Let me tell you a little something about what I call POWER COMPUTING

[4.6POWER]

I would like to take this opportunity to tell you all about the fantastic pc at work that I use all day long to do my work.

It is a Dell optiplex GXA.... which includes the following features:
300mhz pentium II processor
4 gig hard drive
96 meg of ecc ram
20X CDrom drive

I do actually have a 21" monitor from about 10 years ago that has the windows logon screen burned into it from the previous user letting is sit. Yep, I can crank this baby up to 1280x1024 resoltion, pumping a full 256 colors into your retinas. Think that's bad a$$?? Break out your surf boards, cause this bad boy has i.e. version 4.7 all this running on nt4 with no service updates!! If thats not enough to tickle your spine, how bout this 2 button mouse with no scroll wheel!! They don't make em like they used to... good old rotary ball on the bottom too. I could beat someone to death with this lead sled.

I would appreciate all who took the time to read this to drop a line.... actually, a complement would be more in order. Lets make it a tribute to this computing marvel. aghhhhhhhhhhhh!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[4.6POWER]

Actually, I think I would like to field some questions at this time... Come'on guys, like how many reboots a day, how many curses per hour, time to load certain apps..... I'm sure the audience must be full of inquisitive minds.

[The Therion]

wow! great system man !

...now check my sig :D

[Mad Bad John]

I think it might be time to accidently spill a cup of coffee!

:devil:

[Sech]

uhhhmmmm....what kinda keyboard that puppy have?.....rock and chisel???...

Sech...:p

[4.6POWER]

therion- we are neck and neck man.... turn down that overclock!! thats cheating!! You are blowing me out of the water with that 8mg of video ram, is that on it's own card?? I got 2mg of video ram, and it's integrated for me baby, of course, I am also using the psu to cool this "rig"

Sech- The keyboard is a dell basic ps/2 complete with coffee stains from previous users, and a reluctant "d" key. Not to worry... this is usually cured by repeated and progressibely harder key strokes with some minor profanity.




next question...

[Surgeon General]

What company do you work for? Some non-profit deal? I mean come on , I could toss together a nice 900 mhz rig for about $350.00 from Fry's electronics.
Hey 4.6, do you use word perfect to do your work?
:D

[.TC.]

Lol
My pc at work is a rocking p166.
It loads windows 95 in an amazingly fast 3 minutes.
Autocad is an absolute dream (nightmare that is).
From starting outlook it takes a minute and a half to get a phone number from my contact list.


I have 4 times as much crunching power in one room doing seti as the whole of the pc's in the factory put together.
I think the fastest pc in the place is a p2 400.


Take it easy
TC

[Squeaky]

we've just upgraded our admin network...we have some celery 500s with 64mb of ram now ... whoooooshhhh
(integrated graphics and no new keyboards and mice) - after a great deal of argument i managed to squeeze 128mb into some!!! (multiple meetings with senior managers, and no im not joking :mad: )

some users still use 366s etc
and a few cyrix p166+ , 14" monitors for really annoying staff :D

all the students have > 600 - 1 ghz though :)

[MrP]

*grin*

just upgraded rom a p200 at work, which through various upgrades had 128mb ram (up from 64) a coundcard (up from nowt) a 2mbgrahpics card, and a dodgy as hell monitor

we did have a cirix p166+with 32mb ram at one point, but we finally persuaded the boss to upgrade us into the 21st centuary, rather than the 18th centurary!

toodles :xsofa:

[mackerel]

Wow... you guys have some fast computers at work :D

My work desk machine is a PII350 128 MB of ram. Since I mainly use office stuff the speed is ok. Only when running simulations do I wish it was faster but they're not too often.

In the labs, things get worse. The fastest is a PPro 200 which just about manages to survive as long as you run one program at any time. It was a hand down from our drawing office. The graphics card in the machine probably cost more than the machine did when they were both new.

Another one I use often is a P75, which barely runs the test software. When changing screens in the application, you can see the pixels individually draw...

If it wasn't for a recently dead hard disk, we would also still have a 486/66... ironically, it used to control a generator going up to 2 GHz.

Time to accidnetly drop a few more hard disks I think ;p

[Dave]

Okay guys,

You've all upset me by showing off about ytour high tech gear at work so I'm gonna have to retaliate. This isn't my office P.C. but it genuinely is the spec of a fair number we are still running :-

Pentium 75 (Yep that's right !!!!!)
32Mb EDO ram (after a major upgrade from 16)
1Mb of system memory dedicated to the mighty on board graphics
6Gb HDD
14" Monitor
some have a CD drive held in with a bit of cardboard !

oh - and the funniest bit - brand new 100MeG Ethernet card - the fastest bit of the whole machine !

