New pc for design work, etc .. laptop or not ??

[albireo13]

Well, I ended up buying a Dell XPS 8950. $1599. Not a steal but, I got what I want, quickly, and with the 1 yr warrantee.


i7-12700
16GB DDR5
512GB M.2 SSD + 1TB HDD/SATA
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
WIN11

I will see how the 16GB does for now. I will eventually go to 32GB. I didn't need the DDR5 but, DDR4 wasn't in an option on the model with my specs.

It is arriving tomorrow.

 

[Freedom56]

Well, I ended up buying a Dell XPS 8950. $1599. Not a steal but, I got what I want, quickly, and with the 1 yr warrantee.


i7-12700
16GB DDR5
512GB M.2 SSD + 1TB HDD/SATA
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
WIN11

I will see how the 16GB does for now. I will eventually go to 32GB. I didn't need the DDR5 but, DDR4 wasn't in an option on the model with my specs.

It is arriving tomorrow.

You will be happy with that system for a long time. The lower end sub $900 Dell PCs really are not that great. They use a lot of cheap components. The I7-12700 and RTX 3060 are a good balance between CPU and GPU. I would upgrade to 32 GB of memory. You should be able to find OEM memory of the same speed for far less than what Dell charges. I paid $98 for 16GB of identical OEM memory versus the $400 HP wanted.

As for sheer CPU power, AMD recently cracked the 100K CPU mark ceiling with the Ryzen Threadripper pro 5995WX at 108,822. The new Zen 4 CPUs will be released later this year which should separate AMD from Intel even further in the CPU wars.