Ras Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Hi everyone I´m writing some material for a first course on Viz 2005 at my school. Along with that I was asked to do a piece of paper with basic recomendations on what to buy as a new student taking this and similar courses I am looking for recomendations for systems running formZ, 3d studio and the usual layout and picture editing software. In three system/price categories "basic", "so so", and "not bad" - with a Stationary and a laptop subcategory in each. Not nessecarily specifics but weighting of the different components and general feature-set. I know the subject has a lot of unknown variables but any help is appeciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 u can go 4 a P4 2.8 or 3GHz.....with 512 MB RAM n a good graphic card... 512 mb ram is enough 4 students ... but more ram give less time in rendering....try to get one good AGP card, with OpenGL support... insted of P4 u can go 4 AMD also, its little bit cheap according to Intel Pentium.....AMD athlon XP 2800,, will be a good choice,,,working 3d on a laptop is very difficult....there r special workstation laptops, but its price ,,,,,,WHEEEEEE.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcorbett Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 The only minimum reqs I would recommend is 512MB RAM, a 64MB Graphics Card, and 40GB hard drive. Any computer they purchase now is going to have a suitable processor, and probably even a decent graphics card, so the RAM is where the biggest issue will be. (Dell's cheapest models only sport 128MB - hardly enough to run anything these days!) The hard drive space seems like a lot, until that student tries an animation project and completely fills the drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ras Posted June 21, 2004 Author Share Posted June 21, 2004 Hi guys Thank you for your replies. I see your point Tom. I´ll use your recomendations for the specifics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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