Computer strenght for 3ds Max 9 ???

[e-m-i]

I just got 3ds Max 9 and I wanna start learning it.But I have to weak computer so I need to upgrade...What do you think, what will be the best performance?!

hard drive------
RAM---------
graphic card----------

thanks in advance, guys!

[minimus]

Ram is definitiv a big factor to run max smooth, but every thing have there importences.
but my opinion is, make sure you have enoght ram ;)

[e-m-i]

do you have a certain number on your mind?
how MB should RAM have, and how much should graphic card have ? (tell your configuration, if it works for you :)

[minimus]

as much as you can aford is my answere hehe :P
i'm using 1g RAM (thats to litle, i'm getting some problems along the way) so i will sa atleast 2g ram. graphic card....hmm i dont remember what i have there....(i'm on the laptopp at the moment) all i know is that it is a ATI 1600 series.

[e-m-i]

thanks, minimus
turns out that this modeling isn't so cheap at all :)
sure hope it's worth it...

[minimus]

if you have pasion...love for it...it will be worth it...and if your one of the lucky guys you may gett paid one day.

how much do a tallented earn each work really...never thought of that...hehe.

[x-tazy]

I would recommend at min. a Core2Duo, 2-4GB Ram, and a new Geforce. With ATI you only have problems with the driver so you should use a nVidia card.

[e-m-i]

thanks, x - tazy
was is the most important hardware part for making an amazing render ?
( look at the 3dm home page; see Corak the Hunter? well that's what I wanna learn to render : so it looks sick! )... ;)

[x-tazy]

The gfx card is for the handling during the working process
the ram you need during rendering and when you work. but more when you render with high settings and high poly counts. So I thing you should start with something about 2Gb and if this isn't enough you can upgrade. I thing for the beginning it's enough.
CPU is very important for rendering also for handling in the scene with high poly. So every component is important!

[Need_Help]

First, if you want your viewport to be smooth, get a better graphic card. Personally I'm using GeForce 6600GT 256MB but it can only handle around 1 million polygons without serious 'lagging'. If you want to increase your rendering speed, you need to have a better processor and more RAM (for software rendering). If your renderer is set as 'hardware rendering', you need to have a better graphic card because hardware rendering uses your graphic card to do the rendering, while software rendering uses your processor and RAM.

I will recommend you to get at least 2GB RAM because you really need that very much when you are rendering a scene. But if you feel that your viewport isn't 'smooth', then you only need to get yourself a graphic card and not RAM because RAM will not make your viewport smooth when you are rotating/zooming. But don't forget, you must make sure your processor is 'strong' to support all those things, if the 'bottleneck' problem comes out, its just wasting your money to buy all those 'upgrades' since the processor cannot handle all the things, only part of them are used.

Thanks :)

[e-m-i]

nice overview !
thank you very mucj, Need_Help

[Need_Help]

No problem :) I like to help people, as long as I can.