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# 1 05-12-2002 , 02:19 AM

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Im running on an athalon 1400 single cpu 256mb ddr ram geforce3. runs very well with modelling until you get a lot on the screen but can take a long time to render.

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# 2 05-12-2002 , 04:14 AM

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I have a 1.3 athlon, 768 SDRAM, g-force 2. I will be upgrading to a FireGL 8800 as soon as I save up the money to get my upgrade to MAYA 4.5. Cant wait to get my new card!!!! The one I have works well but Im so looking forward to getting the fire GL soon.

Other than that my system handles everything pretty well in MAYA (cant seem to run Warcraft 3 since I installed XP though very fustrating!!!! Pretty sure its the video card driver, just cant find the right one to settle it down). Maya runs smooth and fast, only time it slows down a bit is when I try to animate a Sub-D character, I do must of my animation in wire or skeleton view anyway.

Rendering in polys is very fast, in sub-d slowes down a bit. My Maya seldom crashes and over all dont have any major display problems other than hypergraph/Shade losing their names or pictures.

I cant complain!!!! I give my system for what I use it for a 8 out of 10

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# 3 05-12-2002 , 05:38 AM

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I have a Pentium III, 600 Mhz. 384 MB SDRAM with 8MB VRAM on the ATI card. Win2K on a Inspiron 5000 laptop.

I have no issues what so ever, besides some lag when opening hypershade in bigger projects.

If speed isn't an issue, I give it 10 out of 10, it works perfect!

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# 4 05-12-2002 , 05:56 AM

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I have a intel pentium IIII 2.4 ghz
1 gig ram
geforce 4 4600 ti 128mg
80 gig hd
dvd/cd burner
dvd drive
cd burner
Iomega 100meg removable drive
Dual 17" monitors
Running XP Pro
DELL

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# 5 05-12-2002 , 07:49 AM

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Dual AMD Athlon XP (modded to MP) 2000+ (MSI K7D Master-L mobo)
1GB DDR RAM
Asus Geforce 2 GTS
SBLive!Value
Pinnacle Firewire card
AMD Home-PNA adapter
NEC USB 2.0 card
30GB (Samsung) + 80GB (Maxtor) HDD
DVD ROM
CDR/RW burner
19" monitor
Basic Keytronic Win95 keyboard
Wacom Intuos2 A5 (USB)
Logitech Dual Optical mouse
Running Windows 2000 pro (and Linux soon)
And the most important: MS Force Feedback Wheel (anyone up to a GPL race? user added image

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Can't really rate this system yet because it's only 2 days old. Seems to be stable and fast. I'm going to build another comp. today of my leftover parts (950MHz celeron2 w/768MB ram).

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# 6 05-12-2002 , 09:35 AM

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pentium 2
64 ram
120 GB hardrive
Nvidia Riva video card
logitech optical mouse
CD Burner

Well, based on the fact that it is a three year old gateway, i give it a 6 out of 10. I mean come on, i'm running Maya for gods sake, gotta give some credit for that. Now if i could only get Quake 3 or Red Faction to run. I need a new video card, but the one i have now is built into the motherboard. Fun, fun, fun.

If it can't be fixed with duct tape and a hammer, it isn't worth being fixed... Unless it's my computer.

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# 7 05-12-2002 , 01:51 PM

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this is most definatly an interesting post. lets keep it going. Everyone join in.

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# 8 05-12-2002 , 02:43 PM

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- Asus P4PE mobo w/ onboard gigabit lan, firewire, SATA, and audio (the onboard audio sucks so will be investing in an audigy at some point...already have my pro audio card inside and working), 6 USB (supports 2.0)
- Intel P4 2.53 GHz
- 512MB Corsair XMS PC3200 RAM with heatsink
- MSI GeForce TI4200 128 video card
- WD 120GB HD with 8 MB cache
- Black Lite-on dvd player and another CD-RW
- O/S is WinXP Pro

Using an old dell 17" monitor for the time being. Bought a black/silver Viewsonic slimline keyboard (feels like a laptop) and a logitech optical mouse.

