Build 335 – Houston II: Animation Workstation

Houston II is an animation workstation, designed around a 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and an RTX 5070Ti 16GB video card.

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Animation Workstation

Description

Houston II is an animation workstation, designed around a 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and an RTX 5070Ti 16GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and an RTX 5070Ti 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 build was designed for After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Blender.

This build was influenced by our Core Ultra 9 Animation Workstation.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 240

Motherboard: ASRock X870 Pro RS WIFI

Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 2x64GB ​DDR5-5600

OS Storage (NVME): Kingston KC3000 1TB

Main Storage (NVME): Kingston KC3000 4TB

Video Card (GPU): MSI GeForce RTX 5070Ti 16GB VENTUS 3X OC

Power Supply (PSU): Thermaltake GF3 1050W

Case: Corsair 4000D Frame Black

OS: Windows 11 Pro

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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, and ensure that the CPU isn’t preheated by the GPU, a 240mm liquid cooler is recommended.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality and a current-gen chipset.
  • The customer agreed with our recommendation for 128GB RAM, this is twice what they currently have and leaves room for 256GB.
  • The customer agreed with our storage recommendation.
  • The customer agreed with our recommendation for an RTX 5070Ti 16GB, this is a nice upgrade from their RTX 3080.
  • We recommended a 1000W power supply based on the overall design of the build.
  • We used a mid-tower case to fit the parts and give solid airflow.

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