New laptop- thoughts?

noeldarcy

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Feb 16, 2015
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Hi there, I have configured a laptop through pc specialist.com, and am looking for opinions on it.
It will primarily be for video editing, and my workflow involves a lot of Adobe dynamic link, jumping from Premiere to After Effects to Photoshop. Occasional 3d, but not much. Yet.
I want to start working with higher bit rate codecs, and raw cinema-dng files. Do you think this will be up to the task? I'm trying to stay around the price of a mac book, so around £2000.
Thanks for the help,
Noel


Chassis & DisplayOctane Series: 17.3" Matte 4K IPS LED Widescreen (3840x2160) (£99)

Processor (CPU)Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache

Memory (RAM)32GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics CardNVIDIA® GeForce GTX 980 DESKTOP - 8.0GB DDR5, G-SYNC - Geforce GTX VR Ready

Memory - Hard Disk960GB KINGSTON V310 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)

2nd Hard Disk2TB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (5,400rpm)

DVD/BLU-RAY DriveNOT REQUIRED

Memory Card ReaderIntegrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)

AC Adaptor1 x 330W AC AdaptorPower Cable1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Thermal PasteARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Sound CardASUS™ XONAR-U7 Compact 7.1 USB soundcard and headphone amplifier(£74)

Bluetooth & WirelessGIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-8260 M.2 (867Mbps, 802.11AC) + BLUETOOTH

USB Options4 x USB 3.0 PORTS (1 x POWERED) + 1 e-SATA/USB 3.0 PORT COMBINED

BatteryOctane Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (82WH)

Keyboard LanguageOCTANE SERIES BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD

Operating SystemGenuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£89)
 
Solution
It's a great laptop with powerful specs,but if you aren't planing to play games(on the highest settings),then you then I recommend getting a less powerful GPU and upgrading the HDD instead. (Go for a 7200RPM model instead)