Chillblast Fusion Centauri Ryzen Threadripper Ultimate Review (w/ 2 x GTX 1080 Ti)

1. Introduction2. Specification3. Design4. Testing Methodology5. Cinebench R156. SPECviewperf 12.17. LuxMark 3.1 & Blender 2.798. Blender & Adobe Media Encoder CC 20179. SSD/HDD Performance10. 3D Mark (Time Spy & Fire Strike)11. Deus Ex, Tomb Raider & Witcher 312. Thermal Dynamics and Acoustics13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

To test the Chillblast Fusion Centauri Ryzen Threadripper Ultimate, we have pushed it through a broad array of benchmarks and tests. We have tested CPU performance, GPU performance, drive performance, thermals and power usage to give a comprehensive view of the desktop.

Here are the benchmarks you can expect to find in this review:

• Cinebench R15
• SPECviewperf 12.1
• LuxMark 3.1 & Blender 2.79
• Adobe Media Encoder CC 2017
• CrystalDiskMark
• 3DMark Fire Strike

This machine is designed for professional users, but it’s also a great-looking rig with two high-end consumer graphics cards. To that end, we’ve also used high-end games to put the two GTX 1080 Ti cards through their paces.

• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Witcher 3

We’ve compared the Chillblast Fusion Centauri Ryzen Threadripper Ultimate with the two Armari machines we’ve already mentioned. We’ve also compared it with the Scan 3XS GW-HT35 – an older machine, but one that came with two Xeon processors and was even more expensive than the Chillblast. That’s so we can see just how far technology has progressed in a couple of years.

Here are their specifications:

Armari Magnetar S16T-RW850G2 Specifications:

• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X @4GHz
• Armari SPX-A57LX Water Cooling
• 64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 SDRAM @ 2,933MHz
• Asrock X399 Taichi Motherboard
• 16GB HBM AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Graphics
• 512GB Samsung SM961 M.2 NVMe PCI Express SSD
• 4TB Western Digital Gold Datacenter 7,200rpm SATA HDD
• LiteOn Slimline SATA DVD-RW
• 1000W Gold Efficiency PSU
• Armari Magnetar S-Series Chassis
• Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
• 3 Years Warranty (1st Year On-Site, 2nd and 3rd Years RTB Parts and Labour)

Price: £4,554.00 inc VAT (Buy from Armari HERE)

Armari Magnetar S18X-RD850G2 Specifications:

• Intel Core i9 7980XE @3.8GHz
• Armari SPX-A57LX Water Cooling
• 64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 SDRAM @ 3,600MHz
• ASUS PRIME X299-A Motherboard
• 12GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Xp Graphics
• 480GB Kingston KC1000 M.2 NVMe PCI Express SSD
• 4TB Western Digital Gold Datacenter 7,200rpm SATA HDD
• LiteOn Slimline SATA DVD-RW
• 1000W Gold Efficiency PSU
• Armari Magnetar S-Series Chassis
• Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
• 3 Years Warranty (1st Year On-Site, 2nd and 3rd Years RTB Parts and Labour)

Price: £5,754.00 inc VAT (Buy from Armari HERE)

Scan 3XS GW-HT35 Specifications:

• 2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W V3 @ 3.1GHz
• 64GB Crucial ECC Registered DDR4 SDRAM @ 2,133MHz
• ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS Motherboard
• 512GB Samsung 850 Pro SATA III 6Gb/s SSD
• 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 SATA III 6Gb/s 7,200rpm HDD
• 12GB GDDR5 NVIDIA Quadro M6000 Graphics
• 2x 3XS customised Corsair H80 water cooling
• 1,000W Corsair RM PSU
• Fractal Design Define XL Titanium Grey chassis
• Windows 7 Professional 64bit
• 3 Years warranty, 1 Year Onsite, 2 Years RTB

Price: £9,179 inc VAT & Delivery (Buy from SCAN HERE)

We’ve also compared the Chillblast with a handful of gaming machines – because the Fusion Centauri does also include two overclocked consumer graphics cards and its high-end water-cooling loop, which indicates that it’s also meant for gaming enthusiasts.

The PC Specialist Apollo X01 includes a single GTX 1080 Ti and costs £2,149, while the Overclockers UK Infin8 Express MK3 deploys two GTX 1080 cards and costs £4,500.

Finally, we’ve also locked and loaded the PC Specialist Leviathan X, which cost £3,899 when it was released and uses two Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) cards.

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