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Fair Modeling Laptop

delor317delor317 Registered User new member
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I have been looking all over in real life and online for a laptop that is no more than $1300 for me to use for 3D environmental modeling. I can't find much and the ones I do find are too expensive or out of stock. The trick is it has to be good enough to run the most demanding games or it will slowly kill itself under the pressure of 3D modeling like my current laptop that can't model 10 minutes without overheating now.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    It seems like you really want a top of the line workstation model with a megaton of RAM and a hugely beefy videocard. Which means $1300 might be cutting it a touch thin... You're probably going to want a system with something like a 7970M in it, and that right there is going to add a few hundred bucks to the price all by itself.

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Does it have to be a laptop?
    At that price point, you'll probably have better luck building a micro PC that would be small enough to move around easily then you will finding a laptop that'll do everything you need it to.

    As for your current laptop, if you haven't already you might want to crack it open and clean any accumulated dust out of the fan and heatsink. Might help it last a little longer.

  • Great ScottGreat Scott King of Wishful Thinking Paragon City, RIRegistered User regular
    edited November 2012
    In that price range you won't find a laptop that both 1) Fast, and 2) designed for that kind of duty. Which means that many of your options will end up overheating. You should try and save up some more money if you can, your options get better for every extra $200 you have.

    To explain: Even most gaming sessions don't run all day, and many games don't constantly stress the CPU, so to keep things simple (and cheap) laptop chassis are designed to remove some fixed amount of heat.

    If you're willing to make do you could get a really large laptop and hope the one you get is well-made. A Dell Inspiron 17R and the HP Envy DV6t-7200 are some examples. But even those, equipped and with warrantys (which you will want for this application) might be over the $1300 line.

    I would echo what was said earlier - a portable desktop might be a better option. It will definitely be a cheaper one.

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