- Aug 20, 2014
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Hey there community!
I'm brand new to the forums here at tom's hardware but I've used it to look things up before. I am in desperate need of help building a new laptop. I have knowledge assembling computers so the putting it together part isn't too hard for me. The hard part is finding which parts to use. I am a college student so I'm trying to maintain a relatively low budget.
What I need is a computer to do graphics things such as Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and After Affects. These programs use rendering all the time so thats a good thing to note. I also want to be able to play online games that are very populated and have strong affects (this game I play uses Cry Engine 3 currently). I do live streams and record gameplay so I'm guessing I need a strong CPU as well and a lot of RAM. Also want to have an SSD for just the OS and an internal HDD to store games on. Any video/photo work will be saved on an external so it's not as important. As a final note I would like something relatively small. This laptop is also for classes so I don't want it to weight like 20 lbs.
My budget: Trying to hold under $1,200. If I really have to go over I will but I am building it myself to try to save money. Thanks in advance for the responses! Feel free to ask questions if you need clarification.
I'm brand new to the forums here at tom's hardware but I've used it to look things up before. I am in desperate need of help building a new laptop. I have knowledge assembling computers so the putting it together part isn't too hard for me. The hard part is finding which parts to use. I am a college student so I'm trying to maintain a relatively low budget.
What I need is a computer to do graphics things such as Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and After Affects. These programs use rendering all the time so thats a good thing to note. I also want to be able to play online games that are very populated and have strong affects (this game I play uses Cry Engine 3 currently). I do live streams and record gameplay so I'm guessing I need a strong CPU as well and a lot of RAM. Also want to have an SSD for just the OS and an internal HDD to store games on. Any video/photo work will be saved on an external so it's not as important. As a final note I would like something relatively small. This laptop is also for classes so I don't want it to weight like 20 lbs.
My budget: Trying to hold under $1,200. If I really have to go over I will but I am building it myself to try to save money. Thanks in advance for the responses! Feel free to ask questions if you need clarification.
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