Carnwel opened this issue on Jul 20, 2014 · 6 posts
Carnwel posted Sun, 20 July 2014 at 1:27 PM
I'm seriously thinking about upgrading my current system, its done well over the last few years but it's probably coming to the end of its life. As I'm moving around Europe a lot at the moment I always thought about buying a laptop for Poser but could not find anything that touched the spec that I wanted.
Then I found this and it seems to tick all the boxes on my list - Fast processor (i7 4710MQ), chunk of DDR3 Ram (16Gb/32Gb), huge amount of graphics ram (8Gb GDDR5), decent graphics card (for a laptop) but as I'm not really a 'techy' person I thought I would ask the forum what they thought of it.
Here are the specs that I think are probably important but full tech specs are available on the link below:
PC SPECIALIST VORTEX IV RS-880 17.3"
Processor: Intel i7-4710MQ (2.4GHz, 3.4Ghz with turbo) 6Mb Cache
Ram: 16GB (expandable to 32Gb)
Graphics: NVIDIA geForce GTX 880M (8Gb Dedicated memory)
Storage: 1Tb HDD 7200 / 480 SSD
Full details and specs here:
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/pc-specialist-vortex-iv-rs-880-17-3-gaming-laptop-10004797-pdt.html
Anyone have any thoughts / Issues / Problems?
(Apart from the heafty price tag)
Lee
Carnwel posted Sun, 20 July 2014 at 1:38 PM
My main concern is the 880M card seems to be pretty good by Laptop Standards but i am not sure what would happen if I was to throw a complex Poser scene at it. Yes it has the right amount of Ram on the card but can the card itself take the load?
modus0 posted Mon, 21 July 2014 at 1:19 AM
Last I heard, Poser doesn't use the graphics card for anything other than Preview mode. So really that card is overkill for Poser.
The rest of it looks good, though the CPU does seem a bit slow without using the Turbo Boost.
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aRtBee posted Mon, 21 July 2014 at 1:56 AM
yeah, videocard is not that relevant (and video ram is quite expensive). Poser needs CPU power, and normal ram. Some notes:
when you're on a 64bit OS and a 64bit Poser (=Pro), then the more ram the better
when you're on normal Poser (=32bit) then it can use MAX 4Gb for scenes when running in a 64-bit OS, it can use up to 3Gb for scenes when running in a 32bit Mac OS, or a 32bit Windows with some tweeks (the 3G switch), and it can use 2Gb scene mem max when running in a 32bit Windows OS without those tweeks. And any 32bit OS cannot handle over 4Gb physical ram anyway.
- so to utilize your memory, go 64bit OS and Poser Pro.
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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.
visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though
Carnwel posted Mon, 21 July 2014 at 3:29 AM
Thanks for that, I probably will go for a Desktop then, I just cannot find a Laptop with a fast enough processor (its going to be doing a lot of work).
My main focus on the graphics card was that my current desktop is lagging on complex scenes and I find nothing worse than trying to reposition a complex scene with the annoying 'strobe effect' (meaning I have to drop it back to a less memory intensive preview style).
If anyone has any good recommendations for Poser friendly laptops let me know
modus0 posted Mon, 21 July 2014 at 9:43 AM
The one you linked to can apparently be overclocked by the Intel Turbo Boost Technology to a much higher speed, which would be sufficient for Poser (I'm using a 3.4 ghz i7).
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