I don't have a problem to ask about....which is a nice change...lol. Everyone on here seems pretty cool so I have a question for y'all. What kind of computer setup do you have and what programs do you use? And I guess it would be best that only people who are happy with their setup respond....lol. I have idea's of where I want to go with my artwork in the future, but it is a pretty broad spectrum and there is a lot of different programs out there. I'm also interested to know what your render times are like for complex scenes, based on your hardware. Thanks in advance!! P.S. My setup is: PowerMac G5, 1.6Ghz single proc, 1.5GB DDR333 Running OSX 10.2.8 Apple 20 inch Cinema Display Vue d'Esprit 4.1

Hmmm... Athlon 2000+, 512mb DDR Windows XP Pro SP1 19" monitor (res 1280x960) and... Intel 2.4, 768mb DDR Windows XP Pro SP1 19" monitor (res 1280x960) Graphics Apps... Vue D'Esprit 4.2 Bryce 5 Poser 4 Terragen LDraw/MLCad/POV Zbrush 2 T.

Heheehehheeee.... I really need to boiler-plate this... Athlon 64 3000+ GIgabyte K8VNXP mobo. 1.5 gig PC-3200 DDR ram Win2k SP2 XP2k lite 1.2 EVGA Geforce 4 TI-4400, latest drivers 540 gigs across 5 HDD (4 PATA, 1 SATA) Sony DVD-+ burner 19" Envision CRT monitor (usually 1024x768; increases as needed) Graphics Apps: Poser 4 & 5 Vue4.22 VuePro 4.53 Truespace 5.5 Mimic 2 Pro Bryce 5 Shade 7 basic demo PSP 8 Photoshop LE Cinema 4D CE 6 Adobe Premiere 6.0 Currently checking out the Particle Illusion 3 demo Lots of little apps like the UTC, RTEncoder, UVMapper, Mover 101, Morph Manager, etc. Render times are what I would call 'quick'; the fastest box in my rendergarden has an Athlon 2500+ in it, and the Athlon 64 does a frame in a distributed at least half again as fast (by the time my fastest satellite box has done 2 frames, the main box has done at least 3, and may be chewing on #4).

Well... I left out the DVD burner(s) on my systems - and the other grafix apps that I've got installed but not become even vaguely proficient in... ner! Not tried "farming" myself - I'm not as into the whole grafix thing as some others - I'm just a dabbler...lol! T.

Windows XP Pro CPU (type & freq.): P4 2.4 mghz RAM & HD space: 1.00 GB of Ram 80gig HD space Video board: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 Desktop resolution: 1024x768 Color depth: 32 bits (millions of colors) :O) This might be good info to have some how linked to each user name it could be very helpful.

Interesting see what is being used. My computer is as follows. Windows XP Home Computer: P4 3.0 with 1 gig ram Total HD 230gig across three drives Duel monitors: 19" monitor and 17" second monitor Video Nvidia FX5700 Colour 32bit 1280x960 one main monitor DVD burner Wacom Tablet Graphics Apps: Paint shop Pro 6 Vue d'Esprit 4.2 Carrara 3 Poser 4 daz Studio Project Dogwaffle Particle Illusion SE Canvas 7

Windows 98---EK! I know. IBM thinkpad... Intel Pentium II Graphics App: Vue d'Esprite Photoshop FE

Stock system...... Mac 1.8 Duel G5, Gig Ram GeForce FX 5200 (64 meg AGP),Maxtor 160 Gig ATA Drive Add On's..... Radeon 7000 (PCI 64 meg Flashed PC card),19" and 17 " CRT monitor, , Kensington Expert Mouse (I Highly recommend everyone get a trac ball.. much better than a regular mouse) Software...... Carrara 3 Vue D'esprit Poser 5 Maya PLE Painter5 (need to update) Photoshop (elements also which I use for most of the simple stuff) MacGimp (don't use much.. works great.. just very confusing, and kinda a pain to run/install) Ilife (Iphoto, Itunes, IMovie, IDVD,GarageBand, Beleive it or not, they are all very useful) and just for the fun of it I'll add unrelated software.... Thunderbird (Mozilla e-mail cliet) Camino (Mozilla Web Browser for OSX) UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003!!! WEEEE just to kill things LOL Halo.. more killing.. err i mean stress relief :0 Epson 84c printer (not bad for a cheap inkjet, far better than anything in it's price range) HP laserJet 5MP (much cheaper to run text.. had this thing for about 10 years.. $60-$80 a toner cart, but i have only put one in every 3 yrs or so...do the math :0 ) Ical (calander program with OSX.. I use it for work hours etc, great for a freebee) Ichat (better chat program than any i have seen for mac or PC) all kinds of internet/network/firewall crap well enough from me Thomas :)