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Dell Workstation Owners Club

lexluthermiester said:
Yes, here's TPU's techspecs page,
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Intel Core i7-4770 Specs

Haswell, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 3.4 GHz, 84 W
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@Toothless
Maybe the following was the right one?
www.techpowerup.com

Intel Core i7-4820K Specs

Ivy Bridge-E, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 3.7 GHz, 130 W
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
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I have a 4770 in a H97-AC ITX board that I was using before I got the workstation. Would've been a sin to not give this old Dell beaut' a job.

Wanted to eventually turn the 4770 rig into a 4790k ITX thing with spare parts I have laying around minus a cooler.
 
Toothless said:
I was using before I got the workstation
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You did the right thing. You still can't explain to people that you can play games on workstations. Today, Russians and Chinese mostly use workstations as gaming computers. I have been using workstations since 2012 and have no intention of returning to gaming computers.
 
uco73 said:
You did the right thing. You still can't explain to people that you can play games on workstations. Today, Russians and Chinese mostly use workstations as gaming computers. I have been using workstations since 2012 and have no intention of returning to gaming computers.
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dell precisions are awesome and can be had cheap too on ebay
 
uco73 said:
You did the right thing. You still can't explain to people that you can play games on workstations. Today, Russians and Chinese mostly use workstations as gaming computers. I have been using workstations since 2012 and have no intention of returning to gaming computers.
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I think the change was mostly I wanted something reliable for the use. I'm sure the 4770 and stuff is enough but it frees up having a lunchbox ITX build that I can take places or hide in the bedroom where the air conditioning is.

I've had workstation chips in consumer boards, vice-versa, full servers, etc etc and the only downside to these big boy core counts is the lower clock speed. Like my 2x 2698v4 server has the same multi core in R23 as my 5950x. Does it mean it can't run games? Nah. Just a hugely difference use case between the two systems where I can do whatever I want on one to the other. Don't think my Vega 64 would be happy to game though..
 
Toothless said:
Does it mean it can't run games?
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My first computer was with an E7400 processor, 2GB of DDR2 memory and an Nvidia 9600 GSO. The motherboard was a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R, socket 775. Then I bought a Gigabyte EP45-DS4 motherboard with the same processor and 8GB DDR2 memory. Very quickly I put a xeon E5472 (socket 771 but modded for socket 775) on that motherboard. That xeon worked so well it was a revolution for me. That was in 2011. Already in 2012 I bought a Dell T5500 with two Xeon X5670 and 72GB DDR3 ECC reg. That was already the thing I needed. Besides Dell T5500 I had Fujitsu Celsius R670-2 with xeon X5680 and 24GB DDR3 ECC reg (Fujitsu is still with me). I sold my Dell T5500 and bought a Dell T7600 with E5-2690 and 128GB DDR3 ECC reg. and GTX 1080 Ti. In addition I bought a cheap Fujitsu Celsius R470-2 with xeon W3565 and 24GB DDR3 ECC reg. The last purchase was my current computer. I like workstations so much that I don't sell them anymore. At home I have a Dell T7600, a Dell 5820, a Fujitsu Celsius R670-2 and a Fujitsu Celsius R470-2. The games worked flawlessly on each of them. I have video evidence of that. At first, I tried to explain to my friends to buy a workstation, but they all said that games cannot be played on ECC memory and on xeon processors. I don't say anything to anyone anymore and I do as I please.
 
lol your friends thought you can't game w ecc or a xeon lmao... many a durr was had that day,.. I game on mine a lot... it works nicely! I have an RTX2060 GPU and most games work ok in 1080p... I don't have 4k or anything see specs for display info... thermals are great too and never get above 65C for games and the absolute most I've seen my E5 2690 get is 80c while making the most complex music on bitwig studio... I'm talking 5 instrument layers with some synths having 16 voices and 4x oversampling and tons of effects!! DSP was barely doing much... and no stutters!
 
uco73 said:
I don't have 4K monitor and I don't want it. 1080p is enough for me.
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Give 1440p a chance. I find it a great intersection of display size and pixel pitch.
 
uco73 said:
I don't have 4K monitor and I don't want it. 1080p is enough for me.
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Same... I'd rather put my money elsewhere...
 