We plan on keepint these things 1 more year and then they'll be of some value to a museum !!!!


cheers

Dave.

[AFroDYme]

lolz

[Gibbon]

Ok you think thats bad major rant coming:

We have a decent spec of pc's where I work, however


Each of our computers randomly reboot several times a day because the technicians don't know how to upgrade the ACPI bios, to make it win2k compatible

We can't send attachments because our filtering software, assumes that everythin is a virus laden package, I found this out after sending 8 emails with attachments and having each one mess up cos of it (I'm meant to be an IT proffessional, but now I look like a tit)

Our Internet access just stops, although we are connected to a 2Mb Janet Line

Most of the help files for office apps don't work

Plus a heap of other stupid problems, which should not be happening


And all of this in an environment in which we are meant to be teaching the public IT skills.

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

I'd fix it all myself, but I have limited access, as the technicians don't trust anybody but themselves to sort stuff out... what a f****** joke :mad: :xangfire:

:mad: :xblast:

:mad: :xrocket:

:mad: :xphoton:

So just remember spec isn't everything people

I swear I'm gonna kill something soon...

End of Rant

Gibbon

[The Therion]

4.6POWER lol indeed we are powerfull man!
the 301 overclock was very hard to accomplish but ...hey.....its ONE MGhz we're talking here....that MAJOR POWER ! ....i just HAD to take advantage of the situation and do it :D

everybody who has one of these pc should safekeep them from vicious people that wont stop at anything to steal them from you.....ah....all that power can corrupt anybody :D

[dicki]

you think you lot are suffering... i'll show you pain

my work PC 1.7ghz p4, 256mb, geforce 2, buckets of HDD dvd, cdrw all the toys :)

current home PC amd k6 166 <b>under</B>clocked to 105 mhz 64mb of ram and 2gb of the slowest HDD in the universe

i actually look forward to going to work at the moment :(

dicki

[Dave]

Ok,

Dicki you obviously need help - where should we send donations of all out old PII-233 processors and 4Mb PCI vid cards to ????????


cheers

Dave.:D :D :D :D :D :D

[Longshot421]

Look, enough of this whining, our "Lab" PC (intended for mechanical vibration problem analysis) is:

-P90
-32 MB
-4X CD ROM (doesn't work)
-SVGA card (no brand)
-Win 95
-15" monitor with a shady blue gun
-a 3 1/2 floopy drive that eats disks
-no sound
-keyboard has the following quirks:
the "." requires almost a hammer blow to function, the number "7" gives you "7/ [enter]" all with one key press, the "6" doesn't work at all.

So, that's pretty great. My desktop PC is only marginally better.

Well, I gotta [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del], so I'll talk later. :o

[Neomagic]

Pff, companies suck.

We are running two Compaq P2 450 with 128MB Ram and Matrox G200 as system critical servers at work. They are slow as hell, running pretty heavy soft to control all the internal juice shifting, valves, plc's, engines, nitrogen supply, pumps, tank levels and what not, at a juice plant. And the second one is linked to the first one (the 'server') to obtain its information. Running NT SP6 you can watch the screen refresh, litterally.

Now guess what the lab rat has on his desk ? A P3 933 with Intel 815 mobo. Now what kind of logic is that ? Guess what the secretaries have on their desks ? You guessed it...

The great computer to control the three weighing bridges and accompanying soft, is a Celeron 333 (no L2) with 32MB of RAM. Even for running the DOS soft, it is way too slow.

What a pain. It just makes no sense.

The actual lab pc however is a 486 sx33 with 8MB RAM running Windows 3.1. It is linked to a device to measure the product's brix, which is temperature controlled. The screen is some 12in crappo thing.

Sadness all over.

[Longshot421]

Man, we must work for the same company! Like you said, the secretaries have moderate machines, but they all get beautiful 21" monitors and kick butt speakers and the like. Me, lowly engineer, gets some piece of junk that a 12 year old child would laugh at. :rolleyes: So, I get my own back by looking at bulletin boards all day. At least we have a fast 'net connection. :cool: I'll content myself with building something good at home. Oh yeah, my hp Jornada - 206 MHz has more computing power than my desktop PC. Just plain dumb.