Build 364 – The Looking Glass Engine: Graphic Design Workstation

The Looking Glass Engine is a graphic design workstation, designed around a 8-core Ryzen 7 7700X processor and an RTX 5060Ti 8GB video card.

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Graphic Design Workstation

Description

The Looking Glass Engine is a graphic design workstation, designed around a 8-core Ryzen 7 7700X processor and an RTX 5060Ti 8GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 8-core Ryzen 7 7700X processor and an RTX 5060Ti 8GB 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 was designed for Canva, Krita, Cricut Design Space, ChatGPT, and Diablo 4.

This build is similar to Darc Knight.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 AORUS ELITE AX

Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 2x16GB ​DDR5-6000

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

Main Storage (NVME): Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB

Video Card (GPU): MSI GeForce RTX 5060Ti 8GB VENTUS 2X PLUS

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850W

Case: Corsair 3000D Airflow Black

OS: Windows 11 Home

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 7 7700X gave the customer a good amount of single-core performance for high end gaming, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks. It also worked very well for the budget.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, a dual-tower cooler is recommended
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer agreed with our recommendation for 32GB RAM.
  • The customer mostly agreed with our storage recommendation, upgrading one drive to 2TB.
  • The customer requested an RTX 5060Ti 8GB.
  • We recommended a 850W power supply based on the overall design of the build.
  • We used a slightly cheaper mid-tower case to fit the parts and give solid airflow.

Customer Review

“Best PC build I’ve had in a long long time!!!! Excellent customer service!”

Stephanie, Dunn NC

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