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MFW my new work PC has a Nvidia GT 210 from 2009

utahraptor

utahraptor

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My old one had an AMD 4670 which is about 4x faster.
 
My work computer is a laptop.

Intel HD Graphics with 64MB shared graphic memory (4GB system memory).
 
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I guess I just don't feel appreciated. After working there 8 years I am rewarded with a card that is literally the least money can buy. I feel like a Dentist who is given an off the shelf toothbrush to do his job with.
 
What about the rest of the specs? Is it a better machine? It's perfectly reasonable to cheap out on gfx to hit a budget point. That gives you more money for important stuff.
 
Its really not that bad. Just depressed today I guess. I think its an i5 4590 / 8GB ram. The last PC I had I at least go to spec myself and that is how I got the 4670. The catch was my budget was $350 so I ended up with a neutered 3 core AMD chip and had to make it last a bit over 4 years. I wish I had got to spec/build it myself again 😛 I will move the 4670 into the new rig and next time I get an after hours call bonus I will buy a $70 card and swap it out.
 
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Its really not that bad. Just depressed today I guess. I think its an i5 4590 / 8GB ram. The last PC I had I at least go to spec myself and that is how I got the 4670. The catch was my budget was $350 so I ended up with a neutered 3 core AMD chip and had to make it last a bit over 4 years. I wish I had got to spec/build it myself again 😛 I will move the 4670 into the new rig and next time I get an after hours call bonus I will buy a $70 card and swap it out.
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But... why?

I'm not criticizing, just trying to understand why you need a better graphics card in a work machine. Are you doing anything on it that even uses more than basic 2D graphics?
 
utahraptor said:
I guess I just don't feel appreciated. After working there 8 years I am rewarded with a card that is literally the least money can buy. I feel like a Dentist who is given an off the shelf toothbrush to do his job with.
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Holy shit you are a whiny bitch.
 
It is a fairly laid back company. Half the techs work at home. They let the poor suckers who have to come into the office get away with about anything.
 
Huh....guess I should hug the IT guys at work, and my supervisor for arranging it for me, partly so I'd get off his back about using a 7-year-old PC for CAD work.



(3.2GHz i7 CPU, 8GB RAM, SSD, dual monitors, and a pretty nice CAD-level 2GB ATi graphics card. It's nice having a computer that can usually keep up with me. I don't know why so many companies prefer to give people lousy tools and expect them to be efficient. Though....I guess a lot of people wouldn't exactly challenge a Pentium 4. 😎 But damn, at least get SSDs in the computers.)
 
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utahraptor said:
Its really not that bad. Just depressed today I guess. I think its an i5 4590 / 8GB ram. The last PC I had I at least go to spec myself and that is how I got the 4670. The catch was my budget was $350 so I ended up with a neutered 3 core AMD chip and had to make it last a bit over 4 years. I wish I had got to spec/build it myself again 😛 I will move the 4670 into the new rig and next time I get an after hours call bonus I will buy a $70 card and swap it out.
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That igpu is probably more powerful than the GT 210. Flagship phones are about on par too.
 
I'd feel the same way as the OP. My manager sometimes come by with some new stuff and asks if I want it. More times then not I look at the specs and say keep it. I even complained when he gave me the Mac Pro 2013 12 core, but with only dual D300s. Why spend the money on that config and skimp out on that last few hundred? I still took it, but cmon! I've even spent my own money on a video card and ram and put it in a work machine. I dunno, I need a certain level of responsiveness to feel like I can be productive, even if I'm not.
 
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I'd feel the same way as the OP. My manager sometimes come by with some new stuff and asks if I want it. More times then not I look at the specs and say keep it. I even complained when he gave me the Mac Pro 2013 12 core, but with only dual D300s. Why spend the money on that config and skimp out on that last few hundred? I still took it, but cmon! I've even spent my own money on a video card and ram and put it in a work machine. I dunno, I need a certain level of responsiveness to feel like I can be productive, even if I'm not.
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I am glad someone understands. I did not even ask for a new PC. I made my original Pentium 4 I was given last until it simply could not function and then made my $350 rig last for 4+ years. I feel it was a slap in the face for my manager to spec out a rig without consulting me.
 
i5 4590 has intel HD4600 graphics built in, which should be plenty for a work PC. Not sure why a video card was even purchased with the system.

I added a GT730, the fastest version, to my work PC. :biggrin:
 
My work rig has a GT730M (Lenovo T540p). Have 5 monitors (4x Dell 20" 4:3, 1x Dell 24" 16:10) hooked up.
Everyone else's comes with 4GB, mine has 16GB 🙂
 
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I think mine has a sandybridge i5 4GB of ram and a 1GB HD6470 with triple monitors. With 32bit Win7 I only get 3GB of ram. :/

The problem we ran into was folks with my version of the laptop which is 2 versions old can run three monitors. The latest version can as well. However some of the folks in our office have a 1 version older machine with an ivy bridge i5 and no discrete card. It can only run 2 monitors with out an expensive DP splitter or USB to VGA adapter.

It's always nice when IT upgrades to less capable equipment.
 
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