High End Photography PC V2

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High end performance for the professional photographer

Users of high end photography systems demand a lot of performance from their PC. This system steps up the performance by including the Intel Core i7-14700KF processor which offers a high clock speed and 20 processor cores for high performance in multi-thread applications or when running multiple applications at once.  The storage remains the Western Digital SN770 Black 1TB & 2TB SSD drives which offers superb levels of performance. The hard drive has been upgraded to an 8TB storage drive.

The GPU has taken a major upgrade to the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB which is a far more powerful graphics card.  This card is ideal for users wishing to focus on AI image enhancement and for those using ON1 or similar heavy AI based applications.  The larger GPU memory also helps with traditional photo editing and enables complex editing tasks to be completed on the GPU rather than CPU which can often result in performance benefits.

The CPU cooler used with this system remains the high performance Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120.  This cooler allows your CPU to run at its maximum performance for extended periods of time. Noise is also kept to a low level as the fans spin at a relatively slow speed and are an excellent low noise design.

The Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 chassis offers excellent quality and upgradability in a professional workstation product with low noise fans designed to keep your high performance PC cool. The system can accept a total of 6 SATA drives by providing capacity for 3 x 3.5″ drives and 3 x 2.5″ drives. Also, the motherboard we use can support 4 x M.2 high-performance SSDs, in total you can use six storage drives in this system. We have specified the system with 1TB & 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs as the primary drive for your OS and program files, and secondary SSD which is ideal for use as your Lightroom catalogue and working ‘scratch’ area to boost performance for your ‘work in progress files’ and also an 8TB hard drive for your full image catalogue. 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.

The system also includes a high performance memory card reader which is compatible with Memory Stick, Compact Flash and SD cards including the latest SDXC and SDHC cards.  Data transfer speed is high and the device also increases the quantity of available USB ports to the front of the PC as it provides an additional 4 x USB 3.0 ports and a further 2 x USB charging ports.

We have designed the system around the 14th Generation Intel processor. These processors offer a leap in performance per clock over the previous generation by improving efficiency across the entire range. Performance increases will depend on the software you are using, but there will be greater benefits in more complex tasks. Video editing also benefits hugely as processor core count increases, so this will be a welcome benefit to those undertaking some video work as well.

Modern commercial image processing software requires a minimum of 16GB of memory, and you will need plenty of fast storage to hold your image catalogue. This system has 48GB of memory which is ideal for handling large images with multiple layers. The 48GB of memory also enables high-resolution video editing to be undertaken on this system.

Applications like Photoshop don’t continue to perform better and better with additional cores, so we don’t recommend installing processors with more than 6 cores solely for Photoshop use but when running other background applications such as email and web browsers, additional cores can be useful. It is essential to choose a processor with a high clock frequency as the processor frequency has more of an impact on performance than the core count. We have chosen the i7-14700KF processor for this system, it’s a twenty-core processor with a 3.4GHz base frequency but with a turbo clock speed of 5.6GHz and is capable of running all day under heavy workloads. Processor turbo speeds come into effect for a limited number of the cores when the system is under heavy load. As Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Lightroom CC can be particularly heavy on just 1 or 2 cores, the system will benefit from the higher turbo frequency.

Specification

Processor

• Intel Core i7-14700KF 3.6Ghz Twenty Core CPU
• 28 Processor Threads
• Max Turbo Frequency 5.6Ghz
• Cache: 33MB
• Thermalright Peerless Assassin

Memory

• 48GB DDR5 6000Mhz RAM
• Dual Channel – 2 x 24GB
• Supports up to 192GB
• 4 x DIMM sockets (2 Used)

Hard Drive

• 1TB Western Digital SN770 Black PCIe4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Primary C: drive
• 2TB Western Digital SN770 Black PCIe4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD (D: Drive)
• 4 x M.2 sockets, 2 free
• 8TB Seagate BarraCuda 3.5″ Hard drive
• 6 SATA Ports, 4 free (2 Used for DVDRW & 8TB HDD)

Optical Drive

• Asus DVD Re-Writer, SATA, 24x, M-Disk Support
• 2 x Optical Bays, 0 free

Card Reader

• Multi Card Reader – Akasa Interconnect EX
• Support for SD Cards, Memory stick and Compact Flash
• Provides an additional 4 x USB 3.0 ports at the front of the PC

Software

• Windows 11 Home 64-bit
• Clean install, no additional software

Chipset

• Intel Z790 Chipset

Display Outputs

• 3 x DisplayPort
• 1 x HDMI
• Supports up to 4 monitors at once
• Supports HDCP

Graphics

• NVidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPU

Audio

• High Definition Audio, 5.1 or 7.1 channel output
• Audio provided by Realtek Audio Chip on the motherboard

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 AX210 wifi 6e
• Speeds up to 2400mbps
• Bluetooth 5.2

Power Supply

• 850 watts
• Modular Cable Design
• Over 87% efficiency

Dimensions

• Height: 470mm
• Width: 220mm
• Depth: 492mm

Interfaces

• 4 x USB 2.0 Port (4 rear)
• 9 x USB 3.2 Port (6 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
• 3 x DisplayPort on graphics card
• 1 x HDMI on graphics card

Note the display outputs from the motherboard are disabled when a graphics card is installed

Expansion

• 3 x PCI-e x 16 Slots, 1 free (1 x Used for graphics card, 1 used for USB card)

Case

• Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Black/Silver ATX Case
• 1 x 140mm pre-installed fans at the front
• 1 x 120mm pre-installed fan at the rear
• Space for 4 additional 120/140mm fans
• Space to accept 120/140/240mm liquid coolers

Warranty

• 3 Year Return to Base parts and labour
• 1st 30 days collect and return at our expense