Christie Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 Got a new PC at work: 2x Intel Xeon 5580 CPUs50 Gb RAM3x Solid state hard drives in Raid0 arraynVidia Quadro FX 3800 graphics card
Guest Agteros Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 Got a new PC at work: 2x Intel Xeon 5580 CPUs50 Gb RAM3x Solid state hard drives in Raid0 arraynVidia Quadro FX 3800 graphics card Why this serious machine with server type processors? and 50GB of RAM? What is the machines purpose? Surely not MS-Office? DB Server perhaps?App/Web Server?
Christie Posted October 15, 2009 Author Posted October 15, 2009 No Win 7 Ultimate? No, company only allowed us to go to XP64 (as opposed to 32 bit) a month or two ago. International co, and IT support is out sourced, changes in OS not so simple. Christie2009-10-15 11:28:50
jrussell Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 ok XP can only utilise 2gigs of RAM properly??
Stretch Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 so you running xp 64-bit i gather? therwise that ram is a bit defunct I have just installed 7 pro 64-bit and loooving it! - although i only have 4gb or RAM. 50gigs yowzeee!!! nevermind the xeon processors! -
Sammajoor Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 ok XP can only utilise 2gigs of RAM properly?? ^ Not if it is 64 Bit.
Sammajoor Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 so you running xp 64-bit i gather? therwise that ram is a bit defunct I have just installed 7 pro 64-bit and loooving it! - although i only have 4gb or RAM. 50gigs yowzeee!!! nevermind the xeon processors! - So am I .. yonks better then vista
Minion Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 The really fun question to ask with these machines is how many could you buy with what it costs to license the software that will run on it. So, what's it for? FEA? CFD? Ps. Good luck with XP64 - not my favourite OS PPs. I'm seriously envious. Edman2009-10-15 11:54:22
Christie Posted October 15, 2009 Author Posted October 15, 2009 Why this serious machine with server type processors? and 50GB of RAM? What is the machines purpose? Surely not MS-Office?DB Server perhaps?App/Web Server? I do structural analysis & design. Machine was specified as a solver for structure and flow analysis software. Analysis models involve a lot of number crunching - I will be able to solve larger, more detailed models, plus cutting solving time always a good thing. High disk speed, decent amount of RAM was important. CPU speed was not a prime requirement, but I could fit some nice ones into the budget.
udxcob Posted October 15, 2009 Posted October 15, 2009 My old fast machine http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj310/udx-bmx/050320091211-Copy.jpg
Christie Posted October 15, 2009 Author Posted October 15, 2009 The really fun question to ask with these machines is how many could you buy with what it costs to license the software that will run on it.So' date=' what's it for? FEA? CFD?Ps. Good luck with XP64 - not my favourite OS [/quote'] Jip, FEA & CFD. Software was very very expensive.
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