Build 117 – Pixel Chariot: Visual Effects Workstation

Pixel Chariot is a visual effects workstation, designed around a 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X processor and an RTX A5000 24GB video card.

Description

Pixel Chariot is a visual effects workstation, designed around a 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X processor and an RTX A5000 24GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X processor and an RTX A5000 24GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a powerful new visual effects workstation to handle their growing professional workload.

This system is designed in particular for Houdini, Touchdesigner, Unity, and Unreal Engine.

This build was influenced by The Atlantic.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

CPU Cooler: Fractal Design Celsius S36 Blackout

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER

Memory: Crucial Ballistix 4x32GB DDR4-3200

Storage (SSD): 2x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB Gen4 NVME

Storage (HDD): Western Digital Black 4TB

Video Card (GPU): NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB

Power Supply (PSU): EVGA G3 1000W

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black

Fans: 7x Phanteks T30-120

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 9 5950X gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for modeling, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, liquid cooling with a 360mm AIO is recommended.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer wanted to max the build out with 128GB of RAM.
  • The customer requested twin 2TB NVME drives.
  • Due to bad pricing on the RTX 3090 at the time, the customer opted for an RTX A5000 24GB.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 1000W power supply was recommended.
  • We used a bigger mid-tower case to fit the build.
  • We used our highest-end fans to ensure proper airflow and static pressure.

Customer Review

“Getting a new and dependable machine was overdue. Chris knew the kind of machine I was looking for and provided a well balanced and expandable configuration for my needs.

Being able to watch the machine being put together on live stream was pretty cool and added to the confidence I had in its quality. When I received the computer, it had been fully tested and I was able to confidently put it into production immediately. It runs as cool and as quiet as can be and will be easily expandable.”

Jeff, Pittsboro NC

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