Custom laptop 2x NVIDIA GeForce 1080

Hi, i'm very close to ordering a custom laptop off PCSpecialists, the specs are i7–8700, 2 SSD M.2 2TB drives, 64GM DDR4 RAM and at the moment 2 NVIDIA Geforce 1080 GPUs, it has to be a laptop as i need it for work to run very high end resource heavy network devices on the move but i thought i may as well go all out and see what i could get (highest everything that they're offering on their site) and that is the absolute max in terms of CPU's,GPU's,RAM SSD etc... If i'm running 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 with the others specs in the machine, what would i be looking at when running the latest and future games. That was my main reason for putting 2 in, it's all well and good having a great GPU now but in a year or 2 it might struggle when running future games as is the case when buying any GPU whatever time you buy it.

What are peoples thoughts?

Thanks

A single GTX 1080 is solid and you have two in SLI. SLI in general is not very good, but you are pretty much buying the best available right now. If you are able to wait a bit.... There should be manufacturers rolling out laptops with RTX 2080 GPU most likely. Even a single RTX 2080 laptop would be preferable to the GTX 1080 SLI setup.

@BassMan: @BassMan:To be honest they've an option for their desktops where you can order a machine and for the GPU you can order the RTX 2080 as a preorder for the unit. I think i'm going to do that instead, but you can also have them in SLI to haha, which i'm think about as well to be honest. Why would that be a worse thing though? I just cant see how. I'm going to go all out for this so i may as well get them in SLI if possible.

Hold on, you are still wanting a laptop right? If you can get 2080 in SLI and don't mind the price, go for it as that is the best there is for laptops. Like I said before, SLI is not very practical. Often times games will not support the second GPU, performance will not scale well with the second GPU, you will get visual glitches specific to SLI, micro stutter associated with SLI, more heat, more power consumption, etc..

The best thing is to always buy the best GPU available before considering SLI. Once you have the best and want more performance, then you take SLI into consideration.

@BassMan: Not anymore, taking into consideration the amount of heat that a laptop will generate with these parts i think i'm going to go with a desktop and i could get RTX 2080's in SLI and i was wondering if that would be a good idea and didn't see how it could be a bad one?

@arcadia07: What happened to "it has to be a laptop as i need it for work to run very high end resource heavy network devices on the move but i thought i may as well go all out and see what i could get"? LOL

Anyway, if you are going desktop... a single RTX 2080 Ti is better than 2080 SLI. The 2080 SLI may be faster in peak and ideal conditions, but as I mentioned earlier, there are too many issues that you will run into that won't make it worthwhile. I recommend buying the RTX 2080 Ti along with an i9 9900K CPU. You can always upgrade the GPU again at a later date (and sell the old one) instead of wasting money on an SLI setup.

@BassMan: Haha, fair enough you got me there. I do really need a laptop to be honest for mobility but if i'm going to be spending thousands i like the idea of just getting the absolute best at the moment. I've decedied to pre order the RTX 280 Ti no SLI, but i'm stuck on RAM choices. If there was an option (which there is) between 128GB 2666mhz vengeance DDR4 RAM and 3000mhz 64GB RAM same make, what would you personally go for and why?

Cheers

@arcadia07: First, you need a reason to have so much RAM. I only use 16GB of RAM and it is enough for games and basic creative/production tasks. 64GB and 128GB is excessive and will be wasted unless you have a specific need for it. So, always go with the faster RAM over size as that is where you will get performance gains.

Once you got enough RAM, faster is more beneficial than more. If 32Gb is enough, 64GB won't help much. Going from 2133MHz to 3600++MHz helps more in this case.

@horgen: @BassMan:

I need the RAM to run quite a number of resource heavy extensive network images (Cisco related) in a piece of software called GNS3 for work basically. One image alone requires 32GB by itself to run so i'm undecided at the moment.

I am interested in seeing what the outcome of this will be.