Work/gaming system

[Goliathkiller]

First a brief presentation of myself: (Swiss) student in mechanical engineering (heavy calculus loads and 3D work), never really been a pc gamer but trying to become one.

 

so I need a new laptop that would look professional, preferably, thin and light, but that still handles gaming pretty well (maybe not triple As in ultra, 4K etc., but whatever). 

I know I don’t really need to be able to game anywhere, so I’m looking forward to use an eGPU (which has a couple advantages in my opinion, especially upgradability) and a monitor for gaming. Although, I still need a decent enough GPU for my 3D work (we’re using catia and abaqus).

I was thinking about buying myself the new ASUS zenbook pro not necessarily for the screen pad rather than for the specs (decent 16gb memory, 512 ssd, and nice cpu) and I know a lot of you are going to tell me about the heat throttling but I’m only going for the i7, the i9 is an overkill to me. Tell me if I’m wrong but I hope it’ll solve a lot of the issue.

So I’m wondering if you guys think it’s a good idea, if the lack of upgradable memory won’t make me throw it in 2 years, and if gaming on it with an eGPU could really be a great experience? 

 

Any other idea for a similar setup, or a setup that would check all my needs would be greatly appreciated and considered (but dells, I had way too much heat issues with them...). I guess I would prefer a last gen cpu just so the laptop could be up to date a bit longer, but it’s not that important 

 

thanks a lot. (I hope someone answers ^^)

[genexis_x]

Preferred weight and battery life?

4 hours ago, Goliathkiller said:

ASUS zenbook pro

It has cooling issue even with 8300H model (mainly GPU related)

4 hours ago, Goliathkiller said:

but dells, I had way too much heat issues with them..

Every brand has models with good and bad cooling

[Goliathkiller]

26 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Preferred weight and battery life?

It has cooling issue even with 8300H model (mainly GPU related)

Every brand has models with good and bad cooling

I wouldn’t be too picky on battery life, I don’t mind plugging it a lot. It would be nice if it could stand more than 4 hours productivity work... in terms of weight, something close to 2kg (4.4 pounds)

 

I’m not sure what 8300h you’re talking about (the TUF I guess) but I’m still pretty sure i won’t get super high temps and throttling as on the i9, so I hope it should be ok...

also, gaming on your laps is a bit weird to me anyway, so idk

 

well both my old Inspiron and my dads latest xps would just crash when too hot, and even when sent to the technical support they wouldn’t find anything and don’t change it or anything...  

i read the xps 15  with dedicated gpu has the same issues, and I’m just tired of dealing with them.

[genexis_x]

You can consider eGPU if you have the budget, however the GPU performance is limited to 1060 level