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Originally Posted by IRML  to give you an idea, I completed an 800k/900k sized model in lightwave 7 with a geforce 2 mx440 and 512mb of ram, it was hard to work with towards the end but I did it, when I moved up to a new machine with a geforce 6600gt and 1gb of ram it was much easier to work with
I'm on a much much nicer machine now, 8gb of ram, 9800gtx, intel qx9650 - but I'd still say my previous machine was fine to work with |
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Originally Posted by nirvaaa Your within the system requirements of maya 2008. I have maya on my computer and it runs fine.
I have a
2.26 ghz P4
2 gigs of ram
512mb video card (Radeon X1650)
The mac OS could be eating too many video resources. I keep mine on a stripped down windows XP system. By stripped down I mean it doesn't run/load anything I don't need for maya. And generally speaking autodisk produces don't mix well with mac PCs.
The Area | Maya 2008 and Mac Leopard OSX |
I think you guys just convinced me to get the tower and not another iMac. I think that with Maya, Final Cut pro, and iDvD (I still have yet to fully comprehend DvD Studio Pro), most of my disk space is taken up already. The message I seem to be getting is the more ram and the higher the graphics card, the better. With the Towers, I can add up to 32 gigs of Ram (but who needs that much?) and I can have several graphics cards.
I'm thinking that for now, I'll go with this configuration:
Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (unless y'all think I should go higher and get Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon)
4 Gigs of RAM (I might go with 8, but that's a bit expensive for macs)
500 gigs of memory (only one bay)
4 x ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB (or 1 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB)
I'll get it eventually, just not right away so I got time to think about it.