New Laptop advice

[Rune1961]

Hi there folks! Need some second opinion on buying a (fairly) hei new laptop, a couple of years old. Serviced and comes with guarantee, mint condition. Just upgraded to HD Pro 2026 and need more speed! As I understand, this should do the job! Any comments or experiences would be very velcome, thanks! See link for details. 

 

https://www.chg-meridianshop.no/shop/dell-precision-7560-i9-11950h/

[ChiefTylerL]

Hell @Rune1961,

 

While this system will certainly run HD 2026 I would recommend instead looking for a system that has a "Gaming" graphics card. The Nvidia RTX A5000 is considered a "Workstation" graphics card, and while it will run the program it is typically going to be more expensive and will not perform as well as a gaming graphics card, within our program.

 

The Nvidia Gaming graphics cards will start with "GeForce", such as "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070". 

 

Here is our system requirements page, which will go over our recommended system: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/products/system-requirements.html 

 

Additionally, here is a blog post we've written about shopping for a computer for Chief Architect/Home Designer: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/blog/computer-for-design-and-gaming/ 

 

If you'd like to go into this further I would recommend reaching out to our technical support team through the technical support center. While we can't recommend specific systems we can go over the options you've picked out and help decide what would be the best for our program. 

 

Using the Technical Support Center: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00717/using-the-technical-support-center.html 

 

I hope this helps!