Spoiler alert - Everyone graduates you’re literally paying to play. The tool is what helps the Architect along - extremely talented and dedicated can do anything with a wax candle. Less talented folks need better tools.
@@tidingsm7348 true to word! Actually what my professor said. He also said that even how good your tools are and youre just slacking in architecture school and not dedicated enough, you're still doomed
I’m an interior design student and I use a Lenovo legion 5 - vray creates some pretty amazing renders but it does take hours to render one scene, AutoCAD runs fine MOST of the time and photoshop and sketchup have their crashes from time to time but for the most part are okay as long as they aren’t being run all at the same time. I will definitely be upgrading to a pc soon !
Currently using a Ryzen 3900x (12/24 cores at up to 4.6Ghz), 32 GB Ram at 3200mhz and a GeForce RTX2080FE at home. It runs super smooth in Revit and SketchUp, and is absolutly sufficient for Rendering at the moment, but the better I get at rendering (3DS Max + Corona + a few plugins) the more you "could" still add to it, especially Ram :D But I'm still super happy and feel fortunate with that system... And as a bonus it also games well 😬
Ryzen usually have the upper hand, but in recent releases, it seems Intel is picking up too, just pay attention to the generations and don't get fooled by pure benchmark numbers, see user reviews and check the hardware correlation too (GPU, cooling, ports available, battery, etc)
I own an Acer Predator which is the best in budget if you're looking for a pocket friendly lap. Although built up cpu's are always a better option but you can't own both at the same time atleast until you're a student so here is what i recommend. I have an i7 8th gen processor with 16gigs of ram and a GTX 1060 6GB graphic card. I got it for a good price of 1L and trust me it is the best in budget lap. It runs all the softwares including the rendering ones very easily without a frame drop. I hope this helps you. Also reply if you've any query regarding selection of PC's. Would love to answer as even i had doubts in my first year of Architecture when i was choosing.
Would gtx 1650 4GB be enough for software like lumion or do I need to go higher? I am getting some mixed responses about it so it would be helpful! Also, is refresh rate a major factor here?
I have Intel i7 10th Gen CPU with Nvidia RTX2060 Graphics card (6GB VRAM) ,16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 4K AMOLED touch display, 200W Battery Charger. And my laptop is HP ENVY 15 (2020) I use Lumion and it surprisingly performs very well with quick renders and outputs. Hope this helps someone to buy one.
It’s practically impossible to find RTX GPU’s in stock these days to build a custom PC. The only immediately available option out there are high end laptops. That said, I’ve had the best experience with ISV certified workstation laptops (hardware that is optimized for AutoDesk, Adobe, etc.). For a reliable, portable, powerful workstation laptop with a 15” screen and upgradable RAM & SSD, I _highly_ recommend the ThinkPad P1. A current 3rd generation P1 with incredible specs runs around $2000 and up. Since a lot of big architecture and engineering firms buy ThinkPads wholesale and trade them back to the Lenovo factory for newer models, there’s huge market for factory refurbished ThinkPads at bargain prices. You can easily find a refurbished 2nd gen P1 in great condition for around $1200.
@@wendy2263 for what I use it for, I’m very happy with it, it’s a proper workstation laptop. I purchased an unused “open box” 3rd Gen Thinkpad P1 with an included 3-year Lenovo warranty from eBay for $1500. That got me an Nvidia Quadro T2000, 32GB RAM, 10th Gen i7 CPU, 4K display and 512GB SSD. I’ll probably upgrade the SSD later. I mainly use AutoCAD+Revit 2021, Adobe CS6, Rhino 7, Grasshopper and Vray. Under heavy load the P1 runs everything super fast and it doesn’t get uncomfortably warm like every other laptop I previously owned. However, if you do need an RTX GPU to create a lot of fancy archviz video presentations, it might be worth doing research to build a custom gaming rig. Ever since the cryptocurrency market crash, crypto miners stopped hoarding all the GPU’s and now RTX graphics cards are suddenly pretty easy to find and appropriately priced.
