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WIRED2FIRE TRX50 EXTREME 5090 WORKSTATION
PC Pro
|October 2025
A strong spec for the money, especially as it will benefit from a free upgrade to the Threadripper 9980X
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Wired2Fire is a new name in our workstation Labs test, but from this first foray we expect to be seeing the Surrey-based company more often.
The TRX50 Extreme 5090 is a potent combination of components that offers many strengths for content creation tasks.
Central to the TRX50 is its Ryzen Threadripper 7980X processor, a 64-core (128-thread) CPU with a base 3.2GHz clock and 5.1GHz boost mode. Wired2Fire has confirmed that this system will be supplied with the Threadripper 9980X for the same price (see p85 for a side-by-side comparison in select benchmarks).
Wired2Fire supplies 256GB of 5,600MHz DDR5 memory as four 64GB modules, taking advantage of the CPU's quad-channel bandwidth. These take up all four DIMM slots on the Asus Pro WS TRX50 Sage WiFi motherboard, but 256GB is plenty.
This story is from the October 2025 edition of PC Pro.
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