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Is this enough ????

January 30, 2003 2:36:46 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Hi to you all, I just wanna know if I have the enough resources to run and use Photoshop7, 3DStudioMax5 and UltraFractal 2.05. I own a Pentium4 2.00Ghz, NVIDIARIVA TNT2 Model64 of 32MB, 256 of phisycal RAM, WindowsXP HomeEdition, I just want your opinion because the people in this site have the knowledge and because I have about a month undecided to install 3DStudioMax5 and using only Photoshop7 and UltraFractal 2.05.

¿¿¿¿Do I have the enough resources????

Im a nookie on this, but I feel very atracted to the digitalart and design, comments please
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Reply #1 January 30, 2003 2:42:23 AM
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I forgot I also have a 40GB hard disk. waiting your comments and thanks to all.
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Reply #2 January 30, 2003 2:42:52 AM
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WEll thatone is over my head but someone will Know.
I did read a comment from a wall paper artist that said he was using 2Gb ram so Alot of ram is probably good to have .
That is my comment.
good luck Kick some butt

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Reply #3 January 30, 2003 3:21:55 AM
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Including what the 3D peoples input is here I would take a look around at Renderosity also.
You might find some goo dinformation on each product you mention and more...
http://www.renderosity.com

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Reply #4 January 30, 2003 3:42:37 AM
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Yes.
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Reply #5 January 30, 2003 6:14:53 AM
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'nookie'?......

The more physical ram the better...manipulating large graphics with a paging file [HD ram...swap file]...can make you grow old before it finishes...
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Reply #6 January 30, 2003 6:19:38 AM
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Jafo, that was what I was wondering.. I thought Nookie was you know.. Like what the song Limp Bizket plays.

But I would say that you would need more Ram like Jafo said. And the file swap will need change also. You can do that under properties if you right click on My computer. Actually, the help file will tell you how to change that. Just type in File swap.
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Reply #7 January 30, 2003 6:29:17 AM
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7200 spin or faster second drive for 3D rendering
as much ram as you can stuff in that sucker

you do not want your swap drive to be the same for your graphics apps as it is for you XP or it also will drag your system down, though you might not notice it really with enough ram and such.



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Reply #8 January 30, 2003 9:26:29 AM
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First off 256 ram is the lowest you want to go with max 5 but as you have a p4 2ghz I would add much more to it as you get the money. As for your graphics card if you are going to use max alot I would switch your card to an ATI 64mb AGP slot, I tryed out many 32mb from pci to agp and blew a few of them up. I have most of the Adobe prog's and don't care much for them I use psp 6. I use both psp and max at the same time most of the time so I can change the maps as I need to and it sucks up alot of the mem. So add as much ram as you can and change from 32mb to 64mb AGP slot. I have much better luck with ATi but your choice.
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Reply #9 January 30, 2003 12:51:01 PM
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I would recommend doing a benchmark and seeing what score you get... www.madonion.com ... but this site is designed for gaming computers... although you are doing the same thing basically, 3d rendering, using the same resources...

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Reply #10 January 30, 2003 12:51:32 PM
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http://www.madonion.com <-- Link to MadOnion

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Reply #11 January 30, 2003 1:12:14 PM
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gaming bench would be a good thing

There are also graphics benchmarks on Ziff-Davis and I think



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Reply #12 January 30, 2003 2:28:08 PM
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TigerDirect is having a major sell on Ram.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/fp/email1.asp
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Reply #13 January 30, 2003 2:36:01 PM
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sounds like bragging to me

I run a celeron 500 gateway laptop. 228 MB RAM and a 6 gig drive.

My vid card is so poor, I can't run most games.

Maybe I should take donations to rebuild my desktop.
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Reply #14 January 30, 2003 7:41:06 PM
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Thanks a lot to all of you, But da_zman20 The page you give have a limited version of the PCmark program in the download section, do they have any option to run the program on-line without downloading and installing his limited version????

And again thanks to all for the cooperation, your comments are very useful to me at this moment
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