6800U or X800 XT

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.

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# 1 01-03-2005 , 01:27 AM

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Join Date: May 2004

Posts: 6

I'm looking to upgrade my video card and need some input.

I basicaly want to go all out so it's beetween the GF 6800U
and the ATI X800 XT PE.

Most places I checked out are recommanding the 6800U. But
there are a few things that bugs me about that card. It's
noisy and lacks VIVO, two things I won't need to worry about
if I go with the route X800.

To my knowledge, no one complained about issues beetween
Maya amd the X800 cards.

If anyone here has experience with that card, let me know. I'm
looking to order sometimes tomorow or latest Wedsnesday!

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# 2 02-03-2005 , 06:05 AM

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Join Date: Dec 2004

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I have issues with the X800XT PE and Maya,

if you use High Quality Shading or whatever the option is it goes psycho on your ass.

also, If you want to use linux you can forget about hardware acceleration.

I love the card, but I wish that i'd gone the nVidia route, I want to go to linux but ATI make the worst drivers possible, making Fedora inoperable (it doesn't load X, just black screen), and use of Cedega or anything that uses graphics in Slackware or other Distros impossible.

but if you're in the windows world, and you dont need or what to use high quality stuff then I reccomend the X800XT, the card is an uber god of raw power user added image