Early Verdict
The diminutive Magnetar packs an incredible amount of power into its tiny case.
This review first appeared in Issue 361 ofPC Pro.
Armari decided to provide us with something a little different for its 4,500workstationentry this year.
Yet it packs in the same workstation-grade components found in more conventional systems.
This is a chassis youll want to display on your desk as a statement rather than hiding it below.
Yet it still sports a 240mm liquid-cooling system for the CPU and an 850W PSU.
Armari partners the Ryzen 9 with a hefty 96GB of 5,600MHz DDR5RAM, supplied as two 48GB modules.
It could, apparently, take an even wider accelerator such as the triple-width W7900.
The W7800 sports 4,800 Stream Processors and 32GB of GDDR6 memory delivering 576GB/sec of bandwidth.
Another surprising inclusion for such a diminutive system are the two storage drives.
The main one is a 2TB Crucial T705 NVMe M.2 machine, with a PCI Express 5 interface.
This delivered 8,413MB/sec sustained reading and 7,792MB/sec writing using CrystalDiskMark 8.
Although the Magnetars AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is the previous CPU generation now, it packs a punch.
The multi-CPU render result with Maxon Cinebench 2024 of 1,991 is also slightly faster.
The Blender Gooseberry frame took 283 seconds, which surpassed all the other systems in the 4,500 class.
The AMD Radeon Pro W7800 performs well.
In SPECviewperf 2020, results of 230 in 3dsmax-07 and 757 in maya-06 show excellent 3D animation modelling ability.
But this is still a great-looking compact system that punches way above its size.
It has plenty to commend it to anyone looking for a stylish yet powerful desk-friendly workstation.
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