However, in fairness, with the CPU rated at 77W and the GPU at 41W there’s not a huge amount of heat being generated inside so the fans shouldn’t be taxed too much anyway. With a substantial CPU heat sink and insulated with acoustic foam, the machine is also incredibly quiet in operation. The CoolerMaster Silencio RC-550 is solid in construction, provides easy access to the hard drives inside and also includes some handy top mounted USB ports. £26 well spent I’d say.įor what is essentially a budget workstation it’s good to see Scan has still managed to present it in a quality chassis.
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For an additional £26 you can upgrade to a professional PNY 120GB Prevail Elite which is not only rated by PNY as being 10x higher in terms of its long term endurance, but our tests confirm that it is significantly faster than the consumer-focused PNY XLR8. Considering the price of the machine this is pretty impressive, though I’d personally allocate a bit more budget to the SSD. In terms of storage, Scan has opted for a dual drive setup: a 120GB PNY XLR8 Solid State Drive (SSD) for OS and applications and sizeable 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive for data. Once the side panel is off, the CoolerMaster Silencio RC-550 provides easy access to the hard drives For those that work with small assemblies much of this will probably go unused, so it could be worth scaling down to 8GB if budget is tight. Most entry-level workstations ship with 8GB of RAM, but Scan has managed to pack in an impressive 16GB into this machine, populating two of the four DIMM slots with 8GB DDR3-1600 modules. So, unless rendering is an important part of your workflow, consider it money well saved. The main distinction between the two is the Intel Core i5 3570K doesn’t support Intel HyperThreading, which should give a welcome 15% boost in most ray trace renderers. This ‘Ivy Bridge’ chip is a cool £70 cheaper than the popular Core i7 3770K and there should be very little noticeable difference in day-to-day modelling operations. Overclocked to 4.4GHz the quad core Intel Core i5 3570K processor packs a huge punch for CAD, where clock speed is king. Scan’s 3XS GW-MT15 is focused squarely on entry-level 3D CAD, but this doesn’t mean you have to give up raw CPU performance.
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