System pretty much rocks with Maya and everything else! The only problem has been with scrolling around (zooming in) after heavy usage of paintFX...moving tends to get sluggish. I said in another post though, it may just be me not knowing how to optimize properly when using it.

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# 9 05-12-2002 , 02:51 PM

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Athlon XP 1900
512MB DDR
GeForce 3 Ti500
100GB HDD
17" Monitor

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# 10 10-12-2002 , 01:20 PM

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AMD Athlon XP 2000
512 DDR RAM
Asus A7S333 Mobo
Asus Geforce 4 Ti 128 DDR RAM
80 Gig Seagate Baracuda
Asus CD Writer
Asus CD ROM
D-Link LAN card
Running on Windows 2000 Pro

It's a week old, and I love it. The first machine I bought with my own, hard-earned money. Surprisingly, when working it keeps up with a dual my school's PIV and 1 Gig of RAM, especially with dynamics. Haven't tried rendering yet, but I'm sure its faster then my loyal old PIII 600.

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# 11 10-12-2002 , 02:59 PM

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Now that I've had time to tinker with my new dual setup (specs above) I can rate it: 9.75 / 10. The weakest point on my system is now the GF2. No, it's not slow or anything and works like charm. The 0.25 point drop is due to the fact that it could be a little better with a new vid card. Anyway, the bottom line is that I'm 100% satisfied with it for now... New vid card, more ram or whatever wouldn't make any difference on my renderings user added image

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# 12 11-12-2002 , 12:49 AM

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SPecs

AMD Thunderbird 1.1
256 PC133
8gig;60gig;4gig MAXTOR
Geforce 2 TI 200
MSI SE Red
Win XP
Maya 4.5
Mental Ray

AMD K6-2 350 o/c 400
98 PC-100
8gig;4gig MAXTOR & WD
Old Via Board
WinXP
Maya 4.5
Mental Ray

Cyrix 150
48 SIMM
1.5gig;4gig; MAXTOR
Matrox Vid
Some Mobo
Slackware 8.1
Maya 4.5
Mental Ray

These are the machines i use for rendering and designing .. now if i could only get premeire to render through a network.

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# 13 25-12-2002 , 12:20 AM

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Dual AMD AthlonMP 2200's
Asus A7M266 mobo
1GB DDR RAM
GeForce 3Ti 200(64MB)
80GB HD
DVD-ROM
CD-RW
Antec server tower(metallic grey) with side intake fan.
Logitech Optical mouse
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
12x9 digital artist's pad
Maya 4.0

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My rig:
Asus mobo
Dual Athlon 2200MP
1GB ECC RAM
80GB HD
ATI FireGL 8800
Maya 4.5

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# 14 25-12-2002 , 02:07 AM

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Am I the only Mac user in here... user added image

Primary system:
Powerbook G4/800 Mhz
1 GB ram
60 GB hard drive
32 MB Radeon 7500 Mobility
Combo DVD-R/CD-RW drive
22" Apple Cinema Display (plus the Powerbook 15.2" display)
Apple Pro keyboard
Logitech MX700 wireless optical mouse
Wacom Intuos 6x8 tablet

Secondary system:
Dell Dimension 4100
1 GHz Pentium III
512 MB ram
40 GB drive
DVD-R (1st bay)
CD-RW (2nd bay)
2 19" Lacie electron2blue monitors
32 MB GeForce 2 Ultra (primary video card)
16 MB TNT2 M64 (secondary video card)
Dell keyboard
Logitech Mouseman wireless optical mouse

Both systems run Maya 4.5 beautifully. I spend more time working on my Powerbook though, since I use that for teaching as well as my video/animation work. I'd rate my complete setup as a 9.5/10. I can always use faster hardware. user added image

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