Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Pc upgrade
At the moment I have the following:
AMD Athlon 2200+ 266MHz FSB (1.81GHz)
1Gb RAM
30Gb + 40Gb hard drives
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
Gigabyte G7VAXP motherboard
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I just ordered a GeForce 6800 GT 256MB card for myself
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I see this card is around £250.
What do you think of the GeForce 5900XT 128Mb which is around £120?
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And the 6800GT is viewed as the best performance/price card availlable from what I have seen on various forums.
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Would you advise a Pentium or AMD and what speed?
Any other suggstions of improvement would be appreciated?
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HD: pick a WD Raptor, put them in RAID 0 if you want to over do it
These are massive upgrade but totaly worth the cost.
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Mantat, what spec of pc have you got?
I am only at university, would an upgrade of your suggestion now be too large?
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And yes, these are pro level upgrades (except the video card). I think that even Kurt is not going to go to such settings. But you asked for it ;-)
If you want to spend under 500$, just a video card upgrade should be fine and help a lot for modeling. If you have problem with render time, you can always buy a cheap computer (fast CPU, 1gig ram, small HD, no video) to serve as a render node.
If you want to invest more than 1k$, the opteron option will give you the best yeild but you would still be stuck with the same video card unless you upgrade that too.
Just think about it this way: pro machine are using dual proc, high end video card, RAID HD, fast HD and lots of ram. These system can cost over 5000$ but you can get about 80% of their performance for about 2000$ by always taking the most cst effective part.
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