Computer Setup for Architects (and Architecture Students)

Computer Setup for Architects (and Architecture Students)

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In this video I explain computer components and computer related questions that architects might have.

My setup:

Processor: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i7-processors.html

Graphics Card: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/quadro/

RAM: https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/memory

SSD: https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/ssd/savage-sata-solid-state-drive

Some good Laptops for architects: https://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/best-mobile-workstation-5-ideal-laptops-for-business-1271480

Additional tags: Computer, Setup, parts, components, windows, mac, windows vs mac, laptop, desktop, architecture, student, workstation, monitor, screen, how to choose, Revit, AutoCAD, 3Ds Max, Rihno, sketchup, photoshop,

50 Comments

  1. Muhammad Abdul Malik on July 18, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    Why not gaming GTX Graphic card? It seems GTX more suporior than quadro nowadays. Quda cores in GTX.

  2. Guilherme Deluno Schendel on July 18, 2020 at 8:06 pm

    Laptop "just NO"! Very good.

  3. Joeli Takala on July 18, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    Bro thank you so much for this video

  4. Malek Noorrehan on July 18, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    Sir which Nvidia rtx series graphic card is equal to qudro series card???
    Because Quadro series is much costly…

  5. Shoshin Samurai on July 18, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Yeah, ok. Hardware is hard and software is soft. Got it. Cheers.

  6. Danny Velazquez on July 18, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Very helpful video thank you!

  7. Mariselvan M on July 18, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Hai bro
    I m using i3 7th genaration HP laptop. 1 tp harddisk . 4 gp ram .,
    Intel graphichs HD 620 .,

    I M USING REVIT 2020, autocad 2020 , Aotocad architecture 2020., sketchup 2018 , vray next for both sketchup and revit

  8. Shahariar fardin on July 18, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Civil engineering student here😂

  9. kawan baqi on July 18, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    If we don’t know you,we never used revit!

  10. Ayoub BETTACHE on July 18, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    hi,
    i stil still confused about witch better Quadro k6000 or RTX 2080 ???
    & witch better CPU xenon or cor i9 or i7 ???
    any one try ??

  11. Now What! on July 18, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Please see on to the camera lens next time

  12. RAGHAVENDRA PUJAR on July 18, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Pls review these two machines for 3ds MAX – VRay rendering.
    ALIENWARE AREA 51m ( intel core i9 – 9900k & RTX 2080 , 32 GB RAM ) it’s a desktop replacement device.
    &
    Alienware m17 r2 ( intel core i7-9750h & RTX 2080 Max Q , 16 GB RAM)

  13. Gayathri Pillai on July 18, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    What about monitor, which monitor good if we use softwares like revit, Photoshop and lumion?

  14. ViNR 4u on July 18, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    Thanks for all great videos you provided, very informative, Learn a lots from your videos, My System: Acer Predator Helios, 15" Full HD 144Hz, i7 9750, RAM 16GB, GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti, SSD 256 GB, HDD 1TB

  15. Abhishek Deval on July 18, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    Already revit is too costly
    Now you saying this way more costly setup
    As you should people with less money too learn this so they can’t buy a laptop/pc with that much specs

  16. IamNeil aRon on July 18, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    I love this video, it is 100% real, relatable, and Funny af!

  17. Exclusively onT on July 18, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    this guy has Revit obsession

  18. Priti vp on July 18, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Thank you .. very informative and to the point

  19. Deepto Bhattacharyya on July 18, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    you need to change that cooler for your CPU, man any gen i7 on stock cooler is like calling for a reactor meltdown and get a ryzen pc, cuz Revit now uses multiple threads

  20. Xavier Bakrin on July 18, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    You need a GTX not a quadro for view port modeling

  21. LJ Basilio on July 18, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    Should invest in processor with turbo boost than with more cores

  22. star cruiser on July 18, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    "Use at least a dual core or quad core" what year it is??

  23. zheena haydari on July 18, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    You da best

  24. solman raj on July 18, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    Some one please tell me
    Do Intel i3 processor 1st generation with 8gb ram laptop config is sufficient to run Revit to learn.

  25. Danijel Ćelić on July 18, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    Pro tip for keeping the drive C clean. Right click on default directories like Downloads Videos Music etc. and change default location from C to D

  26. Saurabh Petkar on July 18, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    He’s wrong… workstation laptops aren’t cheap…gaming ones are affordable.

  27. Raghul Panneer Selvam on July 18, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Hello sir I’m a architect student this video was very useful and I’ve planned to buy a work station, thank you sir.

