Advice for new laptop requirements for Studio 4.9

ACue

I've been lurking around these discussion groups for quite a while, trying to glean tidbits and sound advice for a replacement laptop for Studio / Poser,Vue, etc..

Believe it or not, I've been doing amazing work with an older HP Envy with an i7 - 4700MQ CPU, with 2.40 GHz processor, 4 cores, with a creaky GT 740M NVIDIA card, 16GB of RAM. If I keep my scenes relatively simple, with few characters and morphs, I can usually render my work pretty quickly, under an hour, at least to my satisfaction.

However, it's time to upgrade.  

I'm hoping to get feedback on some of the research, and ideal configurations I've come up with, sufficient for my needs. I don't need to render 5- or 6-character, fully-loaded scenes within seconds. I have a bit of patience and a mid-range budget - between $2,000 to $2,300 USD.

Here are my ideal configurations, based on what I've researched and what's out there. PS: the GTX 1080i is  out of my price range, at least for now:

- 2.8 GHz
- 17-7700HQ or i7 - 8750H processor
- 6 Cores - 16 GB RAM 2400 MHz DDR4 or better
- 9 MB processor cache or better
- 1 TB Hard Disk Drive Capacity 1 TB
- 256 GB or better SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or 1070 with 6 or 8 GB dedicated video memory

I am very, very concerned about fans noise and have been turned off by horror stories from folks complaining about overheating laptops and excessive fan noise.

What else should I be focussed on? I'm researching current gaming laptops, primarily, as these configurations do not seem to be available in other business-class or consumer grade laptops

I've been looking at the usual brands, ie: ASUS, ACER, HP, DELL, MSI. 

PS: I've studied this guideline from DAZ on ideal system requirements:
https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207530513-System-Recommendations-for-DAZ-Studio-4-

Thoughts? Suggestions? Recommended rigs?

André

Bradmc

Gaming laptops. I did some upgrades with our companies IT/programmers and they all swore by gaming laptops. They don't use the "enterprise" ultrabooks that the company offered. You simly get harder hitting hardware for the money.

 

Gigabyte Aero/MSI GS65 are constantly praised for their quality/form factor and capabilities and both do come in a 1070/16gb variant with the 8750H. I would strongly suggest checking those out. Both are well within your price range if we are talking USD.  They are also pretty quiet/ minimal throttling issues and have top notch build quality. They are also super thin 15-20mm depending on model.  Was eying them a few months ago and did tons of reasearch and watch countless reviews but coincidently bought a similar laptop to what you are upgrading from at costco- HP envy 2in1 8550u/16gb/mx150 due the fact my requirements are mainly blender and it was almost a grand cheaper.

Both the ones mentioned have 250gb or better SSD. Razer is another to check out but pricier, 

ACue

Bradmc said:

Gaming laptops. I did some upgrades with our companies IT/programmers and they all swore by gaming laptops. They don't use the "enterprise" ultrabooks that the company offered. You simly get harder hitting hardware for the money.

 

Gigabyte Aero/MSI GS65 are constantly praised for their quality/form factor and capabilities and both do come in a 1070/16gb variant with the 8750H. I would strongly suggest checking those out. Both are well within your price range if we are talking USD.  They are also pretty quiet/ minimal throttling issues and have top notch build quality. They are also super thin 15-20mm depending on model.  Was eying them a few months ago and did tons of reasearch and watch countless reviews but coincidently bought a similar laptop to what you are upgrading from at costco- HP envy 2in1 8550u/16gb/mx150 due the fact my requirements are mainly blender and it was almost a grand cheaper.

Both the ones mentioned have 250gb or better SSD. Razer is another to check out but pricier, 

Thank you! 

nelm2010

I recently bought the Asus Rog Stryx Scar edition with (I think everything you listed above, the 1070). Got refubished from Amazon, 17" for approx $1,700. It renders Iray beautifully but! If you can get your with Windows 7, not 10, you'll do a little better. @##@! Windows 10 reserves a gig of VRAM whether it's using it or not, and there's no way to make it stop doing that best I can tell. I'm told the fan is lous but I don't really notice.

Da_green1977_aa156fc426

Hi!

i also have a gaming laptop from Asus.

with i7, 16gb and a 8 GB gtx1070. Works perfect.

Just make sure that the laptop you buy dont is a one with max-Q. I have seen some models with gtx 1060 and Gtx 1070 max-Q. It is not always so easy to say just reding the spec, since it not always stated there.

 

br Daniel