Hebury

Hi all! I've been out of the PC building / laptop scene for too long and I'm a bit lost in all the options around. I do have a fairly decent set of requirements and a clear budget so I hope someone here can help me out? Max budget: €1200 Country: The Netherlands Usage: This laptop is for an art student majoring in animation and 3D modeling. She uses Blender and After effects mostly, also a few drawing programs but those are not as heavy to run. In the battle between performance and battery she leans towards performance because she always plugs her laptop in anyway. A medium sized laptop is preferred and a color accurate display would be a nice to have. Programs used most often: Blender Adobe After Effects Requirements: A quad core CPU A decent GPU (probably Nvidia for the Cuda cores with Adobe, around a 1660 I'm guessing) 512gb ssd 8gb of ram (maybe an open slot so it is up gradable to 16gb down the road) around 15.6" No Macbooks 60Hz display is fine Nice to haves: Color accurate display 16gb of ram Not too gamery looking Any advice is greatly appreciated. The amount of laptops to choose from is very overwhelming. Found these myself: Inspiron 15 7000 https://www.dell.com/nl-nl/shop/bekijk-alle-laptops-ultrabooks-tablets/inspiron-15-7000/spd/inspiron-15-7590-laptop/cn75902 HP Pavilion G 15-dk0979nd https://www.coolblue.nl/product/832360/hp-pavilion-g-15-dk0979nd.html HP Omen 15-dc1620nd https://www.paradigit.nl/hp-omen-15-dc1620nd/80054118/product/7393 Asus Nitro 5 https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1492196/acer-nitro-5-an515-54-59pf.html

Did we finally reach the point where beamers aren't huge, give bad image quality and generally isn't a pain in the ass to use in different locations? The amount of times that I spent getting a beamer set up properly is infuriating, this looks amazing.

But you wouldn't really need multithreading for gaming tho, right? So it only really makes sense if you want to make a workstation + gaming rig combination of sorts.

So because the professional programs like the adobe suite and 3dsmax are so good at dividing workload, they become applicable for the WS-grade components? This leaves me with the question, why use a quadro instead of a normal GPU? They are sometimes almost identical to their gaming counterpart but 4 times the cost, are they more stable (give less errors)?

Could be, what would you consider to be the correct term and idea for a workstation?

Okay I get this, but the real problem is when do you know if you really need it? I know a few people who do video editing for a living on a normal GPU, but they are considered professionals. When (and why) do the benefits outweigh extra cost?

Does it really go that specific? For me it's Adobe, but I would like more general advice too.

Conclusion time! The workstation grade components are for a very very small market. More specifically people who do incredibly precise work or need a extremely stable PC. Do you need to build a workstation grade PC? Yes: - If you can't afford any crashes, losing any data would mean a disaster for your work or yourself. - You need special functions like "double floating point precision" which is not available in general consumer components - If you need incredible precise computing (really really precise, almost nobody falls in this category) - If you use software that is optimized for WS-grade components (not always tho) - You want a build that is reliable for a longer period of time Still not sure if you want to go WS-grade components? Calculate your budget and determine what sort of performance you want to get. If you can get workstation grade components in your budget than go for it, but in most cases the money you spend can be put to better use in more performance and less stability. Individual components: GPU WS-grade are Quadro and Firepro - Worse gaming performance - Better precision - More stable - Extra functions like "double floating point precision" CPU WS-grade is Xeon - Less heat - Less power consumtion - Available in more cores - Supports ECC-RAM Can actually be useful outside of servers, some low end i7-xeon can be used with gaming/workstation PC's. Depends on what you do on your PC. RAM WS-grade is ECC-RAM (Error Correcting Code) Is more stable than normal RAM. Only use if there is need for very high stability. MOBO Supports things like ECC-RAM, also more stable. I think that's about it, I'm a bit wiser now ^^ If there is something I missed please leave a reply! Hello everyone, How do you choose if your components need to be workstation grade? Watching, reading and trying things out myself let to me having a decent knowledge about PC's, but this is one thing I just can't seem to get a good opinion on. The problem Most people building a PC should just get the best components their budget allows following a guide like logicalincrements.com. If you are not planning on gaming, ease on the graphics card a bit and maybe spend your money on a better processor. If you are want a silent PC, spend more money on the fans and the case. Follow the guide but change it a bit for you needs, easy right? Except when we go for workstation grade stuff like quadro's, xeon's, WS-grade mobo's (WS-grade RAM, that probably exist too, but I can't even name 1 of them). How do you find out if you need these type of components? I like to have you guys advice in these component-category's: GPU Consumer gaming grade vs. Quadro CPU Normal consumer vs. Xeon RAM Normal vs. workstation grade MOBO Normal vs. workstation grade AMD info is welcome too, the fact is I know even less about workstation-grade AMD components My knowledge at this moment GPU Only use Quadro if you are into heavy 3d modeling/animation for some unknown reason. CPU Only use Xeon for server applications, I don't know about any other workstation grade cpu's. RAM No clue MOBO No clue The reason I'm asking this is I want to build a PC one day when my laptop no longer does the job. I want to use it mainly for work (I already game too much on a under powered laptop so gaming power is definitely not my #1 concern), things like big batches of photos editing, video editing and there is a small interest in programming but time will tell if that is something for me. The problem came with the first time I heard about Quadro cards and it spread to all other components. I never had any problem running software on consumer grade hardware and I'm doubting about the real use/price increase for all these components. If anyone can shine some light on the subject, it would be much appreciated

