Puget Systems is based in Seattle and specializes in building high quality, custom-built desktops, workstations, and servers. OWC Radio Host, Cirina Catania, talks to Matt Bach, Senior Labs Technician, for an in-depth conversation about the latest trends in computing and how to get the perfect hardware for your workflow.

Puget Systems emphasize customization with a laser focus on understanding each customer’s specific needs and offer personal consulting and support that they believe is becoming quite rare in the industry. Puget Systems' goal is to provide each client with the best possible computer for their needs and budget.

We spoke about building PC's for video production, gaming and other high-end needs!

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In This Episode

00:32 - Cirina introduces Matt Bach, senior lab technician of Puget Systems.05:53 - Cirina asks Matt the common causes of Premiere Pro crashing on PCs.10:37 - Matt describes the competition of Intel and AMD when it comes to CPU performance.16:24 - The things you have to consider in building your system unit based on your work demands.23:02 - Matt’s recommendation for an essential and sufficient CPU for general use. 28:27 - What is the difference between a CPU and a GPU?33:03 - What are the advantages of upgrading your SSD, and what is the most recommended brand? 41:40 - Matt shares Puget System’s interesting clients and partners they work with.46:20 - How can Puget Systems help you make your computer a fit to your workflow needs and preferences.53:22 - Visit Puget Systems’ website pugetsystems.com to check out how you can make your own machine.

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Transcript

This is Cirina Catania with OWC Radio. I have been talking with Matt Bach at Puget Systems is their senior labs technician. And he has written lately this amazing series of technology articles that caught my eye, and I think I want to get real geeky with him for a minute. Sit back, relax and listen in as we kind of do a deep dive into what you need to do and what you need to look for when building the best computer for the type of work you do. Before we really get into that, Matt, can you tell our listeners, what is Puget Systems? Where are you? What do you do? And who do you do it for?

Yeah, so Puget Systems is a workstation manufacturer. So we build computers, and we've been around for close to 20 years, we're just south of Seattle. So we're in a big tech hub near Amazon, and Microsoft and all those kind of guys. And yeah, we really focus on high-performance workstations, but at the same time workstations that just work. There's a lot of companies out there that really push the overload like really, really push the overload and get into like overclocking and crazy parts that they put into their computers. And we take things a little bit step back, we're a lot more about reliability, stability, and just getting the exact right components for what you're doing. I mean, like you mentioned like we do all these hardware articles. And that's not just for fun, it's because that's what we actually need to do ourselves in order to figure out like, oh, what processor should we sell for a Premiere Pro user, or a DaVinci Resolve user, or After Effects user because they all act just a little bit differently.

So how long have you been at the company?

I've actually been here for going on 17 years, I believe. My brother is actually the company president. So he started it in our parent's garage, and I got involved pretty early, well,