This review first appeared in issue 353 ofPC Pro.
First, that processor.
Scan has chosen Corsair H150i Elite Capellix RGB liquid cooling to eke the most out of thisprocessor.
The powerful components are kept cool by Corsair’s H150i Elite Capellix RGB liquid cooling
These are 32GB 4,800MHzSamsungECC Registered DDR5 modules, for a total of 128GB.
Scan has spared no expense when it comes to storage, either.
The boot drive is a single 2TB Corsair MP700 NVMe M.2 unit.
The drives offer throughputs of incredible speeds
This takes advantage of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series support for PCI-E 5.
Running CrystalDiskMark 8, it delivered 11,492MB/sec reading and 11,773MB/sec writing, which are phenomenal levels of throughput.
This array delivered mind-blowing 34,186MB/sec reading and 42,176MB/sec writing.
There are 10GbE and 2.5GbE LAN ports on the back, plus Wi-Fi 7 within
Thats not a misprint youre getting 30 to 40GB/sec throughput.
This will makeeditingeven8Kvideo relatively painless, for example.
Touch of style
This plethora of potent components has been housed in a sizeable Fractal Design North chassis.
Power trip: the 1,000W Corsair PSU is an 80 Plus Gold-certified unit
There are two mounts for 2.5in drives, and two more for 3.5in or 2.5in units.
None are used as all of Scans storage is NVMe-based.
Even under full load, this isnt a noisy computer.
There are plenty of good reasons to welcome back the non-Pro Threadripper, which is better than ever
Theres also an x16 PCI-E 4 slot with a second that operates in x4 mode.
The motherboard also has hardware and software support for Asus IPMI remote management expansion cards.
The rest are throw in-A ports of lesser speeds.
An overall score in thePC Probenchmarks of 954 is way ahead of anything weve tested before.
But the video result of 892 is phenomenal as well.
Only the image editing score of 267 has been beaten before.
This is a mostly single-threaded test, and there are CPUs with faster boost core frequencies.
Tour de force
This GPU power translates into incredible3D modellingcapabilities.
For 3D animation, 295 in 3dsmax-07 and 807 in maya-06 tell their own story.
The Scan 3XS GWP TR Ada is a tour de force.
The Nvidia RTX 6000 Adagraphicsalso dominate for viewport acceleration or GPU rendering, and storage throughput is unparalleled.
For a few years, it seemed like the regular AMD Ryzen Threadripper was history.
After the Pro version arrived, there was no non-Pro 5000 series.
But now the vanilla Threadripper is back with the 7000 generation.
The Pro goes from 12 to 96 cores.
Further differentiation comes with memory configuration.
Since we last had non-Pro Threadrippers, AMDs Zen core technology has moved on apace.
The Threadripper undercuts it in price while the Threadripper Pro now goes up to 96 cores.
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