Is your computer at work better than yours at home?

[SuperPickle]

Home is better overall, but the work PC has a hyperthreading chip. Sometimes, that would be nice at home.

 

[alkemyst]

I said no..it's a 2.4 P4, I have a 1.5 Tualatin 512MB L2 cache chip Chiapet running here that's still not getting me to up to a 2.8C+ now. If I was a gamer definitely. I want something running around 3.6Ghz with 2GB and a 9800 Pro at full speed....

 

[Chronoshock]

Heck no
My work pc during my summer internship was a p4 2.something ghz, 512mb ram, radeon 9000 and 80ish gig hd, decent connection, probably t3
my home pc has an athlon fx-53, 1gb ram, geforce 6800 ultra, 74gig raptor and 280gigs of storage, oc-12 university line

 

[paruhd0x]

I work at home.

 

[jadinolf]

Since they are all the same: NO.

 

[Vincent]

Yes.

Work: Dual 2.4Ghz Xeon + 2GB RAM + Dell 2000FP

Home: 1.4Ghz Athlon + 768MB RAM + 17" Samsung LCD

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
I work at home.

World emplodes

 

[kyparrish]

no...

work lappy: IBM T30 P4 1.8, 256mb, 40gig, Radeon 7500

work desktops: P4 1.6, 256mb, 40 gig, Radeon 7500

home PC: mobile 2400+ @ 2.3 ghz, an35n ultra, 512mb, 120 gig, x800pro @ 575/575

 

[Viperoni]

I got a athlon 1.2 @ 1.35, a7v133c, 256mb, 30gb maxtor 5400rpm, broken 52x burner as my rig at work.
It's only purpose is for internets accesses, email and driver DLing/burning. Gotta swap that burner.

See sig for home rig

 

[CrackRabbit]

Home = Athlon 64 3200+
Work = Athlon XP 2500+

 

[dderidex]

Hmmm....I telecommute now, too. Work PC = home PC.

Anyway, I'm still working for the same company, and when I WAS there, I had the responsibility of upgrading all the PCs (IE., building new ones from scratch) for the company.

Old work PC:
Pentium-II 233mhz
384mb ram (upgraded at my own cost from 128mb)
3gb hdd (nicked a trio of 2gb hdd from other 'dead' PCs so I had a 6gb RAID-0 'data drive')
Intel i740 graphics card (slower than the original TNT or Voodoo1, if you can believe that. No D3D driver!)

Engineering department's old PCs:
-= Dell =-
Pentium-II 400mhz (the two lead engineers had Pentium-III 500s)
256mb ram
10gb hdd
No graphics card (2d only)

PCs I built for everyone at the office:
AthlonXP '1700+'
512mb/256mb ram (support got 256mb, engineering got 512mb - I upgraded mine to 768mb, anyway)
40gb hdd
Radeon 7000 VE 3d accelerator (hey, it played Tribes and Planetside *just* *fine* - and engineering liked the multi-monitor support)

Best thing was that these ended up costing less than $100 each to build. Don't recall the exact number, but company was quite pleased.

My current home system is in my sig. Fairly accurate, although the graphics card is a 5600 Ultra for now (pending a 5900 en route).

 

[Freejack2]

My work issued "computer" is a pathetic POS. I use it for gps navigation, thats it.
It's a P3-500, 256mb ram, 20gb hdd, internal modem & 100mpbs ethernet, 12.1" 800x600 display.
On the bright side it's at least a P3 so it's usable for some basic internet use. Also it only weighs about 3.5lbs or so.

Home Computer

 

[gistech1978]

no.

i have 2 gigs of ram at work, two SCSI drives and a p4 2.4

here i have 512 megs, XP-m 1.8 @ 2.4 and a SATA Raptor.

Roughly equal, but my home computer definitely feels faster.

 

[AcidicFury]

Well, since I have no computer at work, no.

 

[Cook1]

That would be a hell no.

 

[TwiceOver]

I just bring my laptop now. The one that is provided for me in the office is a Classic SlotA Athlon 600 w/ 256mb Ram 10gb HD.

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob
not even close, my work pc is a piece of crap

 

[halik]

yeah... sadly...

work:
p4 3.4
1gig ram 4200 ddr
80gig sata drive

home:
p4 2.8
1gig 3200 ddr
40gig ata drive

 

[Megatomic]

Not a chance. My office PC is a P4 2.0 in an Intel i845PE mobo with 512MB PC2700.

My Ops workstation is a PA-RISC 500MHz with 2GB SDRAM in a proprietary HP mobo. It is triple headed though with 3 decent LCDs. That is a big plus.

Home PC is linked in my sig.

 

[Kalvin00]

Our school PC's are something like P4 ~2 GHz with 256 MB of ram, so no.

 

[Viper GTS]

My home system:

P4 1.8 @ 2.2x
512 MB PC2700
Matrox G450
20 GB HD
Decent 19" CRT
Usual assortment of DVD +/- R, 16X DVD/CDRW, etc.

It was much better before I moved, I had to ditch all my big HD's + I gave away my Ti4200 (well, traded for the G450 since I didn't foresee a need or desire to game).

My work machine is a Dell laptop, an Inspiron 5160:

P4 3.2 HT
1 GB PC2700
64 MB FX5200 Go
60 GB 7200 RPM HD
1400x1050 LCD
CDRW/DVD combo

So right now, yes my work PC is much better. To be fair though I have yet to turn on my home PC since I moved here (4 months now).

Wednesday I'm going to the AMD/MS event in Cleveland, I'll pick up an Athlon 3000+, motherboard, RAM, DVDRW, etc. Haven't decided yet if I'm going to actually use the hardware, we shall see.

Viper GTS

 

[p1800volvo]

Home - Barton 2500 @ 3200, 9800 Pro, 1 gig of ram

Work - Sun v880's - 8 CPU's each, 32 gigs of RAM. no video

The work PC is a PIII 500 with >512 of ram, but I just need it for e-mail and connecting to the servers.

 

[KC5AV]

All of my computers at work are better than all of my computers at home. I have several of each. The home computers are not too bad. They range from 1 gig up to 1.8 gig. My work computers range from 2.8 gig P4 to a Dual Xeon 2.8 server with 4 gigs of ram and about a 400 gig RAID 5 array.

 

[nageov3t]

*shakes his fist*

I hate those Sun servers that have no video. it's really fun when they crash and you have no clue what's wrong with them, because there's no video

 

[dman]

It's been a long time since my work PC was faster than my home PC. Of course, laptops in general, aren't. That said, it's worth a bit more than my home PC.