BSF Machine Specs

[webman]

Tsk tsk, even cheap labour too!

[linuxgirlie]

Too right, they have built about 200 for the school now and only had one broken cpu, which a few pins pushed back in place and it worked fine!

 

Though looking at your tech room, it look a little cleaner than mine, especially after they have been building in there, no matter how many times I say put the rubbish in the empty computer boxes...

[webman]

Though looking at your tech room, it look a little cleaner than mine, especially after they have been building in there

 

Wow you must have some messy kids, those pics were taken during the Great 2006 Clear Out () so a bit all over the place

[linuxgirlie]

Depends if I have cleaned up, I will take some pics tomorrow, as I was on a course today well urmmmm at 12.35 that means yesterday! (damn gotta get up at 6) so my student techies will of made a big mess, so I will do a before and after for you!

 

 

lol, actually my students moan that my office is 'too' tidy, they say they want it more 'it crowd' ...mess makes my skin crawl.....

 

 

anyway...back to the subject

[webman]

Now It Crowd office I like, it has a certain "atmosphere"

 

Yes, we digress...

 

BSF? Ah yes, expensive machines

[john]

Just for machine specs, North Yorks recomends the following 3 catagories of workstation:

 

Basic Desktop Computer:(basic schools should have for curriculum)

Cost Less than £500

Processor Intel Celeron D 2.66 GHz

Memory 512 MB

HDD 40 GB SATA HDD with min 30GB free

Optical Drive DVD ROM

LAN 10/100 Mb Network Card

Operating System

(Pre Installed) XP Pro

Sound On - Board

Speakers Stereo Speakers or Headphones

Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator

Monitor 17” LCD

 

Mid Range Desktop Computer: (for admin and CAD areas)

Cost £500 - £700

Processor Intel Pentium 4 630

Memory 1GB

HDD 80 GB SATA HDD with min 60GB free

Optical Drive DVD ± RW

LAN 10/100 Mb Network Card

Operating System

(Pre Installed) XP Pro

Sound On - Board

Speakers Stereo Speakers or Headphones

Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator

Monitor 17” LCD

 

High End Desktop Computer: (simulations, virtual environments high end design etc)

Cost £700 - Upwards

Processor Intel® Pentium® D Processor 930

Memory 2GB

HDD 250 GB SATA HDD with min 200GB free

Optical Drive DVD ± RW

LAN 10/100/1000 Mb Network Card

Operating System

(Pre Installed) XP Pro

Sound On - Board

Speakers Stereo Speakers or Headphones

Graphics 256MB Dedicated Graphics Card

Monitor 19” LCD

[john]

Servers - 2 servers (although they get technical when you get into specifics for running Facility CMIS etc):

Basic: (basic you should accept, for small primary schools)

Cost Less than £2000

Processor Single Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz

Memory 2 GB

HDD 73 GB SCSI HDD

Optical Drive DVD ROM

Tape Drive 26/72 GB DAT 72

Tapes 10 x DAT 72 tapes and 1 DAT 72 Cleaning tape

Backup Software Backup Exec 10

LAN 2 x 10/100/1000 Mb Network Card

Graphics Onboard

Monitor 15" LCD

UPS APC Smart-UPS 750i

Warranty 3yr Support, 4Hr Onsite Response (24x7)

 

 

Mid Range Server: (Larger Networks, MIS Systems)

Cost Less than £3000

Processor Dual Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz

Memory 2GB

HDD 2 x 73 GB SCSI HDD with Hardware Raid 1

Power Supply Redundant Power Supply

Optical Drive DVD ROM

Tape Drive 80 / 160 DLT Drive

Tapes 10 x DLT tapes and 1 DLT Cleaning tape

Backup Software Backup Exec 10

LAN 2 x 10/100/1000 Mb Network Card

Graphics OnBoard

Monitor 15" LCD

UPS APC Smart-UPS 1500i

Warranty 3yr Support, 4Hr Onsite Response (24x7)

[Grommit]

I would be interested in their prices too, I would like to know if they are lower than mine as I don't get a (maybe) county-wide discount?

 

My latests machines in are:

 

3.4ghz amd

1gb ram

80gb HD (only cause 40 is more..lol)

gigabyte lan

5500 nvidia gfx

the usual - case, mouse keyboard, motherboard etc

17" tft

 

For: £260 (without windoze as we put Linux on them)

 

 

Jo

 

Sorry where did you buy these PC's from at this price and Spec...

I need buy 20 right now..

[linuxgirlie]

I got the parts from dabs, but it varies, for example at one point I was buying 1gb memory sticks for about £27 each, and now they are about £40 each.