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kvo & dannygan - I use a mac too! But I use Maya primarily on the PC which is:
Athlon 1.2ghz T-Bird 512mb RAM 1 x 20gb HD 1 x 40gb HD DVD drive CDRW drive (external) nVidia GeForce 4 Ti200 128mb GPU Twin 17" Monitors Windaz 2K SP3 Which works fine, although the dual monitors don't work as well on the PC as they do on my old Mac: G4 Dual 500mhz 512mb RAM 1 x 20gb HD 1 x10gb HD DVD dirve CDRW drive (external) Radeon 32mb GPU 17" Monitor OSX 10.2.8 Bit tired now, but usable I wanna stick one of those Giga Designs accelerator cards in it - mind you that might make it blow up! kvo How does you Mac perform? Especialy the GPU? If I was gonna get new Mac I would get one of those - but they are so expensive... |
HP Pavailion ZT-1195 laptop
1.7GHz P4 512Mb Ram 40GB Maxtor HDD 15" LCD (1400x1200x32bit) S3 Prosavage DDR 32Mb Graphics Card Not a bad setup, runs Maya 5.0 PLE fine as long as I switch off the hardware acceleration on the Prosavage DDR card... necessary otherwise it crashes the system when when displaying maya color palettes. Coming next month: Dual AMD Athlon MP 2800+ (2.13Ghz) Tyan Tiger MPX Bi-MP Motherboard Quadro4 980 XGL g/fx card Maxtor Diamondmax 200Gb HDD 2Gb (4x512mb) DDR PC2100 RAM IIYAMA 21" LCD (1600x1280) I'll be posting Cinebench results for both the machines (just for fun) and, if anyone is interested, a thread on how to build a PC with lots of nice piccies. I'd be interested in seeing everyone elses Cinebench results - especially on those G5's and dual Operton systems). |
I have a HW question.
How many people use Maxtor HD and for the ones that do how many Maxtor HD have crashed on you. I have 60 gig maxtor (not working) 40 gig maxtor (not working) 20 gig maxtor (just went good bye) the top two are newer than the 20 gig. The 20 gig is the one that has always been used as my c:\ directory. Anyways, just wanted to know if anyone else has had problems. I got the top two replaced but this is really annoying happening in the span of 5 months. |
I've always found Maxtor to be very reliable. Were you using all three drives in the same system? If so, and you had them mounted so that they were on top of each other, maybe you had an overheating problem.
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No, two different systems. the 60 and 20 where installed on top of each other. Damn, maybe that was it.
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Ive had maxtor for almost 2 years on my main computer and ive had it sometimes running for weeks without turning it crashing. I think maxtor is pretty good..but i think it all depends on your setup..i also defragment daily so I guess that helps my drive? im not sure
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I still have my 6 year old Maxtor rock solid and still working... on the other hand, 2 months ago I bought an 80Gig Maxtor and it didnt even last the 2 months... :rolleyes: I've had 3 HDDs die on me and let me tell you..the feeling is not good :( and about the defragmenting, it doesnt help it as much as it keeps it running fast -Emo |
Emo my 20 gig just died on me and that was a 4 year old drive. my 40 and 60 where not even a year put together.
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Emo, like i said its different for people..defragmenting helps my win file system stay alive and i notice it through the "sounds" my harddrive makes when it accesses lots of files...
anyway, that same HD of mine crashed february earlier this year and i lost my work since i got it. still dont know the reason why it did. all i know is that windows froze up when i was booting it. and when i booted back, everything was corrupted, partitions were gone |
As long as we're creeping away from the original topic...
