Build 312 – Kinkaid 3: Photogrammetry Workstation

Kinkaid 3 is a set of 2 photogrammetry workstations, designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 4500 ADA 24GB video card.

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Photogrammetry Workstation

Description

Kinkaid 3 is a set of 2 photogrammetry workstations, designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 4500 ADA 24GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an RTX 4500 ADA 24GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a set of 2 new workstations to handle their growing professional workload that would last a long time.

This build was designed for photogrammetry and CAD, specifically for AgTek, Trimble Business Center, Civil 3D, and AutoCAD.

This customer previously purchased Kinkaid 1 and Kinkaid 2.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 3 360mm

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z890 AORUS ELITE WIFI7

Memory: Kingston F​ury Beast ​4x32GB DDR​5-6000

OS Storage (NVME): Kingston Fury Renegade 1TB

Main Storage (NVME): Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB

Video Card (GPU): Nvidia RTX 4500 ADA 24GB

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

Case: be quiet! Pure Base 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 general use, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, liquid cooling with a 240mm cooler is recommended.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer was fine with our recommended memory setup.
  • The customer was fine with our recommended storage setup.
  • The customer was fine with our recommended video card.
  • We recommended a 1000W power supply based on the design of the build.
  • We used our regular mid-tower case for solid airflow and minimalistic design.

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