Scott Sexton & David Lewis wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this question has been posted and answered somewhere, but I
> have searched the postings and faqs and can find nothing on it.
> 
> I have a newish eMachine (low priced PC) with an AMD 333Mhz K2 that
> renders all my old povray scenes slower than my laptop with a 120Mhz
> Pentium (like 1/3 the speed rather than 3 times faster, as I would think
> it should). This very slow rendering performance occurs under both the
> Win98 and Mandrake Linux 6.0 OS installations on the eMachine so it does
> not appear to be a OS or software installation problem to me. (Perhaps
> the K2's L2 cache? but the laptop is older and only has smallish
> processor cache anyway.)
> 
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.

What kind of memory do you have plugged into it?  If it's DRAM instead
of SDRAM, you're seeling yourself short.

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