It only needs to be strong enough for very quick post flop. Budget idk what's reasonable. 3-4k?

Then you will be good. I would research a bit and make a choice. You can always start with the above posters links. After making a choice, or when you narrow it down, ask again, and maybe someone here has the computer or knows about your choices and can help you further or let you know how the comp works for them.

just going to give a little psa to other high table count/volume grinders, hopefully my $1600 mistake wont be made by others.

i have a beast custom built desktop i made 2 years ago, recently i've wanted to go back to the nomad life so have been searching for a laptop, i spent a long time on researching but unfortunately the only way to find out if it had enough power was actually buying the laptop and testing it.

i purchased the razer blade stealth: 4k screen, new kaby like i7-7500u, 16gb ram, 500gb pcie ssd ram. and unfortunately when reaching 12-16 tables programs/poker clients start freezing and crashing, and as someone who 30-35 tables across 4 sites its just not enough power. i've narrowed down the culprit to the processor being only dual core so having just 4 threads, when hm2 even when set to just use 1-2 doesnt leave enough headroom to manage all the tables/sites on the other threads.

i've now been looking at workstation grade laptops and the current top end processor is the 6820hk which is still 15% behind in power to my desktop 4790k. there are new processors being released for ces 2017 in january and some industry insiders say by mid 2017 laptop cpu's will finally catch up to their desktop counterparts much like laptop gpus caught up to desktop gpus this past summer. figured someone may find this info usefull.

Do some research on building a PC. Wait until mid January when Kaby Lake is released for desktops and snag a discounted skylake with a "K" at the end so you can overclock it with an aftermarket cooler. Get the latest chipset motherboard (z170 I believe) and get that SSD I linked earlier and 16gb of DDR4 ram. The video card is only important for running your monitors, you'll have to research that based on what you have. All that should run you somewhere around $1200-$1500.

Building a PC is easy and will take you a day or two of study. It will also help you learn to troubleshoot. Buying one off the shelf won't get you exactly what you want.


On PIO's webpage their deluxe package allows customizing the software for your hardware. You should contact them and see if perhaps they can make use of Xeon processors and what kind of difference it would make. Ask them what the perfect box would be.

I think that game runs on any system that has 1.5 GHZ or more.

Any processors that take 128gig ram? Im ordering a new comp and i want 126gb of ram but looking on overclockers all the processors only seem to take 64 ...

Is a dual processor the way round it?

Pretty much any computer built in 2017 should be built with at least a 2 core CPU, unless you really mean having two different CPUs, which is overkill for non-server applications.

Most processors are locked at 64GB because of the memory controllers even though they can theoretically use something ridiculous like 8 billion GB. I think if you check out the Haswell-E processors (or wait for the Skylake-E processors) they upped the 64GB limit to 128GB I believe. Just make sure you check out the mobo and OS restrictions on RAM.

Also, 128GB of RAM is gonna cost you like 1k. In all likelihood, unless you do a lot of photo/video editing as a job and have a bunch of that open 24/7, that's gonna be overkill on your wallet and your PC. If you're just pokering and playing video games, 8GB will be plenty and 16GB will be more than enough. I usually have 20+ video tabs open in my browser and do video editing and I don't think I've ever gone higher than 10GB used.

hy guys a store near me sold this monitor at the price of 450 euros
what you think?

http://www8.hp.com/it/it/products/mo...ml?oid=7344913

Just an FYI for people wanting to build a top of the line system - Intel is releasing Kaby Lake processors now, but also there are Z270 motherboards that feature "Optane" technology. Optane essentially turns RAM into a hard drive, which should be very beneficial for people with large tracker databases. It hasn't been released yet but the Z270 motherboards that run it are coming out now.

The laptop processors ending in "u" are generally garbage.... simply google the laptop processor "i77500u" and look for www.cpubenchmark.net link.. i.e.http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?...0U+%40+2.70GHz .. compare it to other laptop cpus using their compare tools... the i7 laptop CPU's ending with "HQ" are usually much superior .. I bought a refurbished ASUS model N551J refurbished over a year ago for 1K CAD and the processor is better that the one you metion by a good margin.. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?....50GHz&id=2243 ..

You just gotta know what to look for. no real need to try them once you know the processor has good benchmarks stats with an SSD and max ram and a decent video card you should be good to go.

Top top. Awesome chair, good keyboard/mouse wireless and a couple of good 27" with a ssd should be fitting most poker players.

Managed to get a haswell range that will take 128gb thanks..

Its more for using pio than anything tbh

If your doing preflop I would aim for more than 128gb.

Before you look into buying a new laptop, you should look into optimizing your PostgreSQL database settings. Do some googling and experiment a bit. Both HEM and PT4 guys have some recommendations, definitely try them, but I don't think they are necessarily the best.

Can anyone confirm how a 4k laptop works with smaller sites like 888? Table sizes are adjustable but I read some posts saying it could still be a problem. Can anyone comment on this?

Also, would you say the viewability for 4 tables tiled on a 15" 4k screen is noticeably better/clearer than a 1080p?

I tried 4K for poker and ultimately decided against it.

You don't benefit much from the extra pixels & you'll have to use scaling because the small sites like 888 / party can't be run in native 4K (party max table size is way too small, with 888 the cards on the table have HUGE gaps between them & the lobby is extremely small).

Im pretty big noob when comes to computers, but looking to get a new one. I really only use it for poker, pt4/piosolver etc. so dont need to go overboard with somethings. In canada and trying to keep it around $1500. I only run like 8 tables at a time, across 3 sites. Any help is appreciated!

So the consensus is that 4K monitors is a nice thing in theory, but in practice most poker sites don't support it? I'm currently on ACR and 888.

I've been using the same 30" 2560x1440 monitor since I started playing full-time back in 2008. At the time of purchase, it offered the best resolution I could find. I'm pretty much restricted to 9 tables at the moment, but was hoping I could do 3x4 instead of the current 3x3 with a 4K monitor... Someone mentioned scaling earlier, would it be possible to scale the tables, or run the poker applications in some sort of compatibility mode?

Too late to edit, but would something like this work?

3440x1440 - it would be similar to todays 2560x1440, but much wider, so it would allow for more columns in the grid, given compatibility. Has anyone in here tried this monitor, or one with similar resolution?

Not sure where else to ask this one. I'm thinking of getting the Amazon Fire HD 8. Anyone know if PokerStars/WSOP (I live in New Jersey, so I assume 888 is the same software) is compatible with it?

Does anyone have any experience/recommendations with herman miller chairs? I'm stuck between the aeron and mirra 2

Are 1440p monitors the way to go now?
I am looking to upgrade to 27-30" monitors mostly for poker and general multimedia.

I don't mass multi-table but if it means clearer/bigger HUD stats when 4-6 tabling that would be ideal.

Any recommendations if so? Price isn't an issue.

Thanks

I have an unlimited budget for a 27" 1440p monitor. Leaning toward the Dell U2715h at the moment. I can get it for around $400. Any input? My friend is telling me to spend $800 on the Asus ROG Swift but I don't really game so it seems kinda pointless. Primary use for the monitor will be poker with some occasional gaming.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/...lu28e590ds-za/

i have this, and i'm unbelievably happy with it

is there a reference for resolution and screen size to fix x amount of tables without overlap?

ie 3840x2160 - 28" vs 2560x1080 - 29" ? How many tiled tables could fit with no overlap on each?