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OVERCLOCKED VDI FOR VFX USERS The benefits of VDI are real, and for many organizations, those benefits (remote access, data security, and centralization) outweigh the downside affecting their VFX users. You see, in many cases, powers users are expected to sacrifice some productivity in order to conform to the organizational migration to virtual desktops. Primarily, they are forced to contend with decreased interactivity within large, complex scenes. Pro VDI™ is the BOXX philosophy toward virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). For users of graphics-in- tense applications, BOXX produces optimized configurations which actually preserve critical application performance. With BOXX Pro VDI servers, sacrificing performance is no longer necessary. The 8401R-V takes advantage of the same professional overclocking found in our APEXX workstations. Pro VDI also uses vDGA rather than vGPU graphics acceleration technology. Ideal for working with graphics, vDGA allows a virtual desktop to access a professional grade graphics card such as the NVIDIA Quadro for faster frame rates in the application viewport. Economically, it also serves to eliminate licensing costs associated with NVIDIA GRID software. WHY DOES OVERCLOCKING MATTER? Pro VDI is built specifically for digital content creators and CAD users running applications like Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, and Cinema 4D. Since 3D modeling CAD applications are single-threaded or lightly threaded, they only make use of a single CPU core. The only way to boost the performance and produc- tivity of single-threaded applications is to increase the frequency of the CPU through safe overclocking. However, this becomes problematic in a VDI environment where, up until now, your only option has been to host several users on dual Intel® Xeon®-based servers. The low frequency Intel® Xeon® processors used in competing VDI systems actually limit CAD productivity. • Intel Xeon processors have a higher core count and a lower CPU frequency • Low CPU frequency degrades CAD performance • Pro VDI is the only overclocked VDI solution on the market • Pro VDI dramatically improves performance and productivity for power users in a virtual environment • Pro VDI offers rock-solid reliability backed by a 3-year warranty SPONSORED CONTENT