Let's Talk About Your Team's Computers

[bobbysq]

8 old HP laptops donated by a sponsor. ~1-4 minute clean build time.

[Aeglos]

For Programming/ Doubles as a Driver's Station:

1 x HP ProBook 6550b
Features: WIN7 Enterprise, i5-520M, no dGPU, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 1366x768 display, dead CMOS battery school will not replace, half- functional BIOS chip that makes the computer fail POST unless booted a certain way, non- functional laptop battery that will die in about 15 mins if unplugged from the wall, keys will occasionally not register, and the icing on the cake: sometimes it just won't charge, or accept any power from the wall outlet, so we have to bring another laptop computer along as a battery charger for the main one.


My Personal Rig, which I can use for programming at home (but mostly gaming and personal programming projects, let me be honest here):

Case: Fractal Design Define R4
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition
CPU: Intel i7-4790
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC12DX
GPU: Watercooled GTX 760
RAM: 16GB Samsung DDR3-1600
Storage: Seagate 2TB Hybrid Drive
PSU: EVGA 500B


For CAD:

1 x HP EliteBook 840
Features: WIN7 Enterprise, i7-4600U, I think no dGPU (but am uncertain), 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 1920x1080 display

20 x HP Compaq 8200 Elite All-In-One (In our CAD/ Technology Lab)
Features: WIN7 Enterprise, i5 2400S, no dGPU, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 1920x1080 display

If you couldn't tell, as a programmer, I am not a huge fan of the programming laptop we are using currently. It has developed major stability issues over the years I have used it.

[Torvando]

My team has two laptops one really old hp and a not as old hp (i think) that we use for programming. Other than that we all have to use our personal laptops for cad and such. We sometimes have access to a mac lab that we can't install cad or anything on so its not really useful.

[SamcFuchs]

We have an old Dell laptop that technically belongs to a mentor and a new Lenovo B50 that we use for the DS. The Dell is a good computer, nice keyboard, good construction. It's been with the team for a long time, but is still in surprisingly good shape. Therefore, we use it primarily as a programming computer.

The Lenovo is a very heavy beast of a computer, but it is the newer one, and it has a terrible, god-awful keyboard. So we use it just for the driver station.

If you guys want more info, I can provide it.

[Ky0t3]

The only laptop our team itself owns is the classmate we got from rookie year, every one brings there own with all the programming being done on a Samsung laptop and a MacBook pro running Windows 7 used as the driver station. Hopefully our school lends us some computers so we can get more people doing stuff, not everyone owns a laptop. (I didn't until about a month ago when a little Acer 2 in 1 went on sale)

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[mr.roboto2826]

Here on Wave were fortunate enough to get hand me downs from one of our sponsors, however this doesn't mean they're top of the line. Were currently sporting 5 HP Z600's with Xeon x5500's (2.66 Ghz), 6G of ram, 80G hard drives, and Nvidia Quadro FX 4800's. These are our main CAD stations, the last time I did a inventor bench test they scored a ~1.17. We're also sporting a hand full of Dell D600's that we use for FLL and vex coding. I also believe we have one lenovo Y600 or similar that we use for programming and CAD.

[gc_coxen]

My team has pretty low-end to moderate machines provided by the school, nothing fancy. The bulk of CAD is done outside of meetings on personal machines. I'm currently running:

CPU: i7 5820k
CPU Cooler: NZXT X61
Memory: HyperX Fury 32GB
Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI Plus
Storage: Samsung 840 evo 250GB
Seagate 2TB SSHD
GPU: Reference GTX 970
PSU: EVGA G2 600w
Case: NZXT H440