Insurrection Art photographer Russell Millner uses the Performance Plus Photography Computer
High performance for the professional photographer
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. In our view, it is only bettered by the Samsung 970 PRO range.
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 256GB ADATA SX8200 Pro 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 AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 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
Z390 Chipset Motherboard
Specification
Processor
- Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7Ghz Six Core CPU,
- Max Turbo Frequency 4.6Ghz
- Cache: 9MB
- Be Quiet! Pure Rock Air Cooler Installed
Memory
- 32GB DDR4 2666Mhz RAM
- Dual Channel – 2 x 16GB
- Supports up to 64GB
- 4 x DIMM sockets (2 Used)
Hard Drive
- 256GB ADATA SX8200 Pro 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 10 Home 64-bit
- Clean install, no additional software
Chipset
- Intel Z390 Chipset
Display Outputs
- 4 x mini-DisplayPort
- 1 x mDP-DVI SL (passive) adapter included
- Supports up to 5 monitors at once via DisplayPort 1.2 MST
- Supports HDCP
Graphics
- AMD Radeon Pro WX3200 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 ALC1220P Audio Chip on the motherboard
Input Devices
- No Keyboard or Mouse Included
Wired Networking
- 1 x Intel I219-V 10/100/1000 LAN (Gigabit)
Wireless Networking
- Intel Wireless-AC 9462 via CNVi Module
- Speeds up to 433mbps
- Bluetooth 5.0
Power Supply
- 500 watts High Efficiency (82%+)
Dimensions
- Height: 470mm
- Width: 220mm
- Depth: 492mm
Interfaces
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard or Mouse Port
- 2 x USB 2.0 Port (2 rear)
- 4 x USB 3.1 Port (2 front, 2 rear)
- 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Port (1 x Type-C & 1 x Type-A at the rear)
- 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet Port
- 6 x Audio Jacks at the rear
- 2 x Audio Jacks at the front
- 4 x mini DisplayPort on video card
- 1 x DVI via adapter
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)
- 3 x PCI-e x 1 Slots, 3 free
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
- Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Black ATX Case
- Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7Ghz 6 Core CPU, 6 Thread, 4.6GHz Turbo
- MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC ATX Motherboard with USB Type-C
- AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 4GB (10-bit colour)
- 32GB DDR4 2666MHz Memory (2x16GB)
- 256GB ADATA SX8200 PRO M.2 NVMe (3500MB/R, 1200MB/W)
- 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe SSD (3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
- 6TB Seagate BarraCuda 3.5″ Hard Drive
- Be Quiet Pure Rock low noise CPU air cooler
- Contour 500W High Efficiency ATX PSU
- Built in CNVi Wireless 802.11AC Dual Band Wi-Fi / Bluetooth 5
- 24x SATA Internal DVDRW with M-Disk Support
- Integrated Sound Card On The Motherboard
- Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
