Cool to see other drafters in here.
Currently my office uses dell bought systems, and out of the last batch of 10 we ordered, 4 had to have the GPU's replaced.
We 'officially' are not supposed to bring in outside computers, but the way I see it, if I just happen to swap out the HDD for an SSD and toss in my old GTX 580 in there, thats not against the rules....
our IT guy still rocks a beeper, and does not "believe" in cell phones ( whatever that means ) so in his eyes pentium 4's are still good, ( heard me talking about my home rig, he seriously asked what number pentiums they are on now, 6, 8? )
Honestly, there is no need for workstation class GPU's or massive CPU's, as Autocad only uses 2 max, and to get the most out of it you have to go in an tweak the core usage allowances, ram usage, etc. there are only about 4 people out of an office of 40 that really need half-decent machines. 2d cad work is really not demanding at all.
Most of the people at my office don't know anything about computers, and they get by just fine on their P4's since they don't know any better.
But for me, I couldn't deal with it
( thats why I have over $1k worth of computer items that i bought with my own money at my desk )
