Helpful laptop feedback?

[Quy_Phan]

So I was looking for a new laptop and was sitting on the fence to buy the Lenovo Legion Y530 it seems there was another sale on it recently so I think I am going to go ahead with the purchase on the $809 version. I am curious to what everyone's opinion is. At first I was interested in getting the lowest model however it uses regular HD over SSD and has a 1050 compared to 1060. Would that justify the $90 difference?

 

Intent for laptop would be school work engineering related stuff mainly CAD and on the side relaxing with some gaming. Games I was originally playing on previous laptop included things like Path of Exile, Vindictus, Dragon Nest, Maplestory, League of Legends. I wanted to get into Monster Hunter World however my previous laptop could not handle. I am also curious how the display graphics on something like this compares to the same laptop in this price range/ intent of use.

[Franck]

6 hours ago, Quy_Phan said:

So I was looking for a new laptop and was sitting on the fence to buy the Lenovo Legion Y530 it seems there was another sale on it recently so I think I am going to go ahead with the purchase on the $809 version. I am curious to what everyone's opinion is. At first I was interested in getting the lowest model however it uses regular HD over SSD and has a 1050 compared to 1060. Would that justify the $90 difference?

 

Intent for laptop would be school work engineering related stuff mainly CAD and on the side relaxing with some gaming. Games I was originally playing on previous laptop included things like Path of Exile, Vindictus, Dragon Nest, Maplestory, League of Legends. I wanted to get into Monster Hunter World however my previous laptop could not handle. I am also curious how the display graphics on something like this compares to the same laptop in this price range/ intent of use.

For CAD the 1050 is ok but depend which CAD you plan on using. Something like Fusion or Autocad will work perfectly (those are just small examples). But things like Solidworks, Creo and NX will either outright not work with some feature or give you inaccurate results.

 

Some CAD will require a CAD card so FirePro (AMD) or Quadro (NVIDIA) if you you will need to hack some registry or DLL to make them think you have one. IF you plan on doing FEM-FEA any GTX will outright be useless unless their modules are running on the CPU which i cannot tell you which one does. All those i work with use GPU.

[skNDstry]

Hi!

I have a lenovo Y520, and from my experience, definitely put that money in to get the 1060 rather than the 1050. My laptop is a I7 7700hq with a 1050, which as often as I have lunch, the GPU bottlenecks the CPU soo much that it literally reduces around half the performance. For CAD, 1050 is enough, but for gaming, better go for a 1060. Also the GPU is non-removable, so you would be stuck with it forever unless you plan to practice your soldering skills

Edited May 10, 2019 by skNDstry

[Quy_Phan]

9 hours ago, Franck said:

For CAD the 1050 is ok but depend which CAD you plan on using. Something like Fusion or Autocad will work perfectly (those are just small examples). But things like Solidworks, Creo and NX will either outright not work with some feature or give you inaccurate results.

 

Some CAD will require a CAD card so FirePro (AMD) or Quadro (NVIDIA) if you you will need to hack some registry or DLL to make them think you have one. IF you plan on doing FEM-FEA any GTX will outright be useless unless their modules are running on the CPU which i cannot tell you which one does. All those i work with use GPU.

Will I was thinking about getting the 1060 instead. Would that work still for Creo or Solidworks? Also how difficult is "hacking the registry" to make them think I have one.

[Franck]

On 5/10/2019 at 6:24 PM, Quy_Phan said:

Will I was thinking about getting the 1060 instead. Would that work still for Creo or Solidworks? Also how difficult is "hacking the registry" to make them think I have one.

it's easy to hack the registry for Solidworks. It's just a boolean to change and you can find it easily on the web. The registry path is nearly the same for all versions. In CREO i have never managed to make it work. If you find how to make finite element return good accurate values let me know. The software does work if all you want is to do basic measure and solid without actual extreme accurate work or material analysis. Solidworks works fine, quite sluggish with large assembly and with 3gb vram you will be stuck in lightweight quite often unless the 1060 is the 6gb version. FEA result in solidworks through 970, 980, 1050, 1070 are out of wack and differs. When we compare to our FirePro / Quadro workstation their results one vs another are very very similar but shows the non CAD cards have issues.

 

Short :

-  Creo will work out of the box

- Solidworks will work with issues or weird error out of the box. A registry key switch to make it think you have a CAD card will remove these visual artifacts and unlock some visual features that are blocked.

 

[genexis_x]

Are you from US? Max budget? Any preference on weight and battery life?