our corporate card though and switched to that. Made a huge difference. Instead of taking about 45 minutes to an hour to open all our stuff it now takes MAYBE 10 minutes.