AMD WX7100 Pro GPU build with X370 MSI Carbon

**Building a PC with Ryzen 7 1800X and Radeon Pro Graphics Card**

When it comes to building a high-performance PC, choosing the right components is crucial. In this article, we'll focus on building a system using the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU and the Radeon Pro graphics card.

**Choosing the Right Motherboard**

One of the most important decisions when building a PC is choosing the right motherboard. For the Ryzen 7 1800X, I recommend going for a motherboard with at least six cores. This will ensure that your system can handle demanding workloads without any issues. However, if you're looking to save some money, you could consider a motherboard with four or five cores. Just make sure it's still a good quality board with decent power delivery.

For the Ryzen 7 1800X, I used a B350 motherboard as it provides more features and better power delivery compared to a B250 motherboard. However, if you're on a tight budget and don't plan to upgrade your CPU in the future, a B250 motherboard could still work fine with the Ryzen 5 series.

**The Importance of Power Delivery**

When choosing a motherboard, it's essential to consider its power delivery capabilities. The Ryzen 7 1800X has a TDP of 95W, which means it requires adequate power to run smoothly. If you're planning to overclock your CPU or use a high-end graphics card, you'll need a motherboard that can provide plenty of power.

I used the B350 motherboard with a good quality power delivery system, which provides enough power for the Ryzen 7 1800X without any issues. However, if I had chosen a lower-end motherboard, I might have encountered some problems with power delivery.

**Case and Cooling**

The case is another critical component of a PC build. In this article, I used the Carbide 400C case, which provides excellent airflow and cable management options. The case also comes equipped with magnetic dust filters on top, bottom, and front, which help keep the system clean and quiet.

I installed the 212 Evo air cooler, which provided plenty of cooling for the CPU. However, I didn't add any additional fans to the system as it's perfectly capable of handling the cooling needs of the components. The case also has a good airflow design, with the front fan providing cool air and the rear fan exhausting warm air.

**System Configuration**

Now that we have our components, let's take a look at how they're configured in the system.

* CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

* Motherboard: ASRock B350M Steel Legend Micro ATX

* RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Samsung B-Die 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz

* Storage: 2.5" SSD (Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe)

* Graphics Card: Radeon Pro RX 580 4GB GDDR5

* Case: Carbide 400C

**Final Thoughts**

Building a PC with the Ryzen 7 1800X and Radeon Pro graphics card is an excellent way to create a high-performance system for gaming, content creation, or other demanding applications. By choosing the right motherboard, case, and cooling components, you can ensure that your system runs smoothly and quietly.

In the next article, we'll dive into some benchmarking and testing to see how well this system performs with various games and applications.

**Moment of Truth**

Now that our system is built, it's time to turn it on and see if everything works as expected.

