Alienware Laptop with Gpu?

glennblackphotos

Silver Dolphin said:

It is in the Render setting if the card is recognized by Studio you will have a box to put a tic mark in you will have the choice to choose just the video card or video card and cpu. I would just use Video card. Remember Iray heats up video cards so find a way to keep your laptop cool.

Many thanks.

Serene Night

I render on an Asus 17 inch gaming laptop do pretty well with it.

Gazukull

glennblackphotos said:

Gazukull said:

@glennblackphotos 

Well...  I think it depends on what kind of resolution you are looking at rendering.  The power adapter is 280w... I am not sure if that helps.  I will say this, it will eat power like crazy while rendering.  If I was gaming or rendering not plugged in, we were looking at 2.5 hours.  Vs all day just typing or what have you.

I would probably get the 17 with the super fatty 1080 in there.  At that point it is a desktop replacement almost.  I wouldn't worry about the external GPU box until you one day decide that a 1080 with 8GB ram is not enough. 

Also... your lifestyle sounds awesome!!

 

I got the 17 with the 1080 and pleased, how do I know the 1080 is being used and not the cpu though ?

I actually monitor status with a program called afterburner from MSI.  Or gpu-z.  Both are pretty helpful for monitoring what is going on internally.  But yeah, as others have stated, if you make the 1080 the selected device under Render Settings > Advanced you should be good to go.  That is a nice laptop, I think you will be very happy.

glennblackphotos

Gazukull said:

glennblackphotos said:

Gazukull said:

@glennblackphotos 

Well...  I think it depends on what kind of resolution you are looking at rendering.  The power adapter is 280w... I am not sure if that helps.  I will say this, it will eat power like crazy while rendering.  If I was gaming or rendering not plugged in, we were looking at 2.5 hours.  Vs all day just typing or what have you.

I would probably get the 17 with the super fatty 1080 in there.  At that point it is a desktop replacement almost.  I wouldn't worry about the external GPU box until you one day decide that a 1080 with 8GB ram is not enough. 

Also... your lifestyle sounds awesome!!

 

I got the 17 with the 1080 and pleased, how do I know the 1080 is being used and not the cpu though ?

I actually monitor status with a program called afterburner from MSI.  Or gpu-z.  Both are pretty helpful for monitoring what is going on internally.  But yeah, as others have stated, if you make the 1080 the selected device under Render Settings > Advanced you should be good to go.  That is a nice laptop, I think you will be very happy.

 

Thanks Gaz, yeah I’m happy with it but man does the battery run down quick when rendering, major design flaw by Dell not allowing the battery to be swapped out by a spare one.

I saved over £500 by buying a fully certified refurb which came with the 120 nit qhd screen and now kind of feel I should of got the lesser fhd screen.

Excellent computer nevertheless I’m just fussing due to being off grid haha, guess I better buy more solar panels.