Engineering department computer specs

[TheMechEngineer]

I work as an undergraduate engineer in a company that does mechanical engineering consultancy, so the computers you find in the department I work in are quite reasonable in specs compared to computers in most other places.

 

So when I had some time on my hands, I fired up CPU-Z and took some screenshots, for those interested:

 

 

The systems use 16GB of DDR3 RAM, I just didn't get a screenshot of it.

[Godlygamer23]

The CPU is okay.

[TheMechEngineer]

The CPU is okay.

 

Probably good for programs that benefit from hyperthreading, but not much else.

[alexhelvetica]

Until recently, at the place I worked had engineers on C2D.

[Enderman]

kinda old if you ask me

[Lord_Karango17]

It looks like they were pretty top end parts when they were new. Now they are a few generations old, but would still get the job done.

 

My uni has hp prebuilts with 4690s in them for some reason... They still feel slow as hell because of the hdd.

[W-L]

My Uni had in their 3D modeling classes i7 3770 which was a big surprise to me, but were still slow as a snail since our modeling software was run off of the server to the PC's from what I could tell.

[Speedyv]

I interned at a AE corporation and the computer I used had a sandy bridge i5...  And a person I worked with used a laptop as a secondary screen. And this is a top flight company as well...

 

While my school has 4790 workstations...

[Miguel Batista]

Most of the computers where I work would not even run CPU-Z and GPU-Z

[Gr0egercesg]

My phone (OnePlus One) has very similar specs to my school computers.

And these computers were bought last year,

>_<

[LogicalDrm]

Wouldn't expect anything less. And no need to judge hardware that much. Anyone who has been close or part of corporation IT thing know that it isn't cheap or easy task to get new machines at that caliber. When I worked for mining company as trainee they had i7 powered laptops. My workstation had older quadcore and Quatro card since I didn't need to work at other offices. I think they change those machines every 5 years as part of service plan.

[Sauron]

Probably good for programs that benefit from hyperthreading, but not much else.

 

It probably still owns an athlon (which is expected since it was probably 4 times as expensive when it was released)

[Sauron]

My phone (OnePlus One) has very similar specs to my school computers.

And these computers were bought last year,

>_<

 

I strongly doubt your school's computers use 800 series snapdragons. Or any sort of arm based cpu.

[Gr0egercesg]

I strongly doubt your school's computers use 800 series snapdragons. Or any sort of arm based cpu.

Of course they don't, sorry if that wasn't clear. I meant clock speed as well as ram. And storage for that matter

[Fetzie]

We generally have Haswell i3s and 8GB RAM.

[Coaxialgamer]

Our school computers use pentium D's, those speca are decent

[Sauron]

Of course they don't, sorry if that wasn't clear. I meant clock speed as well as ram. And storage for that matter

 

clock speed doesn't mean much anymore to be honest, unless we're talking about the same class of cpu cores it's pretty irrelevant as far as comparisons go. A 1.5ghz core i7 would still destroy any arm based chip.