Build 348 – Sidearm: CAD Workstation

Sidearm is a CAD workstation, designed around a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and an RX 7900 XTX 24GB video card.

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CAD Workstation

Description

Sidearm is a CAD workstation, designed around a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and an RX 7900 XTX 24GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and an RX 7900 XTX 24GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a powerful new workstation for their new architecture business.

This build was designed for D5 Render, Lumion, Unreal Engine, and Blender.

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

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 3 360

Motherboard: Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7

Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 2x32GB DDR​5-6000

OS Storage (NVME): Western Digital Black SN850X 1TB

Main Storage (NVME): Western Digital Black SN850X 4TB

Video Card (GPU): ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB Phantom Gaming OC

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Straight Power 12 1500W

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black

OS: Windows 11 Pro

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 9 9950X3D gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for editing and modeling, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks. Core Ultra was briefly considered, however the customer preferred the Ryzen. We also looked at the non-X3D version, however the customer decided to spend a little more money.
  • 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.
  • The customer agreed with our recommendation for memory.
  • The customer was fine with our recommended storage setup.
  • We discussed the GPU quite a bit, ultimately deciding on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB for the lower price, decent compute, and high VRAM. The lower price vs Nvidia was helpful for the new business.
  • The customer opted for a higher-wattage power supply, making it easier to upgrade components (like the GPU) in the future.
  • We used our larger mid-tower case to fit the build.

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