Hey guys this will be my first post. Im quite newb at Maya, and started with Autodesk Maya 8.0 unlimted. I was just wondering weather or not I should buy some more ram or save for a whole other computer. I not sure how much of a difference it will make for either.
I have an acer aspire SA80 with an intel pentium 4-517 3GHZ, running windows XP - SP2 with 1.5GB RAM DDR and 250GB SATA. I also have an nvidia 7600GS.
I did have 1GB of Ram split between 2x512MB slots. I recently up'd one to a 1GB, and will be doing the same with other to get a nice 2GB alltogether, which i believe is my max for this processor type.
I'm not really a game fan, so dont need my comp for anything other than Graphics programmes. i.e Photoshop CS2 etc.. I only started to upgrade my RAM because I bought maya. Im quickly becoming addicted, and think I will use it often for local freelance work. I was viewing some of the images rendered on maya, and they look so smooth and realistic. I just wanted to know weather, if im working towards learning to create similar images if my current computer will handle such maya files, or if ill shoot myself in the foot, and get nice big error and quit messages.
Will a nice high end spec computer really make that much of a difference. (obviously any upgrade will improve performance, but is the cost worth it) I only use maya for creating and rendering 2d images, so im not worried about speeds for rendering animations.
Any thoughts and advise would be appreciated. Thanks