WHY  OVERCLOCKING MATTERS FOR 3D ARCHITECTURAL CAD DESIGN

www.boxx.com 877-877-2699 Avoid The Spinning Circle Virtually all CAD software is single threaded or lightly threaded. This means that the vast majority of design workflows will not make use of all available CPU cores. Design tasks

Most of you are familiar with the spinning blue circle execute faster with that Windows will mock you with as your workstation seemingly takes a break from its assigned task. It’s the higher processor mascot of poor productivity and an unwelcome sight when you’re just trying to get through your workday. clock speeds. What causes it and what’s the remedy?

It’s About CPU Frequency The Test Machines CAD software like Autodesk Revit is what is known as “frequency bound”. The speed at which a design task is executed is restricted by the clock BOXX APEXX S3 CPU: i7 8700k @ 4.8GHz speed of your workstation’s processor. The vast majority of tasks like model RAM: 512 GB creation, selecting objects, exporting views and general interaction with GPU: Quadro P4000 your model in the viewport can be sped up by using a higher frequency HD: 512GB M.2 Windows 10 CPU. OS:

This makes the choice of CPU critical when selecting a workstation for CAD design. Our competitors will present high core count, low frequency CPUs as the highest performing workstations for running professional DELL 7920 CPU: Xeon Gold @ 3.6GHz applications.¹ This can be misleading when addressing the compute RAM: 512 GB bottlenecks of architectural CAD tools. As a rule of thumb, the more cores GPU: Quadro P4000 a CPU has, the lower the clock speed (frequency). A CPU with fewer cores HD: 512GB M.2 OS: Windows 10 will generally have a higher clock speed. For optimal CAD design performance, customers should seek out processors with fewer CPU cores.

Overclocked Advantage HP Z6 Boosting the frequency of your CPU (overclocking) is one of the best ways CPU: Xeon Gold @ 3.6GHz RAM: 512 GB to extract maximum performance out of your hardware investment and GPU: Quadro P4000 maximum productivity out of your designers. BOXX has been profession- HD: 512GB M.2 ally overclocking CAD workstations for over a decade and we’re the only OS: Windows 10 workstation manufacturer offering safe, reliable overclocking backed by a standard three-year warranty.

To demonstrate the difference an overclocked system has over competing Xeon based solutions, we ran the popular Revit RFO benchmark on identical configurations from DELL and HP against our flagship CAD workstation, the APEXX S3. www.boxx.com Across the board, you can clearly see the advantage of BOXX’s overclocked, high frequency solution for 3D CAD design tools like Autodesk Revit. APEXX S3 is optimized for All values are represented in seconds and are a measure of the time to complete each task. Lower scores are better.

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Note: The time to complete the benchmarked tasks will increase proportionately with larger Revit models.

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• Features the latest overclocked Intel® Core™ i7 processor with advanced liquid cooling

• Up to two dual slot professional GPUs

• Up to 64GB of memory

• Compact chassis with quiet Graphics - Standard operation

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