New office workstation

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 In 2011 I was lucky enough to find money for a decent workstation for the office. I was working with large data sets and 3D visualization and I needed especially computing power and memory. I purchased Dell Precision T5500 with Xeon X5690 with 6 cores running at 3.47 GHz, 48 GB of RAM and Nvidia Quadro P2000. It has served me well ever since with fantastic performance compared with everything I own of laptops.

When SINTEF forced upgrading from Windows 7 to 10 a few years back, I almost had to let it go since there were no options for upgrading to windows 10. I eventually had an expert from EVRY upgrade it for me manually.  Even with Windows 10, the performance has been fantastic. I upgraded it with my own Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 to give it a boost as well.

Recently, I've been running into trouble with my Office applications and OneDrive. IT support wanted to reinstall Windows 10, but were unable to since apparently the TPM chip onboard is 1.2 and not 2.0. This makes it impossible to perform Intune tanking of Windows 10. Manual tanking is too much of an effort for a computer almost ten years old, so today I ordered a new workstation.

The T5500 was a quite expensive in 2011. Today I configured and ordered an HP Z6 G4 with Xeon 5222 GHz, 64 GB RAM and Nvida RTX 4000. The price were about the same. Considering that I normally buy I new laptop every three years I think the value for money for the stationary has been great. I cannot imagine having to work from a laptop in a docking station at work: I cannot see what should give me the performance that I am used to.

Next up is to upgrade my old gaming computer from 2013. It has been running with a i7-3700K overclocked at 4.2 GHz and a Nvidia RTX 2070 super OC for years. Now it's time for a new motherboard, memory, and cpu.

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