HP Z2 G4 Series Tower B&H Custom Workstation

General Features

Architects

Optimized for BIM and 3D CAD design, users can easily manipulate 3D shapes and render near-photographic models in real time.

Product Developers

Accelerate your 3D modeling design cycles with full, unthrottled performance. Get advanced rendering capabilities for quicker design visualization.

Higher Education

Bring real-world capabilities to your education labs with workstation-class power and certification for popular professional applications. Plus, rigorous testing means less downtime.

Performance

With up to 60% more graphics power and 13% smaller than last generation, the Z2 G4 Tower is equipped to handle heavy workloads.

Built to Expand

This expandable entry workstation is designed to grow with you to meet your ever-changing workload requirements.

Secure and Manageable

Get powerful protection from evolving malware threats with HP's self-healing, hardware-enforced security solutions. Plus, easily manage multiple devices with HP Manageability Integration Kit.

9.5mm Slim DVD Writer

The 9.5mm Slim DVD Writer lets you read from and write to a variety of optical CD and DVD media.

Gigabit Ethernet

The system uses an integrated Intel I219-LM PCIe Gigabit controller for internet access when connected to a router, modem, or network switch. If you'd like to install a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapter, this is an empty M.2 2230 slot, which uses a PCIe 3.0 x1 interface.

6 x USB 3.0 Type-A | 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A

The Z2 G4 Tower features six 5 Gb/s USB 3.0 Type-A ports, one of which doubles as a charging port, and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports that will allow you to connect external peripherals such as hard drives, printers, and memory card readers. These fast speeds mean you can spend less time waiting and more time focusing on the task at hand. Two of the USB 3.0 ports are in the front and four are in the rear, while both USB 2.0 ports are in the rear.

Up to 64GB RAM

Four 288-pin DIMM slots support up to 64GB of ECC or non-ECC unbuffered 2666 MHz DDR4 memory.

Expansion Bays

Expand or upgrade your system's drive bays with two internal 3.5" bays, two external 5.25" bays, and two M.2 2280 slots that use a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface.

PCIe Slots

Expand your system's components using one PCIe 3.0 x16/16 slot, one PCIe 3.0 x4/x16 slot, and two PCIe 3.0 x1/x4 slots. All PCIe slots are full-height and full-length.

Windows 10

Start Menu

After its hiatus in Windows 8, the Start Menu has returned. Utilizing a combination of the traditional menu system and Windows 8's Live Tiles, the improved Start Menu gives you more information at a glance, showing notification information alongside your applications and other pinned items.

Cortana

Microsoft's digital personal assistant, Cortana can answer your questions with information gleaned from both your device and the internet at large. You can type or even talk with her, if your system has a microphone. Using her Notebook, Cortana keeps track of your needs and wants, and she learns over time to improve her information gathering skills.

Microsoft Edge

After nearly 20 years, Microsoft has finally replaced its Internet Explorer web browser. With Microsoft Edge, users can write directly on web pages and share notes with friends and colleagues. It also improves the online reading experience by adding a distraction-free mode and read-it-later functionality. Edge also has built-in Cortana integration; you can have her help you find a restaurant, make a reservation, and pull up directions without leaving your browser.

Windows Store

For Windows 10, Microsoft has unified the Windows Store. Now, apps for PCs, tablets, and phones will all be accessible from one place. And with support for Universal Apps, one version of an app can work across all your compatible devices automatically.

Windows Continuum

Windows 10 was designed for a variety of screen sizes and input styles, and with its Continuum feature, it automatically adapts to fit your needs. A Windows 10 tablet on its own requires a touch-centric approach, but attaching a mouse and keyboard will shift everything to a more traditional interface. You can even attach an external monitor to your Windows 10 phone for a near-desktop experience. But it's not just the operating system; Windows Universal Apps take advantage of Continuum as well.

Xbox on Windows 10

Gaming is a big focus of Windows 10. Xbox integration allows for PC players to match up against Xbox One players on supported games, and if you have an Xbox One, you can even stream compatible titles to your PC. Native support for recording with the new Game DVR feature makes it easy to capture and share your gameplay. The new DirectX12 takes better advantage of multi-core processors, giving games a performance boost, even on older hardware. Windows 10 also features native support for virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift.

