Antony Leung

I'm a owner of a Dell S2417DG and I have been running this monitor for 6 months at 165Hz OC, and 1ms response time, and I haven't seen any damage or difference whatsoever. But I'm just talking of personal experience. since I dont know what monitor you wanna try OC. It might be risky, but I suggest you to try it for really short period of time, and if you see any particular change roll back instantly.

@Pendragon Thanks for the input, Sorry I forgot to mention a price cap of 1500$ USD. If i have to strictly follow your advice, I'll take the X360, even tho I hate the keyboard, I guess even paying premiun price I have to put up with it. Didn't know that those will thermal throttle. I think I heard the X360 does too, But if the money wasn't a concern I'll take the XPS 13 2018 or the 920. But since the is memory soldered and the only one I can afford right now, is the 8gb version, and that isn't good future when it comes to games, when I plug the E-gpu, and same goes to the yoga 920.

Lightweight and decent gpu for light gaming. for 800$ https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-VivoBook-S15-S510UQ/ And if you dont mind carring something little bit heavy and better gpu and cpu for 850$ https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GL62M-7REX-1896US-i7-7700HQ-Steelseries/dp/B074VLX5XV What do you think @L337h4l?

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a ultrabook that mainly is for college and some support for e-gpu. (I already own a 1080 desktop graphics card, see full specs on my profile) With specs like: Thunderbolt 3 with X4 PCIE lanes and OPI 4GT/s Mode, I7 8th gen CPU, 16gb of ram or 8gb with support for upgrade, With a SSD. Finally of course is super light sub-3 pounds or 1.356 kg. Optional, Touchscreen. fingerprint reader, Long standing 8 Hr or more time battery. And I came across with this 2 mayor candidates: ASUS ZenBook 3 Deluxe Razer Blade Stealth (2018 with 8th gen cpu). And I'm really indecisive. I have some concerns with both laptops: In a few reviews on amazon, mark the blade with some QC problems. And the shared bandwith* with the Zenbook makes me think if it gonna degrade the X4 PCIE bandwidth and cut it in half or something related. If this wasn't a concern I'll right away buy that laptop. * (Correct me if I'm wrong but I saw somewhere that the zenbook shares the bandwidth of the ports) On final line, If you see something better and it cheaper, less than 1450$ USD. I may consider it. Additional notes: I saw the XPS 13 2018 and I really like it but the fact that you can't upgrade the ram is a deal breaker same goes for yoga 920. keyboard on the HP X360 is also a deal breaker.

Which quadro gpus? I'm lost on that.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12440/windows-10-activation From themselves they don't mention you can associate with your email. So I guess is tied with the laptop only.

If bad things happend you could try to get windows 10 for free, just enroll on the "gibe me plz a copy im disable" thing and you got a free copy.

If Xmas sales are insane, get the 1080TI, or the 1080. Heck you can get a 1080 now at 509 on newegg. Also if the 1070TI end outperforming the 1080 then get it. is expected to cost 499$ max

Sure, but again the problem is money. Indeed would be perfect a P100 for his build and xeon cores, but again money. Something that I forgot, to ask him is ram. I dont know if 16 would be enough, Im thinking like those programs of rendering videos, they tend to like more 32 GB.

Unfortunately, no. He did told me some clues, like gauss, take the calculations of the molecules, and chem renders or makes a 3D representation of it. So my guess is gauss likes both but is gpu bounded and chem gpu. So with that build of 1000$ is still viable? Last time he talk to me, he says he can 1500$. So this one should be ideal right?

Last resource, I call @DocSwag for a hand. What do you think about this?

Hey @argyle and @Kiani, What do you guys think? I also call for help @STRMfrmXMN, @deXxterlab97, @Dackzy, @nerdslayer1, and @herman mcpootis.

Thanks, very helpful. I came across with this slideshow from nvidia, and they mentioned "Active GPU acceleration projects" and gamess, and if i remember correctly, chemcraft use that right? I was thinking about this build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2ZkKvV, heavily gpu bounded but not a mediocre and good multi-core tasking processor. and If those programs dont use a lot of ram. like photoshop or sony vegas.

It doesn't matter, he says is a old laptop, if you haven't notice yet this is a build recomendation for my professor of chemestry, just for the sake of helping him, lets assume he doesn't have a computer and need one for molecular simulation.

So I have a laptop that I use for Chemistry simulations, and is so slow. The programs I use is gaussian and chemcraft. Take days to do a molecular simulation, and I always wonder if I could speed up by building a new PC for that. What you guys recommend me for those programs. Says a chemistry professor who doesn't know about computer hardware. Ideal budget. 1000$ USD, can overbudget but needs a good reason for it. No case is needed he can recicle a old one that he have from his father. Even myself don't know if this build needs much ram. like 16 or 32.