BIOS and CMOS issues are rare, but when they happen, they can be challenging to replicate and repair. Learn how Jeff helped one customer solve these issues on a workstation not purchased from Puget Systems.
DaVinci Resolve Initial Troubleshooting
DaVinci Resolve is a powerful application but when errors, lag, or crashing present it’s helpful to know the basics of troubleshooting. This article will cover many of the common issues and their relative solutions.
Best Workstation PC for Unreal Engine (Spring 2021)
Unreal Engine is being used by a wide ranger of industries and not just game development. Each industry uses Unreal a little differently, and as such, requires different hardware to optimize their workflow. We’ll look at a few of the more popular use cases, and review the best hardware for each.
How Fast is the new Multi-Frame Rendering in After Effects 18.1 BETA?
One of the most common hardware complaint you will hear about After Effects is that it doesn’t take advantage of the higher core count CPUs that are common in today’s workstations. In the new After Effects 18.1 BETA, however, Adobe is introducing a new feature called Multi-Frame Rendering which should vastly speed up render times when you have a higher core count processor.
How We Handle Peripherals Is Changing
Since our founding, more than twenty years ago, Puget Systems has offered a small selection of keyboards, mice, and other accessories for purchase and use with our computers. The exact categories and models we have carried changed over time, of course, but it was always just an assumed part of our business – after all, people need input devices, displays, backup drives, etc. But what if that isn’t actually the best approach for our customers?
AMD – Return of the King?
Back in 2015, we quietly dropped AMD processor options from our workstations. At the time, I wrote a post explaining what had happened, and ended it with a hope that AMD would come back someday with a more competitive CPU. That did, in fact, happen – and over the last couple of years we have seen them surge back into our product line with a vengeance!
AMD Threadripper Pro 3995x HPL HPCG NAMD Performance Testing (Preliminary)
Threadripper Pro! AMD has released the long awaited Threadripper Pro CPUs. I was able to spend a (long) day (and night) running compute performance testing on the flagship 64-core TR Pro 3995WX. In this post I’ve got some HPC workload benchmark results from putting this excellent CPU through its compute paces.
Top 7 Data Transfer Speed Slowdowns – Internal SSD
There are literally 100s of influencing factors that could cause slow data transfer speeds, this article will cover some more popular culprits and how to solve them.
NVLink Performance in DaVinci Resolve 17.0
In version 17.0, Blackmagic added “Support for NVLink high speed interconnect with supported NVIDIA GPUs”. But does this feature actually increase performance in Windows 10, or are you better off leaving it disabled?
AMD Machine Check Exception – X570/B550 Chipsets
With certain hardware, a system may become unstable and begin rebooting/crashing and only occasionally throwing errors that help identify the culprit. If your system uses an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and a motherboard based on the X570 series chipset, you may run into this issue as well. This article will cover the solution we have found to be successful.
