Looking for new laptop for 3D Modelling, Rendering, UE4

GatzBlue

Hey everyone,

I am ordering a laptop and I am looking for some help on what to get. My budget is about £1300.

I previously had an ASUS TUF FX505 which met the needs for 3D modelling and rendering but it had some really annoying issues that I would rather avoid this time around. (Blue screen crashes, wifi issues)

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Eric Chadwick

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gnoop

Is it at all possible  to do those things on a laptop?    Modelling  maybe .  Rendering/baking    I am very doubtful.   Would be a torture.   

  My current PC is  a small miniATX mb    laying on my table  with  a cpu cooler  fan almost the size of mb itself.       Quite portable  but you still need  separate  PSU and videocard in your relocating  destination. 

sacboi

Been looking myself over the past year or more, want to go fully mobile since I move around alot. Now other than off the shelf brands i.e. MSI, Asus, Acer, Gigabyte or Aorus...etc also keep in mind specialist vendors such as Clevo/Metabox though user reviews can be a mixed bag so as with most purchases that entail handing over wads of cash, it really pays drilling down on research.

https://www.metabox.com.au/store/Prime-X-Range  

GatzBlue

sacboi said:

Been looking myself over the past year or more, want to go fully mobile since I move around alot. Now other than off the shelf brands i.e. MSI, Asus, Acer, Gigabyte or Aorus...etc also keep in mind specialist vendors such as Clevo/Metabox though user reviews can be a mixed bag so as with most purchases that entail handing over wads of cash, it really pays drilling down on research.

https://www.metabox.com.au/store/Prime-X-Range  

Yeah thanks. I have been thinking of going to a specialist vendor this past week.

It does start to get a bit pricey when choosing a graphics card. I am really torn on whether to get an RTX 2060, RTX 2070 or RTX 2070 Super.

Here are the current specs I am looking at:

Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor 10875H (2.3GHz, 5.1GHz Turbo)

Memory (RAM) -32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)

Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1

1st Storage Drive - 1TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)

1st M.2 SSD Drive - 500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)

This will run me about £1604.00 which is 300 more than I would like to spend.

sacboi

Hmm...basically a trade off in terms of what you're willing spend as opposed to envisioned primary usage plus aside from graphical fidelity, it's also important too note having an effective third party cooling solution as well. Especially when leaning toward the higher end performance scale, mitigating to an extent most likely thermal overheads which in my opinion potentially money well spent, considering device/hardware lifetime longevity. Anyways some further info, that maybe useful.

https://techbroll.com/2018/03/laptop-cooling-pad-vs-laptop-vacuum-cooler.html