One last note:

After doing several test renders with the optimized POVRay3.1g from the
website below it looks like parsing improves by about 400% and rendering
improves by 20% to 25%, I didn't do a detailed measurement.

Kirk

"Kirk Hubbell" <kir### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:3c1ff1e7@news.povray.org...
> Thanks for all of the dialogue. I have also been asking others and the
> consensus seems to be that more processing power will  bring the biggest
> bang for the buck although there could be some improvement with faster
> memory. I'll probably go with an 1800+ and overclock it a bit and save the
> money for DDR and go with sdram 133.
>
> Now my most exciting discovery ... in the midst of this discussion (and
> others that I have been having) I stumbled on a web page that hosts a
> benchmark and a recompiled version of POVRay 3.1g that is optimized for
the
> PIII and Athlon, it was done as an experiment. I took a low resolution
> render of one of my images (160X120 no AA) and rendered it. Standard
POVRay
> 3.1g took 15 min and 47 sec. With the code optimized it took 4 min and 0
> sec. I was astounded. Combining this with a faster processor, I think
there
> will be a great improvement.
>
> Now, because of the complexity of the image, most of the time saved with
the
> optimized POV engine was in the parsing. I'll let you know an approximated
> time savings after I render a few of the pictures at full resolution where
> most of the time saved will be in actual rendering.
>
> For those interested in the site, it is located at:
>
> http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/
>
> Kirk
>
> "Kirk Hubbell" <kir### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:3c1ea50e@news.povray.org...
> > 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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