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BOXX Shipping NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Gen GPUs Now

With 100 third-generation RT Cores, 400 fourth-generation Tensor Cores, 12,800 CUDA® cores, and 32GB of graphics memory, the new NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation GPUs available now inside BOXX workstations accelerate rende[...]
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RAXX P1G with NVIDIA L40S GPUs Part II: Use Cases

As we covered in the first blog in this series, the AI, graphics, and media acceleration capabilities of the NVIDIA L40S GPUs (up to four) inside the rack mounted RAXX P1G workstation module make it an ideal platform for[...]
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NVIDIA L40S GPU: The “Premier Platform for Gen AI (and more)” Offers Major Advantages

Heralded as the “premier platform for AI” and the “most powerful universal GPU for the data center” the new NVIDIA L40S available now inside the BOXX RAXX P1G workstation module is indeed a GPU milestone. Based on the NV[...]
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GUIDE: Intel® Xeon® W-3400 Workstations Elevate Your Rendering

How an upside down motherboard and a US-based call center contribute to tangible rendering advantages in your creative workflows. A dedicated system to render on and a separate workstation for animation is cu[...]
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Restarting Your Business with Computer Hardware Financing

"How do I get my business restarted with no lead time and a CapEx budget depleted from buying laptops for people to use while working from home?" As we navigate the self-quarantine period together, the above is a cons[...]
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Common Customer Questions for BOXX Tech Support … and the answers

If you’re like a lot of folks these days, you’re working from home. But regardless of your work locale, you may have questions surrounding the set up and or operation of your BOXX APEXX workstation or GoBOXX laptop. With[...]
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GPUs and You: Maximizing Performance for Your Workflow

No matter how fast computers become, there are always people out there trying to make them faster. It’s an inherently human trait to figure out how to get more out of less. Efficiency is the name of the game, and when we[...]
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Testing V-Ray GPU Rendering with NVIDIA NVLink

As GPU technology has advanced over the years, GPU rendering has become more advanced and popular due to its speed advantage over CPUs in visual rendering. In addition, a GPU rendering workstation is much more flexible a[...]
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C4D Updates for 2024

“Highly recommended for all C4D users,” by Maxon, Cinema 4D has introduced Cinema 2024 with a host of new upgrades and long story short, there are some great ones in here. Let’s look at some of the most essential upgra[...]
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SOLIDWORKS Certified

For 27 years, BOXX has been designing and manufacturing purpose-built workstations and by purpose-built, we mean systems designed for specific applications and workflows. One of those major applications is SOLIDWORKS. BO[...]
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Autodesk Makes Strides with Inventor 2023

Autodesk has released Inventor 2023, but before we cover what’s new with this widely used manufacturing and product design software, we highly recommend Autodesk’s Inventor 2023: What’s New webinar (April 20 or 21) to ha[...]
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Configuring the Ideal Revit Desk Side Workstation

In continuation from the last blog in this Autodesk Revit series, it’s important to determine which type of workstation is most compatible with architecture students’ needs. There are several things to look for when rese[...]
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Evolution of Resolution - Part II

In part I of the Evolution of Resolution, we discussed CGA, EGA,VGA/SVGA and progressive scan. In part II, we need to get into the whirlwind history of computer graphics, but first, let’s conclude our discussion of resol[...]
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Evolution of Resolution- Part I

BOXX builds workstations and servers purpose-built for your creative applications. As such, we are heavily involved in rendering, as all that is created must also be rendered. Since I arrived at BOXX in 2008, I have witn[...]
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CPU vs. GPU 3: Rendering with a Vengeance

There is a clear trend these days among software vendors to incorporate more and more GPU acceleration into their products. In fact, NVIDIA recently compiled a list of hundreds of software packages spanning over a d[...]
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For GPU Rendering, BOXX Rocks RAXX Stacks

There’s always a bit of lag between the time a revolutionary hardware solution comes out and the time it takes for the software world to adapt. Thankfully, we’re at a point where the hardware—NVIDIA’s latest line of RTX [...]
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The Economics of Desk Side AI

In a previous blog, we discussed the key advantages of BOXX bringing AI to the desk side, and among those mentioned was financial. Although it was last on the list of advantages, it may very well be the most important. [...]
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Bringing AI to the Desk Side

If you watched or read about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s SIGGRAPH keynote address last week, you’re aware that NVIDIA has upgraded its workstation GPU line with new RTX Ada generation cards that offer tremendous performanc[...]
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Peeling the AI Onion

Whether you’re heavily involved in computer technology or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting your life (and will continue to do so) in ways both big and small. However, daily discussion surrounding the techno[...]
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How Architects Can Use Today’s Technologies for Better Growth

Technology is now a fundamental part of architecture, with PRNewswire reporting that the market for industry-specific software alone is worth $10.2 billion globally. With technology at the forefront of the indu[...]
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Digital Engineering Names APEXX S3 Top Performance Winner

The esteemed David Cohn, consultant, tech writer, author, and contributing editor at Digital Engineering (DE247) has been benchmarking workstation computers since 1984. Throughout his tenure at DE247, David has reviewed [...]
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Viva Las Vegas! It Was Good to Be Back

After a long hiatus, BOXX returned to the NAB Show with great results. BOXX is renowned for manufacturing purpose-built, high performance computer workstations. Engineers and product designers want our machines for SO[...]
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IRS Section 179 Means Workstation Savings

With COVID still in play, as well as a number of other factors impacting our economy, it’s completely understandable that creative professionals and enterprise businesses relying on high performance computer hardware are[...]
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GTC 2020 Part II: Race to the Cure with AI

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2020 keynote address generated major excitement for anyone who relies on its technology. The address was divided into four segments (each available on YouTube) and our first blog on the addr[...]
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