If you had unlimitied cash, you could use one of those new 64 bit or whatever processors and have 8 gigs of ram, about 6 GHz of processing power (dual 3GHz) and like a 600 GB harddrive... drool... EDIT: oh, and not to mention an NVidia Quadro FX 3000... :bow: |
carrot juice: If you had unlimited cash and that's all you can come up with, then you think too small. :D
Emo: defragmenting your HD definitley helps it work faster. While it's not a major factor, it does reduce the seek time the head requires to find parts of files that have been "fragmented". If you have never defragged. I would strongly suggest you do. My setup's ok. I could use a better graphics card, but other than that, works fine for me. |
I have a Dell Dimension 8200, which came with a 60Gb maxtor drive. After I had the machine for 13 months I started it up one day to get a message along the lines of - 'Dell monitoring reports that HD 1 is operating outside of normal specifications. Backup all your data and call Dell support immediatly ...' I called Dell and they said it needed replacing, and that the warranty ran out after the first year.
I bought a new HD and installed it, but kept the maxtor as a second HD. I still get the same error message about half the time when booting, but the drive still works fine, I just don't keep anything important on it. Sometimes I do wonder tho, how odd the error message started just 3 weeks after the Dell waranty ended! Re tech specs - Dell Dimension with P4 2.4ghz 1 Gig rambus ram 80 Gig Western Digital drive with 8Mb buffer (works great) 60 Maxtor HD Sapphire Radion 9600 Pro 128 Mb 19 Inch Dell monitor (trinitron) Logitech MX 700 optical mouse I have only been using Maya for a few weeks, but it seems smooth so far. |
After Dell gets there order they check the warranty yoo bought. It goes like this-
1year warranty - They drop the drive 10 times on concrete floor before putting it in the machine. 3year warranty- They drop it once on carpeted floor :-) |
Pentium III 800( Actually a PIII 600, but overclocked with Huge Fan)
392mg RAM 20GB HD Nvidia Gforce 4MX 64mg SoundBlaster Live! Win 2000 pro Maya 5.0.1 It does it's job but it certainly lacks on the speed side but hey will be upgrading soon, then this will be used for rendering and a linux firewall. |
PIII are still solid.
Dual PIII 1.0 ghz 80 gig HD Quadro 750xgl 1.5 gig Ram RH linux 9 WinXP pro SP1 19" monitor :( maya 4.0 and the usual suspects... PS, combustion,Wings3d, QT, etc... |
2600 amd XP+
80 gb fluid HDD Geeforce 4200 TI 512 kingston DDR-ram (want 1 gb, and is saving for it) Logitech iTouch keyboard Microsoft intellymouse 3.0 + Icemat (LOVE those, they are perfekt for precise animating) :D and it works like wee for me. |
Finally, the new PC is built:
P-IV 3.2GHz + Hyperthreading ABIT IC7-Max3 Mobo 2GB (4x512MB PC3200 Samsung) NVIDIA Quadro4 980-XGL Dual 17" iiyama LCD monitors 2x120Gb Maxtor Diamondmax 7200rpm SATA Windows XP-Pro (SP1) ANTEC SX-1040 Performance II tower case with 400W ATX supply Logitec MX-310 mouse Cherry standard US keyboard DVD burner It's finally great to be able to use Maya the way it should be used.... dynamics performance and rendering times are finally where I want them to be! Now I just have to copy my files from the laptop and I can continue my projects :) :) |
I just upgraded to:
Asus PC-DL Deluxe Mo/Bo Dual Pentium 4 XEON 2.8Ghz CPUs Swiftech HeatSinks and Cooling Fans 2GB RAM 3DLabs Wildcat III 6210 w / 416MB Memory Dual 18" NEC MultiSync Flat Panel Displays 160GB Maxtor HD Windows XP Pro Maya 5.x :bgreen: Now I just need to get good enough at Maya to justify the horsepower! For video work: Dual 1Ghz PIII 1GB RAM DPS Reality Video Capture Card w/ 2x 100GB U/W 10KRPM SCSI 18GB U/W SCSI System HD 36GB U/W SCSI Audio HD DPS JOG-4000 Shuttle Controller DPS I/O Breakout Box DPS Velocity NLE software Eyeon DFX+ Compositing software :bgreen: |
Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz (533Mhz)
Iwill DPI533 mobo 1 gig DDR ECC Registered Ati 9700pro AIW 550w Antec Truepower WD 120Gig HDD Sony 21" Trinitron flat screen |
WOW! great thread! Im in the middle of building a PC at the moment. Im still using Win98/se on a PII-366 laptop maxed out at 320MB ram!
