Hi(gh)!

With an ageing AMD FX-6200 hexa-core crashing every few hours, I'm 
contemplating a major hardware upgrade! Possibly, the crashes result 
just from a power supply too weak (450 watts) for my recently installed 
new graphics adapter (Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti), then the issue could 
be fixed for less than 100 euros. If mainboard and/or CPU are wrecked, 
it might be somewhat more expensive (an AM3+ socket mainboard plus a 
slightly faster hexacore CPU - an AMD FX-6350 clocking at 3.9 GHz would 
be about 180 euros, with the flawlessly working DDR4-1333 RAM bars still 
being usable). However, as my loved one is ready to spend even more 
money for my computer upgrade, I really would like to how to get the 
highest POV-Ray performance per euro and/or per watt of power 
consumption... are there any reliable benchmark lists for current CPUs?

I've seen those Intel 2600s socket board capable of managing up to 128 
GiB of RAM (which would give Khyberspace and POVEarth a serious 
boost!)...and matching 18-core high end CPUs (which probably would be 
too expensive even for Micha), and running such a beast would really be 
tempting... but how fast are they really?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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