Build 341 – CardCAD1: CAD Workstation

CardCAD1 is a CAD workstation, designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 4000 ADA 20GB video card.

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CAD Workstation

Description

CardCAD1 is a CAD workstation, designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 4000 ADA 20GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 4000 ADA 20GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a powerful new CAD workstation to handle their growing professional workload that would last a long time.

This build was designed for Carlson and Civil 3D.

This customer previously purchased Big Bird.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

CPU Cooler: Asus ROG STRIX LC 240

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z890 AORUS ELITE WIFI7

Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 2x32GB DDR​5-6000

OS Storage (NVME): Kingston KC3000 1TB

Main Storage (NVME): Kingston KC3000 2TB

Video Card (GPU): Nvidia RTX 4000 ADA 20GB

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 1000W

Case: be quiet! ​Pure Bas​e 501 Airflow Black

OS: Windows 11 Pro

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Design Rationale

  • The Core Ultra 9 285K gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for editing and modeling, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, liquid cooling with a 360mm liquid cooler is recommended.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer agreed with our recommendation for memory, this gives them a great upgrade path.
  • The customer was fine with our default storage setup.
  • The customer was fine with our GPU recommendation.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 1000W power supply was recommended.
  • We used our default mid-tower case to fit the build.

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