Windows 10 Pro

The Pro version of Windows 10 includes all of the features of Windows 10 Home plus many designed specifically for business users, including Hyper-V virtualization, BitLocker disk encryption, and remote desktop access. Devices will also be able to join domains and the Azure Active Directory, and they can even access a specialized version of the Windows Store featuring custom, company-specific applications.

General Features

3D Graphics Architecture

• Scalable geometry architecture
• Hardware tessellation engine
• NVIDIA Giga Thread with dual copy engines
• Up to 32K x 32K texture and render processing
• Transparent multisampling and super sampling
• 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
• 32-bit per-component floating point texture filtering and blending
• 64x full scene antialiasing (FSAA), 128x supported in SLI configurations
• Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, HEVC, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)
• Dedicated H.264 and HEVC encoder
• Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback)

Advanced Display Features

• Supports any combination of four compatible connected displays
• HDCP 2.2 support over DisplayPort, DVI, and HDMI connectors
• 12-bit internal display pipeline (hardware support for 12-bit scanout on supported panels, applications, and connection)
• NVIDIA 3D Vision technology, 3D DLP, Interleaved, and other 3D stereo format support
• Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling

DisplayPort and HDMI Digital Audio Support

Codecs: Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AAC
Data Rate: 44.1/48/88.2/96/176/192 kHz
Word Size: 16/20/24-bit

GPU Performance Features

Pascal Microarchitecture

Based on 16nm FinFET process technology with 1792 CUDA cores, the Quadro P4000 provides performance for computationally demanding design visualization or immersive design reviews with VR support.

Simultaneous Multi-Projection

Complete stereo rendering of geometry in a single pass to double the effective throughput for applications such as VR.

Pascal VR-Centric Features

Dynamic Load Balancing: Dynamically allocate GPU resources for graphics and compute tasks as needed to maximize resource utilization.
Preemption: Pixel level graphics preemption provides more granular control to better support time-sensitive tasks such as VR motion tracking. Compute preemption at the thread and instruction level provides finer grain control over compute tasks.

H.264 and HEVC Encode/Decode Engines

Deliver faster than real-time performance for transcoding, video editing, and other encoding applications with a dedicated H.264 and HEVC encode engine and a dedicated decode engine that are independent of 3D/compute pipeline.

NVIDIA GPU Boost 3.0

Boosts the card's clock speed in real time based on the target temperature. If the card is running below the set target temperature, GPU Boost will increase the clock speed to improve performance. GPU Boost 3.0 adds granular control over the clock speed and voltage adjustments for performance increases.

Image Quality Features

Memory Compression

Increase bandwidth by up to 20% by reducing the amount of data fetched from memory for each frame with fourth generation, lossless delta compression.

NVIDIA Quadro MOSAIC Technology

Transparently scale the desktop and applications across up to 4 GPUs and 16 displays from a single workstation while delivering full performance and image quality.

DisplayPort 1.4 Support

Support up to four 5K monitors at 60 Hz, or dual 8K displays per card. The P4000 supports HDR color for 4K at 60 Hz for 10/12-bit HEVC decode and up to 4K at 60 Hz for 10-bit HEVC encode. Each DisplayPort connector is capable of driving DCI 4K displays at 120 Hz with 30-bit color.

NVIDIA NVIEW Advanced Desktop Software

Configure single or multi-display environments for increased desktop workspace and productivity.

OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support

Provide a smooth and immersive 3D Stereo experience for professional applications.

3D Stereo Synchronization

Connect to a separately available compatible Quadro sync card for robust control of 3D effects.

Software Support

NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Platform

Natively execute standard programming languages like C/C++ and Fortran, and APIs such as OpenCL, OpenACC and Direct Compute to accelerate techniques such as ray tracing, video and image processing, and computation fluid dynamics. Dynamic Parallelism allows the GPU to dynamically spawn new processing threads without going back to the CPU, lowering processing latency.

NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video

GPUDirect for Video speeds communication between the GPU and video I/O devices by avoiding unnecessary system memory copies and CPU overhead.

NVIDIA Enterprise-Management Tools

Maximize system uptime, seamlessly manage wide-scale deployments and remotely control graphics and display settings for efficient operations. Multi-GPU Technology.

NVIDIA Multi-GPU Technology

Combine the visualization and interactive design capability of multiple GPUs by leveraging a mix of Quadro GPUs to dramatically improve the production workflow.

NVIDIA SLI HB Technology

Leverage multiple P4000 GPUs to dynamically scale graphics performance, enhance image quality, expand display real estate, and assemble a fully virtualized system.