Build 310 – Deep Thought: Photogrammetry Workstation

Deep Thought is a photogrammetry workstation, designed around a 32-core Threadripper ​7970X processor and an RTX 5000 ADA 32GB video card.

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Photogrammetry Workstation

Description

Deep Thought is a photogrammetry workstation, designed around a 32-core Threadripper ​7970X processor and an RTX 5000 ADA 32GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 32-core Threadripper ​7970X processor and an RTX 5000 ADA 32GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

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

This build was designed for LP360, Metashape, Pix4DMatic, TopoDOT, Microstation, NAVIS IVION, Trimble RealWorks, Civil 3D, Recap Pro, and ContextCapture.

This build was influenced by our Threadripper 7000 CAD Workstation.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Threadripper ​79​70X

CPU Cooler: SilverStone Technology XE360-TR5​

Motherboard: Gigabyte TRX50 AERO D

Memory: Kingston ​4​x64GB DD​R5​-5600 E​CC

OS Storage (NVME): Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB

Main Storage (NVME): Kingston Fury Renegade 4TB

Video Card (GPU): Nvidia RTX 5000 ADA 32GB

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Straight Power 12 1200W

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black

Fans: 3x be quiet! Silent Wings Pro 4 120, 2x Noctua NFA4x20 PWM

OS: Windows 11 Pro

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Design Rationale

  • The Threadripp​er ​79​70X gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for lightly-threaded workloads 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, and an upgrade path.
  • The customer was fine with our default memory, 384GB was an easy upgrade.
  • The customer was fine with our default storage setup.
  • The customer preferred the RTX 5000 ADA for near-max VRAM, stability with their programs, high general-purpose GPU compute, and controlled power draw.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 1200W power supply was recommended.
  • We used one of our mid-tower cases to fit the build.
  • We used our high-end fans to ensure proper airflow and static pressure.

Customer Review

“Chris is very professional and worked through our configuration and application needs prior to purchasing.

The proposed configuration has been working great for us and has we have noticed a double digit percentage gain in productivity.”

Jeff, Fayetteville AR

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