HARDWARE / LAPTOP / COMPUTER for use in Unity development? Ask here! (and only here)

Mids are fine if you’ve got something that’ll separate your drives from the rest of the enclosure like Rosewill does with a bunch of their cases. Easily alleviates problems like not being able to mount a GPU because your drive bay is jamming things up.

The drives? They are located on the mobo?
I thought more about space to work in. Plus larger case means more space for radiators etc

Hey everyone would a Thinkpad p15s gen 1 with an I5, 16 gigs of ram, and a Quadro p520 2gigs ram will be sufficient to develop within Unity?

Most radiators (and even watercooling in general) offers little meaningful benefit with modern CPUs even when overclocked. Also there’s still plenty of reason to use spinning platter storage, especially in games. This is something you run into quickly if you have an actual art asset pipeline being used in production.

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Rather than a full tower where everything is slammed into one side, drives with air gaps mounted like this allow for clean cable management (there’s more cable feeds on the other side but it’s mspaint and I’m not putting the work into mspaint), plentiful airflow, dramatically better storage capabilities without drive bay constraints, and offers the profile of a mid tower instead.

The use cases you have, some of which you’ve kinda made for yourself, are not even remotely universal. We’ve been over this.

Not if you plan on anything that requires a GPU. The Quadro p520 only outperforms the Intel Iris line through fill rate and shader count support, but loses out on pretty much any of those benefits because it’s running at a lower clock speed than even the consumer equivalent offering from NVidia.

I don’t believe Ryzen Master support the mobile APU’s, unfortunately.

Nope its doesn’t, I can run my fans at 30 procent and still cool my hardware efficiently. Also GPUs benefit greatly from water cooling. My 3090 never goes above 40 degrees even on max load.

What, NVMe makes alot of sense in gaming to reduce loading times etc. In fact tech like nanite actually requires NVMe gen4

I also have a 16 tb filserver but it’s kept in my server room.

He is on a 5950x

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Yeah I know. I was pointing it out for others the OP specifically asked about laptops.

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It became a sticky for all hardware related questions :slight_smile: I will try on my boys 5900hs and see if it works

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Didn’t work on my 4800h a few weeks ago :stuck_out_tongue:

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Got a unsupported message box :slight_smile:

I created the new thread specifically for this, technically the 3rd post is the OP, but when I merged some random hardware threads in to this, they had an early date, pushing them above the OP. I guess the order is alway date based (which makes sense).

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might not get any responses on time understandably, but any suggestions for desktop deals this Memorial Day for relatively simple 2D gamedev?

I checked the companies I typically check for sales (Amazon, BestBuy, NewEgg, Dell, HP) and nothing stood out on the PC side of things. On the Apple side of things Costco continues to sell the base model of the new M1 Mac Mini for $600 which is $100 less than purchasing it through Apple.

https://www.costco.com/mac-mini-–-apple-m1-chip-8-core-cpu,-8-core-gpu-–-8gb-memory-–-256gb-ssd-––silver.product.100694159.html

Just be aware you will have to use newer releases of Unity thanks to incompatibilities between the older releases and newer releases of macOS.

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Thanks for taking the time to check.

Don’t forget to use ssd drive…
CPU is useful for compressing and decompressing and lightmapping … mostly hard drive is limited currently

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This is the main problem when you have a powerful cpu during import a 2 gb package (the problem is hard drive, my hard drive is a ssd ):

Can you post the specifications of your hardware? Does the network activity shown have anything to do with the import process?

Ryzen 5 3600xt
16gb ddr4 RAM 3000 MHz
GTX 1650 4gb

No network is not related to the import process

I just finished researching your PNY CS900 SSD and to be blunt it’s not that you have a powerful computer (all of your components are good but average at best) but that you have a completely trash SSD.

One of the most important components of an SSD is the DRAM cache and your drive completely lacks one. It’s not that it’s expensive either and in fact you often won’t see a price difference but without one you lose a great deal of the performance the drive should be capable of.

According to the screenshot you posted your drive is hitting 25MB/sec. A similarly priced SSD with a DRAM cache will hit at least 50MB/sec and top tier drives from companies like Samsung will hit 60MB/sec.