This review first appeared in issue 361 ofPC Pro.
Scan is the second manufacturer this month to take advantage of the return of the non-ProAMDRyzen Threadripper CPU.
Specifically, Scan chose the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X.
The Fractal North XL chassis contains a 1,000W Corsair RMx1000 PSU
With a cheaper processor than Armari, Scan has spent some of its savings on providing double thememory.
There are four 64GB GDDR5 DIMMs, enabling quad-channel bandwidth and running at 4,000MHz.
These are ECC modules, too, for enhanced stability.
The Fractal North XL chassis contains a 1,000W Corsair RMx1000 PSU
Another area where Scan has spent its CPU savings is in the graphics acceleration.
This has a huge 12,800 CUDA cores and 32GB of ECC-backed GDDR6 frame buffer delivering 576GB/sec throughput.
Its still relatively large and very fast, though.
Scan has also included a 1,000W Corsair RMx1000 PSU, which should handle all the powerful components with aplomb.
The Scan took 155 seconds to complete the Blender Gooseberry render, the second fastest.
But the W7900 is significantly faster in 3D animation.
The GPU delivers an impressive 27,069 for inferencing with Geekbench ML and 20,282 with LuxMark 3.1 OpenCL.
The Scan GWP A1-TR64 is a more balanced system than Armaris 10,000 offering.
Its also about 500 cheaper.
And it looks great, too.
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