My New Rig.....for Work!

[MrScott81]

Translation: "We have a bunch of money to waste..."

This.

Spend all the monies now or don't get as much monies next year....

 

[homercles337]

This.

Spend all the monies now or don't get as much monies next year....

Worse still is the fact that money is so easy to get that the average idiot can do rather well. Just call it "security related" and youre in. I have interviewed with too many companies like this, makes me ill.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

YOU da Playah!
wow, you were able to sneak in a giant white monstrosity that glows?

:sneaky:

I was being a little facetious. I pretty much just brought it in
Functions as my LAN party system, and guest system when someone visits (it gets switch out to a decidedly plainer Hackintosh).

Manager's cool with it. Justified on the basis that I do a lot of coding for chip design automation and nothing the company provides can drive quad monitors

 

[Rudee]

Nerd Alert!!!

 

[vbuggy]

Who picked that case name and number pleas
Any self respecting serious business orders Dell workstation or HP. Storm trooper cases and beige walls very unexpected.

Well it's not just that - the workstations are designed so that they're e.g. cooled properly in a variety of situations, that part combos work properly, etc. I've seen a lot of DIY's, but a lot of people who think they can build PC's can merely assemble parts.

Then there's time wasted when troubleshooting if the system has problems. I have absolute freedom in what I (let alone staff) choose since it's my business but I'd never consider a DIY - unless I built a work machine, which will never happen - unless it was a very specific requirement that there wasn't a workstation available for.

The very last time I did that for example was when the Opterons were just out, and I was getting fed up of Intels.

 

[dbk]

i hope that was written into the contract.. I kid, i kid

 

[Wyndru]

I see all of those parts and immediately think "warranty nightmare".

I've gotten too comfortable with 3-5 year dell system warranties where when something dies you log into the self dispatch website, put in the service tag and have a replacement the next day.

 

[Markbnj]

I see all of those parts and immediately think "warranty nightmare".

I've gotten too comfortable with 3-5 year dell system warranties where when something dies you log into the self dispatch website, put in the service tag and have a replacement the next day.

All the individual parts have warranties, and anyway, who wants to ship the whole system back? I usually have spares for the rare part that fails, so I can get back up right away, albeit sometimes with last year's gfx card or whatever. It's been fifteen years since I had one company responsible for a desktop I use .

 

[Wyndru]

All the individual parts have warranties, and anyway, who wants to ship the whole system back? I usually have spares for the rare part that fails, so I can get back up right away, albeit sometimes with last year's gfx card or whatever. It's been fifteen years since I had one company responsible for a desktop I use .

Dell self dispatch ships parts, not the whole system. I just figure it's easier to have a 1 stop place for RMA's rather than worry about what item has what length warranty, and where it was bought from, etc...

Impressive that you have so many spare parts though, seems cost effective

 

[vbuggy]

It's been fifteen years since I had one company responsible for a desktop I use .

I guess that's why you still think about wasting your time building a machine for work :sneaky:

 

[buggers]

that's really cool

 

[disappoint]

Its a NZXT Phantom which is a VERY highly rated case.

I like the one in black with the green trim.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I guess that's why you still think about wasting your time building a machine for work :sneaky:

Better than wasting time with lowered productivity without the tools/environment/utilities that you're used to.
Plus it was my "cheat" system - couldn't justify upgrading the home rig (i7 920 @ 4GHz) until Haswell hits, so this was a good excuse to play with SB/IVB

My official work machine = E6400, 2GB, dual 20" (4:3) monitors, Linux. So locked down that I can't even apply for PTO, view payroll, take training courses, etc. Don't get me started on the POS version of LibreOffice installed.

My personal machine = 3570K @ 4.5GHz, 16GB, same monitors + personal 24", Win7x64, all the utilities that I need (metapad, Beyond Compare, NovaMind, HandBrake, etc.) Use PuTTY + XMing or sometimes UltraVNC to interface with my official machine and I get the best of both worlds

 

[Markbnj]

I guess that's why you still think about wasting your time building a machine for work :sneaky:

Well. no, actually. Last time I worked for a largish corporation I tried to just get dual monitors for the developers working under me, and purchasing laughed me out of the office. If your computer was less than five years old it was considered new. When the time came to replace it they ordered the best deal they could find, and didn't ask anyone's opinion.

That's why the OP's company impresses me.

 

[Fritzo]

you have to build it yourself? seems unusual for a business.

cool rig though. but that case, wth?

LOL- I was just going to ask about that...what kind of shop other than a PC store makes you build your own workstation?

 

[vbuggy]

Better than wasting time with lowered productivity without the tools/environment/utilities that you're used to.
Plus it was my "cheat" system - couldn't justify upgrading the home rig (i7 920 @ 4GHz) until Haswell hits, so this was a good excuse to play with SB/IVB

My official work machine = E6400, 2GB, dual 20" (4:3) monitors, Linux. So locked down that I can't even apply for PTO, view payroll, take training courses, etc. Don't get me started on the POS version of LibreOffice installed.

