School PCs

[Billy_Mays]

So I found out that one of the computer labs at my school has Ivy Bridge i7 3770 and Quadros. Why do that it's too over powered for what the computer lab does and that would be nice to see if they will sell them

[The Sloth]

you can buy old OEM pc for cheap on Ebay. 

[Jade]

Because they buy in bulk, so the price of the components is greatly alleviated? Better to overbuild than it is to underbuild. And school budgets (in the US, anyway) don't work like "Don't spend all your budget; you can use the leftovers next time around." it's: "Spend all your budget. You lose what you don't spend."

[TheGhzGuy]

Mine has low power Haswell CPUs. But we are required to bring in our own laptop.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, Jade said:

Because they buy in bulk, so the price of the components is greatly alleviated? Better to overbuild than it is to underbuild. And school budgets (in the US, anyway) don't work like "Don't spend all your budget; you can use the leftovers next time around." it's: "Spend all your budget. You lose what you don't spend."

I know but my school board had to have less schools for the budget so idk why they have them then

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Mine has low power Haswell CPUs. But we are required to bring in our own laptop.

And that's the best lab all the other PCs run off of IGPUs

[TheGhzGuy]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

My and that's the best lab all the other PCs run off of IGPUs

Yeah, so does mine. But 99% of the time they are used for printing things. Some people have Chromebooks, some have Apple laptops, I have an MSI. It's nice to have that choice.

[2FA]

They can make them last 7+ years plus schools get education discounts as well as the bulk pricing. Source: I work in a school IT department.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, TheGhzGuy said:

Yeah, so does mine. But 99% of the time they are used for printing things. Some people have Chromebooks, some have Apple laptops, I have an MSI. It's nice to have that choice.

Yeah but the ones that run AutoCAD have an Pentuim 4s in them

[TheGhzGuy]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Yeah but the ones that run AutoCAD have an Pentuim 4s in them

Why.

Why not use the GPU power.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, DeadEyePsycho said:

They can make them last 7+ years plus schools get education discounts as well as the bulk pricing. Source: I work in a school IT department.

Yeah I'm thinking about trying to see if they are selling one of them so I can get good photo shopping done and get good content creation done with it

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, TheGhzGuy said:

Why.

Why not use the GPU power.

Cause thy don't have have GPU's in them idk why they don't use the Quadros for that

[pelark]

19 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Yeah but the ones that run AutoCAD have an Pentuim 4s in them

Why on earth wouldn't they use the 3770s and quadros for that?

I'd talk to them about it personally  

[Billy_Mays]

3 minutes ago, pelark said:

Why on earth wouldn't they use the 3770s and quadros for that?

I'd talk to them about it personally  

Ikr

[manikyath]

maybe they also teach other stuff in that classroom, like CAD or photoshop?

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

maybe they also teach other stuff in that classroom, like CAD or photoshop?

They don't it's just used for web and word processing 

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

They don't it's just used for web and word processing 

are you sure, or is that all you get to do on them?

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, manikyath said:

are you sure, or is that all you get to do on them?

That's it

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

That's it

that's not an answer to my question.

 

also, schools often "double-dip" their infrastructure (sports equipment, computer classrooms) after school hours for events or evening classes (targetted at adults)

 

for example, a teacher of mine pulled double duty giving evening classes to adults to get intimately familiar with the advanced features in MS office.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, manikyath said:

that's not an answer to my question.

 

also, schools often "double-dip" their infrastructure (sports equipment, computer classrooms) after school hours for events or evening classes (targetted at adults)

 

for example, a teacher of mine pulled double duty giving evening classes to adults to get intimately familiar with the advanced features in MS office.

Don't think they do that in Canada 

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, Billy_Mays said:

So I found out that one of the computer labs at my school has Ivy Bridge i7 3770 and Quadros. Why do that it's too over powered for what the computer lab does and that would be nice to see if they will sell them

Depending on your school level (high-school, College, University), these computers could be donations by OEM companies or a company that donates them.

The Quadro's are there because you probably have a class using CAD software.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

Depending on your school level (high-school, College, University), these computers could be donations by OEM companies or a company that donates them.

The Quadro's are there because you probably have a class using CAD software.

this'd be about my guess. a lot of sources of computers also have deals for schools, because we all know what happens when students learn to work with a specific brand of tool.

[This_guy1998]

1 hour ago, Billy_Mays said:

So I found out that one of the computer labs at my school has Ivy Bridge i7 3770 and Quadros. Why do that it's too over powered for what the computer lab does and that would be nice to see if they will sell them

That just like someone I know told me that our school doesn't need Skylake PCs and I explained to him that they make the PCs last forever. There are some old Core 2 Duos still floating around at school.

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, This_guy1998 said:

That just like someone I know told me that our school doesn't need Skylake PCs and I explained to him that they make the PCs last forever. There are some old Core 2 Duos still floating around at school.

Yeah my schools have some of those around

[minibois]

The school I went to had PC's similar to that, but that was only in the 'animation classrooms', because Quadros help in (3D) animation a ton. The other PC's had 560 Ti or 650 Ti cards in them.