Rate your setup...
 

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.

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

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!

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

And is it sweet!:beer:

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? :))

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).

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.

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

- 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.

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

I plan to upgrade soon :)

-Emo

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.

:beer:

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 ;)

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.

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


Runs Maya like a dream :)

Am I the only Mac user in here... :)

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. :)

I'd love to get a mac, but I don't have the cash :p

PIII 677 MHz
512 MB RAM
20 GB HDD :(
52x CD Driven (1st)
DVD Drive (2nd)
CD-RW (3rd)
17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 720
32 MB GeForce 256
Razor Boomslang Mouse :) :)
v. small Keyboard (dont have a clue to what make it is, but :))

I plan to get a whole new setup when i'm in the £££, but this works fine for the time being. I occasionally get lag, although a quick Maya reload resolves this.

Did anyone else notice the favoring of Logitech for mice?

Ok, my turn

AMD ATHLON 1.4+
1 GHZ RAM
60 GB MAXTOR HDD
LG CDRW
LG DVD Drive
21" SGI Monitor
64 MB DDR ATI Radeon 7500
LOGITECH TRACK BALL MOUSE
regular keyboard

have win 2k/linux redhat installed. Run Maya 4.5 on windows. system has more than enough power. Also have another two systems networked to handle all the rendering I need. AMD Duron 800 and AMD 500. give my system a 10/10 . I would give it 11/10 if I had DDR memory on the mother board and a dual proc..

i ve got a 2.0 mhz p4 on asus p4b226 board i put together my self
with 256 k ram ... my video card is an matrox g450... i love it only prob is when on dual screen (i like to read the help file while i work in maya) the mouse leaves tracers only when im on scale or rotate (the little box cursor thing) - which is really annoying but it goes away when im not in dual screen mode - its only a 32m video card so i need one with higher ram - but i like the features of the matrox dual head card - for other design work and the expermental video projections i do... so if anyone can reccommend a card with the type of features that the matrox has - ....

I run a
P IV 2.8 mhz
Radeon 9700 pro
1 gig of ram
150 gb hd space
DVD/CD rewrite

running maya 4 & 4.5

i wanna join in
** turns on light and writes down the sticker :D **
p4 1.6
512 SDRAM
60 Gb HD
Geforce 2
CD-RW

Lol really? isnt that pre 386 days? ;)

P3 700mhz
256mg RAM
G-Force 2 400mx
Audigy PLayer
40 gig IBM Deskstar
40 gig Western Digital (Caviar)

Logitech Mouse (Which didnt work well with maya!)

I must upgrade soon as when I open maya i get the message "Open GL not supported by your card. You may experience very poor performance etc etc" or words to that effect. EVen thoughj I'm pretty sure my card does support open GL.

AT uni though i use:

Dual P4 2.2Ghz Xeons
1 Gig RAM
Nvidia Quadro Not sure which version.
(you get the idea!)

Might try and put one under my jacket one of these days and walk off with it! ;)

whata about your mouse doesnt work...

K, well i have 2 entries here:

1) PII 300
320 megs sdram
32 meg elsa synergy 2000
8 gig hardrive
19" flatron
24X cd-rw

this one i've had for almost 5 years now...Bought it from Gateway, right when the first P2 300 system came out- and spent $3600 on it.
It runs Maya ok, no high poly characters here though (16-18K poly limit) and it is still kickin'. I give this one a 7/10.

2) AMD Athlon 2400 XP
512 meg DDR
128 meg GForce ti 8x- SOftquadroed to a Quadro 780 xgl
80 gig WD hardrive
Asus A7N8X Nforce2 Deluxe
Cd-rw 40x
19" Viewsonic G90 f

Just bought this one about two weeks ago, and it cost me only $1300 with monitor and all shipping costs. It is an incredibly smooth machine, and for Maya I give it a 10/10.

I better add my piece to this thread...

ASUS P4S333/C mobo
P4 2.0Ghz CPU
512Mb DDR333 RAM (soon adding another of the same)
10Gig + 18Gig HDD (soon adding an 80 Gig :D )
128Mb Leadtek Geforce4 Ti4200 VIVO
Sony 48/40/12 CD burner
19" Mitsubishi DiamondView flat CRT
A4 Tech 'Optical GreatEye' mouse
Dual boot (Win 98 and 2K)
Also connected to a 14cm B&W TV (you may laugh if you wish)

I'd rate my system about a 8/10 for what I use it for.

