Jamie Davison <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote:
: Before, it took 8 minutes 19 seconds to render Skyvase.pov at 1280x1024 
: AA0.3 from the standard Quickres.ini file.

: It just took my new system 1 minute 9 seconds at the same res and 
: settings...

: I knew my new box was going to be quicker, but I wasn't quite expecting 
: it to be *that* much quicker.

  I made recently a similar upgrade (P-II 350MHz -> AMD 1.2GHz) and yes,
the rendering speedup is much larger than the MHz increment.
  Of course this can be explained with the better CPU (less clocks per
instruction), faster memory, faster bus and faster everything.
  (This is why the MHz amount is a poor speed meter.)

: Of course the major downside to upgrading the box is that it has taken me 
: the best part of 8 hours to rebuild the system to this point, and it's 
: probably only about 2/3 of the way to having all my software back on.

: <sigh>  ah well, back to installing stuff.

  I had luck. I am quite surprised how well my Win98 survived such a big
hardware change. I didn't have to reinstall anything (I just had to install
drivers for the new hardware).

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