Matt Swarm wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I seem to recall some discussion somewhere comparing rendering times of
> skyvase.pov as a sort of hardware benchmark (It DOES take 100% of my OS/CPU
> resources, according to Win98 System Monitor.)
>
> 640x480 No AA
>
> Using a 400 Celeron overclocked to 500, 83 MHz bus, I get skyvase times
> around 48-50 sec.    ...about 5 times faster than my 233MMX.
>
> Here's the rub: using TWO CPUs on motherboard, o/c to same 500 (let's hear a
> big Tool Time "GHz! Arr!  Arr!  Arr!" grunt), NT4.0 (only service pack 1 so
> far)  seeing both CPUs, times are no better- maybe even slightly slower.

Ummmm. Unless you grabbed the PVM patched version of POV-Ray, it should only
actually be using one of those.

NT4.0's overhead might explain a lot.

Running two instances should show you a lot.


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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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