- MSI VIA Apollo KT333
- Athlon XP 1900+
- 768MB DDR RAM 333Mhz
- 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM HDD
- GeForce 2 GTS (haven't felt the need to buy a better one, works well with Maya and Counter-Strike)
- Audigy Sound Card
- ViewPoint Monitor 17'' (this is my worst hardware part, I'm sick of it but haven't managed to buy a bigger and quality monitor yet)
- Plextor 14/10/40A CDRW Drive
- Toshiba DVD Drive
- One decade old floppy drive (hate those!)
- Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
- Wacom Volito
- JBL speakers and subwoofer
- Lousy microphone
- Windows XP Professional (currently no Linux boot due to lack of HD space but will fix that soon)

This is an old thread..oh well..gonna put my machine:

AthlonXP 1800 cpu + Gigabyte 7vrxp mobo
512mb ddr pc2100
40gb hd, 52xcd, 48x16x24cdrw
Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2
19" Sun CM @ 1280x1024x32 @ 85hz, could go 1600x1200 but 75hz uhhh
GF4Mx440 64mb
Redhat Linux 9.0 with custom kernel stripped down of features my machine dont have and need and recompiled for i686.

Traded Maya with my friend again and now he has my Windows version and I have his Linux.

Athlon XP(Barton) 2500+ at 2491 (3613 pentium value approx)
1Gb 414Mhz DDR RAM
120Gb SATA HD
52*24*52cdrw, DVD-ram/DVD-r
Microsoft Explorer mouse
Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard
PNY Quadro4 900 XGL 128mb
Compaq 19" mon (1600*1200@75), 14" trust (1024*768@75)
DanderDen Maze3 CPU waterblock
DanderDen Maze3 Geforce waterblock
DanderDen Z-chipset northbridge waterblock
Win2k sp4

Not a bad system :P, should get a bit more performance out of her when I put the peltier in it.

rig 2
Dual MP1900+'s, Tyan 2460 old board but stable as a rock
1Gb PC2700 DDR ECC ram
75gb HD
DVD, CDRW
Radeon 8500le 64mb Gfx card
2* DanderDen Maze3 CPU waterblock

Good work horse, altho needs a better PSU the Q-TEC 550 is a bit weak on the 5v rail. Will be even better when I figure out dist-rendering.

updated system

same shell new proc and video

Athlon XP 2800+
Quadro FX 2000

Well I did that update and my new specs are:

Dual AMD Opteron 244
1GB PC2700 ECC Registered
(still have the video card)
200GB HDD
36GB Raptor
and um..
a DVD Burner :D

-Emo

Dell Latitude D800 with these specs:

Intel Pentium M 1.6 Ghz
512 Mb SD RAM
40 Gb Hdd (Plus a server with 300Gb)
GeForce 4 Go 64Mb

Microsoft USB Intellimouse

Planning on buying an Wacom Intuos2 A5 (USB).

Very Kewl !!!!
 

I am running a Dual 900 mHz (overclocked to 1.6 GHz each)

Dell 420 Workstation
2 Gigs of Rambus ram
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
CD and CD-R
Windows XP Pro
21 inch monitor (Flat panel)
Removeable hard drives (4 - 40 gig drives)
with a mouse (HA HA HA)

I also have a WACOM 12in Tablet and 4D mouse.


( If I only knew how to work MAYA 5 unlimited ) GESSSH!!!!!


-SuperDave71

:beer:

I'm running a:
Pentium III 1Ghz
256 SDRAM
ASUS mobo
ATI Radeon 7000 32Mb mem
SBlaster live value
CD and CDRW
17" ViewSonic Monitor
Microsoft internet keyboard
Win XP
All for Maya 5

Runs fine until I have a somewhat complicated model up. Gets really chunky when try to rotate/zoom/pan in perspective view. Cant understand why. Tried bumping up Ram to 512. Didn't help. I'll leave like this until I buy a kick a$$ machine next fall.

Any suggestions?

Tony

Dual Athlon MP 2400
1GB DDR SDRAM
Quadro FX 1000
SBlaster Audigy Platinum
DVD-ROM and CD-RW
8-year-old sh**y tatung monitor (15")
Win XP
Maya 5

1GHz AMD athlon
640 MB of RAM
60 GB HD
64MB Geforce2 GTS
XP Pro

Few complaints but is strangely pretty stable. I think the main reason why is that I have minimized non visible programs from running. It does take rather long to render things but I would rate it 7 out of 10. By the way, it's a MicronPC.

I have a P4 2.4 ghz processor, along with 1.5 gigs of DDR ram and an ATI radeon 9700 pro. 60 gig HDD, DVD-R/RW burner, DVD rom, 21 inch monitor and to top it off... a crappy sound card.. haha. :P.

Works quite well for anything i have to do, so far :). Running off of XP Pro

I envy carrot juice and superdave...that machine is gonna last you for a looong time

dannyngan, you're not the only mac user...
 

powermac G5
dual 2.0 GHz
3.5 GB RAM
160 GB HD
ATI radeon 9800
maya 5

3.5 gigs !!!!

DUUUUDE!

omg...man that is some serious power for home use :)