Work Rig and Desk

[CraigWatson]

My rig at work

Hardware
CPU - Core2Quad Q9550 @ 3.4GHz (2.8GHz stock)
RAM - 4GB DDR2 PC2-8500 1066MHz
HDD - 1TB Samsung Spinpoint SATA-II HDD
Case - Hiper Osiris
PSU - BeQuiet! DarkPower 650W Modular
GPU - Sapphire ATI HD4670

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My desk before I got the above rig in place:

http://www.cwatson.org/odd/colchester-desk.jpg

Trying to find a pic of my desk now, will update later.

[Ellen]

I am jealous. :) Seriously its a dream machine for me and my office peers. We wonder how much is your internet bandwidth with this rig.

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[CraigWatson]

I am jealous. :) Seriously its a dream machine for me and my office peers. We wonder how much is your internet bandwidth with this rig.

100Mbps up and down :D

[PatMcLJr]

nice!

100Mbps UP and DOWN! Now that's a connection!

Pat Jr.

[CraigWatson]

nice!

100Mbps UP and DOWN! Now that's a connection!

Pat Jr.

In reality it's never 100Mbps, it always depends on the pipes on the other side of the connection, so most of the time we get about 20-30, from memory I think we've maxed out at around 50Mbps :)

[infernosoft]

In reality it's never 100Mbps, it always depends on the pipes on the other side of the connection, so most of the time we get about 20-30, from memory I think we've maxed out at around 50Mbps :)

what??? you don't live in america, do you? i wish i could find a service provider that gave me at least 1Mbps or more for cheap...

[CraigWatson]

what??? you don't live in america, do you? i wish i could find a service provider that gave me at least 1Mbps or more for cheap...

Nope, I'm in the UK :), though note the title of the thread, this is my work rig - i.e. my day-job, I too would love to have 100Mbps at home! :)

I'm currently on an industrial placement year (aka gap year, sandwich year) working at my old sixth form (high school? 16 to 18 and pre-university) - we're on the UK Joint Academic Network (JaNET) so our connection is totally free - it's what the UK's universities use as their main backbone connection.

We do have a backup commercial net connection from NTL, though - I think that's the standard 8Mbps speed :)

I'm working in the network support department and the network is 90% Windows-based, so I do have to run XP inside VirtualBox, hence why it's such a beefy PC - sometimes I have two or more VMs running and the PC still has to be usable :)

[mastertux]

I like that machine but I guess how much it's noisy :p

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[Jake]

Not bad, only thing spoiling it is: Intel

:D

Hmm. I'm gonna have to try to get some pics of my work area/bedroom workbench :p

[CraigWatson]

I like that machine but I guess how much it's noisy :p

It's actually pretty quiet, there's three 120mm fans and a fan on the GPU. The 120mm exhaust fans are at the rear and top of the case, and since those photos were taken I've switched the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro out for the Scythe Kama Angle, which uses a single 120mm fan and it also pretty much silent.

The only noise is really from the whiny fan on the 4670, and it's only a dull whine when the side panel's on - the mesh on the panel is actually backed by clear acrylic so it deadens the noise as well.

Not bad, only thing spoiling it is: Intel

You seriously expect me to run an AMD rig, when Intel's CPUs are just obliterating anything AMD releases?

[Jake]

It's actually pretty quiet, there's three 120mm fans and a fan on the GPU. The 120mm exhaust fans are at the rear and top of the case, and since those photos were taken I've switched the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro out for the Scythe Kama Angle, which uses a single 120mm fan and it also pretty much silent.

The only noise is really from the whiny fan on the 4670, and it's only a dull whine when the side panel's on - the mesh on the panel is actually backed by clear acrylic so it deadens the noise as well.



You seriously expect me to run an AMD rig, when Intel's CPUs are just obliterating anything AMD releases?Not quite "Anything"

But hey, it's your rig, you build it how you want mate :)

[CraigWatson]

Not quite "Anything"

But hey, it's your rig, you build it how you want mate :)

lol, definitely at the top end of the market, AMD don't really have anything to offer, CustomPC did a CPU shoot-out recently and Intel came out top for pretty much all of the tests, the i7 is just immense and the higher-end Core2Quads easily beat the Phenoms :)

[Jake]

lol, definitely at the top end of the market, AMD don't really have anything to offer, CustomPC did a CPU shoot-out recently and Intel came out top for pretty much all of the tests, the i7 is just immense and the higher-end Core2Quads easily beat the Phenoms :)Did they try against the Quad Operation's?

[CraigWatson]

Did they try against the Quad Operation's?

They tried quite a few "real world" tests: Flight Simulator X, Crysis, Cinebench, X3: Terran Conflict, WPrime 32M, power consumption, performance per watt, CPC Media Benchmark Suite, bang per buck and performance against price.

Only the Phenom II X4 940 Black had any answer to the Intel CPUs, and it was below about 6 or 7 Intel chips in each test :)

AMD are old-hat (in the performance market at least) :)