No $ for Parhelia? No Problem!

[trk2]

Just get your employer to buy one for you.

I just got my new employer to purchase a parhelia to accompany the new p4 2ghz Gateway they bought me. They had originally offered either a quad head g200 or a 3dlabs oxygen card to replace the stock geforce2 mx. Nvidia's non-professional cards have a known issue with solidworks so they knew they would have to give me an upgrade. When I asked the IT manager if I could order a parhelia he said no, until I explained it was matrox's new professional card. Hopefully I will have the retail version by next week.

[DuRaNgO]

good work

[UberLord]

Dammit

I'm am IT professional earning a very good wage. Small company earning loads of £££.

Working on a PII-350 with 256 meg RAM.

Asked for a new PC last week. Director said no. I said why? He said it's got no benefit. I then compiled our product on his top of the range laptop - 15 mins. 2 hours later on mine and it still ain't finished.

He still aint conviced - but he agreed to use my PC for a week whilst I use his laptop. If my productivity increases and his drops then I get a new PC. Only prob is - how do i make Word work slower?

Ah well - the only bummer in my job

[Helevitia]

Word is deisgned to work slower by default You should have a new computer in no time!

Dave

[UberLord]

Originally posted by Helevitia
Word is deisgned to work slower by default You should have a new computer in no time!

I could always rip the 256 meg expansion stick out

Until I realise he doesn't need it anyway.......

The "Technical Director" only uses Word and Outlook Express running on XP Home edition

As opposed to my rig running Win2K, SQL 2K, Mozilla, Apache, PHP and Eudora.

AND my developed apps........


ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


/me bangs head on wall in furstration.......

[103er-Fan]

There is still some program which reduces the CPU speed.... or even disables the cache of the CPU which makes even Paint to run slower

Otherwise I wish you good luck on your quest for a new comp!

[zandor]

That reminds me of the 3 years I spent trying to get my former employer to replace an obsolete Sparc. All I really wanted was a $3000 Ultra 5 or 10, with an extra vid card ($200 for the cheap 2D model) and some extra (3rd party of course) memory.
In other words, no more expensive than the Thinkpads everyone else was getting.
I finally got one when the Sun Blade 100 came out. It cost $1500 including the extra 512MB & $200 vid card, and ran circles around the Thinkpads doing builds & CVS checkouts. It would have gotten smoked by a decent desktop PC though.
The laptops' downfall was thier disk IO. Laptop drives stink.

[GT98]

Originally posted by UberLord
Dammit

I'm am IT professional earning a very good wage. Small company earning loads of £££.

Working on a PII-350 with 256 meg RAM.

Asked for a new PC last week. Director said no. I said why? He said it's got no benefit. I then compiled our product on his top of the range laptop - 15 mins. 2 hours later on mine and it still ain't finished.

He still aint conviced - but he agreed to use my PC for a week whilst I use his laptop. If my productivity increases and his drops then I get a new PC. Only prob is - how do i make Word work slower?

Ah well - the only bummer in my job

[trk2]

I feel your pain. My pc at my old job was a p166 running nt. I would ask solidworks to render then go on break for 30min. And don't even ask about some Access queries I had to run... I got fed up one day and secretly o/c it too a p200. Shhhhhh... don't let the secret out.

[William]

Remember, the more you overclock it, the more risk you run of permenantley damaging it. And it'd be <B>so sad</B> if you had to get a new PC because the old one died

[trk2]

True, but on that old board, 3*66mhz was a high as you could go. They did buy me a new pc but I had to use it to datalog a product life test. The original plan was to swap, but the old pc would refuse to run with a GPIB card so I had to use the new one for the test. Besides, I became somewhat attached to "old Bessie."

[Dogbert]

WORD is a memory and cpu hog.

1. Reduce the amount of memory in the computer.
2. In the Bios, change all parameters to slowest settings.
3. Fill the HDD so the swap file will be heavily fragmented.

This way, every time he switches applications, he'll have to wait something like 2-3 seconds

[Drizzt]

Hey!

I work on a Pentium 133 with 64MB and a 15' using Visual Basic, Visual C and Access.

When I go back home, my PC seems a NASA one

[WayneHu]

Change IDE to use PIO mode...

This setting even kills a TigerMPX & MP1800+ * 2 machine's speed during the large disk I/O access. (As slow as P3-1G + i815E)

[Pegasus_gr]

Originally posted by Drizzt
Hey!

I work on a Pentium 133 with 64MB and a 15' using Visual Basic, Visual C and Access.

When I go back home, my PC seems a NASA one

My desk PC at work is a PII-400 with 192MB ram and a G200 8MB (I'm not changing this PC) but what I have to do at work I do it either on an HP cluster 2XRP7400 (which is 2X2@750MHZ cpus, 2X2 GB memory) or on an HP cluster 2XRP8400 (which is again 2X2@750MHZ cpus, 2X2 GB memory) all using filestore on an HP XP512 cabinet. And if I have something light I run it on one of the two HP A500 (1 cpu at 550Mhz 1GB ram each)........... uh and I have a company Compaq laptop (PIII@800, 192 MB ram 20GB HD)...........Thank you very much

The laptop has an ATI Rage Mobility M/P, any chance for a mobile Matrox chip ever?!?