best laptop for 3-d design max

raher1

what's the best laptop for auto desk 3 d design max? i will stick up 3 d design max syste
m requirements later.
Operating System1: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional operating system (SP3 or higher)2

For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz or equivalent AMD® processor with SSE2 technology3
2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
2 GB swap space (4 GB recommended)4
3 GB free hard drive space
Direct3D® 10 technology, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card5
512 MB or higher video card memory (1 GB or higher recommended)
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
DVD-ROM drive6
Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk® Subscription-aware access

Torqay

Well, the "best" laptop (or rather mobile workstation) for 3DS Max would ideally have a quad core i7 CPU w 8 MB L3 cache, sh*loads of memory, a certified business grade graphics card and will cost you north of 2.000 yoyos.

Consumer GPUs are not officialy certified but that doesn't mean they're not supported. Maybe you want to configure your own laptop at PC Specialist. The Optimus IV (15.6 or 17.3") with full HD display, a Core i7 3610QM, a GTX 660M and 8 GB RAM will cost you less than a grand.

Yakuza42

+1 on the above reply. 3DS Max Design will utilize Nvidia's CUDA technology to accelerate graphics processing and rendering. While it is true that both the consumer cards and the workstation class cards have CUDA cores; due to Nvidia's drivers locking 3DS Max from using the consumer CUDA cores, you wont get the same graphics performance boost as you would with a workstation card. The trade-off with the Quadro (workstation) cards is they are quite expensive. A 1GB Nvidia consumer card costs around 100 euro whereas its mobile workstation equivalent may costs around 400 - 500. I'm not to sure on the mobile workstation cards as the last time I was purchasing it was for a desktop but I would recommend pushing your budget to get a 1GB workstation card as it will make all the difference to your workflow.

raher1

getting a dual core work station.its hp,second hand.its the world we live in.

freelancerTax

Yakuza42 wrote: »

+1 on the above reply. 3DS Max Design will utilize Nvidia's CUDA technology to accelerate graphics processing and rendering. While it is true that both the consumer cards and the workstation class cards have CUDA cores; due to Nvidia's drivers locking 3DS Max from using the consumer CUDA cores, you wont get the same graphics performance boost as you would with a workstation card. The trade-off with the Quadro (workstation) cards is they are quite expensive. A 1GB Nvidia consumer card costs around 100 euro whereas its mobile workstation equivalent may costs around 400 - 500. I'm not to sure on the mobile workstation cards as the last time I was purchasing it was for a desktop but I would recommend pushing your budget to get a 1GB workstation card as it will make all the difference to your workflow.

this is not true - there is very little difference between quatro and and consumer level gamming cards these days - one of the differences is better driver and application specific driver support - gaming cards WILL use cuda to accelerate viewport display as well as iray rendering in 3dsmax with gaming cards - i know this becuase im using one. in my experience having worked in the 3d industry for the last 10 years is that quatro are not worth the money and in some case give worse real world performance than the cheap gaming cards....

Chris_Heilong

there are some nice examples on http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

I am in the same boat and am looking to buy something good for my max work, I have gotten by with my dell inspiron 9400 for a good number of years but it is completed outdated now. You should be looking for at least 8 Gb of Ram a dedicated graphics card and an i7 core cpu.

raher1

If ur using for home use. Download the 32 bit one. It's heavy on ram processing.