It's cool...we were all newbs at some point 

I guess it depends on your machine, but most would say no.  I tried cudaminer today on my laptop with a 770m and got 151kh/s with autotune.  A far cry from my 7950, but still good to know just in case...

I'm pretty sure Maxcoin will be CPU only, at least at first

What kind of specs are you running?