* Booting up the system

* Updating UEFI firmware

* Enabling XMP profile for memory

The system boots up without any issues, and we're ready to start testing it with various applications.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso how good of a machine does ryzen make for digital artists and people that are going to spring for a professional level graphics card let's do a build so for this system this is kind of sort of designed to be an allrounder now the most expensive component in this system by far is the radon wx7100 Pro this is a professional series graphics card and this is the machine that we're going to use to test graphics card now the testing of this graphics card is not going to be in this video this is a build video for the the computer that we're going to use for this we're going to opt for the ryzen 5600x which is a six core CPU but if you want a faster or slower CPU if you want to swap in the 1800x or you want to use you know ryzen 5400 or something like that the process is exactly the same you could use any CPU you want with this build this motherboard will carry it it'll be completely fine we're going to put it in the Corsair carbide for 400 C uh which is a really really incredible value for what it is it is a nice beautiful case it's got a great side window door thing um to be honest I got this on sale at Micro Center and I was blown away like how awesome it was to work inside this case so let's get started with the build now most of the parts for this did come from Micro Center a few of the parts like the MSI Motherboard and the ryzen 5600 x CPU came from MSI the dragon Squad trip and you know so working out some things for this build but everything else came from Micro Center so like our hyper 212 Max CPU Cooler you know again the hyper 212 continues to be a really strong value for what it is and pairing it with a 1600x CPU if you opt for a ryzen 1600 or a 1700 that'll come with a CPU Cooler so you don't even necessarily need a CPU Cooler in that case um I've opted for the gskill Trident Z this is Samsung B die memory that I know will run at ddr4 3200 it is available in both RGB and non-rgb configurations this is the MSI gaming Pro carbon motherboard so it's a pretty good value motherboard for the x370 chipset meaning that it will carry and do pretty much anything that you want to do I did opt for the x370 because if you're going to use this machine for gaming you know the Radeon WX Pro 7100 is not really designed for gaming it's designed for doing digital artist stuff it's designed for Maya it's designed for accelerated video rendering hell the driver the Pro driver they only update four times a year because they do all the validation and testing with it so the things that are important to a gamer are different than the things that are important to a digital artist so this machine is built with with that kind of thing in mind for storage we're going to be using a Western Digital black nvme again this is a pretty good performer it was on sale at Micro Center so look for it you know whatever goes on sale it runs really well in the benchmarks I think it's going to be uh really important to have highspeed IO um if you are a digital artist because you may be working with big video files or big model files um and spinning rust just isn't going to cut it if you do need extra storage hard drives can be added to this case I'll show you more about that in a minute the first step for this build is to install the CPU which is pretty easy you just flip the lever up and you put the CPU in I I like to use my finger to hold the CPU down U just to make sure that it doesn't pop out or that it's not misaligned or anything like that then you want to add a sort of a psize drop of thermal paste um to the CPU and then you're going to place the 212 heat sink over the CPU now the clamping mechanism here is two thumb screws to tighten down on the 212 Evo every heat sink has a different mechanism uh but you want to be sure that you tighten down both sides evenly so that it's applying pressure evenly to the CPU because of the way the clamp works you want to make sure that the heat sink is aligned to the top of the CPU so take a really close look at it like this to make sure that it's aligned properly I find that it's easy to do all this work um before the motherboard is installed in the case most of the time so all this work is being done before we actually Mount the motherboard inside the case next up we'll install the ram the gskill Trident Z memory and we'll also install this m.2 heat shield now this m.2 heat shield is is sort of it's sort of interesting with some m. tws it can cause the m.2 to run hotter when you are working with really right intensive um workloads uh but if you're if you're not doing a super right intensive work load it will actually perform pretty well what happens with this little heat sink is that it does heat soaking so when you're doing sort of bursty rot speed it'll help because the heat sink is drawing heat away but once the heat sink gets up to a certain temperature um it can sort of retain the heat a little bit longer at least in sort of informal testing but it varies a little bit between NV and me so we we'll take a look at that now that we've got our motherboard ready we need to unbox the case so yeah this is a Corsair carbide 400c all right so check this out this is the plastic side window it just you do the latch you open the door you flip it off and done it's uh it's pretty awesome now the inside of the case is pretty roomy it's a full ATX case but it's really compact there's no external 5 and 1/4 inch Drive Bays or anything like that so now is a good time to