Over built or not

flipchip · 10-31-2023, 02:41 PM

Here are the system specifications of my current Desktop/Workstation

HP Z42 Workstation

SDA 500 GB Samsung SSD

SDB 2TB raw 1.8 TB HDD

16GB of physical ram which actually comes out to 15gb after os take around a1GB for its own purposes

Mid-Grade AMD/ATI Radeon GPU with 2GB of on board video ram.

Timothy Miller · 10-31-2023, 02:58 PM

For playing kmines, overbuilt.

For rendering full movie length 3d videos, a bit underbuilt even...

rkelsen · 10-31-2023, 04:52 PM

How long is a piece of string?

dugan · 10-31-2023, 05:45 PM

Depends what you're using it for, but that is objectively a low-end machine.

flipchip · 10-31-2023, 11:41 PM

I was originally intending to use this system as a virtualization host. Than upon reevaluating my desires realized that I could and would much rather just ues it as a daily driver as my only other machine is a fully intel based Hp ChromeBook.

fatmac · 11-01-2023, 04:56 AM

Let's face it. I use a 2GB ram machine, 1.2GHz dual core processor, with a 16GB M2 SSD, for all normal daily computing tasks - internet, music, movies, etc - yes, I think it is more than you will NEED...

pan64 · 11-01-2023, 05:10 AM

I have a couple of RPi hosts, they have something like 1GB of RAM, no HDD, no SSD, just a 16GB SD card or flash drive. And that's perfectly enough for them. But if I want to play a new game, I need something definitely better.
Virtualization needs a lot of resources.