Justifying a Desktop

[zulufox]

Ok, well I am in the position to get a free brand new $1,350 AWESOME gaming desktop with 1 gig 3200 ram and 400GB of serial ATA HD space all for free...

IF I can justify that it will be useful for my content website...

How can I justify this?

Making movies for the content site?
Massive Graphics?

HELP!

[bunltd]

Speed = boost in productivity = more content = better web site.

;)

LisaB

[Llama]

Write a 3 sentence review of the game called Desktop (very fun, moving those icons around, copying, renaming, all hat stuff) and stick it in a 1x1px gif image at the bottom of your privacy policy page.

Your website would then be a gaming website.

Or since it's faster, you work faster, have more time to make more money, as previously stated.

[ergophobe]

gaming desktop

= boost in productivity

Heh heh heh. I don't think so!

[hdpt00]

I am looking to have the same problem. Can you tell me who is offering this computer, I am sure I can justify why I need it.

-B

[Llama]

"I am looking to have the same problem"
Haha, me too. I'd like to have two computers running, one for site design, one for entertainment and gaming and music.

All well, I can get a pretty good computer for hardley more than an Ipod (2.4 GHz, 256 mb of ram etc.)

What if you made a gaming website, or are you going to be required to use it to help the company you work for...?

[mattglet]

let me know if you can't figure out how to justify this... as said before, I think I can come up with something.

-Matt

[Macro]

$1350 buys you an average gaming desktop. No nvidia 6800, no 3.4 GHz Prescott, no DDR466 RAM and probably trimmed down other specs, so if it's worth only $1,350 I wouldn't call it awesome. I'm in the business of gaming desktops and they start at well over $1,500. Heck, some cooling kits for gaming machines cost close to $1,350! ;)

But if you do want to justify it you'll stop calling it a gaming desktop and refer to it as a content creation PC/off-line web server... whatever. Normally tagging "workstation" at the end of the description helps, as in "graphics workstation".

Good luck.

[zulufox]

Here is the specs:

Power: 400Watt Power Supply
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with Hyper Transport
CPUCooler: AMD Certified K8 Cooler
Motherboard: Abit KV8 VIA K8KT800 Motherboard
Memory: 1GB PC3200 DDR400 Dual Channel
1stHardDrive: 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache
2ndHardDrive: 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache
1stOpticalDrive: 8x DVD ± R/RW & CD-R/RW Drive
VideoCard: Radeon 9800XT 256MB DDR
SoundCard: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS - 7.1
NetworkCard: Onboard 10/100 Network Adaptor

Good/Bad?

[Macro]

zulufox, it's a fairly good spec but, like I said, it wouldn't come anywhere near *awesome* :)

But, I don't want to derail this discussion and take it off-topic. Please feel free to contact me by sticky if you need any help or have any technical questions about this (or what possible upgrades you can have to a system that on the face of it looks like a high-end system to the average punter).

[zulufox]

lol.. thanks, I don't really know anything about specs... big numbers mean good. :)

I think I could pull off the graphic workstation approach.

Do you need a good video card for creating graphics/video/multimedia?

[Macro]

Do you need a good video card for creating graphics/video/multimedia

The card you've got is plenty powerful for 3D graphics and "multimedia" (presumably playing DVDs etc). For video editing per se the video card doesn't make much of a difference. Please read up on realtime editing and hardware based (PCI) realtime editing cards (which also have hardware MPEG encoding). However, a card like yours will give you dual outputs which is kinda cool if you are running an NLE program like Adobe Premiere.

For more precision work (including for use with autocad, 3ds max) there are workstation graphics cards like nVidia's "Quadro" range, and ATI's "FireGL", not to mention the excellent 3D labs range (wildcats etc). These pro cards start at about$300 (Quadro FX500) and go up to over $3,000 (Quadro FX4000). But I wouldn't worry too much about these - if you haven't heard of them you probably don't need them ;)

For normal gaming all existing AGP cards are history. There is this new type of PCI slot that's going to take over... but that's another story.