Six things to look for in a workstation

When making a four-figure or even five-figure investment, it pays to take a detailed approach to every step of your buying decision

Workstations are the most powerful desktop PCs around, but budgetary constraints still apply. You need to choose your components wisely – and that means focusing your money on the workloads you generally perform. The good news: it’s no longer necessary to compromise too much between systems that are biased towards real-time graphics display and those aimed at final output. However, you should still spend the most on the components that will benefit your workload the greatest. 1 Processor Processors have moved on a generation since our last workstation Labs. The AMD Ryzen 9000 series arrived just in time for this test, when last year we had the previous 7000 series. Intel Core CPUs have moved from 13th (Raptor Lake-S) to 14th (Raptor Lake-S Refresh), and Threadripper Pro from 5000 to 7000 series.…

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