Workstations

HP workstations give users the performance, innovation and reliability they require along with game-changing design features and cutting-edge technologies.

Z200 Workstations - Workstation power-hungry but on a PC budget? The HP Z200 Workstation offers workstation-class productivity with advanced memory, graphics, and storage, plus application certification, next-generation processors, HP SkyRoom, and HP Performance Advisor.

• Up to 4 cores of compute power
• Up to 16 GB of system memory
• Up to 4.5 TB of internal storage
• Up to single NVIDIA Quadro FX1800

Z400 Workstations - With its revolutionary new architecture and power that will redefine multi-tasking, the HP Z400 Workstation helps you accomplish more with every minute of your time and every dollar of your investment. Now with preloaded HP SkyRoom software - your boarding pass to super-fast, real-time, visual collaboration direct from your desktop.

• Up to 6 cores of compute power
• Up to 24 GB of system memory
• Up to 8 TB of internal storage
• Up to NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 or dual NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 graphics

Z600 Workstations - The HP Z600 packs twelve-core compute and visualization power into a small, quiet package—for the ideal workstation when every inch, watt, and decibel make a difference. Now with preloaded HP SkyRoom software - your boarding pass to super-fast, real-time, visual collaboration direct from your desktop.

• Up to 12 cores of compute power
• Up to 48 GB of system memory
• Up to 6 TB of internal storage
• Up to eight 2D displays
• Up to dual NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 graphics

Z800 Workstations - Combining ultimate performance with a revolutionary new industrial design, the HP Z800 Workstation delivers the extreme speed and massive expandability that you demand to tackle your biggest challenges. Now with preloaded HP SkyRoom software - your boarding pass to super-fast, real-time, visual collaboration direct from your desktop.

• Up to 12 cores of compute power
• Up to 192 GB of system memory
• Up to 10 TB of internal storage
• Up to dual Quadro FX5800 graphics

Why Choose a Personal Workstation?

Professionals prefer to use the highest-quality, highest-performing tools. Such tools best enable the talents of an engineer, animator, analyst/trader, or a programmer, allowing them to express themselves, their vision, and their skills to the greatest effect. The result is that organizations employing these tools get products to market more quickly, and with higher quality than organizations that employ lesser tools.

The key difference between a workstation and a PC is that a PC is a general-purpose machine designed for a broad range of tasks, such as running productivity suites, whereas a workstation has been designed to meet the requirements of a number of more specific markets and applications.

A summary of the key differences between a workstation and a PC include:

• Overall system reliability. Workstations are fitted with higher reliability technology than PCs. Features such as error checking and correcting (ECC) memory, larger power supplies, and more sophisticated cooling mechanisms ensure greater expandability while maintaining high reliability. Moreover, workstations are designed for quick (and often "tool-less") upgrades and repairs.
• Applications Tuning. Workstations are tuned and designed for the demands of specific applications. Because workstations often have features geared towards specific applications requirements (e.g., graphics), and these combinations are rigorously tested, users are assured that they are using a tried-and-true combination of hardware, system software and applications.
• Enhanced performance. Workstations are engineered to provide the best 32- and 64-bit performance available for applications that have large resource requirements (i.e., memory, disk, I/O, and/or graphics subsystems).
• Wide range of graphics. Professional graphics cards for the largest and toughest 3D visualization, OpenGL support, and specific application support to maximize on-screen performance
• High degree of serviceability. Availability of a workstation and its applications is critical, so the cost and quickness of returning a workstation to service is paramount to an IT organization. Serviceability involves multiple facets of component access, including tool-free repair and replacement of major components.
• Greater expandability. Workstations are designed with more headroom for additional components. For example, additional (and higher-powered) PCI slots, higher RAM capacity through increased number of memory slots, higher disk capacity and higher capacity power supplies.

The best reason to buy a workstation is to improve productivity and increase return on investment. A workstation provides high levels of stability, performance and expandability.

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