Hello everybody! I took my computer apart and hacked it back together
yesterday and early today. My Pentium 133 w/64MB is now my PentiumII 400
w/128MB SDRAM dream-machine!!! I could not believe the increase in the
rendering speed (POV being the 1st program i installed :)

Now I can complete the projects i could only dream of. You just wait!
I'll be back soon with really great stuff! =)

--
Anthony L. Bennett
http://welcome.to/TonyB

(Can someone tell me what Jar-Jar is saying?)

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TonyB wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody! I took my computer apart and hacked it back together
> yesterday and early today. My Pentium 133 w/64MB is now my PentiumII 400
> w/128MB SDRAM dream-machine!!! I could not believe the increase in the
> rendering speed (POV being the 1st program i installed :)
> 
> Now I can complete the projects i could only dream of. You just wait!
> I'll be back soon with really great stuff! =)
> 
> --
> Anthony L. Bennett
> http://welcome.to/TonyB
> 
> (Can someone tell me what Jar-Jar is saying?)

I guess you'll find the increase in speed incredible, the increase in
possibilities for your images minimal :-) You'll be able to render much faster,
so you'll soon start thinking of things that need a lot of speed and you'll be
back where you started: waiting for a render to finish.
I upgraded my system from 64 to 256 Mb RAM. The first thing I did was render an
image I had wanted to render if only I had more memory. The result was a
blue-screen out of memory message 8-)
On the other hand: an upgrade feels great anyway, you should give your sustem an
appropriate name (I did - untranslatable).
Have fun and let's see some results!!!

Remco

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What a cynic!   :)

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Jim

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It'll blow your mind (politically), stimulate your senses (artistically)
and provide scientific insights that boggle the mind!!


Remco de Korte wrote in message <37473A79.B79AE442@xs4all.nl>...
>TonyB wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody! I took my computer apart and hacked it back together
>> yesterday and early today. My Pentium 133 w/64MB is now my PentiumII 400
>> w/128MB SDRAM dream-machine!!! I could not believe the increase in the
>> rendering speed (POV being the 1st program i installed :)
>>
>> Now I can complete the projects i could only dream of. You just wait!
>> I'll be back soon with really great stuff! =)
>>
>> --
>> Anthony L. Bennett
>> http://welcome.to/TonyB
>>
>> (Can someone tell me what Jar-Jar is saying?)
>
>I guess you'll find the increase in speed incredible, the increase in
>possibilities for your images minimal :-) You'll be able to render much
faster,
>so you'll soon start thinking of things that need a lot of speed and you'll
be
>back where you started: waiting for a render to finish.
>I upgraded my system from 64 to 256 Mb RAM. The first thing I did was
render an
>image I had wanted to render if only I had more memory. The result was a
>blue-screen out of memory message 8-)
>On the other hand: an upgrade feels great anyway, you should give your
sustem an
>appropriate name (I did - untranslatable).
>Have fun and let's see some results!!!
>
>Remco

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On Sun, 23 May 1999 01:15:05 +0200, Remco de Korte
<rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote:

<snip>
>On the other hand: an upgrade feels great anyway, you should give your sustem an
>appropriate name (I did - untranslatable).
>Have fun and let's see some results!!!
>
>Remco

Mine is called "Bozo" under Linux and "Ken" under windos (no kidding).
I named it after two furry hedgehog toys that I had for my b-day. Of
course, I named the toys, too :)

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Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700

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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 23 May 1999 01:15:05 +0200, Remco de Korte
> <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> >On the other hand: an upgrade feels great anyway, you should give your sustem an
> >appropriate name (I did - untranslatable).
> >Have fun and let's see some results!!!
> >
> >Remco
> 
> Mine is called "Bozo" under Linux and "Ken" under windos (no kidding).
> I named it after two furry hedgehog toys that I had for my b-day. Of
> course, I named the toys, too :)
> 
Well, "Ken" seems appropriate to me. You deleted the help-files I suppose?

I said mine was untranslatable, but I'll give it a try. I was so happy with it,
that I decided to install nothing more then Windows, a zipper and Povray on it
and I called it "Rekenbeest" which is something like "Calc-Beast" or
"CompuBeast". Seems funny now, since it's "only" 333Mhz (or something
thereabouts) with 192Mb.
Still, it works, and a "clean" system is something I wanted ever since I started
using Windows 8-) (I guess I'll have to try Unix for that, which I'm seriously
considering).

Greetings,

Remco 
the cynic 
perhaps I should try a nick like Xynix (which is even nicer for Dutch speakers)

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Remco de Korte <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
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> I called it "Rekenbeest" which is something like "Calc-Beast" or
> "CompuBeast".

    I wonder if 'reken' is the root of 'reckon', like "I reckon there's
about 30 more hours of rendering" or " I reckon I better get me a cup of
coffee while that thing's running".

Seat of the pants reckoning
Dead reckoning
Reconnoitering

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Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> Remco de Korte <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
> news:374807DD.1C8F9DC1@xs4all.nl...
> > I called it "Rekenbeest" which is something like "Calc-Beast" or
> > "CompuBeast".
> 
>     I wonder if 'reken' is the root of 'reckon', like "I reckon there's
> about 30 more hours of rendering" or " I reckon I better get me a cup of
> coffee while that thing's running".
> 
> Seat of the pants reckoning
> Dead reckoning
> Reconnoitering

It's (probably) related. "Rekenen" (the full verb) is dutch for calculus (at
school), or is it arithmatic?

Xy-nick-s

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That's nothing. I went straight from 486/100/16 to PII/418/64 :)
~15X speed increase! I was in heaven. Now I'm back to earth. Renders still
take forever. They always will.
Wouldn't want to go back to my old system, tho...

Margus

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Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> That's nothing. I went straight from 486/100/16 to PII/418/64 :)
> ~15X speed increase! I was in heaven. Now I'm back to earth. Renders still
> take forever. They always will.
> Wouldn't want to go back to my old system, tho...
> 
> Margus

  I went from an 8088 4 mhz straight to the Cyrix 486 80 mhz. mentioned
below. Talk about blazing speed difference.

  I have a Cyrix 486 dx2 80 set up for the wife to do word processing
with. Everytime I have to do maintenence on it the speed of the system
drives me nuts. I have it loaded with a clean install of Win 3.1 and
Word 6 for windows and that is all - but man o' man is it slooooooow.

 It was also very slow when I was using it for rendering Pov 2.2 scenes
but it didn't seem so slow when it was the fastest system I ever owned.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Margus Ramst wrote in message <3748a374.0@news.povray.org>...
>That's nothing. I went straight from 486/100/16 to PII/418/64 :)
>~15X speed increase! I was in heaven. Now I'm back to earth. Renders still
>take forever. They always will.
>Wouldn't want to go back to my old system, tho...


486SX 33 to 400Mhz P-II -- about a 60x speed increase, not counting the
additional memory (from 8MB to 128MB) and disk space (250MB to 12 GB).

Mark

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