Insurrection Art photographer Russell Millner uses the Performance Plus Photography Computer
High performance for the professional photographer
Updated 16/01/2022 to the new Intel 12 th Generation platform. To return to the old SKU, click this link – 2021 Version Performance Plus Photography Computer
The performance plus system adds a little extra storage performance and capacity over and above that available on the standard ‘Performance’ system. Storage is one of the most important aspects of a photography PC. As a professional photographer, your time is money. A PC that’s faster at editing your images will enable you to achieve more during the working day and spend more time doing the vital editing rather than waiting for your PC to catch up. If you work in the highest quality settings with high-resolution images, especially if working with high-resolution shots in RAW format to achieve the highest quality; you will appreciate the benefits this system offers.
All our photography PC systems are tuned to the requirements of post-processing large image files. The Samsung 1TB M.2 970 EVO drive is blisteringly fast, use this for your Lightroom catalogue and work in progress / scratch files. The system offers excellent performance in Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC applications. The 970 EVO drive is one of the fastest SSD drives on the market.
We have also fitted a larger capacity hard drive. The Seagate Barracuda 6TB storage drive is ideal for storing your image catalogue long term. For best performance, keep all frequently accessed work and your current ‘work in progress’ on the 1TB SSD. Use the hard drive to archive away all your completed jobs. The primary 500GB WD Blue SN570 is also a high performance drive and should be used for your operating system and application files.
The 32GB of RAM is enough for most photographers. It is best suited to images of 1024MB and under when loaded and in memory. This gives plenty of scope for additional layers and effects and will allow more than one image to be loaded into memory and worked on at once.
Graphics is courtesy of the NVidia Quadro T1000 professional workstation GPU. This card has a superb 10-bit colour output with excellent visual quality. The 4GB of VRAM is plenty for the majority of photography demands.
The Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 chassis offers excellent potential for installing additional drives while keeping your high performance PC components cool and silent. The system can accept a total of 4 SATA drives by providing capacity for 4 in any combination of 3.5″ drives 2.5″ drives. Also, the motherboard we use can support 2 x M.2 high-performance SSDs so in total you can use six storage drives in this system. It is also possible to configure a further three 3.5″ or 2.5″ storage drives. To add further storage drives to your PC in the configurator, hit the ‘Add Another’ button to the right-hand side of the primary storage drive header. Alternatively, contact us for a quote with additional storage options.
Take a look at our blogs to find out more about how your choice of PC components affects your overall system performance in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Soundproofing on the inside of the chassis

Versatile hard drive storage

Samsung High Performance SSD

Specification
Processor
- Intel Core i5-12600K 3.7Ghz Ten Core CPU
- 16 Processor Threads
- Max Turbo Frequency 4.9Ghz
- Cache: 20MB
- Corsair H100x Liquid Cooler Installed
Memory
- 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM
- Dual Channel – 2 x 16GB
- Supports up to 128GB
- 4 x DIMM sockets (2 Used)
Hard Drive
- 500GB WD Blue SN570 NVMe M.2 SSD
- 1TB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD
- 2 x M.2 sockets, 0 free
- 6TB Seagate BarraCuda 3.5″ Hard drive
- 6 SATA Ports, 4 free (2 Used for DVDRW & 6TB HDD)
Optical Drive
- Asus DVD Re-Writer, SATA, 24x, M-Disk Support
- 2 x Optical Bays, 1 free
Software
- Windows 11 Home 64-bit
- Clean install, no additional software
Chipset
- Intel Z690 Chipset
Display Outputs
- 4 x mini-DisplayPort
- Supports up to 4 monitors at once
- Supports HDCP
Graphics
- PNY Quadro T1000 4GB Professional GPU with 10 bit colour
Audio
- High Definition Audio, 5.1 or 7.1 channel supporting S/PDIF output
- Audio provided by Realtek ALC1220-VB Audio Chip on the motherboard
- Audiophile Grade WIMA Capacitors, Hi-Res Audio certified
Input Devices
- No Keyboard or Mouse Included
Wired Networking
- 1 x Realtek® 2.5GbE LAN chip (2.5 Gbit/1 Gbit/100 Mbit)
Wireless Networking
- Intel Wireless-AX AX200 wifi 6
- Speeds up to 2400mbps
- Bluetooth 5.2
Power Supply
- 650 watts
- Over 82% efficiency
Dimensions
- Height: 470mm
- Width: 220mm
- Depth: 492mm
Interfaces
- 4 x USB 2.0 Port (4 rear)
- 5 x USB 3.2 Port (2 front, 3 rear)
- 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Port (2 x Type-A at the rear)
- 1 x USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2 x 2 Port (1 rear)
- 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet Port
- 3 x Audio Jacks at the rear including S/PDIF Out
- 2 x Audio Jacks at the front
- 4 x mini DisplayPort on video card
Note the display outputs from the motherboard are disabled when a graphics card is installed
Expansion
- 3 x PCI-e x 16 Slots, 2 free (1 x Used for video card)
Case
- Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Black ATX Case
- 1 x Pre-installed Be Quiet! Pure Wings 2 120mm rear fan
- 1 x Pre-installed Be Quiet! Pure Wings 2 140mm front fan
- Space for 3 additional fans at the top
- Space for 1 additional fan at the front
- Space to accept 120mm, 140mm, 240mm or 280mm liquid coolers
Warranty
- 3 Year Return to Base parts and labour
- 1st 30 days collect and return at our expense