> : These values may be slightly skewed singe I only ran each trace once, 
> : rather than running multiple times each time on a fresh reboot and 
> : averaging results
> 
>   The benchmarks of type "make a fresh boot, turn everything else off, give
> povray the highest possible priority, don't do ANYTHING else while it's
> rendering" are good for testing raw rendering speed of the processor.
>   However, they are usually of no much use for the average user. Well,
> they are useful when deciding which CPU to buy, but they don't give you
> a too realistic idea of how fast povray is in practice with that CPU. Usually
> people do other things while povray is rendering, make tens of even hundreds
> of renders without a clean boot in between and so on.

Sorry for the delay replying.

I agree that the numbers don't mean that much in practice, but I thought 
it might demonstrate the difference the various versions of POV make on 
at least one system used by a frequenter of these groups (i.e. Me. :)

Sadly, as I don't have a P4-1.7Ghz I can't do a CPU to CPU comparison, 
but I'm not going to complain since I seem to have gotten a Pretty damn 
fast box for not a lot of money (relatively speaking)

As far as other loads on the PC go whilst rendering, well, I usually only 
have Moray running at the same time as POV, and leave my machine alone to 
render (a holdover from my DOS dats) so i suspect I'm not an average user 
<grin>

Ah well, just thought the numbers might prove useful to somebody out 
there.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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