Peter_Is_Cool

Hi there! I'm looking for a laptop to replace my desktop: I've moved countries (US) and am living in a dorm and no longer have the space for a desktop and am also travelling a lot (every few months back home to NZ). I've looked around at the Clevo shells built by Origin Xotic etc. but they seem pretty bad for the price (then again I have no idea because I'm not well versed in laptops). I'll be using the computer mostly for heavy video editing (I shoot on a Blackmagic Cinema in its proprietary RAW and do some colour correcting, and a Canon 5D MKIV RAW) and gaming (not too fussed, mostly just play Dota and a few titles here and there. When I go back to NZ for holidays I'd be playing games all the time and won't be doing work on it). Here's what I'm looking for: Budget: No real budget, so long as it's not ridiculous for what I'll be using it for. Would like not to spend over 5000 USD Processor: I'd rather a desktop one than a mobile one, anything with power equal to or higher than a 7700k would be nice. The Xotic/ Clevo ones go up to 9900k and I'd be pretty happy with one of those too. GPU: Preferably a 1080 or Quadro equivalent, I'm not sure if Quadros are worth the price especially in laptops though Screen: Not too fussed as when I'm editing I should be connected to an external monitor, would like a 1080p screen 144hz as when I'm not using a monitor I'll probably be playing Dota. Storage: Again, not too fussed as most my stuff are on a disk array stored separately. A SSD to store my OS and a few select programs and games, nothing over 500GB, and a secondary HDD or SDD would be nice but not necessary. Battery life: Don't care, doubt this configuration would have good battery life, plan to use it tethered 90% of the time anyway. RAM: I'm under the impression from websites and IRL advice that I should go for 64Gb for my workload, but I'll take any into consideration any amount. Size: Don't care at all IO: Thunderbolt would be nice, the more connections the better. Not too fussed here. Again, I'm very new to desktop replacements and have no idea what's a fair price. I tried to configure one on Xotic and Origin and there was a 700$ price difference even though parts seems similar... Any help would be appreciated! Thanks so much Peter

Case is completely stuffed, one stick of 8 gb ram seems to work, m.2 SSD 750gigs works still, everything else seems to be completely borked - fell out of the back of a car moving at high speed! Country is New Zealand.

Hi there! This is my first post after watching LTT for a long time, pleased to be here! My computer was badly damaged after attempting to shift it to and from a LAN party, and it would seem I more or less have to get a new one from scratch. With a budget of around $7500 USD, what is the best computer I could build for the purposes of Video Editing (2.5k to 4k RAW), DAW work and gaming? I understand that something that's suited for gaming might not necessarily be suited for Video editing / DAW and vice versa, and I have 0 clue when it comes to building something not gaming-oriented, but I've been told that the Nvidia gaming cards are still the best bang for your buck, Best Peter