Best place to buy already built setups.

#1

Where would you go for an already built comp if you did not want to built one yourself? I mean which is the most trusted place for creative setups?

Thanks!!

#2

Lots of companies charge a big markup for “creative” workstations but the reality is they’re just workstations. What matters is if they’ll stand behind their product and support it in a way that enables business to keep functioning and the show to continue.

Dell, HP, Lenovo, and other big name brands have excellent workstations and excellent support - but if you buy their consumer products at Best Buy you don’t get that excellent support that includes things like next day on-site support.

I’m not saying workstations from a company like Boxx are not good because they are, just saying the primary difference is marketing and a higher markup. If you can share specifics like the applications you will use most and the budget we can make specific suggestions.

#3

Thanks a lot, specifics would be C4D 3Dsmax Maya, Zbrush Mudbox, Photosho Ilustrator, Premiere and After.

Its a setup that would be used by different people on different times, budget is 3500 USD.

Dave.

#4

for the life of me, I can’t begin to understand why Boxx workstations cost almost twice as much as Dell/HP, etc

#5

In that price range I’d look at the HP Z420, Dell T3610, Lenovo S30 and P300 Tower. They are all single processor workstations. You should be able to get a 6 core processor, 16GB of memory or more, and a decent graphics card in that budget. Here’s one example from HP.

http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USSMBPublicStore-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductUUID=PPAQ7EN5uiAAAAFECTEPB350

It’s got a 6 core Xeon processor at 3.5GHz, 32GB of memory, Quadro K4000 graphics card, and a 512GB SSD. Three year warranty is included with on-site service. This is in the United States, your profile says London but you get the idea, they offer something similar there.

#6

Yeah… A similarly configured Boxx 4920 was $7,000 compared to the $4,000 workstation from HP I linked to in the post above.

#7

This

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/shared/5ebbb164-46d5-43e9-92c6-b4ec7374ee49

#8

Does anyone know these folks in the US http://www.originpc.com/ they seem to be popular in the video gaming community but I see they make professional PCs as in workstations, as anyone had any previous experience with them in the past, their prices seem to be similar to Dell comps in that same range.