What's good for a workstation these days?
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I only buy the micro form factor any more.
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@JaredBusch those look like great choices to me.
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@guyinpv said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I should have mentioned, they are general office.
Web apps
QuickBooks
Handful of background programs (AV, backup, cloud sync tools etc)
Office
watching media
email
printing/scanningThere are no "power apps", games, 3D, CAD, video rendering, etc.
Regardless, the previous towers aren't that old. For example Core-i5 3GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB platters, Win7.
You'd think this could handle things, and it does chug along, but somehow they make the above work even grind these systems down.I know SSD will be huge. As well I want to get on Win 10 Pro.
I could keep and upgrade those, but the plan is to replace, and trickle those systems down to be reloaded and replace even older systems around here.
It's nice to make the boss feel special, always getting the new computers, and the rest of us get the hand-me-downs.Ah I thought you meant actual workstation. Then yes a z440 is too much ha.
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@JaredBusch said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I only buy the micro form factor any more.
I used to get those as well but had bad thermal issues with them and never forgave the form factor.
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@MattSpeller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@JaredBusch said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I only buy the micro form factor any more.
I used to get those as well but had bad thermal issues with them and never forgave the form factor.
I've been pretty much exclusively SFF or smaller for a decade now. Can't stand big desktops.
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@scottalanmiller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@MattSpeller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@JaredBusch said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I only buy the micro form factor any more.
I used to get those as well but had bad thermal issues with them and never forgave the form factor.
I've been pretty much exclusively SFF or smaller for a decade now. Can't stand big desktops.
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@MattSpeller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@JaredBusch said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I only buy the micro form factor any more.
I used to get those as well but had bad thermal issues with them and never forgave the form factor.
I have had one with heat issues. dell replaced parts. done.
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Full size atx board and case at home. ten hdd bays, ten usb ports in back 4 on top. 2 esata, 1 spdif, 1 digital coax. More available usb headers if I wanted to go nuts. 3pcix16 slots. At work obviously don't do that though. We have a few of these
HP 110-500 Desktop
I didn't buy them.
the first time I picked one up I thought it was an empty case. The board is smaller than micro, some proprietary hp stuff outsourced to whoever makes the boards, and takes up about 25% of the area of the side of the case. Powersupply is an external brick that uses less than 50W max.They also suck as computers. -
@momurda external PSU is the mark of the beast
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@MattSpeller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@momurda external PSU is the mark of the beast
Agree there, that's awful.
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Like @stacksofplates I like the HP z series for a true workstation. They have some different form factors, but you can buy a used one pretty cheap for the power they have because they started off life as $1,600 workstations. The only down side might be that the Xeon is a little more power hungry than some other processors. (and the form factor if you want something small enough to mount to the back of your monitor)
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@Mike-Davis said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
Like @stacksofplates I like the HP z series for a true workstation. They have some different form factors, but you can buy a used one pretty cheap for the power they have because they started off life as $1,600 workstations. The only down side might be that the Xeon is a little more power hungry than some other processors. (and the form factor if you want something small enough to mount to the back of your monitor)
Agree with you, I use a z240 and it's beautifully built. It's cheap, also.
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I'm an HP guy myself. The last round was HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF at $850 without a monitor. 3 year warranty with direct to level 2 support - you call and say you have a bad mobo or drive, and they pretty much just ship you one.
I do have two of those micro form factors that @JaredBusch posted (they are HP though). They've been in place for a little over a year and have had no issues.
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@scottalanmiller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@MattSpeller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@momurda external PSU is the mark of the beast
Agree there, that's awful.
@JaredBusch said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I only buy the micro form factor any more.
These units require the use of an external powersupply.
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@Mike-Davis said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
Like @stacksofplates I like the HP z series for a true workstation. They have some different form factors, but you can buy a used one pretty cheap for the power they have because they started off life as $1,600 workstations. The only down side might be that the Xeon is a little more power hungry than some other processors. (and the form factor if you want something small enough to mount to the back of your monitor)
Ya we jam ours full of everything. The 440s have 128GB RAM with dual 6 core and the 840s have 256GB RAM and I believe dual 12 core. Both have M4000s also.
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Dare I say it ........... we use Lenovo for our Desktops. Range of i3-i5 8GB Min RAM depending on user requirements
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@hobbit666 said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
Dare I say it ........... we use Lenovo for our Desktops. Range of i3-i5 8GB Min RAM depending on user requirements
Hopefully this changes soon.
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@hobbit666 said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
Dare I say it ........... we use Lenovo for our Desktops. Range of i3-i5 8GB Min RAM depending on user requirements
We still have some S20s (thinkstation) around. I have one at home also.
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@Dashrender said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@scottalanmiller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@MattSpeller said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
@momurda external PSU is the mark of the beast
Agree there, that's awful.
@JaredBusch said in What's good for a workstation these days?:
I only buy the micro form factor any more.
These units require the use of an external powersupply.
Same powersupply that laptops use. and it is not like a computer doe snot need a power cord.
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We had been buying the HP Prodesk 600 G2s (i5 3.2Ghz 6500, 8GB DDR3, 500GB HDD)
We have a few public facing areas, and other areas where clients are located and decided that something smaller and less intrusive would be better and for those areas we get the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 (mini, i5 3.2Ghz 6500, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD) because we are mounting them on the back of monitors.