install your back IO shield and take the other side off here's the box of screws and accessories and stuff like that there's two you know 3 and 1/2 in Bays here on the bottom and then we've got three 2 and 1/2 in Bays these are toolless bays which is great this is a great location for SD behind your motherboard tray it's convenient easily accessible in the accessories box we've got an extra motherboard Mount some screws for fans that sort of thing step one install your motherboard back plate and then get the cables for the fans out of the way step two is to check your motherboard standoffs and make sure that the motherboard standoffs line up with where you're going to install your motherboard and then step three is to very carefully and very gently lower your motherboard in now this case has one standoff that's just a peg to help you line up your motherboard so so there's no screw that goes there so you can put the motherboard in and it will sort of fall into the Peg and then the motherboard will will be lined up correctly and you can use your screwdriver to mount the motherboard it's it's pretty easy don't overtighten the screws just sort of you know snug them not super tight next up we need to install the power supply but in order to do that we have to remove these plastic shrouds that are at the bottom and the thumb screws for that are actually on the back of the case so we need to unscrew those and then that we can sort of pull the plastic out then I'm going to install this Corsair cx600 power supply now the cx600 power supply is an inexpensive power supply and the CX especially the green sticker ones have a bit of a reputation uh that is maybe not the best reputation but for this system for ryzen 5 uh it's fine and it's going to be a good value um I don't I think that any problems that may have existed with these power supplies have long since been resolved it's not modular there's no bells and whistles or anything like that but for what I'm putting in this system it is completely fine fine you don't need 1,000 watt power supply for a system like this if you want something a little bit higher end then get one of the modular power supplies we're going to Route the power cables behind the motherboard tray the ATX 12vt is going to go sort of behind and at the top out of the way near the 2 and 1 half inch base and then the motherboard power is just going to go through the rubber grommet here then we're going to hook up our front panel audio and our actual front panel button connectors they've got a nice sort of Twisted set of uh cables for the front panel buttons like the reset button and things like that and there's a really convenient diagram here on the motherboard for the actual front panel labels now it's time to do a little bit of cable management we're basically just going to use some of the bread ties I don't really like using zip ties personally but I'm going to use some bread ties to tie off the cables and Route them so that everything works really well now I'm not using any 2 and 1/2 in drives right now but I'm going to leave the power cables here so that I can easily install some 2 and A2 in drives to be able to have you know 4 terabyt of storage or 10 terabytes of storage or whatever for 3D models and things like that that we're doing for our you know sort of artistic testing that we're going to do with this machine now it's time to install our Pro graphics card we're just going to put it in the top slot here and then feed it some PCI Express power from the cable that we routed through before now notice that we've got an extra PCI Express power if we if we do want to do gaming or something with this machine we can totally add an rx580 or GPU like that in our secondary slot and these graphics cards will run it by 8 by8 now you can gain on the wx7 700 um but it's going to be slower than a 580 because the wx7100 pro is designed for doing you know commercial workloads 3D rendering that kind of thing gaming is designed to give you as much fps as possible at the cost of accuracy maybe textures don't necessarily render in the right order maybe there's other visual artifacting whereas with the wx7100 pro it is designed to render everything correctly and so we're going to put it through the paces you know open GL testing that kind of thing we just want to get the system built for right now so you can see this now if you want a digital workstation and you want eight cores instead of six cores you know go for the 1800x CPU it will drop right in the system will build exactly the same way if you want to go for a CPU a little less than the 1600 X and you don't plan to upgrade later you could totally get a b350 motherboard a b350 motherboard uh will run just fine with ryzen 5 or you know even some of the lower-end ryzen 5 well I mean technically you can run ryzen in a b350 motherboard as well and that's true from my own testing ryzen 7 1800 x has worked fine in every b350 motherboard that I've tested however some of the b350 motherboards I've tested um can't really deliver a lot of power to the CPU for overclocking and things like that you got to keep in mind that ryzen 1800x is a 95 watt TDP CPU so it's not going to consume crazy amounts of power so if you are going to get the good CPU you really should get a little bit better motherboard don't get you you know the $70 motherboard for the $500 CPU that doesn't I mean that doesn't even you shouldn't expect that I mean it'll work but don't do that okay and that's pretty much it this system is put together this is kind of a quick build video for the build part of it but that's really all it is if you haven't built a computer before there's really not a lot to it