What Computer Hardware Does Your College/University/Work use?

[schneiderguy]

Las Positas CC

Core2Duo e6600
2gb ram
onboard graphics
22" widescreen LCD

This is in the computer science classroom, not sure what the other computers are like.

 

[amdhunter]

At work - I have an Optiplex 755 w/3GHz Core2 and 8800GT. Of course the 8800 is from my computer at home.

 

[SpanishFry]

IBM Power6 Enterprise Servers
IBM Blades for x86

Mix of Lenovo/Dell for the commodity

 

[Schadenfroh]

My personal workstation at the university (I am a GRA). Well, it will be my workstation in about a week once IT sets it up. The shipment recently arrived. I have been having to make due with this.

The monitor is a 22" Sun branded LCD.

 

[xanis]

99% of the computers on campus are Mac Pros which run dual 2.26GHz quad-core Xeons, 6GB RAM, and a Nvidia GT 120s.

There are some windows boxes in one of the buildings that run a single quad-core Xeon, 4GB RAM, and 8800s.

 

[octopus41092]

We have some Dells running Pentium Ds and Pentium 4s. Probably 512MB of RAM. Integrated GMA900?

 

[newnameman]

Some of the school labs got new HPs over the summer:

Intel "Nehalem" Xeon W3520 2.66GHz processors
6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 512MB graphics cards

 

[DaveJ]

Our lab machines range from HP DC7100s to HP DC7900s (P4/512MB to Core2Duo/2GB). The oldest boxes are the DC7100s at about 4 years.

My box, OTOH, is an HP XW4400 dual quadcore Xeon with 8GB RAM and dual monitors (24" and 20" HPs). Sometimes it's nice to be a sysadmin.

 

[Bullhonkie]

The largest room in the Social Sciences Computing Lab at UCLA has HPs with C2Q Q9450, 4GB RAM, and ATI FireGL V5700 cards with 22" 1680x1050 LCDs.

I had a class in an adjacent room over the summer and there was some kind of kids' summer camp going on. A bunch of middle school aged kids were in that main room playing Starcraft, CS, CoD4, and other random stuff all day. Would've been fun to jump into one of those games to pwn them.

 

[ultimatebob]

Where I work, they mostly use Dell laptops with Core 2 Duo processors, 2 GB of RAM, and 120 GB hard drives. Managers can get whatever they want, though. I've seen machines as small as an ASUS EeePc Netbook, up to a 17" unibody MacBook Pro.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: thegimp03
At work I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 C2D T7500 (2.2ghz), with 4 GB of RAM and a NEC 225WNXM LCD.

I have the same laptop. It's not very speedy with the stock 320GB HDD though. It should be a lot faster with a SSD.

 

[dbk]

i use a dell d830..i'll be eligible for an upgrade in 3 years

 

[Wnh5001]

wide range from quad 6600's to c2d's to macs

 

[Leros]

I want to know why we have core 2 duos all over campus, but all of the engineering labs have ancient computers in them.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: Leros
I want to know why we have core 2 duos all over campus, but all of the engineering labs have ancient computers in them.

Sounds like my workplace heh. I'm at a mid-sized software company, and while some people use C2Ds, I'm on a P4 system as are many others. We still have some P4 and even a few PIII Q) internal servers.

Seems like when a part breaks they just replace it and the old beasts keep chugging along LOL.

 

[kalrith]

At work, most of our machines are P4 3.0 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, integrated graphics, 22" widescreen monitor. We have about 10 with an Athlon X2 3800. For our purposes it's all we need. When we do upgrade, I'm going to recommend going with virtualization, as we should be able to run all our desktops (~30) on one server.

 

[crownjules]

I've got one of the newer machines at work. Dell Optiplex 760 w/two Dell 22" widescreen LCDs. Intel E8500 @ 3.16GHz with 4GB RAM. ATI Radeon HD 3400 for video.

 

[Mide]

Usually optiplexes with a Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, and some cheapo vid card

 

[BrownShoes]

Work -
E2160@1.80GHZ
2 GB of RAM
150 GB hard drive
17 inch LCD

 

[CptCrunch]

We're an HP shop here at work, unless you got grant/government money and then you buy whatever you can afford.

I'm due for an upgrade in January, currently running HP NC6400, Core Duo T2400 @ 1.83GHz, 2GB ram, 80GB hard drive, Intel CrapGraphics, DVD/CDRW, 14.1" WXGA, intel b/g wireless. We all have a docking station with one external monitor.

