Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
# 1 04-12-2002 , 02:52 PM
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Anyone seen a single cpu maya workstaion run well?

does anyone know of a powerful single cpu board ...etc combo that runs maya really well? how does it compare to a dual cpu board?


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I built a new computer a couple weeks ago and it rocks with Maya! It's based on the Asus P4PE mobo (single cpu...the first intel board to support DDR333). Running a 2.53GHz cpu with 120GB HD, 512 Corsair XMS Ram, and an MSI ti4200 vid card 128MB. Maya loads and runs very quickly...haven't had any problems yet. One thing though: I'm still a newbie with Maya so I haven't done any super-intensive modeling or rendering. I can't really say how it would perform under those conditions but so far it's been very efficient in doing tutorials and experimenting.

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the Gigabyte 8IHEXP (hope that number is correct), is the fastest P4 motherboard in the world right now... the second fastest is the Asus P4T533-C motherboard... both are RDRam.. if it is user added image for you than the Gigabyte P4 Titan 533 motherboard is the fasted DDR motherboard.. i personally, go for a new system, and if i need rock solid performance, i would go for the Gigabye 81HEXP.... man it is rock solid, rock stable... and rocks everthing...

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# 4 04-12-2002 , 09:57 PM
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Anything over 700 mhz is going to be good enough.

I started out on an SGI 33mhz running alias v1.0. (it was not very smooth at all heh)

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one thing i dont understand is im running on a 1400mhz athalon and it bogs down with lots of paint and texture. the rendering isnt fast either. but everyone says im in the 'good' range for my pc to run maya. theres got to be better. isnt there an 'ultimate pc rig' out there?(for the regular people?)


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Originally posted by tariqrf
the Gigabyte 8IHEXP (hope that number is correct), is the fastest P4 motherboard in the world right now... the second fastest is the Asus P4T533-C motherboard... both are RDRam.. if it is user added image for you than the Gigabyte P4 Titan 533 motherboard is the fasted DDR motherboard.. i personally, go for a new system, and if i need rock solid performance, i would go for the Gigabye 81HEXP.... man it is rock solid, rock stable... and rocks everthing...

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how is it with maya and a lot of entities?


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Originally posted by iron_tick
one thing i dont understand is im running on a 1400mhz athalon and it bogs down with lots of paint and texture. the rendering isnt fast either. but everyone says im in the 'good' range for my pc to run maya. theres got to be better. isnt there an 'ultimate pc rig' out there?(for the regular people?)

I experienced the same thing on my machine using paintfx trying to paint a starfield on a partial cube. If you look at my first post you can see my computer stats are pretty current. I figure it's just heavy tasking or there are some optimization settings I haven't found, yet.

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all the stuff ur talkin about like paint fx depend on ur gfx card i believe


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# 9 06-12-2002 , 07:25 PM
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Mine works pretty well. single Pentium4 2.0 Ghz. I crash every now and then... not too often, though, and usually only when I have Maya, Photoshop, MP3, and web stuff going on. :p

# 10 07-12-2002 , 03:03 AM
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Originally posted by mtmckinley
Mine works pretty well. single Pentium4 2.0 Ghz. I crash every now and then... not too often, though, and usually only when I have Maya, Photoshop, MP3, and web stuff going on. :p

How much ram?


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# 11 07-12-2002 , 04:29 AM
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1 GB RDRAM

# 12 07-12-2002 , 02:47 PM
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Maya really isn't incredibly demanding for lots of things. I can run it on a 600MHz 288MB DDRAM machine fine. It NEVER crashes, but I get slowdown when alot is onscreen (of course). It helps to have nothing else running, and a great graphics card.

# 13 07-12-2002 , 11:27 PM
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remember that maya only uses one cpu for everything but rendering....so a dual pc isent as great as it sounds


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# 14 08-12-2002 , 05:33 AM
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So is the video card more helpful than a dual cpu?


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I would say definetly. Others might not.

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