Gaming on a CAD Laptop....

[IN51GHT]

About to press the button on a new laptop for my CAD work, just want to run the spec by the PH experts, would it also be OK for running a racing sim on? Something like F1 2019 or i-Racing

WS SKU: 17.3" WS-M Challenger Pro V1 Mobile Graphics Workstation Premium 1920 x 1080 Full HD 120Hz Backlit LED Display - Matte 802.11AC High Speed Wireless 867MB/Sec Intel 9260 Network Card & Bluetooth 5.0 UK QWERTY Backlit Keyboard with Numeric Keypad & Integrated Multi-Touch Trackpad

Processor: Intel Xeon E-2186G - 3.8GHz Base, 4.7GHz Turbo, 12MB Cache, 95W TDP, 6 Cores/12 Threads

Memory: 64GB (4x16GB) 2666MHz Dual Channel ECC Unbuffered DDR4 SODIMM Memory

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro P5200 - 16GB Ultra-High-End Mobile Workstation Graphics Card (2560x Cores)

Hard Drive 1: 1TB Samsung 970 PRO M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe SSD - 3,500MBps Read, 2,700MBps Write, 500K/500K IOPs

Hard Drive 2: 2TB Samsung 860 PRO 2.5" SATAIII SSD - 560MBps Read, 530MBps Write, 100K/90K IOPs

Hard Drive 3: 2TB Samsung 860 PRO 2.5" SATAIII SSD - 560MBps Read, 530MBps Write, 100K/90K IOPs

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64Bit (OEM) Office Software

Monitor 1: 28" Iiyama Widescreen LED Monitor - 3840 x 2160 4K UHD

Monitor 2: 28" Iiyama Widescreen LED Monitor - 3840 x 2160 4K UHD

Warranty: 36 Months Premium RTB Hardware Warranty with Remote Engineer Diagnostics by Next Business Day

Power Plug: UK Power Cable / Plug - Type G USB

Recovery Key: Workstation Specialists USB System Recovery Key

[Jinx]

IN51GHT said:

About to press the button on a new laptop for my CAD work, just want to run the spec by the PH experts, would it also be OK for running a racing sim on? Something like F1 2019 or i-Racing

WS SKU: 17.3" WS-M Challenger Pro V1 Mobile Graphics Workstation Premium 1920 x 1080 Full HD 120Hz Backlit LED Display - Matte 802.11AC High Speed Wireless 867MB/Sec Intel 9260 Network Card & Bluetooth 5.0 UK QWERTY Backlit Keyboard with Numeric Keypad & Integrated Multi-Touch Trackpad

Processor: Intel Xeon E-2186G - 3.8GHz Base, 4.7GHz Turbo, 12MB Cache, 95W TDP, 6 Cores/12 Threads

Memory: 64GB (4x16GB) 2666MHz Dual Channel ECC Unbuffered DDR4 SODIMM Memory

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro P5200 - 16GB Ultra-High-End Mobile Workstation Graphics Card (2560x Cores)

Hard Drive 1: 1TB Samsung 970 PRO M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe SSD - 3,500MBps Read, 2,700MBps Write, 500K/500K IOPs

Hard Drive 2: 2TB Samsung 860 PRO 2.5" SATAIII SSD - 560MBps Read, 530MBps Write, 100K/90K IOPs

Hard Drive 3: 2TB Samsung 860 PRO 2.5" SATAIII SSD - 560MBps Read, 530MBps Write, 100K/90K IOPs

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64Bit (OEM) Office Software

Monitor 1: 28" Iiyama Widescreen LED Monitor - 3840 x 2160 4K UHD

Monitor 2: 28" Iiyama Widescreen LED Monitor - 3840 x 2160 4K UHD

Warranty: 36 Months Premium RTB Hardware Warranty with Remote Engineer Diagnostics by Next Business Day

Power Plug: UK Power Cable / Plug - Type G USB

Recovery Key: Workstation Specialists USB System Recovery Key

Short answer yes. ( https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-P5200-...)
Very impressive machine and I assume not cheap.

[IN51GHT]

No. Not cheap. But I'm going to hopefully be running FEA and CFD on it in addition to Siemens NX.

[Buffalo]

I have a desktop pc that is very similar spec to that albeit with 128Gb RAM, and two intel SSDs as 2nd/3rd swap drives (Samsung 960pro as main, which was only just released in Jan 2017 when built), and I think something like a 1080Ti graphics card (it's a water cooled massive thing). It's exceedingly good at what it does. We run all sorts of cad and numerical modelling software on it.

Anyway, I've been looking at upgrading the laptops to a similar spec and had priced up something like yours from Lenovo.

Would you mind saying where you're purchasing yours from and approx price?

[IN51GHT]

Buffalo said:

I have a desktop pc that is very similar spec to that albeit with 128Gb RAM, and two intel SSDs as 2nd/3rd swap drives (Samsung 960pro as main, which was only just released in Jan 2017 when built), and I think something like a 1080Ti graphics card (it's a water cooled massive thing). It's exceedingly good at what it does. We run all sorts of cad and numerical modelling software on it.

Anyway, I've been looking at upgrading the laptops to a similar spec and had priced up something like yours from Lenovo.

Would you mind saying where you're purchasing yours from and approx price?

https://www.workstationspecialist.com/

£enough to make your eyes run.... (£6k)

[chris285]

The issue you will run into is potentially drivers, the quadro is not a gaming card so more of a chance of issues but for raw power it will be up to the job i am sure

[Dave.]

As above, quadro cards aren't gaming and tend to fall short against similarly priced graphics cards in benchtests (granted, benchtests aren't always the full story etc).

[devnull]

It should handle most things just fine.

Suprised you're going for 1080p on that laptop with that awesome spec. I do CAD (admittedly just Fusion360 in my spare time for 3d printing) on my Lenovo P71 with a 4K UHD panel and i'll never go back to FHD screens.