  28. George Glover on July 18, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Good work Balkan. I support all of what you say, other than the Intel processor. I’m an AMD guy, but mostly due to I’m in ATX. All of you newbies.., listen (and subscribe) to this man. Here’s a good resource.

  29. Richard Karas on July 18, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    I am using my Lenovo Thinkpad P52 laptop for business – i7 8850H., 16gb ddr4, Nvidia quadro P2000 4gb., and at home Asus TUF Gaming FX504 – i7 8750 , 16gb ddr4, Geforce GTX 1060 6gb. I am using Revit on both. It goes smooth on both, but it depend on size of project. But in general Revit works good also on gaming card with more memory.

  30. skeptic proof on July 18, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    You’re wRONG ! about hat to put on disks, windows files and software files are used more often and can slow the workflow so you should put them on SSD, and data files like autocad files, videos, pictures on the HDD cause you only open them once and since HDD is cheaper it comes more often in larger format.

  31. Priscilla Zatarain on July 18, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    I love youuuuu

  32. Rizwan Saifi on July 18, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    I seriously appreciate your work and actually you’re a cool guy, Thank you so much for this informative video. 👍

  33. Vitalii Kharkovchuk on July 18, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    as a quadro user i may share a little secret – quadro doesnt do shit for 3ds max workflow, nor are they good for most renderers. they have their use in solidvorks, and some other software, but it really vary from software to software. in fact you will be way better of with high end gaming card in 3ds max.
    the video is mostly an assembly of "professional" cliches you might read on forums where people have no idea what they are talking about.

  34. Carlos Garcia on July 18, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    what happend with subtitles! thanks balkan!

  35. samuel behabtu on July 18, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    thank you…u are very kide u know..

  36. Sanket Asgaonkar on July 18, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Verry well explain about difference between hardware and software.

  37. BenSmee on July 18, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    My man’s wants to pair a dual core or quad core with a quadro

  38. LAFI Business Group on July 18, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    bro what about Nvidia Quadro VX200 ??? is it suitable for 3d workstation 
    ??

  39. Deepak Parkar on July 18, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    I think his workstation laptop recommendation is wrong … gaming laptops literally offer same performance in many rendering softwares while being much cheaper than a workstation laptop

  40. Tevin Jack on July 18, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    You are the best, I have learnt a lot from you

  41. Ramiz Khan on July 18, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Bro…i have a sony vaio i purchased it in 2010…i need to buy a pc…i am confused weather to buy lappy or desctop…i might need my lappy im college or at work ..so i should go fr desktop or go fr laptop..

  42. Garreth Morris on July 18, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Love the music! ,thanks also for the tips

  43. HawkFest on July 18, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    3:00 – What about AMD’s RX580 or RX590, if not Vega ? In regards to NVIDIA Quadro, it would be nice if you’ve added benchmark references in render time etc. in order to demonstrate some impossible ROI (or value as dollar for performance vs costs and contractual downtime)… But anyways this clip targets school students and such on a budget, so yeah, you’re right. I’d also lurk towards AMD’s GC which are cheaper for about the same performance. And in regards to architects and engineers, as opposed to NVDIA’s gaming solutions (including the RTX 2080), its ALU cores allow for 64 bit double precision calculations… Personally if I was a student with a budget, I’d go with one RX580-RX590, or better yet, two or three RX580 in Crossfire (AMD’s Crossfire also adds more relative efficiency than NVIDIA’s SLI). The RX580 is cheaper, offers more memory and works better than a NVIDIA 1060 and compares to a 1070 (I’m not talking about gaming fps…). Two in crossfire easily beat the NVIDIA 1070 and competes with a 1080 or 2080 in several areas like calculation hash (kind of the same iterative stress imposed by finite element mesh rendering for instance)

  44. ma. teresa barasi on July 18, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    Hi, im new to learning these, i’m interested in buying a loptop someday. Can i use both the hdd and the ssd at the same time?

  45. john wallace on July 18, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    This in incorrect. You need a gaming computer to run rendering programs like lumion

  46. syed abdul on July 18, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    Dear Sir, thanks for best tutorial, I am am very much fine of your tutorial.
    today I installed a Sketcup, I am having error "sketchup hardware acceleration is unsupported or has been disabled on your graphics card "
    would you please help me to fix this issue

  47. Michael Reyna on July 18, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Amazing man. Thank you!!

  48. Ram Kadiyala on July 18, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    I appreciate your work and I really love the tutorials in your website they’re ver good.

  49. Marine Blue on July 18, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    very useful information Thank you.

  50. skeptic proof on July 18, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    You said never use a computer with less than 8 gb of RAM in rendering ! yet later you said 9:31 your computer is " Gb of RAM !

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