Why different Computers matter

Computers have a myriad of possible uses across the world, some people have them for personal entertainment as custom gaming PC’s, built for high performance gameplay. Others have workstation PC’s designed to hold and quickly access relevant data for whatever task it needs to perform. Some people need a hub of information to be processed through, in which case they’ll get a server to house and regulate the flow of that information. And that’s not even getting into all the different fields that these types of computers are used in: construction, education, creative endeavors. There’s a reason that all these options would be valid to be used with these types of systems, but what’s the difference between them exactly and why does that matter?

Reasons for different systems

When people build out a custom computer, or in our case when someone reaches out to us about what they want out of one, the most important thing is to keep in mind what it will be used for. Say someone wants a gaming PC. Well, that by itself is a broad scope of what could be included in that system based on what they want out of it. If they want high end graphics that make the characters look ultra realistic, then a high-end GPU would most likely take priority over say what type of case they get. Conversely, they may not care about how a game looks and instead might want their build to have lightning-fast response time within a millisecond, that would be more focused on RAM.

Gaming PC’s

Getting a gaming PC does take quite a bit of thought throughout the process. One of the biggest thoughts is what sort of titles you are wanting to play. Optimization is not a lot of gaming companies’ strong suits these days, so you will want to look into the minimum/recommended requirements for said titles and help base your decisions of that. What if your life requires a lot of travel? Then a custom Laptop with upgraded RAM and Storage might be the best option. This allows you to be portable with your work instead of needing to return home every time the spark of inspiration hits you.

When it comes to the gaming side, the possibilities are seemingly endless. When you step into the realm of workstations, requirements are much more hard pressed in terms of options.

Workstation

Let’s step away from gaming PC’s and look at workstations and why these are much more harder to piece together. For me personally, my work is done on a company laptop that’s connected to separate monitors, a wireless mouse, and keyboard. This is becasue for my position I need to have multiple sources of information open, or I need to work on two projects at once due to one influencing the other. Workstation laptops are a great option for on-the-go tasks.

Then what about someone in a different field, let’s say a medical professional at a hospital, and they need a computer in their office. They would need something with large amounts of storage to save hundreds of thousands of patient’s medical information on, as well as viable treatment plans, research, and procedure notes. They’d focus more on storage above everything else so they’d get a case that houses multiple hard drives with terabytes of storage.

When it comes to workstations, each profession requires more of certain things such as memory, more cores in a CPU, storage, etc. While gaming PCs you have much more room to play with, workstations can be an incredibly daunting task to configure. Luckily, we have our sales team and our workstation instabuilder to help you out if you ever needed it!

Servers

These days, you see a lot more consumers have interests in servers. While their use case would be more home server based, it doesn’t hurt to know what kind of things servers can do for you – business or personal. What if you need a dedicated computer that runs a task for your company like it’s website or user profiles? This type of work is something a regular desktop may not be able to complete due to the case compared to server chassis alone. Servers need to be connected together physically in large quantities and the standard case of a desktop computer isn’t optimized for that. A chassis however is specifically designed to not only be easy to hook up to other servers but can be slotted into server racks easily for additional power and performance or replacing older servers with more updated models easy.

There’s also certain hardware, like the AMD EPYC CPU that is more designed for server type of configurations, which also means a specific type of motherboard to support the CPU. So, servers almost fall into their own category in a sense.

So, what do you get?

So basically, what you want to have built really depends on the intention you have for the system. There is no one end all be all answer to what you need, it’s the reason why there’s countless combinations of custom computer configurations that we offer to our customers, but all those options means that we can always find something that fits what it is that you’re looking for.