Beer glass scene creation
This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.
# 46 19-11-2003 , 06:11 PM
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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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# 47 19-11-2003 , 09:22 PM
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Originally posted by orgeeizm
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

first of all.. I dont trust anybody

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... user added image

I've had 3 HDDs die on me and let me tell you..the feeling is not good user added image

and about the defragmenting, it doesnt help it as much as it keeps it running fast

-Emo

# 48 19-11-2003 , 09:26 PM
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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.

# 49 20-11-2003 , 07:26 AM
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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


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# 50 21-11-2003 , 03:10 AM
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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:

# 51 21-11-2003 , 11:01 AM
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carrot juice: If you had unlimited cash and that's all you can come up with, then you think too small. user added image

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.


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# 52 30-11-2003 , 04:46 PM
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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.

# 53 19-12-2003 , 09:03 AM
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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 :-)


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# 54 30-12-2003 , 07:31 PM
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Pentium III 800( Actually a PIII 600, but overclocked with Huge Fan)
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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.



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# 55 04-01-2004 , 10:35 AM
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PIII are still solid.

Dual PIII 1.0 ghz
80 gig HD
Quadro 750xgl
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RH linux 9
WinXP pro SP1
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maya 4.0
and the usual suspects... PS, combustion,Wings3d, QT, etc...

# 56 04-01-2004 , 04:55 PM
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Microsoft intellymouse 3.0 + Icemat (LOVE those, they are perfekt for precise animating)

user added image and it works like wee for me.

# 57 05-01-2004 , 01:14 PM
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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

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That'll do donkey... that'll do...
# 58 06-01-2004 , 04:08 PM
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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

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# 59 26-01-2004 , 12:36 PM
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# 60 30-01-2004 , 07:53 AM
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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.


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