I suppose this just shows how shallow and vain a person i really am.
Yesterday my new PC arrived for work and i love it...it's a big, ugly, mean looking machine!
Specs?? well - here's where I get really happy!
- 2 x 2.8Ghz Xeon Cpu
- 2Gb DDR Ram
- 1 x 128Mb ATI gfx card (DVI dual monitor capable)
- 1 x 64Mb NVidia gfx card
- 3 x 17” LCD screens
- 700W internatal UPS
man, i love it!!
There's been a few cry-babies complaining that i now work on the most powerful PC in the company (not counting servers of course, duh!) and more than just a little bitching (yes, even the guys)...but you know what..fuck that. i needed a powerful PC..hell, in the last year i've killed a P4 1.6Ghz Dell and a P4 2.4Ghz Dell - granted the 2.4Ghz can probably be saved if it gets a couple of new sticks of RAM or new HD.
How i've manage to kill them..well, to be honest, i've no idea...i run the machine at the max performance settings that i can eeke out of Windows XP (here's an internal joke, i break the machines because of my desktop setup where i have my taskbar sticking to the left side (vertically) of my left monitor and got my quickstart + custom toolbar sitting at the top of the left monitor)..i seriously remove all eye-candy you can think of..on background pictures...only setting that's extravagant is smoothe edges on desktop fonts.
to top it off, i regular run machine maintenance, like defragging, disc cleanup, ram testing etc and i can still beat the shit out of the machine..but hey - the current project i'm working on contains 3 solutions, where the largest solution contain 13-15 C# projects + 1 Database Project + 1 Setup project...takes a wee bit of time to re-compile that one for release and it does beat the cpu cycles up to 100% constantly.
Now, all praises go to my bosses and their extremely smart decision to get me a good work horse....BEAST MACHINE!