Roland Vansteenkiste wrote:
> 
> Running POV which windows based system is the fastest  (AMD or P4)?

Depends on the clock speed. A 1.7GHz P4 is comparable to a 1.2GHz
Athlon.
See www.tabsnet.com for benchmarks.

> Using optimised code for both sysytems is the difference still the
> same?

I don't think I have seen a specific Athlon optimised compile, but since
the Athlon thrives fine on PIII optimised code, the difference is still
there. Again see www.tabsnet.com

> How many memory is recommended?

As much as your scenes need. Not more than 2GB, as that is the max that
POV can address.

> Is the HD-speed (5400 or 7200) an important factor?

In most cases: no. If your scenes takes a long time to parse, uses a lot
more memory, than you have RAM, but renders very fast, then it may be a
factor. 

In my experience, having to use disk swapping has more impact on the
parse time, than on the render time. I have a dual processor system, and
I once rendered a scene (Railway Station), that used 200 MB memory. I
wanted to render on both processors, and since I, at the time, only had
256 MB RAM, disk swapping was necessary. If I started the two renders at
the same time, the parse time increased dramatically. If I waited for
the first render to finish parsing, before I started the second, neither
parse time nor render time increased much, as compared to a solo render.
(This is under Win NT 4.0)

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