I really hope to upgrade by the end of the summer this year, I plan on saving around $1500 to 2000 and that would be my budget. I have an HP Pavilion it has Intel core i7, 12 GB and Nvidia Geforce graphic card but I'm still struggling while working on it, the fan is extremely loud and I feel is going to explode at anytime haha
And then you have me designing buildings on a 2012 lenovo laptop with 6gb ram just fine. It actually held up pretty well, needed a SSD upgrade doe. You learn to use only the things it can take on to keep a smooth workflow. Got me trough the first 3 years of collage but it kinda feels like I'm missing out on learning advanced stuff
Oh totally feel you, I had one from for about four years with a broken screen, completely dependent on cable connection cause the battery didn’t work and with a 14 inch screen. I think it had 4 g if ram and I was running lumion and vray 🙈🙈 but an uograde was super necessary I love the feeling of having super heavy duty programs open all at the same time and the computer run smoothly
Bought a old Workstation an HP Z620 2x Xeon E5-2680 - 16 cores- 32 Threads 64gb RAM Gtx 980ti 6gb Boot Drive 1tb ssd General Drive 4tb hdd Alltogether i paid with the Upgrades (ram,ssd,chancing graphic-card) : 800€ and it is a monster for that price
Good content my friend! This video came at a good time! Regarding the PC components, I think it is necessary to have patience to do a market research related to the prices of the physical components. You need to do this so that you have an efficient cost-benefit with the parts in order to have a highly efficient PC that suits you!
I'm stuck in a debate with myself because I need something portable and I'm struggling to decide if it's worth the upgrade. I've currently got the Zenbook Duo UX481 - Specs: CPU intel i7 - | RAM 16gb | GPU - MX 250 | SSD 1tb --- £1,500 I'm interested in upgrading to the Zenbook Pro Duo ux582 - Specs: CPU - intel i9 | RAM - 32gb | GPU - RTX 3070 (for laptops) | SSD 1tb | 4k Display --- £3,000
both are real good setups, sometimes if we update our old laptops, (increase ram etc) they can last a bit more. But if you see that your workflow is being affected, then update
With an average technical specification, Archicad or VectorWorks are doing fine. Even big sized projects flow nicely. Much more specs is needed for heavy software such as Revit or Allplan.
PC master race for the win!!! I7- 8700 16GB ram RTX 2060Ti 500 GB SSD, 3TB HDD Using an old TV monitor because of constraints. Will need suggestions to buy a good monitor in the coming months. :) I would love to see your desktop setup!!
Hi, I recently bought a new laptop within my budget haha it's a Dell G15 16GB Ram, 512 SSD, Intel core i7 11th Generation, Geforce RTX 3050 4GB and it's screen size is 15.6'' and I have a 1TB external Hard drive. Would this be ok for software like Revit, photoshop and Vray to be open all at the same time? Thank you :)
Hey Stevan! My setup is a mini custom pc from Xrig Ryzen 7 3700x 8 core 16 threads ZOTAC Rtx 2070 super 8gb 1800 mhz 32 gb ram DDR4 3200 mhz Mobo Msi B450i mini itx Micron P5 SSD 500gb Seagate Barracuda 2 tb for Storage Acer 24 inch 75 hz ups display Thanks for the vid for people to be aware 🔥😎
I have to disagree on the graphics card since you definitely need to go for a mobile workstation with an intel quadro graphics card. I would recommend NVIDIA T1200 4 GB GDDR6 128 or better
Min req. can be ryzen3/core i3(most archviz software now is gpubound+ modern i3 & ryzen 3 is equivalent to an i7 from 4 years ago), 16GB ram, 240GB SSD for programs & OS, 1TB HDD for storing files, Gtx1650 Super or equivalent for GPU (GPU is very important for running things like lumion and enscape). I've bought and tested a few of these and it can get the job done.
Lenovo legión 5, AMD rysen7 4800h, 512gb ssd, gtx 1660ti, 16gb ram, monitor extra Acer 21", hago visualización en vray y lumion, todo me funciona a perfección. Saludos desde Bogotá.