Vessel username: Hebury Favorite videos: The Hardline Water cooled PC (duh) https://www.vessel.com/videos/JYZEYDYx0 and the Titan X SLI benchmark https://www.vessel.com/videos/JemZ8O7Hy Too bad not all your videos are on Vessel, because I would've picked your Razer Abyssus unboxing/review because it's the first video I ever saw of you guys (no idea why I stuck around after that terrible video ) And this may seem silly and I don't know how you are going to pick winners, but if somehow, I win the Shield Portable please choose another winner because I don't have the power to stream anything to it You guys are amazing btw ^^

Hello everyone! Just making a post which collects all the useful programs you guys use, and a place where you can ask for software for a particular goal/problem. If you add a software recommendation be complete, give the full name, short summary of the program and why you recommend it and a link to their website. If you are looking for software reply with the category the software falls in (anti-virus, management tool, game-related, product-related etc.) and if you are looking for free or paid software, and a short summary to make clear what the program must be able to do. I will be collecting most of the software and order them so you can easily find what you where searching for all this time. Please give feedback/ideas for this topic! Not familiar with Linux, do I need to make Desktop environments tags for every piece of software like: [GNOME] LibreOffice. Or is linux software not DE specific? note: games are NOT allowed The Software Linus Mediagroup recommendations: Startup software - http://www.ninite.com has a lot of software people use when just setting up a fresh install of windows, and simplifies the download and installation by doing it all automatically. All Ninites programs Windows Paid: Free: Mac Paid: Free: Linux Paid: Free: Android Paid: Free: iOS Paid: Free: Sorting atm: Platform paid/free Category Alphabetical by name short description link = Name And spoilers to prevent wall of text. (please correct me on spelling, grammar and other mistakes in general, I'm not a native speaker and like to learn)

These things are freaking awesome 0,o

I was going to say that the coolest thing in the bundle is the watercooler, but I'm going for the PSU. Going for the underdog, they are the most underrated piece of gear in a pc, and modular ones make pc builds so much cleaner and gorgeous <3

I drool over videocards like these. The review was great as always Linus! Good luck for everyone entering the giveaway ^^

Recently found this channel when looking for a razer abbysus review, I thought the unboxing was terrible and almost clicked away after I saw a comment saying: "Linus you improved so much in the last few years!", or something like that. My curiosity took over and watched newer videos of yours and I was instantly hooked, amazing content and a lot of it. I probably watched more than a hundred videos by now Keep up the good work! (I'm going to scream like a little girl if I win the amazing ass probably )

My favourite thing about the G550JK would be the speakers judging from your review, so rare these days to find a laptop with solid sounding speakers. I actually hate listening to most laptop speakers and have to wear a headset (Just found your channel about a month ago while searching for razor abyssus review, found a really old video of yours, don't know why I subscribed after that vid but I'm glad that I did ^^)