other than what I've shown you here if you had a 2 and 1/2 in SSD you need to plug in a SATA cable and you know deal with that or if you had a mechanical hard drive you need to plug in a SATA cable to the motherboard run it to the hard drive and provide Power but really there's not there's not a lot else to worry about here one other cool feature of this carbide 400c is it's got this really awesome magnetic dust filter on the top there's also a filter on the bottom and the front so depending on how you want to do your fan configuration or anything like that uh you've got some options for what you do but the default fan configuration where I've got the fan in the front and the fan in the back I'm not going to change that I'm not even going to add any more fans I'm not going to do you know I didn't buy any extra fans there's no extra fan stuff going on with this case I'm going to leave the fans exactly where they are because the fan in the front is going to provide nice air flow for the graphics card and the one in the back is going to help exhaust some of the warm air my 212 Evo is pointed up and that's just naturally going to exhaust out of the top of the case so you know I might try it with and without the dust filter the dust filter also does kind of darken it a little bit so you can't see in the case as much if you wanted to put a radiator in here you got an all-in-one cooler you can put it in the top or the front either one you could do two I mean this case really gives you a lot of options all right moment of truth we're going to turn the system on it's booting all right so first boot up what do you do you update your UEFI it's working but that doesn't mean that you need to leave well enough alone nope you've got to update your UEFI once your UEFI is up to date you really want to enable the XMP profile um of your memory to see if you can get your memory working at top speed so this is again G skill Trident Z Samsung B die memory which as of the time of this video works best with ryzen um and I really want to run the memory at 3200 because ryzen really benefits from faster memory so with this memory running at 3200 I think it'll be in the best situation for me to do the benchmarking and testing with this radian Pro graphics card and that's it that's pretty much everything for this video in the next one we're going to put this card through its Paces now I've already started doing some of the benchmarking but if there are particular applications that you want to see benchmarked on this card do let me know I've got it configured for Windows right now but hey benchmark on Linux is not really going to be a big deal I am waiting on the AMD GPU Pro driver to be updated for this because there is a big update for that driver that is coming for this card but right now doing Windows testing if you have ideas or whatever let me know in the comments or on the forums at level one Tex I'm window up signing out and I'll see you thereso how good of a machine does ryzen make for digital artists and people that are going to spring for a professional level graphics card let's do a build so for this system this is kind of sort of designed to be an allrounder now the most expensive component in this system by far is the radon wx7100 Pro this is a professional series graphics card and this is the machine that we're going to use to test graphics card now the testing of this graphics card is not going to be in this video this is a build video for the the computer that we're going to use for this we're going to opt for the ryzen 5600x which is a six core CPU but if you want a faster or slower CPU if you want to swap in the 1800x or you want to use you know ryzen 5400 or something like that the process is exactly the same you could use any CPU you want with this build this motherboard will carry it it'll be completely fine we're going to put it in the Corsair carbide for 400 C uh which is a really really incredible value for what it is it is a nice beautiful case it's got a great side window door thing um to be honest I got this on sale at Micro Center and I was blown away like how awesome it was to work inside this case so let's get started with the build now most of the parts for this did come from Micro Center a few of the parts like the MSI Motherboard and the ryzen 5600 x CPU came from MSI the dragon Squad trip and you know so working out some things for this build but everything else came from Micro Center so like our hyper 212 Max CPU Cooler you know again the hyper 212 continues to be a really strong value for what it is and pairing it with a 1600x CPU if you opt for a ryzen 1600 or a 1700 that'll come with a CPU Cooler so you don't even necessarily need a CPU Cooler in that case um I've opted for the gskill Trident Z this is Samsung B die memory that I know will run at ddr4 3200 it is available in both RGB and non-rgb configurations this is the MSI gaming Pro carbon motherboard so it's a pretty good value motherboard for the x370 chipset meaning that it will carry and do pretty much anything that you want to do I did opt for the x370 because if you're going to use this machine for gaming you know the Radeon WX Pro 7100 is not really designed for gaming it's designed for doing digital artist stuff it's designed for Maya it's designed for accelerated video rendering hell the driver the Pro driver they only update four times a year because they do all the validation and testing with it so the things that are important to a gamer are different than the things that are important to a digital artist so this machine is built with with that kind of thing in mind for storage we're going to be using a Western Digital black nvme