It looks like the system requirements are about the same. So I wont be shuttig myself out of one app or the other. I'll submit once i have it built. |
Just got my new machine a couple of weeks ago:
Dell Inspiron 8600 (laptop) 1.7 GHz Pentium M 1 GB ram 60 GB 7200 rpm hard drive 15.4" WUXGA (widescreen, 1920x1200) 128 MB Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo DVD+RW/CD-RW drive 802.11b/g Bluetooth In short, this little baby rocks! :D |
P4 2.53 (533fsb)
Mobo GIGabyte GA-8pE667 wtih hyper thread 768 ddr333 geforce 4 tI200 128ram 4xagp 200 gigs HD space in total cdrw 40x dvd rom 12x 17" viewsonic profession series flat screen logitech black elte keyboard/mx400 mouse xp pro/maya 5/4.5 all in a thermaltake black supertower with 4 fan speed controllers and blue cothode lighting. hmmmm.... maybe this is why i'm alway's broke. DAMN computers.....DAMN them all to hell. |
P4 1.7 Gigz ----> not so high on my priorty list to upgrade soon
512 DDR Ram ------> same as above geforce 4 MX 64 meg ---------> high priorty! 40 gig HD ------> semi high priorty DVD Drive 52x cD Drive 48x CDRW Just ordered a DVD writer :) I plan on upgrading my video card, then proccessor, and then ram, after getting a new mobo :) Maybe it'll be cheaper just to sell my comp and build a new one again? When i got this comp, it was great for its time but that was before I was into 3d |
My Baby
Multivision Laptop P4 2.8ghz 512 DDR RAM Radeon 64mb mobile graphics DVD RAM drive Scored just under 10,000 in 3d mark 2001!! Extra 17" monitor for extended desktop Just ordered a Wacom Volito tablet. And will upgrade to 1gig of RAM |
P4 2.6 Gghz
512MB DDR RAM ATI Radeon 128MB 9200 Series graphics card DVD/Burner/CD-ROM drive 120GB HD 7200RPM 17" Samsung SyncMaster 753df monitor Anyone have problems with the ATI Radeon 9200 Series? when i played Halo it would randomly crash and some games are laggy which shouldn't be happening. I updated the drivers too. |
Asus a7n8x mobo
1 gig corsair xms ram Asus Geforce 4 Ti 9280 160 gig ata-100 WD 8 mg cache hd cd burner dvd drive Dual 17" monitors running windows 2K os So far this rig is rock solid have no complaints! |
abacus
1500 red beads ;) |
Amiga with the all mighty 1 meg upgrade ;)
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ok I built this about 6 months ago ..I am running a P4 2.8 GHz with HyperThreading on an Intel D865GBF mobo,
1024 DDR Ram and 160GB hard drive. NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics card which is probably the weakest link..might upgrade this soon. Hansol H530 [Monitor] Creative Audigy 2 sound card NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A PLEXTOR CD-RW PX-W5224A TEAC DV-516E [DVD-ROM drive] Running Maya 5.01 and it's sweet except for the nvidia viewport problem but it's a minor annoyance. I upgraded the vga to a Leadtek Nvida FX 5950 ultra and added some more Ram ..now got 1500mb DDR RAM :) nvidia have finally sorted the viewport issue...the system rocks now :) |
just upgraded my system to:
Asus PC-DL Deluxe dual processor motherboard two Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz 2 GB of RAM nVidia Quadro4 980 XGL graphics card Matrox SATA 250 GB Hard Disk compared to the system i was using before, this gets 10 from me |
Hi,
