Recent content by mumpay

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    Building Desktop for 3ds max / maya

    It had all arrived a few weeks ago, I was waiting on some software upgrades I had purchased seperately later on. Now everything's installed and it's working beautifully. It's running XP 64. It loads 3ds max in at most 1/4 the speed as my old computer, really probably much faster than that, even...
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    Building Desktop for 3ds max / maya

    good call, i took your suggestion on both the mobo and graphics. i looked in to it and couldnt find anything about softmodding the 9800 just yet, but i can imagine it'll come out sooner or later. I did not like how that HD4850 overheats either. the final lineup (thank you again all for your...
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    Building Desktop for 3ds max / maya

    oh my gosh THANK you so much! oh wow, you're such a huge help, this is so helpful! ya i'll definetly go for 8gb ddr2 on 64 bit. good call, thanks for the link to ncix on a good make, ill get that ram. for the motherboard, that one you sent is good, but reading a few reviews about the p35...
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    Building Desktop for 3ds max / maya

    ya i won't be SLI'ing. just one graphics card for me here. :) I think I do want DDR3 though, I mean the 4gb of it is cheap enough, versus 8gb ddr2... ive been searching for a different motherboard all day, i'm in a jumble of links from using http://www.shopbot.ca/ (nice list of canadian...
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    Building Desktop for 3ds max / maya

    Beauty, let me look in to what ncix and tiger have in the way of a lower mobo, I dont think I'll be doing SLI any time soon. thanks! As for the grahpics cards, I've been all over the map and am still on the fence. I would prefer nvidia because it seems to be stronger for 3dsmax and maya...
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    Building Desktop for 3ds max / maya

    Hi all! My friend and I are building a desktop for me, I'm going in to a 1 year program for 3D modelling and visual effects. This took a lot of research, and for that reason we'd love to get some more experienced input (here!). canadian prices, canadian suppliers (tigerDirect and Ncix) :)...