Everything you have listed there is good stuff. My input into basic requirements would be:
Required specs:
i7 6820HK (or better) - must be quadcore or I5 (makes little difference to games)
Nvidia 980M (or better) - must have 2GB RAM dedicated min.
8 GB RAM (or better) expandable to 16 with at least two DIMM slots
250GB SSD (or better) M.2 slot highly recommended
1440P display min (this can be hard)
Required specs:
i7 6820HK (or better) - must be quadcore or I5 (makes little difference to games)
Nvidia 980M (or better) - must have 2GB RAM dedicated min.
8 GB RAM (or better) expandable to 16 with at least two DIMM slots
250GB SSD (or better) M.2 slot highly recommended
1440P display min (this can be hard)
I wouldn't spend too much time wringing my fingers over the CPU. 10% or even 15% more performance from an Intel quad core is not going to be measurable in game rates.
Pick the most economical CPU of the bunch (performance vs. buck) and plan on replacing that CPU with best in socket a year or two from now.
It's the VIDEO and chipset (already identified by you) that needs more careful selection. It may even be worth your time and effor to price an Alienware budget system (speaking relatively about Alienware) that can make use of one of their external docking stations.
You need not even purchase the station right now. You can buy it later and install the video card of your choice when you get to that particular bridge. This is only worth doing if you can price one of their pc's to about the same level that you are currently shopping.
With this, there's no heartburn involved with buying a 15" because you can slap it into any video card and monitor that you want.
Pick the most economical CPU of the bunch (performance vs. buck) and plan on replacing that CPU with best in socket a year or two from now.
It's the VIDEO and chipset (already identified by you) that needs more careful selection. It may even be worth your time and effor to price an Alienware budget system (speaking relatively about Alienware) that can make use of one of their external docking stations.
You need not even purchase the station right now. You can buy it later and install the video card of your choice when you get to that particular bridge. This is only worth doing if you can price one of their pc's to about the same level that you are currently shopping.
With this, there's no heartburn involved with buying a 15" because you can slap it into any video card and monitor that you want.
Didn't you say in the other thread you really didn't want one because you wouldn't use it much.
One guy buys a new Benz. Another guy considers a new truck because he feels "jinxed."
And now Jinx wants a gaming laptop...what is going on around here!!! Next thing Noobz will buy a sex robot.
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One guy buys a new Benz. Another guy considers a new truck because he feels "jinxed."
And now Jinx wants a gaming laptop...what is going on around here!!! Next thing Noobz will buy a sex robot.
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Don't know her personal history and don't care to. Wreckit Ralph.
Hawt but would not dew. Left her husband just because he wanted to watch her with another woman.
no no no.... The reason I don't want to know anything about the first one is that it'll just ruin for me. Just nekit plz... no names.
I used to dream about Jerri Ryan until she turned out to be a prude. What a waste of resources.
Ok... I understand the thought process here (the i7 makes sense). You must understand that gaming video cards SUCK at that kind of rendering... Suck.
For that alone (I understand you also have other considerations) I would be looking for a laptop with workstation level graphics.
Another vote for the external dock ready to accept whatever card you put into it.
So....without trying to derail, I'm curious about this statement for what I'm trying to achieve. The main reason I'm looking at building a PC is to work in the Unreal 4 Engine as far as game audio design is concerned. If I can have a rig that kills that
For example, for a $2500 workstation rig, they recommend the Nvidia GTX 770
Again, not trying to derail...
Yes, they are. Games are compiled into machine languages are built within an integrated development environment (IDE). The software that generates these images is not the same environment that games and graphics are run in. Games are optimized for the hardware that they are supposed to run.
If you end up getting into that side of things, my recommendation would be along these lines:
Get he video card that play well in the environments that you like (Unreal 4 engine for instance). When you begin to render you will notice the differences. No Open GL etc. Then purchase the workstation card that is most compatible (you will discover through research) with the IDE generation that supports it.
There's a significant difference between generating all of the math and code for these kinds of things and merely rendering them. Once it's actually created then optimization into engine X can begin.
Gaming card have a lot of hardware and software 'tricks' for rendering. Try downloading a free trial for CAD (or any 3D generation IDE) or something of that nature to test.
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I dug this up. Read through a good portion of the first page. The post marked "best answer", really is not. There's better discussion, further down the page.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2339199/workstation-gpu-gaming-gpu.html
I dug this up. Read through a good portion of the first page. The post marked "best answer", really is not. There's better discussion, further down the page.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2339199/workstation-gpu-gaming-gpu.html