Actually, POV depends pretty much on raw MHz. AMD's FPU might be a factor, but I
don't think the classic Pentium has a much better unit. Perhaps something
radical has been done in the BIOS, like turning off all processor caches. I
cannot think of any peripheral that could slow down POV by a significant amount.
How is the overall system performance? Does it swap a lot? Also, could you give
a benchmark time for POV (e.g. skyvase.pov @ 640x480 AA 0.3)

Margus

Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   The MHz amount tells very little about the real speed of the computer.
>   I remember that some time ago a friend of mine had a 486DX4 overclocked
> to 120MHz but it was a lot slower (in games, demos, etc) than my
> 486DX2 66MHz. The reason was that he had an ISA video card while I had a
> VLB one. It's incredible how a slow video card can slow down a twice faster
> computer so much.
> 
>   Of course the problem in your case can't be the video card, but the point
> is that the MHz amount can be very misleading. Some poor component can make
> the computer slower than other with half of MHz's.
>   Perhaps you have a slow component slowing down the whole thing.
>   Also I think that AMD has a quite slow FPU.
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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