again this is a pretty good performer it was on sale at Micro Center so look for it you know whatever goes on sale it runs really well in the benchmarks I think it's going to be uh really important to have highspeed IO um if you are a digital artist because you may be working with big video files or big model files um and spinning rust just isn't going to cut it if you do need extra storage hard drives can be added to this case I'll show you more about that in a minute the first step for this build is to install the CPU which is pretty easy you just flip the lever up and you put the CPU in I I like to use my finger to hold the CPU down U just to make sure that it doesn't pop out or that it's not misaligned or anything like that then you want to add a sort of a psize drop of thermal paste um to the CPU and then you're going to place the 212 heat sink over the CPU now the clamping mechanism here is two thumb screws to tighten down on the 212 Evo every heat sink has a different mechanism uh but you want to be sure that you tighten down both sides evenly so that it's applying pressure evenly to the CPU because of the way the clamp works you want to make sure that the heat sink is aligned to the top of the CPU so take a really close look at it like this to make sure that it's aligned properly I find that it's easy to do all this work um before the motherboard is installed in the case most of the time so all this work is being done before we actually Mount the motherboard inside the case next up we'll install the ram the gskill Trident Z memory and we'll also install this m.2 heat shield now this m.2 heat shield is is sort of it's sort of interesting with some m. tws it can cause the m.2 to run hotter when you are working with really right intensive um workloads uh but if you're if you're not doing a super right intensive work load it will actually perform pretty well what happens with this little heat sink is that it does heat soaking so when you're doing sort of bursty rot speed it'll help because the heat sink is drawing heat away but once the heat sink gets up to a certain temperature um it can sort of retain the heat a little bit longer at least in sort of informal testing but it varies a little bit between NV and me so we we'll take a look at that now that we've got our motherboard ready we need to unbox the case so yeah this is a Corsair carbide 400c all right so check this out this is the plastic side window it just you do the latch you open the door you flip it off and done it's uh it's pretty awesome now the inside of the case is pretty roomy it's a full ATX case but it's really compact there's no external 5 and 1/4 inch Drive Bays or anything like that so now is a good time to install your back IO shield and take the other side off here's the box of screws and accessories and stuff like that there's two you know 3 and 1/2 in Bays here on the bottom and then we've got three 2 and 1/2 in Bays these are toolless bays which is great this is a great location for SD behind your motherboard tray it's convenient easily accessible in the accessories box we've got an extra motherboard Mount some screws for fans that sort of thing step one install your motherboard back plate and then get the cables for the fans out of the way step two is to check your motherboard standoffs and make sure that the motherboard standoffs line up with where you're going to install your motherboard and then step three is to very carefully and very gently lower your motherboard in now this case has one standoff that's just a peg to help you line up your motherboard so so there's no screw that goes there so you can put the motherboard in and it will sort of fall into the Peg and then the motherboard will will be lined up correctly and you can use your screwdriver to mount the motherboard it's it's pretty easy don't overtighten the screws just sort of you know snug them not super tight next up we need to install the power supply but in order to do that we have to remove these plastic shrouds that are at the bottom and the thumb screws for that are actually on the back of the case so we need to unscrew those and then that we can sort of pull the plastic out then I'm going to install this Corsair cx600 power supply now the cx600 power supply is an inexpensive power supply and the CX especially the green sticker ones have a bit of a reputation uh that is maybe not the best reputation but for this system for ryzen 5 uh it's fine and it's going to be a good value um I don't I think that any problems that may have existed with these power supplies have long since been resolved it's not modular there's no bells and whistles or anything like that but for what I'm putting in this system it is completely fine fine you don't need 1,000 watt power supply for a system like this if you want something a little bit higher end then get one of the modular power supplies we're going to Route the power cables behind the motherboard tray the ATX 12vt is going to go sort of behind and at the top out of the way near the 2 and 1 half inch base and then the motherboard power is just going to go through the rubber grommet here then we're going to hook up our front panel audio and our actual front panel button connectors they've got a nice sort of Twisted set of uh cables for the front panel buttons like the reset button and things like that and there's a really convenient diagram here on the motherboard for the actual front panel labels now it's time to do a little bit of cable management we're basically just going to use some of the bread ties I don't really like using zip ties personally but I'm going to use some bread ties to tie off the cables and Route them