Originally posted by gilbildygook I have Maya 5.0 and I have a million questions since I am a real newb on 3d rendering. But I will search the forums for those. I do however have a question on hardware. Heres mine: 1.4 AMD processor 20 gig hardrive 256 PC 130 ram DVD-RAM drive 5.2 gig disks CD-RW Creative live X-Gamer 4.0 sound 19" monitor blah blah blah I have alot of slow down which I atribute to the low amount of ram I have and aside from the small amount of hardrive space what system specs. would you guy recomend for using maya or any other 3d program? Sorry your system wont run it,, your just goina have to give your 5.0 to me now... yea your going to have to get a little more Ram in the baby to render out faster. just another 256 should do it. and if you can go to a AMD 2100 wouldent hurt ether..