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Best laptop deals for Daz iray rendering + 3delight under $2000?

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  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    Silver Dolphin said:

    Duckbomb, that sucks that is a nice setup! I would take the laptop back to whoever sold it to you and tell them the cpu cooling is not working! If you just use the GPU externally and Install MSI afterburner and turn the fan on the external GPU to 100% It should not be overheating your laptop. Just turn off cpu rendering in the render tab and just use GPU. I should add that fan profiles in gaming video cards are setup for gaming not rendering. You need to turn up the fan to 100% so you don't cook your nice Titan GPU. Yes, I know it will work fine if you don't do this but it will shorten the lifespan of your expensive card. Of course if you have deep pockets and don't care all power to you.

    Rendering is less intense than games. My 1080ti gets far hotter in games than it and my 2070 get when rendering.

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,247
    Padone said:

    Personally I'd never ever get a laptop for rendering. In that price range you can get a 2070 desktop.

    That works for you. It doesn't work for me. I travel a lot and spend a lot of night alone in a hotel room. 3D is a hobby I enjoy and with a decent gaming laptop I can take it on the road with me and occupy myself building some new props or rendering a scene or whatever I feel like. A desktop would be mostly useless for me.  Different users, different needs.

  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Silver Dolphin said:

    Duckbomb, that sucks that is a nice setup! I would take the laptop back to whoever sold it to you and tell them the cpu cooling is not working! If you just use the GPU externally and Install MSI afterburner and turn the fan on the external GPU to 100% It should not be overheating your laptop. Just turn off cpu rendering in the render tab and just use GPU. I should add that fan profiles in gaming video cards are setup for gaming not rendering. You need to turn up the fan to 100% so you don't cook your nice Titan GPU. Yes, I know it will work fine if you don't do this but it will shorten the lifespan of your expensive card. Of course if you have deep pockets and don't care all power to you.

    Rendering is less intense than games. My 1080ti gets far hotter in games than it and my 2070 get when rendering.

    That may be true, but we are still talking about a laptop. Heat is heat, and there is not much space inside a laptop to get rid of it. My laptop has just a lousy i3 with 2 cores at 2.1 ghz and it can get pretty hot on a lap if it gets some work. I'm sure it is designed to handle the heat, but it wont be comfortable on a lap.

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057
    edited January 2020

    Just noting that AMD will very likely be talking about the new Renoir 7nm APUs in a little over a half hour from this post, at their press conference at CES.

    We've already seen some specs from a few manufacturer slides.  Asus mentions having a 4900HS paired with up to a RTX 2060 Max Q. So that's 8 cores/16 threads with an AMD APU + the Nvidia graphics with 6GB of VRAM...

    I wish that went up to a 2070, mainly for the 8GB of VRAM on the 2070.  Anyways, if you haven't picked your laptop yet, might be worth watching the tech press coverage today.

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  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    The 4900's looked pretty spiffy spec wise but those laptops won't likely be available for 6 months or more.

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057

    At the AMD press conference, it was announced that we should see a number of 4xxx APU laptops released this quarter.  Lenovo has a 14" ultrathin that was announced as available today.

    For us content creators though, yeah it's anyone's guess as to when specific laptops may become available.  AMD's mobile graphic chips were also announced as 1H20, but those aren't useful for Iray.  I do worry about them displacing the Nvidia graphics in the 'hybrid' laptops though.

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    tj_1ca9500b said:

    At the AMD press conference, it was announced that we should see a number of 4xxx APU laptops released this quarter.  Lenovo has a 14" ultrathin that was announced as available today.

    For us content creators though, yeah it's anyone's guess as to when specific laptops may become available.  AMD's mobile graphic chips were also announced as 1H20, but those aren't useful for Iray.  I do worry about them displacing the Nvidia graphics in the 'hybrid' laptops though.

    I just checked Lenovo's site. There's nothing about a 4900H or HS anywhere. I checked the thinkpad which is what I assumeit would be and still came up empty. Are you sure they didn't say it was at CES not on sale yet?

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057

    Here's Lenovo's press release:

    https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-breaks-barriers-with-new-consumer-technology-unveiled-at-ces-2020-2/

    AdoredTV.com is speculating a March relese for the Ryzen 4xxx version, with the larger screen Intel version following up in April, other sites are speculating an April release.

    In any case, I'd still be more interested in the Desktop version replacement of the 3200G/3400G, no word on when we might expect those.  I'm guessing after Computex...

     

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    No doubt that the machines are coming, Asus revealed some as well, but available today? Not from what I can find.

  • duckbombduckbomb Posts: 585


     

    Silver Dolphin said:

    Duckbomb, that sucks that is a nice setup! I would take the laptop back to whoever sold it to you and tell them the cpu cooling is not working! If you just use the GPU externally and Install MSI afterburner and turn the fan on the external GPU to 100% It should not be overheating your laptop. Just turn off cpu rendering in the render tab and just use GPU. I should add that fan profiles in gaming video cards are setup for gaming not rendering. You need to turn up the fan to 100% so you don't cook your nice Titan GPU. Yes, I know it will work fine if you don't do this but it will shorten the lifespan of your expensive card. Of course if you have deep pockets and don't care all power to you.

    I wish I had done this, but I'm afraid I didn't.  My poor little GPU has certainly been through the ringer.  My pockets aren't deep enough, unfortunately.

    This is good advice for anybody else sporting this setup!

  • ChakradudeChakradude Posts: 285

    Well I have been busy playing with my new Prostar and so far I am very happy with it. I just realised yesturday that I did not have the graphics card enabled in iray rendering and the CPU was pretty snappy considering! I will post more later... I have been downloading content for 6+ days and just now hit the half way point!LOL nice to have it all on the same hard drive finally (or soon finally).

  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,888

    Glad to hear you're happy with the Prostar. I've been very happy with mine.

  • ChakradudeChakradude Posts: 285
    edited January 2020
    DustRider said:

    Glad to hear you're happy with the Prostar. I've been very happy with mine.

    Yeah honestly it was a great deal and as I suspected, iray is a whole different world so I am glad it can handle either that or 3delight nicely while I begin to figure out how irendering works. Thanks for the reccomendation!

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  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,501
    edited January 2020

    _ also BOXX  has Refubs _

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  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,501
    edited January 2020

    _ also  Dell   Alienware 17 R4     _

    https://www.dellrefurbished.com/laptops?filter_screensize=149

     

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