T3X wrote:
> Well rick...
> It would be nice if you explained a little bit more...
> Is it because it's a AMD or is it because the 500 is to low...
> Intell isn't it at all...

Its both, however it comes to older processors, Intel is king for FPU
performance (by a mile)


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Ian J. Burgmyer wrote:
> If you can't afford to, I know of a few tips that you might find
> useful (my processor isn't much faster than yours -- Pentium III 750):

Yes it is - The P3 has an excellent FPU, where as this AMD 500 will be of
the K6-2 variety


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Rick [Kitty5]'s furious key-hammering produced this:
>> If you can't afford to, I know of a few tips that you might find
>> useful (my processor isn't much faster than yours -- Pentium III 750):
> 
> Yes it is - The P3 has an excellent FPU, where as this AMD 500 will be of
> the K6-2 variety

Hmm, I thought AMD had Athlons as low as 500MHz.  My bad.

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Well thanks to you all.
And a special thanks to Ian and Will.
These answers i was looking for.
Thanks again.
Andries Steketee@T3X

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Ian J. Burgmyer <the### [at] maccom> wrote:

> Hmm, I thought AMD had Athlons as low as 500MHz. 

You were right in thinking that, they had.

Lutz-Peter

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on a side note - is there a way to distribute the rendering process amongst
several machines? I know that my mate did that for his university ray-tracer
project, but then again, POV is a whole different beast from your average
university ray tracer :)

cheers,
neko

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neko wrote:
> 
> on a side note - is there a way to distribute the rendering process amongst
> several machines?

http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm

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in article 3e6a46d4@news.povray.org, Andries Steketee at
a.s### [at] zeelandnetnl wrote on 08-03-2003 15:46:

> Well i like to program in povray but when my scenes
> start to be a little complex, the render starts to
> need a real long time...
> Are there any patches or programmes to get it
> accelereted ?
> And does anyone knows if it runs faster in Linux
> or doesn't it matters if you run it on windows or linux.
> I use a AMD 500 with 256mb ram.
> 
> 
Using MegaPOV can speed up things too, depending on what you are rendering.
And pictures tend to look better too IMHO.

Jeroen

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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:39:49 +0100, "nu:rotterdam - Jeroen de Haan"
<jer### [at] nurotterdamnl> wrote:
> Using MegaPOV can speed up things too, depending on what you are rendering.
> And pictures tend to look better too IMHO.

What version of MegaPOV you are reffering ?

ABX

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nu:rotterdam - Jeroen de Haan <jer### [at] nurotterdamnl> wrote:
> And pictures tend to look better too IMHO.

  What changes are there in MegaPov that makes it render scenes to look
better than the official version?

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