I just got a new computer 2 days ago. I don't know that much about pc, and I wanted somthing fast, well faster then my mac G4. So I had a friend build me a pc, and I told him I wanted a fast one! Because it take waaay to long to render on my mac. So as far as I can see looking through my computer and stuff, this is what I have. AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Version: 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195 System Name: SoNATA1 System Manufacturer: NVIDIA System Model: AWRADACPI System Type: x86-based PC Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~ 16... BIOS Version: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG NVIDIA nForce K7N2G Series. I'm not sure about what this is, a graphic card maybe? 1,048,048 KB RAM. I guess that my membery? I really don't know what the hell any of this stuff means! But I can tell you this, this pc is waaaaayyyy better then my mac! Rendering rocks! |
Ok now I know what I have now,
It an Athalon 2800 xp 32 bit processor, Radeon 9200 series graphic card 1G of ram ViewSonic G790 19" monitor I give this computer a "10" compare to the mac G4, rendering is very fast! |
I have a AMD dual processor Opteron 242,
1 gig ram, 80 gig hd, Nvidia Quadro 1000 FX video card, 17inch lcd screen, 4x pioneer dvd burner I would say this is the ultimate system. Not the best but wayyyy up their, just ran outta money! Maya runs like a charm.. RROOOOOOM RRROOOOOOM RRRROOOOOOM......... |
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I now have... PIV-2.8 800FSB with HT 512 DDR 400 RAM ASUS Muthabrd. The rest of the other specs are the same. When i get a bit more cash i will continue to upgrade. |
hmmm.
P4 3.0 (800fsb) Asus P4P800 dlx mobo 160GB SATA 2 GB Corsair TwinX DDR 400 Asus 256MB nVidia fx5950 its not bad, but it has issues with z-buffer, which is REALLY annoying, because my older machine with a Geforce4 card doesnt have the problem :( GRRRRRR but for rendering, it screams... so word-up lol |
My Baby
Dual 2Ghz G5 64/32 bit
OSX 10.3.3 2GB of RAM 20" Cinema Display with ADC(DVI) Conector 19" Dell VGA for 2nd through DVI to VGA adapter Radeon 9800 Pro Mac edition 160 GB SATA Drive Firewire 400 Firewire 800 (good for those external drives) USB 2.0 Bluetooth 10/100/1000T LAN connector Optical ins and outs with 5.1 Surround Logitech speakers :D |
Heh, if I had my way, I'd have a workstation like chrisdude's. :) However, since I'm using the school's computers and they're all donated, I've got some kind of Dell sitting on my desk. It's all right, probably about ready for an upgrade.
I do, however, get to use the 128-processor render farm here. So it's worth this Windows nightmare, I guess. ;) |
I just finished building my new PC! Now it's time to get some modeling going again! :D
AMD Athlon XP 2600 w/ Biostar M7NCD-Ultra 512DDR PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64DDR 17" monitor and 27" TV 80 GB WD 7200rpm HD DVD+-RW CD-RW 6 channel audio onboard LAN 6 USB 2.0 dragon case with the $BLING BLING$ :cool: Logitech cordless MXduo (nice) I'm in the market for a new video card, looking to upgrade to a GeForce FX 52xx - 56xx w/ 128DDR somthing like that! also get another 512DDR in there to bring me up to a gig! Anyways, that's my new toy! now to see how Maya likes it! |
Im also building a new machine. Selling my laptop for a desktop. The parts are in the mail but here are the specs. We'll see how My computer handles me handleing Maya.
Gigabyte MOBO Black X-Dreamer ATX PC Case Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9200 Video Card, 256MB DDR Sony 52X32X52X16 Combo Drive AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 512 MB DDR ram Should be done by the end of the week. I gotta go out and get a new monitor though. My laptops being sold on Ebay right now. Come on guys, I know you want it! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=48485 Well there's the specs for my laptop. |
mine
Dual 2GHz G5
1GB SDRAM its nice to see some mac users. Dae:) |
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