Autocad

[IsraelLover]

Looking for a budget laptop to support Autocat/revit, any recommendations? 

 

[Kisai]

1 minute ago, IsraelLover said:

Looking for a budget laptop to support Autocat/revit, any recommendations? 

 

I don't recommend anything below a 15" laptop. If it does not have a discrete GPU on it, the laptop will literately overheat and die. The engineering office uses only 15" (eg a Dell Precision 5530, 7530) or 17" models (Dell Precision 7720/7730/7740) and the latter are more expensive than some gaming laptops despite the GPU in them being somewhat weaker than in a gaming laptop. There's also an XPS model that is a dead ringer for the Prevision 5520/5530 that only differs by being a Geforce rather than a Quadro, if you're looking for that.

 

Onboard Intel GPU's can NOT do autocad and pretty much every laptop that has tried has had hardware fail after a few months.

[blackviking03]

I would recommend a Ryzen 3 3200U with Vega 3 integrated graphics and 8Gb DDR4 Memory.

[kelvinhall05]

Budget? I'd say used Thinkpad.

[kkpatel87]

Anything with a discrete GPU should be acceptable. I typically prefer Dell Precision series.

[IsraelLover]

Just now, blackviking03 said:

I would recommend a Ryzen 3 3200U with Vega 3 integrated graphics and 8Gb DDR4 Memory.

any specific laptop in mind?

[blackviking03]

Just now, Kisai said:

I don't recommend anything below a 15" laptop. If it does not have a discrete GPU on it, the laptop will literately overheat and die. The engineering office uses only 15" (eg a Dell Precision 5530, 7530) or 17" models (Dell Precision 7720/7730/7740) and the latter are more expensive than some gaming laptops despite the GPU in them being somewhat weaker than in a gaming laptop. There's also an XPS model that is a dead ringer for the Prevision 5520/5530 that only differs by being a Geforce rather than a Quadro, if you're looking for that.

 

Onboard Intel GPU's can NOT do autocad and pretty much every laptop that has tried has had hardware fail after a few months.

Why not a Ryzen mate? He's asking for a budget option.

[blackviking03]

1 minute ago, IsraelLover said:

any specific laptop in mind?

Something like this

[blackviking03]

Btw is it for work or just learning (school)?

[IsraelLover]

Just now, blackviking03 said:

Btw is it for work or just learning (school)?

starting as a student but want it for the long run till i get a desktop

 

[Kisai]

2 minutes ago, blackviking03 said:

Why not a Ryzen mate? He's asking for a budget option.

Autocad's requirements are pretty explicit, it's the memory bandwidth that matters. So integrated graphics always fail this test.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-AutoCAD-2020-including-Specialized-Toolsets.html

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Basic: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor
Recommended: 3+ GHz processor

 

Basic: 8 GB
Recommended: 16 GB

 

Basic: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Recommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant

The Precision 5520, 5530, and similar 15" laptops only hit about 80GB/sec with a Quadro P1000/P1200 in them (equiv to a Geforce 1050Ti/1060 level of performance.) But iGPU's tend to only hit like 24 at most.

[IsraelLover]

i found this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087V34W6R/ref=crt_ewc_title_huc_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AXCB29L39I26U#renewedProgramDescriptionBtf 

my question is if i can upgrade the ram

[Kisai]

Just now, IsraelLover said:

i found this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087V34W6R/ref=crt_ewc_title_huc_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AXCB29L39I26U#renewedProgramDescriptionBtf 

my question is if i can upgrade the ram

That's not even remotely capable.

 

If you want to run AutoCAD, the minimum requirements, at least on a laptop is going to be closer to a 2.5Ghz Quadcore, 8GB RAM and a Quadro P1000/Geforce/1050Ti, anything less than that, and the performance will be unbearable.

 

[blackviking03]

1 minute ago, Kisai said:

That's not even remotely capable.

 

If you want to run AutoCAD, the minimum requirements, at least on a laptop is going to be closer to a 2.5Ghz Quadcore, 8GB RAM and a Quadro P1000/Geforce/1050Ti, anything less than that, and the performance will be unbearable.

 

What do you think of this?

It has a 1650 in it.

https://www.amazon.com/R5-3550H-Processor-Graphics-FX505DT-AH51-Keyboard/dp/B07VBK4SYS/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=ryzen+gtx+1050ti&qid=1593454085&s=electronics&sr=1-5

[IsraelLover]

@blackviking03 can the RAM be upgraded?

 

[blackviking03]

2 minutes ago, IsraelLover said:

@blackviking03 can the RAM be upgraded?

 

Yes, as you can see here

[blackviking03]

@IsraelLover

 

You can see all the upgrade options in this video:

 

[IsraelLover]

@blackviking03 any chance u can send me a link for the ram? (USA)

[Kisai]

15 minutes ago, blackviking03 said:

What do you think of this?

It has a 1650 in it.

https://www.amazon.com/R5-3550H-Processor-Graphics-FX505DT-AH51-Keyboard/dp/B07VBK4SYS/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=ryzen+gtx+1050ti&qid=1593454085&s=electronics&sr=1-5

That one would work.

[IsraelLover]

would this be compatible? https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-ValueRAM-2400Mhz-KVR24S17S8/dp/B01LW6HBSM/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=ddr4+2400+sdram+sodimm&qid=1593455148&sr=8-5