About to pull the trigger on a workstation build
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Wow that's gotta be like a Core 2 Duo system. YUCK
That's why I pretty much buy only Thermaltake cases....they rock. I am also about due for an upgrade, but not sure what I want at this point. I have a smoking 4 core processor, 16GB of RAM and dual SLI video cards with a 512GB SSD for boot drive and some heavily used applications. It's not broke....so I don't really think I need to fix it yet.
I'm quite happy with my Gigabyte Brix with 4th gen i5 and Iris Pro 5200 GPU. It's no high-end gaming computer, but for an embedded GPU it's surprisingly (amazingly?) decent. You are not going to be playing the latest and greatest uber gfx games at max settings but it should play most everything at low to mid level gfx. Small quiet box vesa mounted to the back of my monitor, low power draw compared to a desktop, SSD drive and wireless keyboard/mouse - it's perfect for me.
Still running strong. Just added a 4tb drive to it: Amazon.com WD40EZRX Western Digital 4TB Internal Hard Drive IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb Computers Accessories
Yes it's cheap/bulk storage. Don't need performance and though my experience with WD has been largely positive, I'm not even worried about reliability.
My setup is now as follows:
B:\ Original 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SSD - Houses games
C:\ 512GB Crucial M4 SSD - Boot drive & VMs
D:\ Original dual 1TB Seagate drives in RAID 1 - Working data that's important enough to be on redundat drives
E:\ New 4TB WD - Windows image backup, dropbox folder, software ISOs that I backup elsewhere
Would prefer to only have two drives, but that'll wait until I build a new machine in a couple years. I fully expect this one to last me another two. Probably 1tb/6tb or whatever the norm two years from now.
Yes it's cheap/bulk storage. Don't need performance and though my experience with WD has been largely positive, I'm not even worried about reliability.
My setup is now as follows:
B:\ Original 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SSD - Houses games
C:\ 512GB Crucial M4 SSD - Boot drive & VMs
D:\ Original dual 1TB Seagate drives in RAID 1 - Working data that's important enough to be on redundat drives
E:\ New 4TB WD - Windows image backup, dropbox folder, software ISOs that I backup elsewhere
Would prefer to only have two drives, but that'll wait until I build a new machine in a couple years. I fully expect this one to last me another two. Probably 1tb/6tb or whatever the norm two years from now.
We're going to replace our 2nd gen i7 workstations this fiscal year hopefully. They've been good machines.
While I still stand-by the notion of buying a workstation class machine from HP or Dell, when the time comes to replace my personal machine I'm going to a side-by-side of building one. I'm currently leaning toward the latter.
While I still stand-by the notion of buying a workstation class machine from HP or Dell, when the time comes to replace my personal machine I'm going to a side-by-side of building one. I'm currently leaning toward the latter.
Currently running at the house:
Quad core i7
8GB RAM
Dual Nvidia 560 SLI cards (old'ish)
C:\ 256GB Crucial CCD for OS and some apps
D and E are both 1TB each mirrored drives (4 total)
4 23 inch LCD displays....of which I usually only use 2 these days.
It's an older rig, but has served me very well.
I had to replace the PS recently, and changed out the Thermaltake 700 with an 850.
It's even more crazy what you can do to the rigs these days.
Quad core i7
8GB RAM
Dual Nvidia 560 SLI cards (old'ish)
C:\ 256GB Crucial CCD for OS and some apps
D and E are both 1TB each mirrored drives (4 total)
4 23 inch LCD displays....of which I usually only use 2 these days.
It's an older rig, but has served me very well.
I had to replace the PS recently, and changed out the Thermaltake 700 with an 850.
It's even more crazy what you can do to the rigs these days.
I recall when you got the work machine.
One thing I'd never consider is building machines for the enterprise. Can you imagine the support nightmare not to mention the time consumed in assembly.
I think if I reuse my SSD and utilize the Nvidia K2000 I have on the shelf, I can get away for under 1300 and have something closer to what I want. More processor and more RAM.
It works OK for the ~50 machines I look after.
I don't look after PCs, but 50 machines is about one order for us. Maybe half an order.It works OK for the ~50 machines I look after.
Yeah, it would obviously suck for hundreds or thousands of machines.
My last purchase was 205 workstations. Next one will be about 280 or so.
I wouldn't build them for more than maybe 10. Too much time wrapped up in the project.
I like telling HP/Dell/Lenovo what I want, comparing evaluation machines and then deploying machines built to my specs.