Review: Scan 3XS WI6000 Viz Workstation

Conclusion

Increasing core counts for modern processors have made the workstation far more capable than ever before. The Intel Core i9-7980XE, for example, supplies 36 threads that Scan's engineers have overclocked to 4.2GHz. The latest iteration of the 3XS WI6000 Viz takes this mammoth horsepower and puts it to good use, smashing through benchmarks at up to four times the speed of a well-overclocked consumer Core i7 PC.

Scan sensibly pairs the potent processor with a quality X299 motherboard, lots of RAM, a fast SSD and a Quadro P4000 from Nvidia. The argument of whether consumer GeForce is a better value bet is decided by the applications you run, and as you have seen in the preceding GPU-centric benchmarks from popular professional software, there's intrinsic merit in opting for ISV-optimised drivers inherent to Quadro.

We'd argue that a Titanium-rated PSU makes more sense when laying out over £4,000 - what's another £75 in this instance? - while, given the overall quietness, we'd prefer a secondary 1TB SSD instead of the mechanical spinner. But these are choices, along with extended warranties, one can make at the point of purchase.

Bottom line: simple to look at but hideously fast on the CPU front and eminently quick through professional graphics applications, the Scan 3XS WI6000 Viz is a beast of a workstation PC, if you can do without ECC memory.

Scan 3XS WI6000 Viz

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The Scan 3XS WI6000 Viz PCs are available to purchase from Scan Computers.

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