Sorta OT: Asus GX800 Liquidcooled Laptop
Ghosty12
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Yes you saw right as the title to this thread shows, Asus have released a liquidcooled Laptop. Now you may be wondering why would I want liquidcooling especially for a laptop, and well this is why..
Specs:
Intel Core !7 7820HK Processor OC'ed to 4.4Ghz
64 Gig of DDR4 ram
Dual Nvidia 1080's in SLI (of course) :)
3 M.2 SSD's in Raid 0 giving you a total of 1 Terabyte of storage
A 18 Inch 4k Display
And many more bells and whistles..
One thing you may be drooling at the thought of this thing but there are some caveats, one being you are looking at paying $6000 for it, the other is that by the looks of it the liquidcooling is for the GPU's only and not the CPU.. Other than that it looks cool but the $6000 price tag is well just a bit too much below is a video that goes into more detail..
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Disable SLI (of course) when rendering.
I use a standard asus for all my rendering and it works awesome. I haven't needed liquid cooling yet.
I'd not take that too far from a mains adapter ... ;)
Yeah especially if you need the the liquid cooling for the videocards, but main find that $6000 is a bit much no matter how good it is.. :)
..hmmm Kaby Lake CPU, Means only W10 and 6.6GB of VRAM for rendering (due to W10 "reserving" VRAM). Not worth 6,000$
For that I could build the following:
i7 Haswell 6 core 5820K 3.3 GHz: 409$
Noctua NH-D15 Premium CPU cooler: 88$
64 GB Corsair Vengence DDR4 2666 Memory (4 x 16 GB): 518$
Dual EVGA GTX 1080 Ti Black GPUs with 11 GB VRAM :1,438$
EGVA X99 Classified LGA 2011-v3 MB 5 x PCIe 3.0 x 16 slots (128 GB quad channel memory maxiimum): 299$
EGVA SUpernova 1200W PSU: 249$
Samsung Pro Vertical 512 GB SSD (Application/Boot drive): 259$
Samsung Pro Vertical 1 TB SSD (Library drive): 499$
x2 Seagate Constellation 7200 FPM 4 GB HDDs (Storage and backup): 368$
ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVD Burner: 19$
Fractal Design SL S2 Titanium Full Tower case: 129$
x 4 Additional hydraulic bearing case fans: 52$
Windows 7 Pro 64 SP 1 OEM: 139$
Total Cost: 4,844$
An 1,156$ savings while I get dual 1080 Tis that have 11 GB ea (which with W7 Pro I get to use almost all of) and a total of 7,168 Cores as well as 4 more CPU threads and a lot more storage.
Drop another 518$ for an additional 64 GB memory to make one heck of a workstation beast for Carrara or Vue Infinite and I still come 638$ under budget.
...or instead, another 719$ for a third 1080 Ti to have a total of 10,752 cores for rendering and I'd still have about 400$ for content left over.
Very nice, but you'd need a steam press to shrink it down to laptop size ...
...yeah, it may not be portable, but it does offer far more bang for the zlotys and lets you use pretty much all of your GPUs' VRAM for rendering as W7 is more VRAM friendly than W10.
Take the $1,156 you saved building Kyoto Kid's system and buy a more normal laptop. Use the laptop for initial ideas and character design at the client's home or office, then go back to your desktop for final layout and rendering.