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are the computers at your school/college/university/work any good?

asim1999

So what PCs do you guys use outside the house? are they any good, and post the specs if u can. The ones at my school (the best ones in the IT rooms where i do my GCSE computing coursework) are only ivy bridge i3s, and only have 4GB Ram ( sigh). some are even older ( 2006 or even before). Considering i go to a grammar school and it it one of the top ones in the country, i was surprised that they didnt have any decent cash to spend on some half-decent PCs

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My school has Dell slim towers. They have an i5 2400, with a 500GB HDD, and I think 4GB of RAM. Windows 7.

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I.T. Is always the department where the cash that's leftover from all the other departments go to, There isn't usually a really high budget for new laptop every year at most schools. That's why most schools have crappy I.T.

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My school has Dell slim towers. They have an i5 2400, with a 500GB HDD, and I think 4GB of RAM. Windows 7.

yea mine has something similar too. I think they just go with what they can get a good deal on if they buy a lot.

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Dell Inspirons.. So no

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Dell Optiplex 755's are the "decent" computers we have.... Most of the computers we have are P4 machines with 1GB of RAM. In the Computer Science class we have machines with i5 4440's and GTX 650TI's but I can't use those since I can't take CS in grade 9 :(

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My university just has imacs. All the imacs.

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Old Asus ROG laptop 2th gen i7 16 Gb RAM GTX 560 3 Gb vram with AC Wifi card and SSD

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Well they do have i5 2500s but with integrated graphics and the worst server. You load windows throught the server and it boots in about 15 minutes and the internet is just the worst

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My school uses some pretty decent servers which run around 200-300 virtual computers so the actual computer specs are rubbish - they're all pretty slow, but new ones came in (50ish) with better specs that seem to work much better as a virtual machine - Still not optimal though.

Soo many games, not enough money to get any.

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general computer suite, all standard dell i7 4770,8gb ram . The cfd labs have some insane hardware i don't even recognize. 

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Not really no...

 

Back in EEE, they've got 3rd gen i5s with 8GB ram... Too bad someone managed to screw with the CPUs enough to ruin math calculations in C...

 

In my current department, they've still got incredibly anemic Atom (1st gen?) and P4 based systems... The admin office has it nice... C2Q systems with very nice 1080p monitors...

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work HP do not know the model number but all i know is they break down a lot and are as slow as honey on a cold day  

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My school runs some accent hardware like a compaq with an Petium 4(thank god the dual core or hyper-threaded version), 500mb of RAM and some chunky ass CRT monitor coupled with windows XP. 

But here is the kicker, the thing have a fiber optic conection with upload and download speed over 50mbps. No shit. will post image when I can. It's mid night where I lives (VietNam which explain a lot about the hard ware)

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i5, 16 gigs of ram, and the computer classes have gt 640s. we have 2 carts of ipads, and 4 carts of chromebooks. 

60inch flat screen, and the touchscreen smartboards are also in every room.

 

then the classes like video production, and graphics, we use the thin imacs.

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i just feel so bad, u guys have computers at school that are light years ahead...

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All of the teachers were given Dell Chromebooks this year. The Lab PC's are HP crapboxes with Pentiums and 1GB of RAM, some have 512MB where smart people have gotten in and taken out a RAM module...  These things are running Windows 7 and take 7 minutes to boot...

Our comp science class uses Dell's with C2 Duo's and 4GB of DDR2 so they aren't awful, but they are a hair slow. The comp science teachers have this sick rig built by one of them with a watercooled FX 8350, 2 SSD's (one for each teacher), a TB hard drive, 8GB of DDR3, a GTX 760/770 (forgot) all wrapped up in a Corsair 600T....

The design departments have iMacs for days, so many days that they have them piled up in some classrooms completely unopened...

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my school just got new imacs over the summer

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The average computers at my university library are just that, average.  No GPU, usually an Intel dual core.  The computer science labs are much better, running Sandy Bridge i5's and GTX400 series.  The game development lab is pretty kickass.  i5's and GTX600 series.  Whenever the game lab upgrades, the lower labs get the old PCs and they stay pretty up to date.  Well I guess 600 series is two years old now, so they'll probably update soon.

 

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Dell Shitnovo 2120. No, they are really slow and loud.

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Dell Optiplex 760 with i3 Sandy Bridge, 4GB of RAM, and an unknown HDD size.

 

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