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Looking for a laptop to do Video Editing and Encoding. 1080p Screen, SSD and preferably space for a 2nd or HDD under $900.

What other options have you seen for these in that price range? I have to buy similar machines for work and found around $1500 USD has been the median for Quality/Performance on that CPU.

Free-sync can get you into a 144hz monitor for a lot less than getting a Gsync panel. If you have an Nvidia card and want to minimize tearing turn on Vsync and you should be good. You just lose the dynamic frame adjustments that Free/Gsync give you.

Their looking for under $900, so mediocre is probably going to be best bet for that CPU.

I pay for 1Gbps for mine through Spectrum, and i think I have gotten above 700Mbps once. Usually I'm sitting around 400-600mbs. I'm sure they have something in their agreements that you're getting speeds Up To 1Gbps and not a consistent service. I had Google Fiber about 2 years ago and that was up around 800 consistently.

I can't speak for the quality of the laptop personally, but the specs seem good for the price. https://www.amazon.com/HP-Computer-Quad-Core-i7-7700HQ-Bluetooth/dp/B07DC1B9HW/ref=sr_1_6? or https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i5577-7342BLK-PUS-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B06XFC44CL/ref=sr_1_13? That Dell's name is super confusing, but the specs list it as an i7 7700HQ.

If you're downloading from old/slow servers than you're going to be bottle necked by their infrastructure not yours. What happens when you try and download something off a new site like Steam/Battle.net ect? Have you done a speed test yet? http://www.speedtest.net/ to see at least a base of what your hardware and your ISP can deliver.

Depending on budget I would look at one of the i7 7700HQ laptops. Should be really solid. They are getting cheaper since the launch of the 8 Series.The 8850H is more expensive, but you get 2 logical cores, so that should help your exports.

Looking at the photo, my guess is its a top mounted PSU so probably poor/no top ventilation. Or its an HTPC style case and then hopefully the green is an exhaust.

Vegas and AE are both primarily CPU/RAM dependent software. Exporting/Encoding will be a lot happier with a better CPU. So depending on you how you're going to balance the over use of the system, I would get the best CPU you can with that budget. For an extra $100 USD you can get the 2700X and have a lot more headroom for multitasking and your AE/Vegas will out put faster. If you can get a solid price on a used GPU you can make up the extra money there. If not, I would drop down to 1080p. Having recently made the jump from 1080p 144hz to 1440p 144hz, I was surprised at how much of a dip my FPS took on a 1070TI without dropping game settings.

Are you looking to do the encoding/exporting on the laptop as well or just the editing?

Thanks for both links. EKWB said on their website that they don't currently have plans to make a block for it and pretty sure Heatkiller said something similar on their compatibility chart. Going to submit it to EKWB on their Compatibility inquiry form and hope for some good news. Don't want to "guess" and find out something is off slightly and turn an already bad decision into a worse one.

I'm getting the Gigabyte 2080TI OC edition (GV-N208TGAMING) not the Windforce, and the OC is on a custom PCB that currently no one is making a Waterblock for (hopefully as of yet). EKWB has a request page, but they ask for a photo of the PCB and I can't find one any where yet. So If anyone out there has this card and broken it down, or seen a video/post where someone has done it please point me in the right direction. I haven't broken down a GPU before, but it seems pretty straight forward. So once I get the card I can do that, but just wanted to check and see if someone did the work already. Thanks!

Getting a bigger better single GPU is going to give you more consistent benefits than an SLI system. Purely anecdotal, but everyone I have known to run SLI has told me they hardly ever get to use it because of poor or complete lack of support in the games they play.

I pulled the 2nd Drive out and its still a turd. Something has to be messy with the mother board. Even moving around Bios is incredibly slow. User is back today so I have to just swap it out with another machine and do a tear down.