POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: Which processor to use?: Re: Which processor to use?

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From: Clarence1898
Date: 2 Jul 2009 07:45:01
Message: <web.4a4c9cf28664afccc67831f30@news.povray.org>

"TC" <do-not-reply@i-do get-enough-spam-already-2498.com> wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
>
> who has some experience in the field of CPUs and has the time to share his
> or her wisdom?
>
> Which of the following is the fastest for encoding / editing video and
> having some fun with PovRay? Which one would you buy? Or something entirely
> different?
>
> (The Pov-Benchmark group does not seem to do much benchmarking at all, at
> least I did not find anything useful there...)
>
> - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
>
> - Intel Core i7-920 Box 8192Kb
>
> - AMD Phenom II X4 945

ExtremeTech.com has a review of the i7 from Nov. 2008.  It benchmarks 3 i7 and 3
quad core cpus.  One of the benchmarks is povray 3.7 beta 29.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333773,00.asp

Isaac.

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