GRAPHICS CARD

[ginryin]

Hey Mayains,

I have a Dell 2400 which is good for Graphics, I'm using MAYA 7 and AFTER EFFECTS 7, my graphics card dos not support shading...

Can anyone Reccomend a good graphics card that will support heavy rendering - I know VOODOO makes some great cards and
ATI...

Any info would be great....tahnks ;)

[CGmaniak]

I think a 3Dlabs Wild Cat series is one of the best for this, they always made hardware for profesionals.BUT IT IS NOT CHEAP :frown:

[PeterV]

Hey Mayains,

I have a Dell 2400 which is good for Graphics, I'm using MAYA 7 and AFTER EFFECTS 7, my graphics card dos not support shading...

Can anyone Reccomend a good graphics card that will support heavy rendering - I know VOODOO makes some great cards and
ATI...

Any info would be great....tahnks ;)

I have an ATI and I think it's crap when it comes to Maya, I would go with a Nvidia or like maniak said.

[Fatal_Films]

ATI crap when it comes to maya?
you obviously havent got the ATI FIRE GL...
You got a commercial ATI card?

[PeterV]

ATI crap when it comes to maya?
you obviously havent got the ATI FIRE GL...
You got a commercial ATI card?

You're correct! I meant to mention that and I forgot about the Fire Gl, I've read good things about it.
I jumped the gun! Good point!

pete

[Fatal_Films]

Fire GL, Great Card...
the quadro monopolizing days are over...
hehe...

-Regards

[Jak_Carver]

Nvidia is your best bet. 3dLabs is good, but overpriced, some Nvidia cards that are half it's price are of equal quality and sometimes even surpass it when it comes to performance and functionality. Quadros are good, but like the 3dLabs they are overpriced. You can do good with a 7800 series card and save alot of money while getting the performance of a Quadro 3450. ATI is just horrible, great hardware but incompetent drivers and support; this tend to cause serious issues like strange artifacting while working in OpenGL intensive environments like Maya, XSI, etc. Good luck on your purchase and I hope you get a card that works fine for you.

[ginryin]

I think a 3Dlabs Wild Cat series is one of the best for this, they always made hardware for profesionals.BUT IT IS NOT CHEAP :frown:


I had to thank you for that great info man...Thanks.

[ginryin]

I have an ATI and I think it's crap when it comes to Maya, I would go with a Nvidia or like maniak said.


Just saying thank you, for that info...

[ginryin]

ATI crap when it comes to maya?
you obviously havent got the ATI FIRE GL...
You got a commercial ATI card?


I also wanted to thank you for your info...just great. :headbang:

[ginryin]

Nvidia is your best bet. 3dLabs is good, but overpriced, some Nvidia cards that are half it's price are of equal quality and sometimes even surpass it when it comes to performance and functionality. Quadros are good, but like the 3dLabs they are overpriced. You can do good with a 7800 series card and save alot of money while getting the performance of a Quadro 3450. ATI is just horrible, great hardware but incompetent drivers and support; this tend to cause serious issues like strange artifacting while working in OpenGL intensive environments like Maya, XSI, etc. Good luck on your purchase and I hope you get a card that works fine for you.

Hey, I could not thank you enough for the help... :headbang:

[cosky25]

It's important to note that the highend Nvidia Quadro cards are the only cards on Maya's certified list that do not have any issues. Just about everything else has an annoying problem or two. Quadro cards are VERY expensive. The top end cards will cost you around 2000$ or so. They are expensive due to low demand and their very high level of computational accuracy. The Nvidia game cards are cheaper, faster, but less accurate and don't have all the features that the quadros have.

If you are into:
Realtime graphics programing
Hardware based particle systems
Highend realtime display of your scenes
Very large scene files (movie quality stuff)
Good responsivness with millions of Polys
Heavy animation scenes that need good realtime responsivness
High level of measurment accuracy

Then you should buy a Quadro card.

For most people a highend nvidia game card will allow you to do what you need to do.

[jbunger72]

I pesonally use a nvida 5500 oc 256mb and maya 6 and photoshop and They work very well together. just adding to the comments on nvida. very good my reccomend 512 or 1gb for massive render scenesor large animations. don't forget ram thats your workspace not enough and you can still crash.

[ginryin]

I pesonally use a nvida 5500 oc 256mb and maya 6 and photoshop and They work very well together. just adding to the comments on nvida. very good my reccomend 512 or 1gb for massive render scenesor large animations. don't forget ram thats your workspace not enough and you can still crash.



You have saved me a lot of trouble, thank you so much... :headbang:

[ginryin]

It's important to note that the highend Nvidia Quadro cards are the only cards on Maya's certified list that do not have any issues. Just about everything else has an annoying problem or two. Quadro cards are VERY expensive. The top end cards will cost you around 2000$ or so. They are expensive due to low demand and their very high level of computational accuracy. The Nvidia game cards are cheaper, faster, but less accurate and don't have all the features that the quadros have.

If you are into:
Realtime graphics programing
Hardware based particle systems
Highend realtime display of your scenes
Very large scene files (movie quality stuff)
Good responsivness with millions of Polys
Heavy animation scenes that need good realtime responsivness
High level of measurment accuracy

Then you should buy a Quadro card.

For most people a highend nvidia game card will allow you to do what you need to do.

Great information, thanks a lot. :headbang:

[ckpepper02]

Yeah thanks! i'm having the same problem. May be a dumb question, but can you change the graphics card in a laptop??

PS- sorry to threadjack.

[danlefeb]

Its possible, depending on your model. Its just a lot more difficult than on a notebook than on a desktop and therefore wouldn't be recommended unless you feel 100% sure that you can do so without messing anything else up. :)