my schools pc (massive overkill)

[flibberdipper]

But do they run Crysis?

They can't run Minecraft, so I don't even think it will be close.

[MrCthuntoo]

Do those machines not also get used for photo and video editing, or any other resource heavy activity?

 

I have to say, I'd love to work in a school like that. Unfortunately for me, the current school I work at does not understand the importance of a good IT infrastructure and as such we're always expected to implement some new system that never works as well as it should, due to the fact we're always expected to buy the cheapest, most basic crap available. Management want us to set up a wireless network so people can bring and connect their own devices in the next school year, I'm just anticipating the inevitable shit storm when the network starts running like crap.

 

So yeah aidenrelkoff, if you can just hand in my CV to your school's HR department. It doesn't matter if you live in a different country as me, I can emigrate

[aidenrelkoff]

holy crap, 260 posts

[marsh1399]

holy balls, what do you do in the class is it designing or something?

[angrylemon]

so for a while now i have been talking about my schools pcs, and well here is a pic proving that my school has boss pcs

 

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So what do you all thing, is this overkill?

 

EDIT: i forgot to mention, that we have a 24" and a 17.6" monitor per seat

 

EDIT: for all those that dident believe me:

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meanwhile in australia running celerons with 2gbram and a 2mbps internet connection...

[aidenrelkoff]

meanwhile in australia running celerons with 2gbram and a 2mbps internet connection...

lol we get 56 down and 89 up with a ISP ping of 4ms

[TetraSky]

Well, you know where your money is going now at least, buying pointlessly expensive PCs for basic usages.

[Ericde95]

I go to a public school so they only give me Crayons and recycled newspaper for my "PowerPoints"

[The_Edster]

So here is the plan. You go out and buy a sandy bridge i3 and swap it out with that 3770. Nobody will notice.

Oh yeah because nobody is going to see him opening the case and replacing it

[elecxonica]

meanwhile in australia running celerons with 2gbram and a 2mbps internet connection...

Or a netbook with a cramped keyboard.

[BaconComputing]

Hm. Much jealous. My school has no budget for that...only a budget for the football team... (no hate pls)

[Tech_Dreamer]

i7 is not overkill i guess B) they do need that kinda power if they decide to edit some video or render something etc.. if it were multiple xeons, i would've dropped down!

 

 

 

 

 

overexcited ninja

[Guest]

Vancouver School Board got a bunch of funding a while ago I think, I think they have Dell machines with SNB i5s (i5-2400?) and like, 4GB RAM. 

 

Massively overkill still. Before they were powered by a bunch of shitty celerons running XP.

[Laputacake]

My secondary school had athlon 64x2 with nvidia integrated graphics and the funny thing is in my music college we had i5 macs . My college have 775 LGA computers can't remember exact specs

[Speedbird]

They were probably like "We want these PCs to be future proof and last 5 years! Let's get the top of the line parts now instead of waiting for more powerful stuff to get cheaper!"

[CookiezFort]

My school has some rly old RM computers that use win7 never bothered looking at specs. However they upgraded most of the pc's in the ICT department (still run old square screen because yolo) with I5's (4440S i think smthing like that) and igpu, quite a bit better than most of pc's around the school that are bigger but worse

[geforceftw]

At my highschool we play halo in he computer rooms (a lot of the pcs have halo on them and idk why) I loved going to the computer lab.

[Vivilacqua1]

last year, our school had "good enough" pc's with a mid power i5, 8 gigs of ram, gtx 640's, but this year... they downgraded to OLD core 2 duo's, 250 mb of ram, and the absolute worst looking cases you can get.

[Swndlr]

the fuck dude my desktop at home aint even this good icri

my school runs imacs tho and theyre fairly new as well so i cant complain, i love osx

[Fgtfv567]

sounds like a facebook machine... my school last year had i7-900 somethings, 8 gigs of ram, and I think a GT 610....

[DarkEnergy]

My school is updating to i5's.

 

They already have iMacs

[Ketchupkitty]

I think the smaller monitors were from the last computers they had so that makes it a little less ridicules. Still pretty overkill for a school but at least they will last for a long time. 

[-ism]

Middle school still used Pentium 3's for making designs to cut into wood in Man tech class.

High school uses garbage Core 2 Duos but in any technology classrooms they have i7s yet Radeon 6350???

[OneManArmy]

We have a couple of PC's (15)  at our school with GTX Titans.

[sdelta_]

Wow. That is ridiculously over powered.