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Which of these Asus is most suitable for music production?

fantasyvn

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Mar 5, 2016
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Could you pls advise?

I want to buy a new Asus laptop for music production. I will heavily use sample libraries, especially Kontakt-based.

As I live in the UK, I found these from Amazon:

1. Asus ROG GL752VW-DH71-HID4 Metal Grey 17.3" i7-6700HQ 2.6-3.5GHz 2GB GTX 960M Windows 10 (512GB SSD + 1TB HDD / 16GB RAM / DVDRW):

CPU: 6th Generation "Skylake" Intel® CoreTM i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor, 2.6-3.6 GHz
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 128bit w/ 2GB GDDR5
RAM: 16GB 2133MHz DDR4, Hard Drive: 512GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD, ODD: DVDRW

2. Asus ROG GL552VW-DH71-HID4 15.6" i7-6700HQ 2.6-3.5GHz 2GB GTX 960M Windows 10 (512GB SSD + 1TB HDD / 16GB RAM / DVDRW)

CPU: 6th Generation "Skylake" Intel® CoreTM i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor, 2.6-3.6 GHz
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 128bit w/ 2GB GDDR5
RAM: 16GB 2133MHz DDR4, Hard Drive: 512GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD, ODD: DVDRW

3. Asus ROG GL752VW-DH71-HID6 Metal Grey 17.3" i7-6700HQ 2.6-3.5GHz 2GB GTX 960M Windows 10 (512GB SSD + 1TB HDD / 32GB RAM / DVDRW)

CPU: 6th Generation "Skylake" Intel® CoreTM i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor, 2.6-3.6 GHz
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 128bit w/ 2GB GDDR5
RAM: 32GB 2133MHz DDR4, Hard Drive: 512GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD, ODD: DVDRW

Which one is the best for music production? Are they all quiet?

Thank you for your help.
 
32gb ram with 960m, unless you do plan on gaming then you can get the 970 if you wanted to spend the extra $