so that everything works really well now I'm not using any 2 and 1/2 in drives right now but I'm going to leave the power cables here so that I can easily install some 2 and A2 in drives to be able to have you know 4 terabyt of storage or 10 terabytes of storage or whatever for 3D models and things like that that we're doing for our you know sort of artistic testing that we're going to do with this machine now it's time to install our Pro graphics card we're just going to put it in the top slot here and then feed it some PCI Express power from the cable that we routed through before now notice that we've got an extra PCI Express power if we if we do want to do gaming or something with this machine we can totally add an rx580 or GPU like that in our secondary slot and these graphics cards will run it by 8 by8 now you can gain on the wx7 700 um but it's going to be slower than a 580 because the wx7100 pro is designed for doing you know commercial workloads 3D rendering that kind of thing gaming is designed to give you as much fps as possible at the cost of accuracy maybe textures don't necessarily render in the right order maybe there's other visual artifacting whereas with the wx7100 pro it is designed to render everything correctly and so we're going to put it through the paces you know open GL testing that kind of thing we just want to get the system built for right now so you can see this now if you want a digital workstation and you want eight cores instead of six cores you know go for the 1800x CPU it will drop right in the system will build exactly the same way if you want to go for a CPU a little less than the 1600 X and you don't plan to upgrade later you could totally get a b350 motherboard a b350 motherboard uh will run just fine with ryzen 5 or you know even some of the lower-end ryzen 5 well I mean technically you can run ryzen in a b350 motherboard as well and that's true from my own testing ryzen 7 1800 x has worked fine in every b350 motherboard that I've tested however some of the b350 motherboards I've tested um can't really deliver a lot of power to the CPU for overclocking and things like that you got to keep in mind that ryzen 1800x is a 95 watt TDP CPU so it's not going to consume crazy amounts of power so if you are going to get the good CPU you really should get a little bit better motherboard don't get you you know the $70 motherboard for the $500 CPU that doesn't I mean that doesn't even you shouldn't expect that I mean it'll work but don't do that okay and that's pretty much it this system is put together this is kind of a quick build video for the build part of it but that's really all it is if you haven't built a computer before there's really not a lot to it other than what I've shown you here if you had a 2 and 1/2 in SSD you need to plug in a SATA cable and you know deal with that or if you had a mechanical hard drive you need to plug in a SATA cable to the motherboard run it to the hard drive and provide Power but really there's not there's not a lot else to worry about here one other cool feature of this carbide 400c is it's got this really awesome magnetic dust filter on the top there's also a filter on the bottom and the front so depending on how you want to do your fan configuration or anything like that uh you've got some options for what you do but the default fan configuration where I've got the fan in the front and the fan in the back I'm not going to change that I'm not even going to add any more fans I'm not going to do you know I didn't buy any extra fans there's no extra fan stuff going on with this case I'm going to leave the fans exactly where they are because the fan in the front is going to provide nice air flow for the graphics card and the one in the back is going to help exhaust some of the warm air my 212 Evo is pointed up and that's just naturally going to exhaust out of the top of the case so you know I might try it with and without the dust filter the dust filter also does kind of darken it a little bit so you can't see in the case as much if you wanted to put a radiator in here you got an all-in-one cooler you can put it in the top or the front either one you could do two I mean this case really gives you a lot of options all right moment of truth we're going to turn the system on it's booting all right so first boot up what do you do you update your UEFI it's working but that doesn't mean that you need to leave well enough alone nope you've got to update your UEFI once your UEFI is up to date you really want to enable the XMP profile um of your memory to see if you can get your memory working at top speed so this is again G skill Trident Z Samsung B die memory which as of the time of this video works best with ryzen um and I really want to run the memory at 3200 because ryzen really benefits from faster memory so with this memory running at 3200 I think it'll be in the best situation for me to do the benchmarking and testing with this radian Pro graphics card and that's it that's pretty much everything for this video in the next one we're going to put this card through its Paces now I've already started doing some of the benchmarking but if there are particular applications that you want to see benchmarked on this card do let me know I've got it configured for Windows right now but hey benchmark on Linux is not really going to be a big deal I am waiting on the AMD GPU Pro driver to be updated for this because there is a big update for that driver that is coming for this card but right now doing Windows testing if you have ideas or whatever let me know in the comments or on the forums at level one Tex I'm window up signing out and I'll see you there\n"