What's a typical workload for your computer?

[flibberdipper]

I couldn't find one of these, so I decided to make one. I'm just curious what a typical workload for your computer is. This is what I usually make my netbook suffer through, but it just plows on. The cached memory in GPU-G is what I have in my swap. Yes, I use swap on an SSD. Sue me. I have a gig of RAM and 2GB of swap. Not much of a choice... And my monitor is actually to the right of my netbook, but this way when I use the scrollbar on my netbook screen I don't drift on over to my monitor.

 

[connorpiper]

Opera. 5-20 tabs. 2-5 Steam windows. 1-3 windows explorer windows. 3-4GB RAM. 10-20% CPU (1-3 4K Youtube Tabs)

 

Heavy Work loads. 3 opera windows 5-20 tabs. Multiple Explorer windows. Multiple steam chats going. A game minimized. Downloading something. 4-6GB RAM 20-50% CPU

[Enderman]

[Kevinkt]

notporn

[PokémonTrainerFour]

You have good taste in comics.

 

30% CPU, 1GB of RAM out of 2 (10 tabs of Firefox, no video on). Also a metric butt-ton of background processes.

[MrBucket101]

24/7 XBMC + chrome with 20-30 tabs

 

barely makes the cpu spike lol

 

[flibberdipper]

24/7 XBMC + chrome with 20-30 tabs

 

barely makes the cpu spike lol

I despise you. Youtube (360p) kills my CPU. TS3 pins it to 100%.

[PokémonTrainerFour]

I despise you. Youtube (360p) kills my CPU. TS3 pins it to 100%.

 

Your internet is fast enough for 360p? I hate you

[flibberdipper]

Your internet is fast enough for 360p? I hate you

1080p no problem. My netbook just gets choked. It will happily play 720p MP4's in VLC though (like a boss, 70% CPU usage most of the time).

 

EDIT: My Dell (in my sig) was playing 1080p YouTube videos in VLC with increased priority and 128MB of RAM.

[MrBucket101]

I despise you. Youtube (360p) kills my CPU. TS3 pins it to 100%.

lol most of the tabs are text related (feedly ftw!), I hit up youtube with my iPad while I'm poopin'

[elecxonica]

general:

5-15 Chrome tabs consisting of Facebook, gmail, tweetdeck, youtube, and LTT at least. Plex Server, Skype, steam and origin, in the background, and maybe a copy of word

 

heavy:

The same as general, but with either a game, Premiere and after effects (and media encoder sometimes), or a virtual machine of some sort running.

[MrBucket101]

Here's my server

 

Regular usage: Plex media server (not transcoding), samba, apache, mysql, 2 windows virtual machines, rtorrent, irssi

 

 

Heavy usage: same as above, but it's transcoding. All 4 cores are at 90% at that point. I have plex setup to "Make my CPU hurt"

 

[flibberdipper]

Here's my server

 

Regular usage: Plex media server (not transcoding), samba, apache, mysql, 2 windows virtual machines, rtorrent, irssi

 

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Heavy usage: same as above, but it's transcoding. All 4 cores are at 90% at that point. I have plex setup to "Make my CPU hurt"

I don't feel like clicking the link in your sig (my netbook is being all pissy) but what CPU are you running in your server?

[MrBucket101]

I don't feel like clicking the link in your sig (my netbook is being all pissy) but what CPU are you running in your server?

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 (Sandy Bridge)

Mobo: Asus P8B WS C206

Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi Black

RAM: Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 ECC Unbuffered

GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD5450

PSU: Corsair HX850

OS Drive: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD

Storage HDD: 8x 3TB Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM01, 2TB WD, 320GB WD Black

RAID: LSI MegaRaid 9260-8i w/ BBU

[flibberdipper]

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 (Sandy Bridge)

Mobo: Asus P8B WS C206

Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi Black

RAM: Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 ECC Unbuffered

GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD5450

PSU: Corsair HX850

OS Drive: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD

Storage HDD: 8x 3TB Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM01, 2TB WD, 320GB WD Black

RAID: LSI MegaRaid 9260-8i w/ BBU

oooooo I like your choice in case.

[MrBucket101]

oooooo I like your choice in case.

I literally bought the cheapest case I could find, that had the most hard drive bays possible. Think I got it on sale for $40 or so. I've already converted one of the 5.25" bays to hold 3 drives (1 - 3.5" & 2 - 2.5")

[flibberdipper]

I literally bought the cheapest case I could find, that had the most hard drive bays possible. Think I got it on sale for $40 or so. I've already converted one of the 5.25" bays to hold 3 drives (1 - 3.5" & 2 - 2.5")

Not bad.

[Jade]

Eh, Plex server, League client (idle), Steam (updates), SFTP server, usually a PuTTY/KiTTY SSH connection or two open, FileZilla, brackets, HexChat (Yay, IRC!), Chrome (5+ tabs always, occasionally gets to 4 windows @ ~10-15 tabs per. Usually Skype if I'm willing to put up with the crap from it. That's it -usually-.

[Chillstice]

[MrBucket101]

 

f.lux FTW!!!

love that app/tweak/whatever it is!

[Chillstice]

f.lux FTW!!!

love that app/tweak/whatever it is!

what app/tweak/whatever?

 

Oh, you're still talking about f.lux...

[MrBucket101]

what app/tweak/whatever?

 

Oh, you're still talking about f.lux...

lol yeah, I first found out about it through the jailbroken app store on my iPad. It made watching videos in the dark bearable, just found out they have a PC version last month.

It's my new obsession as of late, anything that can run it, has it installed.

[FranBunnyFFXII]

I generally have chrome open with a few of my common stops, along with Steam, the LoL Client, skype, and Pinger.

 

Other then that I don't have much else running unless i need to be working on my game design docs, then I have MSWord open in the background.

 

My computers are tune to run 24/7 365 with an expectation of stability that you have of a server, all while still running even my most demanding of games off and on.

My games I play the most: LoL, DoTA2, Vindictus, WildStar, Tomb Raider 2013.

[flibberdipper]

 

 

 

Damn...

[sribeast21]

chrome with 5 tabs open, eclipse IDE opening a project, spotify playing music, microsoft word document open. Uses up about 25% of CPU and 2 GB of ram