YUS! If your gonna use maya, you better have one hell of a good PC.
Maya is like, made for high poly, and if you are doing high poly models
[over 50k] you will proablly need a nice computer so it doesn't freeze
up. If i got over 300k in max and try to rotate, it locks up for like 5
mins XD. So, good luck.
And yea, like Gir said, I use 3D Studio Max. Spanks for all the comments.