Computer to run Maya

[mayauser]

Hello. I am looking to purchase a PC that will be able to run Autodesk Maya at optimum standards, but am very confused. Not so much the hardware issues, but that there is so much to choose from.

Can someone help me out? I know for sure that I would need 4GB of RAM, and powerful gpu and cpu.

Also, I found this site: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php?page=form&&select=intel3

This seems to dumb it down a bit... Can someone please offer me the best recommendations?

Thanks.

[oracleguy]

Here are the system requirements for it: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639522

Those are what is required at a minimum, I don't know what would be needed to run it at the level you desire. You should consider contacting Autodesk, they would be able to tell you.

[kokjj87]

3 years ago i was running maya 8 with 2gb of ram/512mb graphics/dual core 1.83ghz laptop was fine, i don't know about now..

Anyway, if i was you i won't go for vista on a maya machine as it will be wasting a lot of cpu cycle, memory on it.. windows xp is the way to go. Since you are getting a 64 bit machine, take advantage of that add more ram to it as they are cheap right now.

[oracleguy]

If you are going to put 4 or more gigabytes of memory in the machine, make sure you are running a 64-bit operating system. There is a 64-bit version of XP and Vista or if you go the Linux route, there is 64-bit Linux.