Build 39 – Metal Falcon: General Workstation

Metal Falcon is a general workstation, designed around a 6-core Ryzen 5 2600X processor and a GTX 1660Ti 6GB video card.

Description

Metal Falcon is a general workstation, designed around a 6-core Ryzen 5 2600X processor and a GTX 1660Ti 6GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 6-core Ryzen 5 2600X processor and a GTX 1660Ti 6GB 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 is designed for MS Office, VMware, Starcraft 2, iTunes, Linux development/testing, and general applications.

This build was influenced by Pegasus.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

CPU Cooler: Be Quiet Dark Rock 4

Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO WIFI

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x16GB DDR4-3000

Storage (SSD): Samsung 860 EVO 250GB

Storage (HDD): Western Digital Blue 1TB

Video Card (GPU): EVGA GTX 1660Ti 6GB XC Ultra

Power Supply (PSU): EVGA 650W GQ

Case: NZXT H500 White

Fans: 4x Phanteks PH-F120MP

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 5 2600X gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for gaming and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, air cooling with a single-tower is recommended.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer wanted at least 32GB of RAM.
  • The customer was fine with our default storage setup.
  • We recommended the GTX 1660Ti for gaming performance.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 650W power supply was recommended.
  • We used our default white mid-tower case to fit the build.
  • We used our default fans to ensure proper airflow and static pressure.

Customer Review

“Chris is passionate about delivering the best PC for his customers. His machines are custom built and fairly priced. My friends at work were impressed by the specs on the computer that I purchased.

I’ve been using the computer for about 6 months, and it works great. I could not recommend Top Flight Computers more.”

Karl, Cary NC

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