Toothless said:
I have a 4770 in a H97-AC ITX board that I was using before I got the workstation. Would've been a sin to not give this old Dell beaut' a job.

Wanted to eventually turn the 4770 rig into a 4790k ITX thing with spare parts I have laying around minus a cooler.
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Oh, I get you now.

uco73 said:
I don't have 4K monitor and I don't want it. 1080p is enough for me.
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For a lot of people this is true. 1080p is still damn good for high levels of detail.
 
Space Lynx said:
www.tomshardware.com

Massive Dell blunder leaks Intel and Nvidia's mobile roadmaps — Nova Lake, Panther Lake CPUs and GENxx Nvidia GPUs listed

Huge roadmap update showing four generations of future Intel CPUs
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com

Nova Lake is expected to have 60% IPC increase. wow.

looks like Blackwell / Intel laptops may arrive this year. that would be impressive.
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wonder how that will work for precision since they sorta cross over occasionally to xps

dell has both xps and latitude based precisions
 
80-watt Hamster said:
Give 1440p a chance. I find it a great intersection of display size and pixel pitch.
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You are probably right, but I know from personal experience that the higher the resolution of the monitor, the greater the load on the graphics, and therefore the consumption of the graphics card. Maybe I'm a bit of an old guy, but 1080p is totally enough for me and I really have no intention of buying a 2K, 4K or any other monitor with a higher resolution than 1080p.
 
Am I the first on this forums that has a mobile dell workstation??

I got a precision 3550 laptop!
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OS: Linux Mint virginia 21.3 x86_64
Host: Precision 3550
Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-35-generic
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10310U (8) @ 4.40 GHz
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.15 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 7.75 GiB / 15.22 GiB (51%)
Disk (/): 125.31 GiB / 467.89 GiB (27%) - ext4
Battery: 94% [Charging]
 
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First in what sense? They've been making those for years.
 
it has a fast wd nvme drive too that is decent health as well...

thermals are allright so far... will need to do further testing... still getting everything set up
 
remixedcat said:
Am I the first on this forums that has a mobile dell workstation??

I got a precision 3550 laptop!
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OS: Linux Mint virginia 21.3 x86_64
Host: Precision 3550
Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-35-generic
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10310U (8) @ 4.40 GHz
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.15 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 7.75 GiB / 15.22 GiB (51%)
Disk (/): 125.31 GiB / 467.89 GiB (27%) - ext4
Battery: 94% [Charging]
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Very nice.
 
Well, I'm going to get rid of the T-7500 and T-5500, I can't seem to get any help resolving my issues. I guess I'll either sell or give them away for parts.

"My first computer was......."

I remember my first computer, it was a Commodore 64 a friend gave me. I learned how to program in basic on that thing many moons ago. My newest is a Asus ProArt and now I have a 49 inch Samsung curve monitor (5120x1440). I still have three Precisions. two T-3500's and my daily driver the T-5500 with two processors, I finally got enough desk space to lay it down to get the second processor to work in it. I still have a Radio Shack trash 80 and a Ti99/4a in the original box. I can't get the old IBM server to start up, it uses those old pentium processors on a plug in card.

Good times, Good times
 
Gongrats on the sidewinder mod. to get the 2nd CPU running. Did you get the special faceplate to turn the drive bays sideways?
 
GarageMonster said:
Well, I'm going to get rid of the T-7500 and T-5500, I can't seem to get any help resolving my issues. I guess I'll either sell or give them away for parts.

"My first computer was......."

I remember my first computer, it was a Commodore 64 a friend gave me. I learned how to program in basic on that thing many moons ago. My newest is a Asus ProArt and now I have a 49 inch Samsung curve monitor (5120x1440). I still have three Precisions. two T-3500's and my daily driver the T-5500 with two processors, I finally got enough desk space to lay it down to get the second processor to work in it. I still have a Radio Shack trash 80 and a Ti99/4a in the original box. I can't get the old IBM server to start up, it uses those old pentium processors on a plug in card.

Good times, Good times
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mabye I can give them a good home here?? are you in the usa? I'm in west virginia
 
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