[tech] Purchase of Peripherals for UCC Desktop Machines 2016-07-17

[John Hodge]

Some opinions:

Speakers
- Look good. Nice to see they have headphone jacks.

Mice
- Look nice and simple... I might get one or two myself :)

HDDs
- MSY lists the 8TB as an "archive" disk -- might have a relatively low 
spindle speed.
- A 4TB disk should be sufficient (my steam library fits on one, with 
plenty of space to spare)

Monitors
- No to 4K (overkill for most of our hardware, maybe next year when we 
start getting GTX10s)
- I'm not sure about 144Hz, it could be good but it is pricey.
- 1200p is generally nice, but I'm not sure it's worth the extra cost.
- Freesync sounds nice, but reports are that NVidia cards don't support 
it (but the extra update frequency may make the gamers happy)

tl;dr:
Smaller HDD, and probably go for the VX2457 monitor

On 17/07/2016 3:28 PM, Oscar Hermoso wrote:
> Dear techy UCCers (tuccers?),
>
> If any of you read the minutes from the last months, you would have 
> seen that committee has been attempting to organise the purchase of 
> peripherals for clubroom computers. Due to general disorganisation, 
> and the very real priority that is exam preparation, committee only 
> just got around to pricing stuff up this week.
>
> Anyway, here it is,
>
> - 4X Speakers
>   - Edifier M1250
>   - $19 each from PLE
>
> - 2X Mice
>   - SteelSeries Kana
>   - $52 each from PLE
>
> - 3X Harddrives
>   - 2TB Harddrives
>   - Committee was on the fence between 3 options
>     - WD Blacks $174 from MSY
>     - Seagate SSHD (8TB FLASH) $125 from MSY
>       - ([NTU] has recommended this one already because of boot times)
>     - Seagate Barracuda $98 from MSY
>
> - 2X Monitor
>   -  Secretary was absent from the meeting, here are the screens he 
> was going to propose for discussion
>      - (Also, at a previous meeting committee didn't believe the 144 
> Hz wasn't worth the extra cost, for one 144 Hz screen for the club)
>   - Anyway, here are the screens:
>
>   - Viewsonic VX2457 (24", 1ms, 1080p, 75hz, AMD Freesync)
>     - $199 from MSY
>
>   - LG 24MP48HQ-P (24", 5ms, 1080p, 60Hz)
>     - $188 from MSY
>
>   - LG 27MU67 (27", 5ms, 2160p, 60Hz)
>     - $589
>
>   - AOC G2460PF (24", 1ms, 1080p, 144Hz)
>     - $412 from MSY
>
>   - Samsung LS24E65KBWV (24", 5ms, 1200p, 60Hz)
>     - $299 from MSY
>
> Cool beans,
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> [CHS]
>
>
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