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Stratosphere Express ZH8

Highly affordable new Intel business and trading computer for up to eight 4K UHD monitors

March 2024: Updated model with industry-leading 14th Gen Intel CPUs!

  • March 2024: New faster 14th Gen Intel "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPU series: #1 industry-best performance!
    • Now up to 192GB ultra-fast DDR5 RAM with 79% faster memory bandwidth than DDR4.
    • Optimized for multitasking and responsive computing: segregates priority tasks, background operations. Hybrid CPU design combines ultra-fast Performance cores (P-cores) for priority tasks and Efficiency cores (E-cores) for background tasks.
    • Intel Thread Director shifts foreground tasks to P-cores, background processes to E-cores, working in tandem with Windows 11. (Feature requires Windows 11.)
    • Outstanding Intel CPU reliability, with almost zero Intel CPU failures vs a ~3% failure rate for AMD CPUs.
  • Ultra-fast standard networking: 2.5 Gbps wired Internet + 2.4 Gbps Wi-Fi 6
  • Double-speed SSD options with PCI Express 4.0 (up to 7000 MB/s)
  • Built to order and backed by free LIFETIME expert support with remote diagnostics
New Low Price: $1,49900 USD   ·  Configure / quote / buy now

Standard Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB

  • Simultaneous independent monitors: 8
  • Optional graphics: 2× NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB, NVIDIA T1000 4GB
 

Updated! Affordable business mid-tower workstation PC for up to eight monitors:
New 14th Gen Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 CPUs offer industry-best performance, reliability and value
Optimized for multitasking and responsive computing: segregates priority tasks from background operations

Hybrid graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB discrete graphics + Intel UHD integrated graphics  ·  Optional NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB or RTX 4070 12GB graphics
Highlights

March 4, 2024: Updated features!

Stratosphere Express ZH8 is our affordable, newly updated desktop PC supporting eight monitors, now featuring new high-performance 14th Gen Intel processors.

With our extensive product configurator, you can choose the options you value while keeping your total purchase price affordable.

Stratosphere Express is our second most popular system platform after Stratosphere Pro. While Stratosphere Pro offers a feature-rich base configuration, Stratosphere Express starts with a more affordable basic configuration and allows you to add only key features important to you.

Stratosphere Express ZH8 is as powerful and as affordable as you want it to be.

11th Generation Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 Processors

Industry-fastest 14th Gen "Raptor Lake-R" Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 CPUs!

Stratosphere Express ZH8 is fully customizable with a long list of options, headlined by three new class-leading 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs first available today. Of these, the fastest is Intel Core i9-14900K, newly crowned the world's fastest desktop CPU.

The new 14th Gen Intel upgrade CPUs deliver up to 3X the base CPU speed for multithreaded operations.

Configure and quote your system today with the CPU that meets your budget:

  • Core i5-12400: 12th Gen, 6 cores, up to 4.4 GHz (standard)
  • Core i5-14500: 14th Gen, 14 cores, up to 5.0 GHz, $11900 USD
  • Core i5-14600K: 14th Gen, 14 cores, up to 5.5 GHz, $23500 USD
  • Core i7-14700K: 14th Gen, 20 cores, up to 5.6 GHz, $38500 USD
  • Core i9-14900K: 14th Gen, 24 cores, up to 6.0 GHz, $59900 USD

Great build-to-order performance options

Your performance options don't end with the CPU. Now you can choose from an amazing array of performance-boosting options, our best ever by far:

  • RAM: 32GB fast DDR5 standard, upgradable to 192GB!
  • SSD capacity: 500GB M.2 NVMe standard, upgradable to 2 x 4TB (8TB)
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB, upgradable to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
  • Power supply: 750W standard, upgradable to 1200W

See the configurator to select options, quote or buy

How Intel Thread Director improves multitasking performance

Intel's new 14th Gen Core CPUs maintain Intel's industry lead for CPU performance, beating AMD's latest Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs in benchmark tests such as the widely respected Cinebench R23 test.

In addition to winning synthetic tests composed of pure multithreaded operations, Intel 14th Gen CPUs trump AMD CPUs in handling competing workloads, such as when a user's foreground tasks are competing with ongoing background tasks. Through an Intel-exclusive called Intel Thread Director, Intel's most advanced CPUs significantly boost multitasking performance by prioritizing user foreground tasks, resulting in a more responsive computing experience.

Intel Thread Director is a workload management controller on the CPU that works directly with the operating system to ensure that top-priority tasks are executed first and with the highest performance. Intel worked together with Microsoft to implement the new technology, and currently only Windows 11 is able to take advantage of Intel Thread Director. For this reason, we recommend Windows 11 for Stratosphere Pro Z-series. We also offer Windows 10, but Windows 10 cannot take advantage of Intel Thread Director.

Intel's 13th Gen and 14th Gen processors employ an innovative hybrid architecture combining high-performance CPU cores (Performance cores, or P-cores) and high-efficiency CPU cores (Efficient cores, or E-cores) on the same chip. Intel Thread Director segregates background operations on high-efficiency E-cores, while promoting foreground priority tasks to the high-performance cores (P-cores). The least important tasks are assigned to virtual cores, which use free cycles on P-cores through a method known as Hyper-threading or simultaneous multithreading.

