Well, it's finally time for a new PC seeing as my trusty old Mac has finally given up. This time I've decided to go for a Windows laptop and connect it to our 28" monitor rather than go for another desktop system. Well, seeing as the monitor is already there I may as well take advantage of it. So, it was off to Overclockers UK to see whats available and its amazing what's available now. Anyway, I spotted a laptop I liked, 17" screen Nvidia graphics but it is an AMD Ryzen processor. I've always opted for an Intel/Nvidia combination in the past as I know they work well. The people at work who use similar software to me have used Maya & Photoshop etc without any issues on a Ryzen but nobody knows how well Poser will work. Before I spend my hard earned cash does anyone have any advice on how ell Poser works with a Ryzen?

I don't use Ryzen myself, but many on these forums do with no problems. Ryzen processors at the moment seem to offer much better value for money.

How well it a processor runs Poser is more a matter of how many cores and what is the clock frequency rather than the manufacturer. One thing to take into account is that laptops usually use lower power components than desktops and it's often just the letter at the end of the name that differentiates them, and you don't normally get the same "bang for your buck" with a laptop, which can also suffer from more thermal throttling (slowing down when the temperature in the case gets hot) than a desktop

I don't have any issues with my Ryzen.

Ryzen 5 1600X here on an AMD X570 chipset. OS = WIN 10 home

-EDIT: Twin Radeon RX570 graphics cards running four monitors.

No problems at all, AND:

Compared to my previous machine with five-year old hardware, it's like driving a Ferrari vs. a Cortina :)

HTH

Peter

You won't have any problems with a Ryzen processor, but I do have to second what Nails said up above. A lot of laptops use a mobile type processor that runs at about half the speed of the desktop equivalent to cut down on heat and save battery power (the left and right achilles' heel of laptops). So do your homework and make sure you're getting a processor that's fast enough you'll be happy with the performance.

A bit meatier than a laptop processor but I have no problem running Poser on my Ryzen system which cost less than anything Intel had around the same spec.

Interested myself, only just upgraded from a first gen i7 to a Ryzen 7 3700x, I haven't re-installed poser yet, but it runs like the nuts on Daz even with a Gtx970

I feel you. My MacPro is on it's last legs, so I now have a Ryzen 2700 based system. I'll end up getting a 3950x for Christmas and moving to 128Gb ram.

Apple was a fun 20 years, but they have made it very clear that they don't want anyone that is technically literate as a customer.

W10, Ryzen 5 3600, 16Gb, Radeon 580 8GB, PP11, 11.2.307, ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING Motherboard gave me no problems with right out of the box. Corsair Case with RGB lighting. 1 Terabyte SSD as my C: Drive is reasonable and the same exact size as my old drive. That meant cloning it was a breeze. but I kept my old seagate external drive. 4 Terabytes and it's time to upgrade that as well. After 5 years I get antsy when it comes to old fashioned platter hard drives. Stock fan as I'm not overclocking yet. I can still upgrade my CPU to Ryzen 7 and upgrade my video card as well. A motherboard and graphics card made for gaming won't choke on Poser. I do not play games. The biggest difference is that I can go deeper with my settings.

No doubt about it. I'm not a spring chicken. After I gathered the parts, I asked how much for THEM to assemble it as it had been years since I put a computer together. After I choked on the price they quoted, I did it myself. Looks pretty sweet. When I was returning the after market cooling fan, the guy who rang up my goods asked if I got it working. He was surprised to learn that I did and after intense interrogation confessed that he hadn't got everything to work in his own system. My message is don't be afraid to take the plunge. Computing hasn't changed that much. Just faster, better and cheaper.

I have a Ryzen 7 since almost two years. Everything works, rendering with a lot of cores is great. Very good value for the price.

quietrob posted at 12:01PM Wed, 19 February 2020 - #4380850

W10, Ryzen 5 3600, 16Gb, Radeon 580 8GB, PP11, 11.2.307, ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING Motherboard gave me no problems with right out of the box. Corsair Case with RGB lighting. 1 Terabyte SSD as my C: Drive is reasonable and the same exact size as my old drive. That meant cloning it was a breeze. but I kept my old seagate external drive. 4 Terabytes and it's time to upgrade that as well. After 5 years I get antsy when it comes to old fashioned platter hard drives. Stock fan as I'm not overclocking yet. I can still upgrade my CPU to Ryzen 7 and upgrade my video card as well. A motherboard and graphics card made for gaming won't choke on Poser. I do not play games. The biggest difference is that I can go deeper with my settings.

No doubt about it. I'm not a spring chicken. After I gathered the parts, I asked how much for THEM to assemble it as it had been years since I put a computer together. After I choked on the price they quoted, I did it myself. Looks pretty sweet. When I was returning the after market cooling fan, the guy who rang up my goods asked if I got it working. He was surprised to learn that I did and after intense interrogation confessed that he hadn't got everything to work in his own system. My message is don't be afraid to take the plunge. Computing hasn't changed that much. Just faster, better and cheaper.

I would second the suggestion of having a go rather than paying to have it built a bit rich coming from someone who had his last computer built for him but it would have been around the tenth personal computer I had built and I was being lazy. I am getting rather old and was happy to pay someone else, much in the same way I pay the garage to service my car, something I also used to do myself.

For all that I would still recommend a self build particularly if you have a tight budget or you want a computer a little bit special, which a lot of us 3D artist do, it is a little bit more specialist to your standard gaming machine.