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mareks
09-03-2006, 06:45 AM
Hello
I have a quick question.
I want to make sure I understand something correctly. As far as designing/rendering a model/scene/animation (using whichever 3D software) the type of hardware you have will not make any difference on quality of model/scene/animation (as far as the look goes). It will only help having better hardware to cut down time that it takes to render model/scene/animation.
I am correct in saying this? or am I off base.

Reason I asked is, I want to know if I should upgrade my PC or not.

I have a Abit AN8 mobo, AMD 4000+ 939 socket CPU, 2GB of Corsair RAM (matched RAM), RAID 0 of TWO 250GB HDs, Geforce 7800GT 256MB video card.

Thank you for any feedback.
Mark
imashination
09-03-2006, 02:44 PM
If your pictures look like crap, you can't blame the computer, no ;-) It will look 99.5% identical on all hardware. The only possible excuse is a bad monitor.
tecton3d
09-03-2006, 04:44 PM
garbage in = garbage out ... no matter what kind of machine you're sitting next to:beer:
mareks
09-03-2006, 07:18 PM
Very well, this is what i was looking for.
I just wanted to make sure I do not need to shell out ton of $$$ for a nice Boxx before I start the class that i am taking for 3D designs.

Thank you. I will focus on designing "non-garbage" art.

Thank you very much.
Mark
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