got a new office workstation

[jlee]

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.

My last laptop was so bad...I think it was a 2nd gen i5 with 4Gb RAM, but the HDD was terrible. It took ~6 minutes to turn on and log in, would randomly freeze up and do nothing..right before I got promoted and was given a new one, I ran a benchmark on it and it averaged 11.7MB/sec.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My last laptop was so bad...I think it was a 2nd gen i5 with 4Gb RAM, but the HDD was terrible. It took ~6 minutes to turn on and log in, would randomly freeze up and do nothing..right before I got promoted and was given a new one, I ran a benchmark on it and it averaged 11.7MB/sec.

I find the off the shelf laptops seem to often get the slowest hard drives. The OEMs have to stop screwing around and just make SSDs standard. But instead they make it a "premium" option so they can charge like 300 bucks more for it.

I worked on a netbook for someone. The thing sounded like a 1940's telephone switch. "tickatiacktaicktickticktickticktiacka" :awe:

 

[gorb]

 

[Schfifty Five]

fast machine.... i like

connection is sucking up here right now though

LOL why do you have a winstar background? Do you work there?

 

[Schfifty Five]

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

Admit it rudeguy, you'll post this exact same damn thread once you get a new work laptop/station.

 

[rudeguy]

Admit it rudeguy, you'll post this exact same damn thread once you get a new work laptop/station.

no

I'm tempted to order an i7 one right now just to show up ZJ's oxygen deprived ass.

 

[zanejohnson]

LOL why do you have a winstar background? Do you work there?

i'm gonna help with IT stuffs/multi media stuffs for the new convention center that's going up out there...

i've been a private contractor for them for the last couple of years..


i'd been between contracts until about a month ago, my new office is in a trailor (which i dont like, there's tornaders round here!)



but, it came with this machine, score!

i guess the thread title should have read, "got a new office, workstation, office..crap..workstation, tits!"

 

[bteeter]

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.

Man where do you people work? Two and a half years ago the company I contract with got us top of the line laptops (at the time) i7's, 8 GB of RAM, etc. Total cost per machine was around $1000.

I would seriously wonder why a company would skimp on PC's at this point they are so incredibly cheap. I mean the i5 the OP posted probably topped out around $600 and that's a decent enough machine unless you're doing something intense like video editing or running a lot of VM's.

Just the labor cost alone wasted while people use inferior hardware could be recovered in days. I mean if you're paying people 80K to sit at a desk all day, the math works out very well for better equipment.

 

[rudeguy]

Man where do you people work? Two and a half years ago the company I contract with got us top of the line laptops (at the time) i7's, 8 GB of RAM, etc. Total cost per machine was around $1000.

I would seriously wonder why a company would skimp on PC's at this point they are so incredibly cheap. I mean the i5 the OP posted probably topped out around $600 and that's a decent enough machine unless you're doing something intense like video editing or running a lot of VM's.

Just the labor cost alone wasted while people use inferior hardware could be recovered in days. I mean if you're paying people 80K to sit at a desk all day, the math works out very well for better equipment.

From my experience: The bigger the company, the worse the computers they use.

 

[Genx87]

I have been buying SSDs to put into our Latitude 4310s and Optiplex 780s. Brings these older workstations back to life.
Our 6420 and 6430s + Optiplex 790s have had SSDs for years.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

One of my work systems:

:awe:

 

[jlee]

One of my work systems:

:awe:

Shiny.

Our ESXi hosts are only running 96Gb. We do have dozens of them though, so I guess that helps.

 

[mnewsham]

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

I had a T3400 with a Q6600, 8GB DDR2, and a GTX+ 9800 512Mb DDR3.

Threw in an SSD for the boot drive and as of last month it was still going strong.

 

[mnewsham]

One of my work systems:

:awe:

I'd rather go for dual E5-2697 v3, 2.6Ghz, 14 cores, 35MB L3 cache. Would be pretty crazy to have 70MB L3 Cache and 56 logical processors.


Yours is still decent though :awe:

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Shiny.

Our ESXi hosts are only running 96Gb. We do have dozens of them though, so I guess that helps.

That's actually a personal system of mine. I'm a consultant and built the box to host labs and client VMs.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I'd rather go for dual E5-2697 v3, 2.6Ghz, 14 cores, 35MB L3 cache. Would be pretty crazy to have 70MB L3 Cache and 56 logical processors.


Yours is still decent though :awe:

I thought about jumping up to the 8 core models but I'll wait until they're dirt cheap.

 

[ElFenix]

4130 w/ 4GB of ram here


it works ok. would prefer an SSD.

 

[Sonikku]

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

lol, yeah. I'll drop a couple hundred Benjamen's on an i5 just as soon as I can afford to get my mother's furnace/water tank/fridge repaired/replaced etc. Times are tough and a little complicated, but I make do with what I've got. Most stuff runs on low in 720p.

 

[Belegost]

Work laptop: i5 2540M, 4GB RAM, 160GB SSD
Work windows desktop: i7-3770, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD

 

[rudeguy]

Work laptop: i5 2540M, 4GB RAM, 160GB SSD
Work windows desktop: i7-3770, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD

That is the only thing I've been jealous of in this entire thread.

Can I haz?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

That is the only thing I've been jealous of in this entire thread.

Can I haz?

Why? They dip under $400 on sale quite often.

 

[Belegost]

That is the only thing I've been jealous of in this entire thread.

Can I haz?

Hahahaha. No.

The codebase I work with compiles to 19GB, and running tests with it generates output around 30-50GB, and I may run 10-15 tests in a day - being slowed by a spinning disk would suck.

 

[rudeguy]

Why? They dip under $400 on sale quite often.

Now you know what I want for my birthday.



PS: My birthday is tomorrow.