I am building a new PC for rendering images with POVRay. I am working on a
project that will require a lot of images. I have already done the work but
I still need to render. Due to the complexity of the images each image takes
over a day to render, so  speed is important.

The problem is my budget.

Question, for the Windows version of POVRay has anybody done a benchmark
comparison of how fast images render with the Althon XP processor with 133
sdram versus DRR 2100?

I know the DDR is faster but I have heard that streaming applications (not
computative intensive ones) are the big winners.

I guess that I really want to know if it would be worth the money to upgrade
to the DDR memory if my other choice were to upgrade to a 1800 or 1900
Althon (assuming that I could not afford to do both).

I have looked at some POVRay bench mark sites but they do not distinguish
sdram/DDR in an apples to apples comparison.

Thanks for any help.

Kirk

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