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Anonymous   09-25-2009 at 04:53:40 PM

Hello
The company i work for process a lot of graphical data and other types of data sets from sonar systems we have 10 dedicated computers for this job. They are fairly decent computers but people are complaining that they take a long time to process the data. We dont have a big budget and after checking out the computers I noticed that they all have there Data and OS on the same disk which is often fragmented. My plan is to transfer the OS of all the computers onto a Raptor HDD and install 2 1TB disks for data storage do you think this help improve perfomance? here are the specs of all the machines we have for this job. what other updates and OS tweeks could i do to improve processing times? would an update to the graphics cards give any significate benifite. I cant update the RAM as we are limited to 32bit systems. any help would be great.

Thanks

Dell XPS 710
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHZ
RAM: 3GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 8800GTX 768mb
HDD: 461GB OS
931 GB Data

Dell XPS 710
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHZ
RAM: 3GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 8800GTX 768mb
HDD: 461GB OS

Dell Precision T3400
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 9800GT 1GB
HDD: 465GB OS

Dell Precision T3400
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 9800GT 1GB
HDD: 465GB OS

Dell Precision T3400
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 9800GT 1GB
HDD: 700GB OS

Dell Precision T3400
CPU: Core 2 Quad E8400 3.0GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 9800GT 1GB
HDD: 700GB OS

HP dc7800p
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHZ
RAM: 2GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 8800GT 512MB
HDD: 222gb OS

HP xw4600
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce GTS250 1GB
HDD: 220GB OS

HP xw4600
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce GTS250 1GB
HDD: 220GB OS

Dell Precision T3400
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHZ
RAM: 4GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 9800GT 1GB
HDD: 700GB OS

HP dc7600
CPU: PentiumD 3.4GHZ
RAM: 2GB
Graphics Card: Geforce 8800GTS 320MB
HDD: 320GB

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Anonymous   09-25-2009 at 05:10:39 PM
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I am also about to order up 4 new PC, This is the spec i have gone for I am hopping this system will be more up to the job than the previous computers. Not sure if i could do with a better Graphics card on this system though. The biggest problem i have is that the company i am working for doesnt want to spend massive amounts of money so its hard to balance a system to do everything they want.

 

1: Intel Xeon W3520 2.66Ghz
1: Geforce GTS250 1GB
4GB DDR3 ECC Memory
1: 80GB 10000RPM SATA HDD
2: 1TB 7,200


Message edited by Anonymous on 09-25-2009 at 05:12:57 PM
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Anonymous   09-25-2009 at 05:19:25 PM
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This is the rec spec of the software we run

Dual core "Core2duo" 2.6 GHz
Windows XP or higher (only 32 bit OS)
2 Gb RAM
500 Gb Harddisk
256 Mb Video card with 1280x1024 res and 32 bit colors.

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ainarssems   09-25-2009 at 05:49:54 PM
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If you name the software You run You might get some answers from somebody familiar with that soft. Or You can ask software maker for advice. Without knowing Your software we do not know what to recommend.

If You are on 32 bit OS there is no point getting more then 4GB RAM

We do not know if software can use more then 2 threads if it does it might help to get quad core processors.

If Your software needs lot of HDD IO it might help to get faster HDD's or SSD's

We do not know if vieo card affects performance art all for Your soft.

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