Need advice

[jcrossland3]

I am thinking of ordering this laptop spec, it will be used for some heavy video/image creating and editing. (Renders etc.)

Is there anything I should change;

Chassis & DisplayOctane Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB CacheMemory
(RAM)32GB HyperX IMPACT 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics CardNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 - 6.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1, G-SYNC
Memory - Hard Disk500GB WD BLACK 2.5" WD5000LPLX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
M.2 SSD Drive256GB SAMSUNG SM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3100MB/R, 1400MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY DriveNOT REQUIRED
Thermal PasteARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND


Thanks

 

[Stephen M]

Do you already have storage drives? 500GB is not a lot these days and the difference in cost with that one and the 1TB is not a lot.

 

[ubuysa]

Do you already have storage drives? 500GB is not a lot these days and the difference in cost with that one and the 1TB is not a lot.

You probably don't need that big an SSD drive. It's usually only Windows and programs that benefit from the speed of an SSD, most user data doesn't get that much benefit from being on an SSD. You could probably safely go down to a 128GB M.2 SSD and use the saving to up the HDD to 1TB as Stephen M suggests.

 

[jcrossland3]

Do you already have storage drives? 500GB is not a lot these days and the difference in cost with that one and the 1TB is not a lot.

Yes I have 2TB external currently.

You probably don't need that big an SSD drive. It's usually only Windows and programs that benefit from the speed of an SSD, most user data doesn't get that much benefit from being on an SSD. You could probably safely go down to a 128GB M.2 SSD and use the saving to up the HDD to 1TB as Stephen M suggests.

Good idea, so just programmes and OS on the SSD, files on main storage?

Also, changing the memory to 3x8GB 2133MHz makes it roughly £100 cheaper (£1,728), will this massively affect the performance?

My budget is around £1800 anyway so I can afford the 2x16GB im just curious to see if that £100 can then be put elsewhere in the build.

Thanks for any help

 

[ubuysa]

Good idea, so just programmes and OS on the SSD, files on main storage?

Yes, that's generally the best price/performance option.

Also, changing the memory to 3x8GB 2133MHz makes it roughly £100 cheaper (£1,728), will this massively affect the performance?

Not for video editing I wouldn't have though. I doubt you'd see the difference.

My budget is around £1800 anyway so I can afford the 2x16GB im just curious to see if that £100 can then be put elsewhere in the build.

Thanks for any help

No sense in spending more than you need to.

Buying a better (i.e. longer) warranty would be a very wise (and not expensive) option.

 

[jcrossland3]

Yes, that's generally the best price/performance option.



Not for video editing I wouldn't have though. I doubt you'd see the difference.



No sense in spending more than you need to.

Buying a better (i.e. longer) warranty would be a very wise (and not expensive) option.

Cheers for the help, laptop ordered!

 

[Stephen M]

Now is the worst bit, the wait for it to come, sorting out the config is fun but if you are as patient as I am the waiting is a 'mare. The good news is the current average for laptops is down to less than 10 days, about eight last time I looked.

 

[jcrossland3]

Now is the worst bit, the wait for it to come, sorting out the config is fun but if you are as patient as I am the waiting is a 'mare. The good news is the current average for laptops is down to less than 10 days, about eight last time I looked.

Yup. I'm at my uni address until the 16th dec so fingers crossed it at least arrives before then..

 

[ubuysa]

Yup. I'm at my uni address until the 16th dec so fingers crossed it at least arrives before then..

If it's that important upgrade to fast track.

 

[jcrossland3]

Laptop arrived today and it's safe to say im more than pleased. (Although getting used to windows might take a while)

Test rendered a design im working on this morning on ++ settings in 4D and the render times were just incomparible to that on my mac.....

 

[ubuysa]

Laptop arrived today and it's safe to say im more than pleased. (Although getting used to windows might take a while)

Test rendered a design im working on this morning on ++ settings in 4D and the render times were just incomparible to that on my mac.....

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No real surprise there, not with that CPU and 32GB of DDR4 RAM...