> > Skyvase on the 200 was 4m36s on the 950 it's 20sec..
> 
> Huh?
> 
> What have I done wrong?
> I installed a Athlon 1.4GHz (512MB DDR RAM) last month and it's
> "still" 20 seconds.

Are you running the same compile?

Try the benchmark at www.tabsnet.de, and see how your Athlon compares to
the other in the list.

/Ib

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> Are you running the same compile?

it's 3.1g.msvc.win32 [Pentium II optimized]
which one do you recommend?

> Try the benchmark at www.tabsnet.de, and see how your Athlon
compares to
> the other in the list.

there's the 1.4 with somewhat 4:31 - i get 6:55

Is there a difference between Athlon and Athlon TBird? I thought
they were the same - if not, that may explain something.

cukk

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KalleK <kal### [at] gmxde> wrote:
: I installed a Athlon 1.4GHz (512MB DDR RAM) last month and it's
: "still" 20 seconds.

  Check that your processor is really running at 1.4GHz and not at 900MHz.
You can do this for example with the DirectX diagnostic tool. If you have
it installed properly, it sould be found under
Start/Settings/Control Panel/DirectX/DxDiag... It opens a dialog where,
among other things, it tells your processor type and its clock speed.
Check that it says "~1400MHz".

  There's a problem with some bioses which detect wrongly the clock speed
of the Athlon processor. If this is the case, you have to set the right
speed by hand from bios.
  I know this because it happened to me.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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> Is there a difference between Athlon and Athlon TBird? I thought
> they were the same - if not, that may explain something.

What OS are you using, and what other things have you got running in 
the background?

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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I tried the P4 optimization with my P4 1.4 ghz and it gave some really weird
results on skyvase.pov. Did that happen to anyone else? The P3 optimized
version worked fine.


"Tilly" <web### [at] tabsnetde> wrote in message
news:3b8e8393$1@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> there is a new (second), unofficial Version of POVRAY at
> http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/ for download. This Version is
> optimized (with support from Intel) for PIII/Athlon and P4. And I'm deeply
> impressed how immense the difference of rendertime between the
non-optimized
> and the optimized code is.
>
> I use the POVRAY-File chess2.pov to compare CPU's at
http://www.tabsnet.com/
> since the Beginning of 2000. I hope, someone of you send me an Result of
an
> P4 running the new, optimized POVRAY-Version.
>
> Here are some results of my Computer.
> Rendertime in second with this Parameter :
> -d -q9 +w800 +h600 +b1000 +r3 +a0.300 +v1 +ft -ichess2.pov
>
>                                   Non-optimized  1'st optim.  2'nd optim.
> Athlon 1200 MHz       542 sec.             436 sec.     300 sec.
> Pentium III 667 MHz 1056 sec.            ----            689 sec.
>
> Tilly
>
>
>

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>   Check that your processor is really running at 1.4GHz and not
> at 900MHz.
> You can do this for example with the DirectX diagnostic tool.
> If you have it installed properly, it sould be found under
> Start/Settings/Control Panel/DirectX/DxDiag... It opens a
> dialog where, among other things, it tells your processor type
> and its clock speed.
> Check that it says "~1400MHz".
>
>   There's a problem with some bioses which detect wrongly the
> clock speed of the Athlon processor. If this is the case, you
> have to set the right speed by hand from bios.
>   I know this because it happened to me.

Well thank you, but it says:
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor, MMX, 3DNOW, ~1400MHz
:-/
The BIOS says 1400, too.
I'm down to  17sec, now - don't know why, but the msvc-compile
does 17~18sec now.
With the P3/Athlon optimized (from
http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/), I get 12 seconds,
but I thought Ken did not use this one with his Athlon 950, but
an official compile.

cukk

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> What OS are you using, and what other things have you got
> running in the background?

Well I tried with DOS 6.22 - I got 22 seconds
I tried Win98 - no other tasks were running, but a bunch of
processes (seen with Ctrl-Alt-Entf) - I killed nearly all of
them - it did not matter: all the time 20 seconds.
Somehow I get 17sec-18sec now, maybe because I updated my bios -
is 17sec normal for 1400?
(with Dos (watcom.3.1a) it's still 22 seconds.)

cukk

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KalleK <kal### [at] gmxde> wrote:
: I'm down to  17sec, now

  My 1.2GHz Athlon renders it in 18sec (didn't bother closing other programs
while rendering).
  I think 1.4GHz with DDR could render it faster (mine has only SDRAM; or
whatever it was called... I don't remember anymore).

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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> it's 3.1g.msvc.win32 [Pentium II optimized]
> which one do you recommend?

Get the new Pentium III optimized compile from
http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/ (the announcement of which,
started this thread).

> there's the 1.4 with somewhat 4:31 - i get 6:55

Thats sounds about right for the difference between the standard compile
and the PIII optimized.

> Is there a difference between Athlon and Athlon TBird? I thought
> they were the same - if not, that may explain something.

I really don't know. I call my Athlon a TBird because everybody else
seems to do it :-)

Anyway, get Steve Schmitt's compile asap - you'll be amazed at the
difference it does - and start praying with the rest of us, that Steve
will also do his magic to ver 3.5, as soon as the source is available.
:)

/Ib

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> Get the new Pentium III optimized compile from
> http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/ (the announcement
> of which, started this thread).

ok. its 4:21 now.

> Anyway, get Steve Schmitt's compile asap - you'll be amazed at
> the difference it does - and start praying with the rest of us,
> that Steve will also do his magic to ver 3.5, as soon as the
> source is available.

I AM praying.

thank you
cukk

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