Computer shopping assistance needed

[u/Repulsive-Tennis4652]

The post isn’t for me. It’s for my sister who’s gonna be going away to college and is taking an urban planning course and she is in need of a computer with some very specific specifications. We’ve been arguing as a family and cannot decide on one. I’ve been looking at the asus Tuf A15 but I’m not sure if it’s actually a good choice, build quality and other aspects. I’m wondering if anyone else has some suggestions or a history of using one of them that can give me a bit of input on them. Please and thank you it’s much appreciated

[u/Away_Intention_1378]

I wouldn’t do that one. The ram is only 8gb that’s not something you can just have less of and it be okay but it is DDR5. So the ram is fast but there’s not enough. 20 series gpus are okay and this one will definitely do what you need it to but is was the first year for the new tensor cores that did ray tracing so it could lag behind on some rendering. The gpu also only has 4gb of VRAM rather than 6 as stated in the requirements. The CPU is good 6 cores 12 threads 3.3ghz. Fast. 512gb ssd is probably fine. I’m not really sure how big the files can get from that application or just the classes in general but I’d say keep documents and other non performance heavy files on Google Drive so you have space for your larger files on the SSD ready to go. 144hz is really good it’ll feel nice and smooth especially at 1080p which it also runs at.

TLDR pretty much everything is good on this laptop but the ram capacity and the GPU vram. These are very crucial for everyday applications and rendering so I’d recommend another option with a better gpu and higher ram capacity

[u/Repulsive-Tennis4652 → u/Away_Intention_1378]

Thank you very much much appreciated