Today I was rather excited as I had a SMALL present delivered, courtesy of
BOXX Technology. HMC is taking a look at their desktop system called
3DBOXX 4050 XTREME.
The system specs we currently use for Revit workstations are Dell T3600 with single socket, quad core hyperthreaded Xeon chips running @ 3.6GHz, 16GB RAM @ 1600MHz, nVidia Quadro 4000 graphics card and a 7200RPM 500GB hard drive with transfer rates @ 6GB/s.
The
3DBOXX 4050 XTREME specs are Single socket, quad core hyperthreaded i7 - water cooled & overclocked @ 4.75GHz, 16GB RAM @ 1600MHz, nVidia Quadro 600 graphics card and a 7200RPM 500GB hard drive with transfer rates @ 6GB/s (expanded
spec sheet).
I plan to run some Revit Benchmark testing on it sometime over the next couple weeks and post back what the results are. I fully expect an unfair fight, but I am trying not to get too confident the 4050 will trounce the Dell. In the meantime, here are the unBOXXing photos I took. This has to be one of the cleanest packaging jobs I've seen in a while, both inside the cardboard as well as inside the 4050. Some of the guys didn't feel the design of the outside of the 4050 was elegant, but I've always been a function over form type of guy. For me, I like it - it looks rugged, no non-sense, no frills and what's under the hood is what counts.
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The BOXX |
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Cleeeeean.... |
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Accessory boxx removed. |
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Accs. boxx - everything you need to expand the 4050, plus "the shirt". |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jBlbCXqMo6NIndYK-jRfaO4a4j07FjJu5hwn-F0kmg-2pBow7K3z0q6JMoh_bRQNDGOoz9R10Wq-TOzC3gqbs5kCH-2YHPTwyE9LwYNdAfsbKGwDUrUPIlBvZBVEaIDc_Wa8DrDE5w/s400/photo+4.JPG) |
The BOXX W4050XT sits in its unpackaged glory... |
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It's like a logo on a car almost... |
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Tons of ports, plenty of room to expand. |
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Sooo clean and simple - love it! HDD is on other side of panel behind motherboard. |