Build 451 – Clanker: Laser Scanning Workstation

Clanker is a laser scanning workstation, designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 5080 16GB video card.

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Laser Scanning Workstation

Description

Clanker is a laser scanning workstation, designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 5080 16GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 5080 16GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

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

This system is designed for the Leica RTC360 scanner in Cyclone, Register 360, CloudWorx, and Autodesk.

This build was influenced by Scanihilator.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 3 360​

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z890 AORUS ELITE WIFI7

Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Create Expert 2x64GB ​DDR5-5600

OS Storage (NVME): Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB

Main Storage (NVME): Western Digital Black SN850X 4TB

Video Card (GPU): MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16GB SHADOW 3X OC

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Straight Power 12 1500W

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black Non-Glass

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 lightly-threaded workloads, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks. It also works very well across all applications.
  • 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 chose 128GB of RAM, 256GB is an easy upgrade for the future.
  • The customer an RTX 5080 16GB, RTX 5090 32GB is an easy upgrade for the future.
  • The customer was fine with our storage recommendation.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 1500W power supply was recommended.
  • We used our bigger mid-tower case to fit the build.

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