Gaming laptop and a desktop

I hope others have felt like this to share their views and opinions. I have a Asus Rog GL502VT, to give you an idea:

i7 6700hq
16gb ram
970m
128gb ssd and 1tb HDD

But I have the urge for a desktop.. now I have twin boys who are a year old and take up a lot of my time so occasionally will set the laptop up down stairs or in bed. I still game a few evenings playing the following:

PUBG
Killing Floor 2
Cities Skylines
Witcher 3 etc...

The laptop does everything I need include I use a lot of Adobe products such a premiere pro, Photoshop and handbrake for file conversion.

Do you think it's pointless building a desktop and having a decent laptop as well. I occassionaly need the laptop on travel. I was thinking of building a Ryzen 1500 with a rx580 but I don't want it to be pointless spend the money and then hardly use one. Anyone else felt like this?

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in your case i'd say it's pointless.

If you needed more performance i'd say go for it, but like this it's really meh.

 

Congrats on the twins. My awesome wife and I had five kids. Next to my precious bride, they are the most important part of my life even though they are all grown and one of them has made me a grandpa four times.

That's a tough one. Given the fact you have a young family that needs your attention, a lot of it depends on where you are going to have the desktop and how that will disrupt family life. If the desktop is going to be in a remote location that does not intrude or interfere with what they want to do and you only game after the wife and kids are gone to bed, probably makes good sense. If you are going to game while they are up and at 'em and sometimes ignore them (sounds bad, but I'm speaking from the wife's perspective,) and it's not set up in the middle of their space then you're going to come under fire for isolating yourself from the rest of the family. If you set it up in their space, then you'll be rude for making noise and disturbing their movies, TV or conversations with that darned clicking, clacking and speaker. (Yes, I've used headphones, but still doesn't fix the clicking and clacking that some find annoying.)

I've got a desktop now, but it never would have gone over as well then as it does today for reasons noted above. Maybe just get a much stronger laptop to replace what you have, like an EVOC P870TM1 with 8700K and 1080 SLI and @Prema BIOS. Then it can be your desktop laptop monsterbook. A desktop with Ryzen 5 1500X and RX 580 is not going to be a huge improvement over the laptop you already have now. In fact, the RX 580 is a slight downgrade from 970M. The CPU is a bit of a bump in performance, but the weakness of RX 580 is not going to do you any favors if gaming is your goal. If you're going to go desktop, probably need to aim higher in order to appreciate any difference from your laptop. More like 8700K or Ryzen 1800X and 1080 is needed to qualify as an entry-level enthusiast machine that does an amazing job with gaming and other things, and it won't need to be upgraded for a good while.

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GPU prices are absurd now, better off waiting. Also what Mr. Fox said, when prices come down, go for a better GPU, at least a 1070Ti or something.

 

Thank you for the replies maybe it's just a bee in my bonnet to build a desktop. I do need to upgrade m.2 ssd on the laptop but putting it off as it's the main OS drive and not looking forward to a fresh install. I might purchase a nice 27inch monitor for the laptop instead and external keyboard.

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There you go! And, you'll have those peripherals ready to use on a desktop if you later decide to build one.

A good rule of thumb that has always held true for me... if you buy/build a low-budget laptop/desktop is it going to run like a low-budget product. RX 580 (9 months old) is about $300 and runs like an antique 970 (3.5 years old) which now sells for about $300. I'm not being critical of being frugal or living within your means. That's a good thing and reflects wisdom. But, it is ludicrous to expect wine and caviar on a beer and pretzels budget. Awesomeness never comes cheap. Only cheapness comes cheap.

 

I don't suppose anyone knows whether the Asus GL502VT needs m.2 sata ssd or the Nvme?

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I think it accepts either one.

 

@don_svetlio can help with that, since he has the same model.

 

Mine is NVMe but the review NBC have has a SATA 3 one so I think the M.2 slot has no real preference.

 

Thanks Don!

 

Yep, you can put any M.2 in that slot.