richandtd Loc: Virginia

Has anyone had a photography pc built by Puget Systems? I’ve built computers in the past but with the cost of individual pieces costing so much and the fact that my son-in-law is a network administrator in DC and built his and his brothers systems I was ready to build one. But I’d found Puget Systems and after much discussion between them and son-in-law I went with Puget Systems. They show pictures of the build in progress and upon finishing the build it goes into the testing benchmarks. This is where the heat of cpu and such and everything to me looked good until I was notified by the person testing would be sending me PC back to install to replace the CPU. Apparently the I9900k chip was only running in turbo mode and not throttling back and even though the temperatures were good they installed a new I9900k chip. The intresting part is it was only a couple hundred more to have them do the build the checks and balances they have in place seem to be top notch. It comes with a 1 year parts and labor warranty. On Monday it goes back to benchmarks. Will keep updating the status.

richandtd Loc: Virginia

In the bottom picture you can see the custom brace for the back of the video card

Sendpyper Loc: Illinois

I had one built by them about six years ago although it was just a 'general' computer, not specifically for photography.

It finally crashed in March of last year shortly before I had multiple medical issues. It looks like the main hard drive has finally died because it will boot up but then there's nothing but gibberish on the screen even after running Puget's diagnostic disk. I just haven't contacted them as of yet because I'm too lazy (got four other computers to fall back on).

However, their customer service is second to none and I'm sure when I get off my duff they'll fix my problem - they're top shelf people!

richandtd Loc: Virginia

I’v been saving for a while and this build will make my Nikon D810 happy with Adobe Lightroom

Intel Core i9 9900K 3.6GHz Eight Core 16MB 95W
CPU

Noctua NH-U12S
CPU Cooling

Crucial DDR4-2666 16GB
Ram for a total of 64GB

Samsung 970 EVO 2TB M.2 SSD
Hard Drive. Main system drive

3 Samsung 860 Pro 2TB SATA3 2.5inch SSD
Hard Drives that are combined making a Raid5
For my storage

Asus 16x Blu-ray Burner SATA (black)
CD / DVD Rom

NVIDIA Quadro P4000

Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C Black
Case

And will be adding these first of the year

Eizo ColorEdge CG279X

Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-2000 24" Professional Photographic Large-Format Inkjet Printer

Sendpyper Loc: Illinois

Whew! Killer!

I guess you have been saving your pennies.

richandtd Loc: Virginia

And only make possible with wife onboard and yes a lot of planning went into this build. They have systems that they recommend for use with Lightroom but my last system that I built had 3 10k SCSI screaming drive in a raid 5 and I loved the performance and the security of the raid 5 for stage one dats back up. Fast forward to today’s SATA SSD with Raid 5 and I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the performance I’ll have keeping the M.2 drive 1 partition Windows 10 Pro and Lightroom with raid 5 for files. Yes more excited about this build than words can express. Oh and went the extra for 3 year warranty parts and labor.

richandtd Loc: Virginia

New i9900k installed now the operating system reinstalled ensuring system stability then back to benchmarks and the heat mapping

richandtd Loc: Virginia

My computer has passed all the tests and is in quality control for final last checking

richandtd Loc: Virginia

System is completed and at FEDX

BebuLamar

I have never heard of them. Checking their website and it appears to me that they are a good outfit.

richandtd Loc: Virginia

What excites me is having the operating system on an 2t m.2 drive with 3 2t solid state drives in a raid 5 configuration

richandtd Loc: Virginia

Having the computer in my hands now for a bit all I can say is that working with Lightroom is a real pleasure. I anticipate this pc will be a valuable tool in my photography for many years to come.

richandtd Loc: Virginia

Little update this computer just spoils the heck out on me I’ve gotten so use to the speed and performance that when I helped a friend with his couple year old non custom off the shelve system like walking and driving a car. You’ll get to the same destination but what a time difference. This should be my system for the next 10 plus years.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

I would only change your RAID config. RAID 5 is a bit dangerous since is has only one parity drive. RAID 10 offers a more resilient configuration, With a striped drive pair for performance, and a mirror pair for redundancy, mirroring does not entail parity management, so you will likely see faster reads and writes.

richandtd Loc: Virginia

Thought about raid 10 but could only spring for 3 drives at the time