Professional PCs

Office & Professional PC Systems

Office PCs, home office PCs, and professional workstations often require a different approach compared to assembling a gaming PC. For an office PC, for example, the memory and processor might be more important than the graphics card. Large spreadsheets can, of course, be dealt with a gaming PC, but an office PC typically doesn't need a gaming graphics card. This is significant because the graphics card typically takes up the largest portion of the budget in a gaming PC. For simple word processing, even the integrated graphics unit in the processor (if available) is sufficient, and other system requirements are lower. Thus, an office PC can be perfectly tailored to its tasks, saving costs.

A home office PC can also be cost-optimised. For example, if you connect to your office PC at work via a remote connection, you require less power than a home office PC that runs tasks directly. If you are eager to work with two monitors simultaneously, ensure that the graphics card or motherboard (processor with integrated GPU) has the appropriate video outputs.

Professional Workstations

Professional workstations, such as desksize render PCs, require powerful hardware. Rendering videos requires a processor with many cores and a powerful workstation graphics card. Both AMD and NVIDIA offer special workstation graphics cards for specific applications. For smaller workstations for video editing, a gaming graphics card might suffice.

Professional workstations for image editing prefer a CPU with the highest possible clock speed and a correspondingly optimised graphics card. For moving large amounts of data on the PC and within the local network, NVMe SSDs and LAN ports with 10GB LAN can save a lot of time. With NVMe SSDs (M.2 and U.2), you should be mindful of temperatures to prevent the SSDs from getting too hot and slowing down. It's also important to check how the M.2 or U.2 slots are connected to the CPU. Additionally, there are PCIe adapter cards for M.2 SSDs. The PCIe standard also plays a role in data transfer on professional workstations, with PCIe 4.0 being twice as fast as PCIe 3.0.

To get the maximum performance from a workstation, it can be equipped with extreme cooling solutions. A relatively affordable option is a water-cooled workstation, which offers stable performance. At Caseking, together with Roman "der8auer" Hartung, we also offer workstations with 2-phase immersion cooling. Depending on the configuration, such immersion cooling allows for lower temperatures with the same cooling effort.