For personal studios, small companies, education and training institutions or special departments of small and medium-sized enterprises (such as IT departments), if applications such as image processing, 3D/CAD design, teaching demonstration, software design and financial services are needed, ordinary desktops can also meet the demand. Why choose a workstation? This is mainly because the workstation has a special application design.
Workstations are usually equipped with server-specific CPU, professional graphics card, array hard disk and ECC memory, which are superior to ordinary desktops in execution efficiency, scalability, stability and image quality. For example, professional graphics cards such as AMD FireGL or NVIDIA QuadronNVS equipped with workstations fully support OpenGL ICD graphics acceleration interface. Therefore, it has better compatibility and execution efficiency in industrial software applications (such as 3DMAX), while ordinary graphics cards focus on DirectX capability and are suitable for multimedia applications such as playing 3D games and watching high-definition movies.
In many commercial applications, ordinary desktop computers are not competent for a large number of complex operations, such as the crash caused by memory data errors, which leads to problems such as program suspension and data loss. The workstation is equipped with ECC memory, which can prevent the above problems to the maximum extent. Because ECC memory can be checked and compared when reading memory data, it can reduce the probability of memory errors, effectively avoid random memory "soft" errors, and ensure the stable operation of the workstation.
From the performance and price point of view, workstations are mainly entry-level, mid-to-high-end, high-end and so on, and the price ranges from several thousand yuan, ten thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. High-end workstations have many advantages such as powerful performance and outstanding execution efficiency, but the price of tens of thousands of yuan is unacceptable to users with insufficient funds. The biggest advantage of entry-level workstation is its low price and certain "professional" processing ability, which is very suitable for personal studios, small companies, education and training institutions and IT departments of small and medium-sized enterprises. These users are mainly engaged in graphic design, CAD design, software development, information service, training and teaching application. With the growing impact of the financial crisis, entry-level workstations can not only meet the application needs of some users, but also save money at a price of less than 10,000 yuan.
Due to the improvement of hardware technology and the reduction of manufacturing cost, entry-level workstations can be widely used. For example, for plane image processing, users usually use PhotoShop, CorelDraw and other software for image processing, advertising to promote colorpage design, packaging design, textile pattern design and so on. Entry-level workstations equipped with professional graphics cards are fully qualified for these planar image processing tasks. For the demonstration of CAD model of education and training institutions, entry-level workstations can let students see the details of the model intuitively. In the application fields such as software development and information services, entry-level workstations can also handle these big data businesses easily and efficiently.
Dell Precision T3 is an entry-level graphics workstation, equipped with a single Xeon W3503 dual-core processor (2.4GHz), equipped with 3GB DDR3 memory, 250GB SATA hard disk, Quadro NVS295 professional graphics card and DVD drive as standard, equipped with 85Plus 525W power supply, with outstanding stability and energy-saving effect, and passed dozens of ISV certifications. More than 90 applications such as "digital content creation, computer-aided design of architecture/machinery" have been tested and verified, which are especially suitable for users of small and medium-sized enterprises with poor economy, such as graphic design, architectural decoration design and advertising design. More than 5000 yuan
HP XW6600 is a low-end graphics workstation with two Xeon E54 10 processors (2.33GHz), 4GB DDR2 memory, 500GB SATA hard disk, Quadro FX570 professional graphics card and DVD burner, and 85Plus 650W power supply. Its characteristic is that the mainframe is very small and easy to put in the studio. Adopt leading ventilation design and cooling fan mute technology, which has the characteristics of mute and energy saving. The motherboard adopts Intel 5400 chipset, 45nm quad-core processor and supports four-channel memory technology, which is very suitable for users in digital content creation, CAD/CAM design, nonlinear editing and other fields. 10000 a little more