THE CONCEPT
The Intel rig
of damnation
FEATURE
BUILD IT: The Intel rig of damnation
BUILD IT
LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURST
his is it: the head-to-head.
The build-off. To hell with
gaming, it’s Ryzen versus
Intel. X370 versus X99.
Chipset versus chipset. A
superstar competition to determine the
definitive champion of the workstation
marketplace. Whether it’s high-end
photomanipulation, 4K video editing,
or the most advanced calculative tasks,
we’re pitting two of the gnarliest
top-end Ryzen and Intel systems
against each other in an epic battle to
the FPU death.
After gushing over Ryzen’s positive
performance prowess, it was this
hardware reviewer’s duty to take on team
blue. And, boy, did we call in the big guns:
10 cores, 20 threads, 64GB of high-spec
DDR4 memory (we did consider 128GB
but, well, we can’t absolutely demolish
the competition), an Nvidia GeForce GTX
1080 Ti, and Asus’s now legendary
X99-E-10G WS motherboard to hold the
whole thing together.
From a price to performance
perspective, this is a system and platform
that makes little to no sense. With Intel’s
chips still priced so high, the per-core
cost of this machine really is unjustifiable.
That said, with support for twice as much
memory, at frequencies as high as
3,333MT/s, and with the vast majority of
rendering programs benefitting from
larger quantities of the volatile stuff, it
should make this platform the overall
performance king.LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: EASYProof, once and for all, that X99 is the platform-pulverising
workstation of choice