Spec Your Workstation or Business System
Pick the work it has to do. We spec the parts around that workload and your budget, and we will tell you if the answer is going to be wrong.
Start with the size of your business
Then pick what the machine is actually for. We will only offer a one-click build where we stock every part it needs.
Where a system is marked not stocked, the links below point at the retailers who do sell it. Those are not our products, they are not on our price list, and we do not earn from the links. We have not checked their prices today — check them yourself, or ask us to spec a build from the parts we can actually supply.
Home Office
Just youOne person, working from home. The machine has to be quiet enough to live with.
General office
Home Office Workstation
Email, spreadsheets, video calls and Microsoft 365, quietly, all day.
Typically £700–1,200 fully built
Configure thisLight creative
Home Office Plus
The same quiet machine, with the memory and storage for photo and light editing.
Typically £1,200–1,800 fully built
Configure thisSmall Office
2 - 10 peopleA few people sharing an office, running Microsoft 365 and back-office systems.
General office
Small Office Desktop
The standard desk machine: accounts, CRM, document work and calls.
Typically £900–1,500 fully built
Configure thisPower user
Small Office Power User
For the analyst or bookkeeper with twenty browser tabs and a million-row spreadsheet open.
Typically £1,400–2,200 fully built
Configure thisRetail & Front of House
1 - 20 sitesA counter, a till and a back office. Runs all day, in a room customers are standing in.
Till & counter
Retail Counter System
Built for a till, a card reader and a customer standing there. Compact, quiet, on all day.
Typically £900–1,600 fully built
Configure thisBack office
Retail Back Office System
Stock, rotas and multi-screen admin for the office behind the counter.
Typically £1,100–1,900 fully built
Configure thisProfessional Workstation
Per personOne specialist doing CAD, editing, medical imaging or engineering work.
Creative & media
Creative Workstation
Editing, colour and VFX. Memory and sustained load before peak boost.
Typically £1,500–3,500 fully built
Configure thisRendering & VFX
Render Node
Frames, simulations and batch output. Professional multi-GPU, never a single consumer card.
Typically £3,000–8,000 fully built
We do not yet stock the parts this needs: a professional graphics card with real memory behind it (16GB+ VRAM).
Ask us to spec itBusiness desktop lines, sold and warranted by the manufacturer.
CAD & engineering
CAD Workstation
SolidWorks, Revit and Inventor. A certified professional driver, not a gaming card.
Typically £2,200–5,500 fully built
Configure thisMedical imaging
Diagnostic Imaging Workstation
PACS reading. DICOM volumes are memory-hungry and the read has to be instant.
Typically £2,500–6,000 fully built
We do not yet stock the parts this needs: a professional graphics card with real memory behind it (16GB+ VRAM).
Ask us to spec itBusiness desktop lines, sold and warranted by the manufacturer.
Development & AI
Development Workstation
Local builds, containers and local models. Memory and storage bandwidth set the ceiling.
Typically £1,800–6,000 fully built
Configure thisServer & Virtualisation
SharedOn-site compute, virtual machines or shared services for a whole team.
File & print server
Small File Server
Shared drives, shared printers, permissions. The heart of a small network.
Typically £1,400–3,000 fully built
We do not yet stock the parts this needs: a server or workstation processor (Xeon, Threadripper or EPYC), ECC registered memory.
Ask us to spec itRack and tower servers, with the manufacturer warranty and support options attached.
Virtualisation
Virtualisation Host
Running the servers you would otherwise pay a hosting company for.
Typically £2,500–8,000 fully built
We do not yet stock the parts this needs: a server or workstation processor (Xeon, Threadripper or EPYC), a workstation or server chipset (W680, C266, WRX90 or TRX50), ECC registered memory.
Ask us to spec itRack and tower servers, with the manufacturer warranty and support options attached.
Storage & Backup
SharedNetwork storage and backup - the thing standing between you and losing the data.
Backup & archive
Network Backup Appliance
The thing you find out you needed, on the day you find out you needed it.
Typically £800–4,000 fully built
We do not yet stock the parts this needs (enterprise or NAS-rated drives, a case with enough drive bays for the storage, ECC registered memory), and it starts below the GBP 1,090 we can actually build.
Ask us to spec itRack and tower servers, with the manufacturer warranty and support options attached.
Shared team storage
Shared Storage Server
Media libraries and project files everyone needs to reach without emailing them.
Typically £1,200–5,000 fully built
We do not yet stock the parts this needs: enterprise or NAS-rated drives, a case with enough drive bays for the storage.
Ask us to spec itRack and tower servers, with the manufacturer warranty and support options attached.
Or describe the job it has to do
If you already know what the machine is for, pick it here.
Not stocked for online build yet
We build these, but we do not yet stock every part they need, so we will not quote you one online. Tell us the workload and we will spec and price it properly.
Enterprise Servers
Still needs: a server or workstation processor (Xeon, Threadripper or EPYC), a workstation or server chipset (W680, C266, WRX90 or TRX50), ECC registered memory.
Talk to us about enterprise serversServers
Still needs: a server or workstation processor (Xeon, Threadripper or EPYC), ECC registered memory.
Talk to us about serversNAS & Storage
Still needs: enterprise or NAS-rated drives, a case with enough drive bays for the storage, ECC registered memory.
Talk to us about nas & storageNo display resolution is asked for here on purpose — it changes a gaming build and nothing about a workstation, a server or a NAS.
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