Laptop blues, and how would this one do as replacement?

[GeneDavis]

My MSI got sick last month and needed a new hard drive, and after recovery, was still giving me fits when in 3D, doing dangerous lockups for sure when making the tiniest camera orbital move in PBR, and even in standard view mode.

 

So I'm shopping, and came across this.  Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 AI - 18.0" Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU - 2.10 GHz - 16GB Memory - 1 TB PCIe SSD - Windows 11 Home Gaming Laptop - 240 Hz IPS (PHN18-72-92Y3 )

 

Was watching @Renerabbittdoing his Template Tuesday live thing, and he's having no problems orbiting around in PBR, and his sig says he's running with either an RTX 4090, or an RX 7900 XTX.  I believe the Nvidea 4090 is faster than the 7900 XTX, so it well may be that a 5070 Ti will be able to cruise well with the next couple Chief releases.

 

Whaddya think?  I know it's only got 1 TB storage but I've been ok with far less with the few projects per year I'm doing. 

[Renerabbitt]

4 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

camera orbital move in PBR, and even in standard view mode.

Your current machine is totally fine for chief. I would venture a guess that you either have a corrupted model or you need a driver update. I would update the driver and create an example project using the OOTB template to test your machine, a 3070 is good enough. Set your raytrace settings to use DLSS