My personal machine = 3570K @ 4.5GHz, 16GB, same monitors + personal 24", Win7x64, all the utilities that I need (metapad, Beyond Compare, NovaMind, HandBrake, etc.) Use PuTTY + XMing or sometimes UltraVNC to interface with my official machine and I get the best of both worlds

Ah, but then in this context we aren't talking about a personal machine, nor the fact that you work somewhere where you're only issued crappy machines.

 

[vbuggy]

Well. no, actually. Last time I worked for a largish corporation I tried to just get dual monitors for the developers working under me, and purchasing laughed me out of the office. If your computer was less than five years old it was considered new. When the time came to replace it they ordered the best deal they could find, and didn't ask anyone's opinion.

That's why the OP's company impresses me.

As in the post above, I don't think anyone's raising issue with the company - they're likely pretty cool. I'm just questioning the merits of acquiring a DIY over a professional-use workstation.

e.g. I have GTX690's I can swap into my Z820's should I so feel the need for Crysis (actually almost never, we only use that sometimes because some visualisation stuff we do runs on a game engine) but in every other respect they'll beat a DIY hands-down for work use. Even the more agricultural Dell T-series machines - closerin layout to your average DIY - are obviously better supported, and infinitely better cooled than a more clueless DIY.

 

[phucheneh]

Wow that seems ridiculously overpowered. I am somehow not surprised.

I'd return it and try to word 'why don't you just pay me more, you dumb wasteful shits' in a slightly nicer way.

Even better that the government is wasting money on your wasteful employer. God we need a bloody fucking revolution.

 

[lxskllr]

As in the post above, I don't think anyone's raising issue with the company - they're likely pretty cool. I'm just questioning the merits of acquiring a DIY over a professional-use workstation.

e.g. I have GTX690's I can swap into my Z820's should I so feel the need for Crysis (actually almost never, we only use that sometimes because some visualisation stuff we do runs on a game engine) but in every other respect they'll beat a DIY hands-down for work use. Even the more agricultural Dell T-series machines - closerin layout to your average DIY - are obviously better supported, and infinitely better cooled than a more clueless DIY.

I built a computer for my old work. For the same cost as Dell, I specced it better for the job at hand, and included a couple nice extras. I also gave it the same three year warranty. Aside from Crucial dicking me with their craptastic ram(I replaced under warranty), everyone was happy.

 

[Kaido]

I'm envious OP. BYOD is a grey area at work, but still managed to sneak this guy in

My version of grey BYOD was upgrading a Dell Dimension 2400 with a Core i-series mATX rig (almost a 100% perfect swap, minus the front audio port!). Still looks stock (well, as of 8 years ago stock, lol) but has solid-state boot goodness and terabytes of storage :awe:

I may have also converted my work OS to a VM and loaded the primary OS with Hackintosh :sneaky:

 

[Gunbuster]

I see all of those parts and immediately think "warranty nightmare".

I've gotten too comfortable with 3-5 year dell system warranties where when something dies you log into the self dispatch website, put in the service tag and have a replacement the next day.

So much this. Single point of contact with warranty service where you order the part yourself from dell. Self dispatch for the win.

OP on the other hand is getting paid to dick around with a one off build.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Ah, but then in this context we aren't talking about a personal machine, nor the fact that you work somewhere where you're only issued crappy machines.

Actually, I now have the best of both worlds. Someone left the department, leaving behind a shiny HP Z600 (2x 2.4GHz quad-core Westmere Xeons, 24GB RAM). Manager approved me swapping my machine - said I deserved it for "putting up" with the crappy machine so long.

Now I feel the power between my legs 9-5, M-F

My version of grey BYOD was upgrading a Dell Dimension 2400 with a Core i-series mATX rig (almost a 100% perfect swap, minus the front audio port!). Still looks stock (well, as of 8 years ago stock, lol) but has solid-state boot goodness and terabytes of storage :awe:

I may have also converted my work OS to a VM and loaded the primary OS with Hackintosh :sneaky:

LMAO! Talk about a stealth install!

 

[vbuggy]

shiny HP Z600 (2x 2.4GHz quad-core Westmere Xeons, 24GB RAM)

Welcome to 2010

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Welcome to 2010

Haha, hey now, I ain't complaining for the price! Though an octo-core Westmere is still nothing to sneeze at.

 

[vbuggy]

Haha, hey now, I ain't complaining for the price! Though an octo-core Westmere is still nothing to sneeze at.

I guess it depends on what you do. For a lot of stuff it can sadly be smoked by a single i7-3770. A dual-2.4 quad was pretty much the lowest-end 'performance' setup even back then, e.g. it was on the base dual-processor Mac Pro config.

But yeah, it must be a huge improvement on what you had. Though for the above reason, hope you didn't trade anything valuable for it