As far as I know, there are only two main improvements in the PIII chip
(somewhat higher frequency aside). It has the KNI (also called MMX II),
which is of no use to POV. And it has a larger on-chip L1 cache. I'm not
sure about the effect of this; but I do know that my Celeron, which has 4X
less L2 cache than a PII, is still as fast at POV as a PII at the same MHz.
So I'd guess the effect will not be too great (in POV)
And Intel had the "great" idea of this identification code in PIII... Big
Brother Inside.
Anyway, I'd wait for AMD's K7. It has somereally  impressive stats and is
probably much better value for your money (a lot of money in both cases)

Margus

Ken wrote in message <36B76076.759B0EB1@pacbell.net>...
/.../
>will get you no where. Of course if you can stand to wait
>a short while intel just release an announcement that
>their pentium III chip will be on the market soon.
>That will really help your rendering times.
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>tyl### [at] pacbellnet

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