Good day everyone. I'm looking to buy a laptop that can be used for gaming but at the same time handle CAD programs such as AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and Microstation v8i. At minimum, it should have 16 GB, though 32 GB of ram is preferred, along with an SSD. Graphic Card and CPU is the main issue I have hard time wrapping my head around. I know that to render certain things I need a good graphic card but I do not know if one that is suitable for gaming is compatible for drafting software. Not super tech savy, so any recommendations and/or what to look for are highly appreciated. Thank you.
If you're not picky with weight, pick a gaming pc with gtx 1060 and 16 gb of rams 2400 mhz minimum, but most likely you'll get 3000 mhz. As for ssd, 256 is enough, going up from there you are better of with hdd. Install your crucial programs on ssd, and the rest of documents on hdd.
It has to be laptop as I'm living in a small apartment and I do not have a good spot to set up a pc so I need to be flexible. Now if I had a bigger apartment or living in a house I would set up a pc instead.
The Dell G7 fits your needs. You can get it with an intel core i7 8750h and a 1060 max q, with 16 gigs of ram. Buy a 500 gb ssd to add onto the 256 gig you start with and you'd be set. The laptop is ~1200 w/o tax. With the ssd it should run you just south of 1400 usd. The hdd is trash so just sell it on ebay or something. Edit: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/del...aming/spd/g-series-15-7588-laptop/dncwfsb902s
lol I recced the same thing. Dell makes good laptops. Too bad the 16 gig model comes only with a 256 gig ssd and a 1tb 5400 rpm hdd... Just replace that hdd with an ssd and your set
If you build a pc yourself, it would be a lot more powerful yet cheaper at the same time. If you want to build gtx1070 system with node 202 (small itx) , it's doable at 1500 dollars, plus monitors 2k. This will last you so much more than a laptop, because laptops are not built for constant use. As a college student, you'd be running that computer for so much more that work that it's going to overheat. Eventually your laptop fan will clog up and your cpu will throttle. Ps:if you're going to work with solid works, you're gonna need a quadro instead of gtx.
I'm civil engineering grad student, so the only programs I need are Autocad Civil 3d, Microstation (Power Geopak Suite) and GIS mainly. But thanks for the recommendation.
do not get acer, i bought an acer and get updates every single day and if i do accept it, it ends up taking 2 hours ea fking time @#@#K@JLk42Qj
In general, a PC that is good for gaming will be good for CAD. It can get a little more complicated for CPU intensive tasks that can't be accelerated by the GPU. Laptop GPUs run 80-90% as fast as their reference desktop counterparts. On the other hand, laptop CPUs tend to run about 50-70% of the speed of a desktop CPU. So, you'll get something like 2.5-3 GHz from a laptop CPU under sustained load. You'll get over 5 GHz on a desktop. I would echo what others have said. For compute heavy tasks, a desktop is a better option. If you don't the luxury of choice, then get the highest spec gaming laptop you can afford. If what you're doing is more GPU reliant, skimp a bit on the CPU and get a better GPU. If what you're doing is CPU heavy, get an 8th generation Intel i7 with the 'H' suffix. https://ark.intel.com/products/134906/
Just do a clean installation of the OS to remove the bloatwares and for the updates, you can turn it off. I also own an acer laptop. Windows 10 + SSD and bam very fast boot and performance.