Do you need both ssd and hdd? I currently have 2tb of ssd. I still experience some lagging with Some cad and photo editing programs with a 3080, 64 gb ram and ryzen 9 3900x… i usually will have a cad or 3d model with some chrome tabs in the bg and youtube or spotify plus photoshop and/or illustrator. I would have thought it would handle it better? Minecraft mazed out is fine and so is test rendering on blender but really just baffled why I experience some lags here and there when sometimes I dont even have a lot opened :/…
This was a really nice guide... But I'm so confused as to whether go for a new laptop or for a pc... because I'm almost in my final year and I'll be having my thesis but also I might going abroad for my masters so if I go for a laptop the portability will be an issue... What should I do?
Really appreciate your video. Thanks! I have a Boxx Laptop which I bought in 2015 with the following specs: Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz RAM 32.0 GB System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor I think it works fine as long as I dont do too many high quality renderings. However, lately I've been considering upgrading, maybe to a desk top so that I can do realistic renderings on Revit2023. What are your recommendations? While portable laptops are better so I can go to client meetings with it, I wonder if a desktop would save me a whole lot more money. Afterall I can probably just save to my current old laptop the renderings as pdf's or jpg's and consider downloading walkthroughs as videos when I have to go to meetings. Or is my laptop just too old? Once I create realistic renderings and walkthroughs, would my laptop just not open fast enought to show simple floor plans, 3D's etc?
A desktop wont save you any money, if you are looking for a midtire setup like rtx 3070 or 4070. Laptops can be portable for me for my client meeting ,I some times use realtime renders to present to clients.
I think intel cpu will match frequency of use and stability than amd cpu. Graphics card is too expensive at the moment, in Vietnam, it is 3 times more expensive than normal. Too awful! Nice video!
yes, its important. Or you may get a yellowish green when you print out a drawing, when you only saw a warm yellow on your screen. (and similar examples)
I've got a Mac Book Pro 16" and I love it to death. But... Obviously I can't use all the Architecture Software I want to. Plan on maybe getting a PC with a good graphics card later.
Hey there so im stuck with my 980ti for now, thinking of upgrading from an intel i7-4790k to a ryzen 5 5600x with 64gb ram and b550 mobo, What do you think? Will upgrade my gpu later when i’ve saved up some more.
Currently have a Macbook pro. Finishing second year and now really need a windows. I have a budget of about 4,000. I want to get a laptop that will give me no issues for whatever I throw at it basically looking for the fastest and most reliable lol. I appreciate any suggestions! Thank you everyone
Hey man, the problem with really powerful laptops is there all huge. You’ll be looking at a 17’” behemoth if you want real power and this will be a pain the carry. I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but for my thesis year I did the following: I built a 16 core threadripper Desktop PC with a gtx1080ti for heavy lifting (rendering, photogrammetry, very large models etc...) which I left at home. Then I bought a thin&light laptop (matebook X pro) for studio. The matebook was more than adequate for the day to day stuff in studio and anytime I needed more power I used Chrome desktop remote to access the desktop remotely. For me this was the best of both worlds, all the power I could ever need, but my daily carry was a thin and light. Plus the laptop could still be used while I was rendering with no lag. If you’re going down this route I wouldn’t recommend the matebook though, I got it because it had discrete graphics, but I didn’t realise the issue a 3:2 screen would be for remote working. If I was to do it again, I’d find a thin&light with a 16:9 aspect ration screen and discrete graphics.
@@JB-pf1dd Thank you so much. Yea those laptops would definitely be a pain to carry around. I thought about having a desktop but am not a fan of working in one spot. I like the ability to work anywhere. But, the remote working sounds like an awesome idea. This way I can get better value out of the hardware for the pc with the money and have enough for a good laptop as well. Really appreciate your input! Would it be better to build one myself or just go to i.e. micro center and have them build it for me? I’ve never built a pc but dont mind doing it myself.
