The Power of PC

Renowned Colourist, Darren Mostyn test drives Scan Pro Video’s 3XS Windows 10 Pro Workstation

We recently challenged Darren Mostyn, a senior colourist, YouTuber and founder of Online Creative post facility, to step outside of his comfort zone and give one of our Pro Video Windows 10 Pro 3XS workstations a run through its paces. Darren, a renowned MacOS user, has worked with Windows-based systems in the past but hasn’t given one a run through a professional colourists workflow in a long time so it was exciting to see how he felt it performed.

The System

• AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
• ASRock X570 Creator*
• 128GB Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
• 1TB Samsung 980 Pro OS drive
• 2TB Samsung 980 Pro Scratch drive
• Fractal Design Meshify 2

*The ASRock X570 Creator has since been discontinued.
We currently offer The ASRock X570 Taichi 2 with Thunderbolt PCIe card with our 3XS Pro Video workstations.

About Darren Mostyn

Darren Mostyn is Senior Colourist and Founder of boutique post facility Online Creative in Brighton. Darren has nearly 25 years experience in broadcast, regularly grading for BBC, ITV and Sky amongst many. Online Creative is also a digital agency producing work for Thomson Reuters, Mercedes Benz World, wefox and the NHS. Darren is also a certified master trainer for Blackmagic Designs DaVinci Resolve system and has been asked to talk about his work around the world. Darren's new YouTube channel is fast becoming a hit with DaVinci Resolve users.

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