The kindly Rev. overheard "Michael Brown"
<emb### [at] i4freeDELETETHISconz> saying on 26 Jan 2001: 

>This is an interesting benchmark of pure FPU grunt. Is there any
>site that collects these results? If not, I think it'd be a great
>idea. 
>
>Summary of systems (best viewed with a fixed width font :):
>
>| CPU         | RAM | Time | PPSPMHZ* |
>|-------------|-----|------|----------|
>| Athlon 950  | ??? |   56 |   14.78  |
>| Athlon 1200 | 128 |   49 |   13.37  |
>| Athlon 800  | 128 |   77 |   12.77  |
>| P3 800      | 256 |   77 |   12.77  |
>| G3 350      | 128 |  188 |   11.95  |
>| Celeron 400 | 192 |  168 |   11.70  |
>| P 200 MMX   | ??? |  540 |    7.28  |
>| K6-2 400    | 192 |  400 |    4.92  |
>| ???         | ??? |  699 |     ???  |
>|-------------|-----|------|----------|

Hmmmmm.  Better tweak my motherboard, I think.  10.2613 PPSPMHZ on my 
1.2 GHz Athlon that just arrived. 11.15 with the VC6 engine.

Still, 23 (VC6 engine) or 25 seconds (original engine) on POVBench with 
my antivirus, ZoneAlarm, WebWasher, Winamp Agent, etc., etc., all 
running makes a somewhat nicer environment for raytracing than my 5-
year-old P133 which runs the skyvase POVBench in... hang on, it's still 
running... almost done... zzzzzz... huh?... oh yeah, where was I?...  
458 seconds!

OMG!  It runs the POVBench 18.32 times faster!  Maybe I'll leave that 
mobo alone.

Anybody wondering about the paucity of my output in p.b.i had better 
hang on to their hats.

FYI, the new box has got 512MB SDRAM, two 45GB 7200RPM IBM disks 
configured as RAID0 running through a Promise Ultra ATA100 onto an Asus 
AK74-EC motherboard, stuffed (along with a VisionTek GeForce 2 Ultra 
board, a Soundblaster Live Platinum, a Pioneer DVD-ROM, a TDK CD-ROM 
burner, and a Linksys 10/100 network card) into a SuperMicro SC750a 
case with 4 case fans.  Alas, using an external BitSurfr Pro to 
connect, since the ^*#*$&s at the phone company and the cable company 
haven't got broadband to my neighborhood yet.  Runs Windows ME, which I 
semi-hate.  Bose speakers, Sony Trinitron monitor, Logitech wireless 
keyboard and mouse.

Sorry for all the bragging.  But just once before I die I wanted to 
have the best computer in my neighborhood.  Er, best until April, when 
they start shipping the new Microns.  Fame is fleeting.  But I can live 
with that.

Haven't overclocked the CPU or video card.  Yet.  The next upgrade, 
when memory prices have fallen from their present absurd level (and my 
wallet has recovered from this absurd expenditure), is another 
motherboard and DDR SDRAM.  So my chances of having the best computer 
on my street are sunk if any of my neighbors has way too much money.  
US$350 for 128MB?????

My only excuse for my current exercise in wretched excess is that I 
haven't bought a new PC since November of 1995.

However, I believe I'm about to become a raytracer!

Other renders:

fish13      48
drums      145
ionic5      33
teapot2     82
teapot3     87
teapot4    123
ntreal      68
piece2     226
piece3      36
teapot      13
chess2     613
desk        21
diffract    41
float5      19
lamppost    89
mist        28
mtmand      19
quilt1     100
skyvase     35
sombrero    28
sunsethf    64
swirlbox    29
wg6        110
whiltile   136
woodbox     51

All done 800x600 0.3AA, .bmp output, original povengine.exe, watching 
the render, Opera and Xnews running.
-- 
Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
crispen at hiwaay dot net

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try
orderin' somebody else's dog around.

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