@@florjanplepi6305 I would build it myself, in fact I did. I was in the same position, had never built a PC before, but there’s a wealth of info on RU-vid. Do the research and you’ll be able to build one no problem. Pre built PC cost much more for a lower spec. Edit: By the way don’t need the absolute highest spec parts, especially as there is a real shortage of graphics cards atm. My pc components are 3 or 4 generation old, but it still crushes 4K renders in like 20/30 mins. Keep a eye out for secondhand deals too, I bought my graphics card second hand, saved a bunch, and it never missed a beat. Here is a link to a PC build for basically the exactly PC I built, except I went for a tower cpu cooler. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4TBkHlfcCV8.html If you spend sometime researching and looking for deals you will build a great PC well within your budget. Hope this helps.
for that budget you probably want to look for workstation laptop instead of gaming (quadro instead of gtx/rtx, they have more vram), also there's quite a selection for slim gaming laptop nowadays, something like MSI WS66 10TMT probably fits your budget, it's around 2kg if weight is your concern.
I’ve been looking for a computer and I have seen a lot of laptops that have the ram split in two, for example, it says 16GB (8GBx2). It changes something? A laptop with one memory that has the 16gb will work better or is it the same thing?
I currently have an Asus Q505ua 2-in-1 Convertible Laptop. It has Core i5 8th Gen, 12GB RAM, Intel UHD 620 Graphics and 1TB of HDD. It is a little bit slow ocassionally. 😅 I dunno if I'll upgrade soon especially in higher years in architecture because I'm broke hahaha 🤣 lol
If you can, avoid laptops. They will overheat, especially under architecture workloads - working long hours and pushing your computer to its limits. A PC with inferior parts will perform better than most laptops because they’re cooled better. Yes mobility is really helpful but I always thought; if you need to be working on the run you probably have to consider other priorities in your life. A PC is great because I find myself sitting down and actively concentrating because I’m unable to carry my work with me. It gives me a hard deadline and helps me procrastinate less.
If you won't be handing your work to clients, yes. If you will pass it to a graphic designer for color correction, yes. Otherwise, hell no. That's 1/3 of color spectrum that can't be seen on the display.
@@Andres-on5xp run any 3d software and tell me they're powerful. They're not. They have a more powerful cpu going to arm. Their gpu side is still worse than a raspberry pi
I have an 16gb ram and Rtx 2060 6gb and 1tb Hdd drive but the issue is I have 256 gb of ssd and all my software’s are in ssd and it slows down my laptop I’m thinking about upgrading it but kinda have no clue which one to get :/
My work station projct for sketchup n lumion 12 Full rog all amd Rog crosshair impact dtx Ryzen 7 5700g 64gb gskill 3600 Rog rx 6700 xt 970 evo+ 500gb 970 evo+ 1tb 850w rog thor 240mm ryujin ii Rog xg32vc - 1440p 32inch va panel 92 ppi
I have an Asus Zenbook. (Laptop) Processor: Intel Core i7 8th Gen RAM: 16 gb SSD 500gb GeForce GTX 1050 with Max-Q Design Can I improve anything? I actually want to still use this laptop and have a desktop setup for rendering and more heavy design. Still want to use laptop for on the go (just graduated from architecture and going to my MArch as context ) Thank you for any help or advice!
In my 20 years of experience with both, I still choose intel for stability with architecture programs. AMD may be faster in benchmarks, but speed doesn't matter when your program crashes and you loose work.
AMD. better multitasking performance, better multicore and multi-thread performance, better price/performance ratio, longer battery life on laptops. Intel's been left behind for at least 4 years already.
I just got a lenovo legion 7, i7 10th gen, rtx 2080, 1tb ssd and 32gb of ram. I had a really old mackbook from 2013 and i couldnt render in it so i had to upgrade and had been saving up since I started school so i hope it last a long time. Thanks for the video, ill be watching them all while im in my school break :)
Hi, I am about to get the Lenovo legion 7 slim and I just wanted to ask you how the computer is holding up ? Do the fans get loud and does it run all the programs well?How long does it take to render? Pleaseee pleasee answer
I get you. Although those videos aren’t totally gone yet! I’m just trying to incorporate different content in and alternate it with voice over videos. If I had to do only VO tutorials I’d run out of ideas pretty quickly 🙈
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you probably dont have enough experience with cad softwares. mac is superior in EVERY way in rendering, processing and working parallel with different softwares. please do more research body.