The result is the first CPU optimized for multitasking and responsive computing, in which your high-priority work gets the CPU's top focus. Now your top-priority work is far less likely to suffer from intermittent slowdowns and stalls caused by background tasks grabbing the focus of the same CPU cores being used your top-priority tasks. Priority is determined by Windows 11, which monitors which applications are visible to the user, with particular priority given to the application that has the user's current focus, as well as processes that are assigned high process priority in Windows.

Intel Thread Director requires Windows 11, which is uniquely optimized to work with this on-chip Intel microcontroller to manage competing workloads on 13th Gen and 14th Gen Intel CPUs.

Graphics features & multiple monitor support
  • Supports simultaneous monitors with sharp digital connections
  • Digital display ports:
    • 3 × HDMI 2.0 ports (up to 3840 × 2160 @60Hz resolution)
      Additional HDMI/DVI adapters optional
    • 5 × DisplayPort 1.4 ports (up to 7680 × 4320 @60Hz resolution)
  • Primary graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB
    • 8GB dedicated fast GDDR5 video memory
    • PassMark G3D DirectX performance: 14493 (9X Intel UHD 730 graphics)
  • Secondary graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 730 / 770
  • Popular graphics card upgrade option(s) — see Customize tab:
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
 
Reliability features
  • Solid-State Drive (SSD) drive certified for 1 million hours
    • Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): 1,000,000 hours
    • Operating shock resistance: 1,500 G (0.5 ms)
    • No moving parts; silent operation
  • Optional internal bootable backup SSD
    • Configured for automated daily backup of system drive
    • Serves as system drive in case of primary drive failure. Simply reboot
      the computer and select the alternate boot drive.
    • Option to configure for daily + monthly archival backup
    • Option to back up secondary drive automatically as well
  • Ultra-quiet 750W semi-modular power supply with 5-year warranty
    • Corsair CX750M (2021)
    • 750W capacity for expansion, silent cooling and longevity.
    • Combines quiet cooling, rock-solid performance, high reliability and high value..
    • Inaudible < 15 dB(A) cooling fan through 449W DC power output, per independent power supply tests (Cybenetics). Most systems we ship consume much less than 430W power even under peak demands. We over-spec our power supplies to enable silent operation and to extend their longivity.
    • Tested to deliver 80 PLUS SILVER efficiency (Cybenetics); certified by Corsair for 80 PLUS BRONZE efficiency; saves energy bills, reduces system heat.
    • 5-year Corsair warranty; 105°C Japanese capacitors
    • Semi-modular cables (all peripheral cables are modular) for better airflow and easier replacement.
    • Active PFC, accepts 100 - 240VAC input power
    • Ships with appropriate AC power cable for your country
    • Upgradable in configurator to Corsair RM750x (2021) for 80 PLUS Gold efficiency, 10-year warranty and fully modular cabling. Also upgradable to Corsair RM850x and RM1000x for these features plus extra capacity.
    • Corsair CX750M power supply
Pricing & ecommerce options

New low price!  $1,49900 USD

  • Qty 2: $1,42400 USD each
  • Qty 3+: $1,39400 USD each
  • Quick Build & Ship: Yes! 
    Order today, ships ~ December 30!
e-commerce price: Prefer U.S. dollars? 1,499.00
 
Configure options as you prefer, and buy online today!
Need help choosing?

Call 800.844.3721 for expert technical sales assistance!

The Digital Tigers Advantage
  • Intel Gold Partner: Digital Tigers has Intel's gold partner designation based on sales volume and ongoing technical training.
  • Expert Support: Support includes direct troubleshooting, where our technicians log into customer systems, and resolve issues while on the phone with customers.
  • Beyond Rocket Science™ Service Commitment
  • Junk-Free Guarantee: We install neither adware nor promotional software on any workstation
  • Complete system integration combining Stratosphere workstation with Zenview and UltraFlex multi-screen monitors
D I G I T A L   T I G E R S  C U S T O M E R S
Professional-grade core performance software

Updated! UltraView Desktop Manager 3.0 software

Advanced software for managing multiple monitors and creating a personal productivity dashboard via virtual monitors

  • All-new Digital Tigers software suite, updated for Windows 11!
  • Supports splitting monitors into smaller virtual monitors
  • Create a personal productivity and awareness dashboard out of large, high-resolution monitors and 4K TVs
  • Use larger virtual monitors for primary workspace and supporting documents, websites and work email
  • Use micro-size virtual monitors for task managers, time management, personal email, instant messaging, social media, Bloomberg TV, streaming media, newsfeeds, security cameras and more
  • Never miss anyting important for lack of timely awareness
  • Designed for Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows 7
  • $9900 USD · Free with Stratosphere Express ZH8
  • Learn more: tab on this page · product page

The future of 4K: a personal productivity and awareness dashboard, balancing work and life together

UltraView 49C and 55C 4K UHD curved displays

Above: UltraView 4K UHD curved display (55″ size)

UltraView Desktop Manager: 4K UHD monitor split into 5 virtual monitors

Above: Five virtual monitors created from single 4K UHD monitor, using UltraView Desktop Manager 3.0

To see more examples of what you can now do with a single 4K UHD monitor, see the Virtual Monitors: Example Layouts tab on this page, which shows 55 ways you can carve up a 4K monitor with UltraView Desktop Manager 3.0.

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