Honestly the machines runs fine, and I dont really *need* an upgrade, but the new machines have 6 hour battery lifes, and 2.4GHz C2D mobiles, and 4GB of ram

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: jchu14
University of Texas at Austin Aerospace Engineering undergraduate computer lab uses a variety of Dells Optiplex ranging from p4 2.4ghz to core 2 duos.

My workstation (grad student) just got upgraded a month ago from a P4 2.0ghz with 1gb ram and one screen to Core2Quad 3ghz with 8gb of ram and dual screen. It was a glorious day. Someone else in my group is running dual quad-core xeons with 14gb of ram!

Lucky bastard, I worked in the Physics department about 10 years ago and I know that they are still using the P3-500s that I specced out and had ordered in a couple of places.
Before that they were using a Mac IIcx and some sub 100mhz Pentium machines.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

I am in a college class for computer science (taking college classes in HS), we have Q8200, 4GB DDR2-800, and an HD4870

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: lyssword
Spokane Community college

In computer lab:
Intel e8400 (3ghz)
3gb memory
integrated graphics
19" widescreen, I believe

There are worse computers in some places, with 2.4ghz P4/smaller monitors

Mission Campus?

IIRC, the Ft. George Wright campus is still SFCC...right?

At one time, they were going to merge both districts into one and call it all SCC.

(went to SCC and SFCC in the mid 70's)

At Modesto Junior College where I just graduated, the computer specs depended on what the intended use was going to be. Architecture and computer graphics labs had the best boxes, high-end ATI graphics cards, more RAM, faster processors, but ALL Dell machines.
The writing labs also had Dells, and a few older Gateways, the "general labs" were all Dells and some had good graphics cards, (reserved for architecture and computer graphics use) while others were just run-of-the-mill PC's with no high-end components.

MOST of them had things pretty tightly locked up so the most that was ever available was the general info on processor and amount of RAM.

Yep, and SFCC is there still but they added bunch of new buildings

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: NSFW
All Dells locked down so tight that we can't even see the exact specs. I know they have 2 gig AMD CPU's and 2 gigs of Ram. I'm guessing onboard video.

My station has a 19" LCD...some have 17". Some still have mouse balls....wonder how old those things are????

cpu-z?

 

[sao123]

@ work...
CPU-Z TXT Report
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CPU-Z version 1.52.2


Processors Information
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Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
Codename Conroe
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 775 LGA (0x0)
CPUID 6.F.B
Extended CPUID 6.F
Core Stepping G0
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 1994.9 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 6.0 x 332.5 MHz
Rated Bus speed 1330.0 MHz
Stock frequency 2333 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
FID range 6.0x - 7.0x
Max VID 1.350 V



Chipset
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Northbridge Intel Q35 rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801IH (ICH9DH) rev. 02
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Channels Dual, (Symmetric)
Memory Frequency 332.5 MHz (1:1)
CAS# latency (CL) 5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 5
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 15
Row Refresh Cycle Time (tRFC) 44
Command Rate (CR) 2T
MCHBAR I/O Base address 0x0FEDA0000
MCHBAR I/O Size 4096



Memory SPD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
DIMM # 1
SMBus address 0x50
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Kingston (7F98000000000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-5300 (333 MHz)
Part number KWK007-ELC
Serial number 9A11DC6B
Manufacturing date Week 28/Year 08
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-9-12 @ 200 MHz
JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-12-16 @ 266 MHz
JEDEC #3 5.0-5-5-15-20 @ 333 MHz

DIMM # 2
SMBus address 0x52
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Kingston (7F98000000000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-5300 (333 MHz)
Part number KWK007-ELC
Serial number 9A11DB6B
Manufacturing date Week 28/Year 08
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 3.0-3-3-9-12 @ 200 MHz
JEDEC #2 4.0-4-4-12-16 @ 266 MHz
JEDEC #3 5.0-5-5-15-20 @ 333 MHz



Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
Temperature 0 27°C (80°F) [0x49] (Core #0)
Temperature 1 28°C (82°F) [0x48] (Core #1)



DMI
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DMI BIOS
vendor Dell Inc.
version A10
date 04/30/2008

DMI System Information
manufacturer Dell Inc.
product OptiPlex 755
version unknown



Display Adapters
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Display adapter 0
Display name \\.\DISPLAY1
Name Intel(R) Q35 Express Chipset Family
Memory size 384 MB
PCI device bus 0 (0x0), device 2 (0x2), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x8086 (0x1028)
Model ID 0x29B2 (0x211)
Performance Level 0


Software
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Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c