I'll be starting one of the EDGE programs in the Fall. I'm wondering what most rigs people are running at the graduate level at SCI-Arc? Mainly wondering if I'll need to upgrade for the year or if my current rig is fine:
I'm thinking if I'm not getting a new laptop that I might just upgrade from 16gb RAM to 32gb RAM.
Non Sequitur
Apr 23, 19 4:54 pm
If you're going to upgrade, build a tower.
Besides that, maxing out the ram and getting a good cooling tray is a wise move.
SpeculativeCollonade
Apr 24, 19 5:37 pm
Unfortunately building a tower isn't an option as I need to have a machine that I can fly with. I've been considering a few of the RTX 2060 laptops. On the other hand with things like Vray Next Cloud and cheap render farms I'm wondering if upgrading is that important. My viewport performance is already
great - seems like the bottleneck is just software optimizations.
I'll be starting one of the EDGE programs in the Fall. I'm wondering what most rigs people are running at the graduate level at SCI-Arc? Mainly wondering if I'll need to upgrade for the year or if my current rig is fine:
Alienware 15 R2, i7-6820HK (2.7ghz, 4 Core)
GTX 980m (4gb), 16gb RAM, 256 SSD + 1TB HDD
I'm thinking if I'm not getting a new laptop that I might just upgrade from 16gb RAM to 32gb RAM.
If you're going to upgrade, build a tower.
Besides that, maxing out the ram and getting a good cooling tray is a wise move.
Unfortunately building a tower isn't an option as I need to have a machine that I can fly with. I've been considering a few of the RTX 2060 laptops. On the other hand with things like Vray Next Cloud and cheap render farms I'm wondering if upgrading is that important. My viewport performance is already great - seems like the bottleneck is just software optimizations.