I have to equip my Pc to be able to work whith Maya. have a Celeron 500Mhz and 500 SdRam with a RIVA TNT 2 M64 32MB. This is cleary not enough. having not a lot of money to spent, should i spent it on a good Graphics card and processor, or just get More RAM (eventualy DDR). Can u guys help?
Ifrst , decent mother borad and chip.
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the TNT is too weak for Maya, this is the first thing to change.
In Gold They Trust.
After reading this forums i’m considered a possibility for a graphics card. For a start, how about the GF2 Ultra and then use SOFTQUADRO tweaker to enable the Quadro features. I think i can get to GF2Ultrsa with my budget if i just stick with changing the Motherboard and the processor + the graphics card.
Should i use the Anthlon 1.2 or 1.33 whith the a7v266 mb, for instance? But i dont want to spent more money now with DDR, and want to stick for the SDRam for a wile. Can i keep them? Or should i just take another board and save me the extra money?
Cheers,
ArtBit
Well if you want to stick with sdram then I’d go twith the a7v133…the 266 only runs ddr. Also you could probably go with the 1.33 It runs on a faster bus speed than the 1.2 and it isn’t much more.
10X for the tips.
Buy the way, is it realy whorth it to in vest on a smaller amout of ddr then to upgrade my sdram up to a G for instance?
C’os i know that there is a big diference in performance from the DDR and the SDRam , but can’t i just get by, fast and stable enough, whith a larger amount of SDr? whith this new sistem (new Mb chip and graphics card) i mean..
Thanks for the input,
ArtBit
For now the difference between SDRAM and DDRAM is only about 5%(perfs not price).
In Gold They Trust.
ASUS A7A266 supports both DDR and SDRAM…Look arround for reviews though, I havn’t heard much about it…I got the A7M266 instead but that’s just DDR
Matt Hyner
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Celerons are not the best chip choise for maya, most of their internal cahche removed. This will make a big difference both during render and animation (matrix operations are used alot in 3d and cache spesifically enhances matrix operations). So go for some processor with cache (its a bit more expensive).
Also 512 is enough for startes (you can always buy more later). But it can be a bit low if you intend to do scenes with lots of raytracing or very complex animations/modells.
Get a 1 GHz athlon or something prefeerebly, dual processors, but that might be a bit too expensive (maya UI wont utilize the second processor anyway).
Graphics cerd wise go for some g-force. The highend cadrs are great but cost way too much. Thatis unless your liveleyhood depends on this then avoid them, but if it does then buy a wildcat II (increased performance you know).