Build 165 – Tower of Bean: Animation Workstation

Tower of Bean is an animation workstation.

Description

Tower of Bean is an animation workstation.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 12-core i7-12700K processor and an RTX 3060 12GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer was looking for a new powerful workstation that would last a long time and be easily upgraded over time. This machine was designed for business operations, gaming, streaming, animation, and video editing.

This build was influenced by Unit 09.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): Intel i7-12700K

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4

Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 2x16GB DDR4-3200

Storage (SSD): Kingston KC3000 512GB

Storage (SSD): Kingston KC3000 1TB

Video Card (GPU): EVGA RTX 3060 12GB XC BLACK GAMING

Power Supply (PSU): Enermax Revolution DF 850W 80+ Gold

Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow Black

Fans: 3x Noctua NFF12 PWM Black

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Design Rationale

  • The i7-12700K gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for gaming and editing, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, air cooling with a dual-tower cooler is recommended. Liquid cooling is more powerful, but not needed.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • The customer wanted at least 32GB of RAM, and wanted to save some money with last-gen tech.
  • The customer was fine with our recommended storage setup.
  • We recommended an RTX 3060 for ideal gaming and editing performance.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 850W power supply was recommended.
  • We used our default mid-tower case to fit the build.
  • We used our default fans to ensure proper airflow and static pressure.

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