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Hi, I work as a freelance artist/designer for mobile games & I've been looking to upgrade my desktop rig for quite a while now as it's starting to be a little long in the tooth & hoping for a little advice.
(Just for ref)
With prices sky high and availability so low decided I'm probably looking at investing in a laptop to tide me by (as an additional device that I can do a little work on in the evenings in the living room). I pre-ordered a Gigabyte G5 from here a couple of weeks ago as I thought it may cover at least the coding, gaming and Blender work. Also thought a decent laptop would be handy to have if I wanted to grab an external capture card for PS5 streaming at some point.
Looking at some early release videos though on YouTube, pretty concerning about the fan noise being so very loud.
Can really envisage me being asked to leave the living room if it drowns out the missus nightly soaps binge, and would negate the point in getting one so really not sure what to do now. If they ramp down enough in desktop use it may be passable.
Software I use...
Visual Studio Code (For mobile game demos) - probably will be using it mostly for this as I prefer to catch up on this stuff on an evening.
ZBrush - Light use, know this is more CPU bound, so probably only a bonus if I could get something that would run it decently.
Blender 2.9 - I use frequently, not expecting heavy use on a laptop, but blocking out some sculpts etc would definately be nice.
Esoteric Spine (2D) - pretty light, so think a laptop should handle this fine.
Photoshop CC - Probably light use with just some edits from PSDs. Such a hog on my desktop these days
Adobe CC - Rest of the suite only as and when, Premiere or After Effects would probably just be a bonus.
Are there any alternative laptops that anyone could recommend? I could possibly push the budget up a little, but dont want to spend too much with one eye still on wanting to upgrade my desktop later in the year. Most around this price point seem to be ASUS (which I normally like) but heard reports the screens are pretty poor?
Also been thinking of just scrapping the gaming idea, dropping the idea of 3d work and looking at a Surface or Samsung Flex (bonus being pen support) but the typing experience may not be so great if I end up using it more on the coding side.
Other option would be to drop further an look at just a bare bones laptop just for the VSCode work, but would still want it to have a nice screen & be pretty snappy.
Bit lost atm, any alternatives that anyone could recommend?
(Just for ref)
- i7 6700k (OC to 4.5Ghz)
- Asus Maximus Hero VIII
- 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200
- Gigabyte 980ti Windforce
With prices sky high and availability so low decided I'm probably looking at investing in a laptop to tide me by (as an additional device that I can do a little work on in the evenings in the living room). I pre-ordered a Gigabyte G5 from here a couple of weeks ago as I thought it may cover at least the coding, gaming and Blender work. Also thought a decent laptop would be handy to have if I wanted to grab an external capture card for PS5 streaming at some point.
Looking at some early release videos though on YouTube, pretty concerning about the fan noise being so very loud.
Can really envisage me being asked to leave the living room if it drowns out the missus nightly soaps binge, and would negate the point in getting one so really not sure what to do now. If they ramp down enough in desktop use it may be passable.
Software I use...
Visual Studio Code (For mobile game demos) - probably will be using it mostly for this as I prefer to catch up on this stuff on an evening.
ZBrush - Light use, know this is more CPU bound, so probably only a bonus if I could get something that would run it decently.
Blender 2.9 - I use frequently, not expecting heavy use on a laptop, but blocking out some sculpts etc would definately be nice.
Esoteric Spine (2D) - pretty light, so think a laptop should handle this fine.
Photoshop CC - Probably light use with just some edits from PSDs. Such a hog on my desktop these days
Adobe CC - Rest of the suite only as and when, Premiere or After Effects would probably just be a bonus.
Are there any alternative laptops that anyone could recommend? I could possibly push the budget up a little, but dont want to spend too much with one eye still on wanting to upgrade my desktop later in the year. Most around this price point seem to be ASUS (which I normally like) but heard reports the screens are pretty poor?
Also been thinking of just scrapping the gaming idea, dropping the idea of 3d work and looking at a Surface or Samsung Flex (bonus being pen support) but the typing experience may not be so great if I end up using it more on the coding side.
Other option would be to drop further an look at just a bare bones laptop just for the VSCode work, but would still want it to have a nice screen & be pretty snappy.
Bit lost atm, any alternatives that anyone could recommend?
